In May, 2005, 55-year-old arianna huffington founded the political blog "Huffington Post", and in August, 2006, she received $5 million in venture capital. In April 2007, Huffington was the first to launch an online debate on the 2008 US presidential election in China. This website has become one of the five most popular news websites in the United States and the most famous political blog website in the United States, with 25 million independent users visiting it every day.
The establishment of the Huffington Post website is considered to have triggered a new media revolution. In 2006, Huffington was selected into Time magazine's global 100 list of the most influential people. Once ranked first in the "25 Best Blogs" selected by Time magazine in the United States, and also ranked first in the "50 Most Influential Blogs" selected by The Guardian in the United Kingdom. As a new media website, The Huffington Post has played the slogan of "The First Internet Newspaper", and it can actively introduce venture capital and acquire other websites under the economic downturn, showing a strong upward trend.
At the beginning of 2008, the Huffington Post's monthly independent traffic has surpassed Drudge Report, which is called "America's first blog". The Huffington Post once ranked first in the "25 Best Blogs" selected by Time magazine. With the fierce competition between online new media and traditional media, Huffington Post, as a representative news blog site, typically reflects the characteristics and development of current online new media.
20 12 July, the huffington post ranked first in "15 hottest political websites". This selection is based on Alexa's global traffic rankings, as well as the US traffic rankings of Compete and Quantcast.