Friends Reunited - Online Publishing

Friends Reunited is the original British social network. Connecting over 24 million registered members over its 10-year history, the site helps members find and contact old friends and share the bigger things in life with the people that really matter. Using its unique listings (schools, universities, teams, streets and clubs), the site allows people to reunite around shared places and meet new friends with shared interests.

Launched in 2000 as the back-bedroom hobby of a husband and wife team in north London, Friends Reunited quickly became a British media phenomenon and had eight million registered members after just two years.

In 2003, sister site Genes Reunited was created to allow members an easy way to search for their ancestors online, followed swiftly by Friends Reunited Dating, which aimed to simplify the world of online dating. Two years later, Friends Reunited was sold to ITV.

The site became completely free for the first time in 2008, as it launched a range of social features to help people share and express the important things in their life with family, friends and classmates.

brightsolid acquired the Friends Reunited Group in 2010, integrating the Friends Reunited brand into its strong online portfolio with the vision to becoming the place where people go to search their past, share their story and connect with people and places. The site continues to attract over two million unique users every month and is undergoing a series of exciting developments.