Crain’s Chicago Business

December 3, 2012

Emerson Spartz makes Crain’s 40 Under 40 list. Dealmakers, innovators, risk-takers, job creators: Crain’s 40 Under 40

Crain’s Chicago Business

September 24, 2012

Meet the Crain’s Top 50 in Tech: Emerson Spartz. The entrepreneurs, financiers, mentors and coders who are leading Chicago’s current tech startup wave.

Empact100

September 2012

Emerson Spartz and Spartz Media named to Empact100′s list of Top 100 companies run by entrepreneurs under 30

Mashable

July 27, 2012

OMG Facts named one of the top 25 Twitter accounts that will make you smarter

Tasty Trade

July 23, 2012

Tom and Tony talk with Emerson Spartz of SpartzMedia. Emerson Spartz founded MuggleNet when he was 12 years old. Now, he is running SpartzMedia.

KillerStartups

July 20, 2012

The story of CEO Emerson Spartz and the creation of Spartz Media

Crain’s Chicago Business

July 18, 2012

Spartz Media’s OMG Fact’s twitter is “off the charts” when it comes to the leading Chicago-area twitters.

PandoDaily

July 16, 2012

PandoDaily chronicles the evolution of Spartz Media from CEO Emerson Spartz’s creation of Mugglenet at age 12 to the “viral media titan” the company is today.

Built In Chicago

July 6, 2012

A recap of Chicago’s Techweek featuring Spartz CEO Emerson Spartz

NBC

June 26, 2012

Sharon and Valonda of NBC 17′s “Chick Chat” discuss @OMGfacts, “a funny twitter that tweets random facts that make you go ‘oh my gosh!’”

Techweek

June 21, 2012

Spartz CEO Emerson Spartz is named one of Techweek 2012′s 100 most innovative leaders in Chicago tech. The Techweek 100 are Chicago leaders impacting today’s technology landscape on a global scale. They lead rapidly growing tech companies, invent new programming languages and enhance the technology ecosystem.

Business 2 Community

May 19, 2012

3 Excuses to Grab Coffee With Other Entrepreneurs, Emerson Spartz included.

INC

May 18, 2012

Get Website Users to Stay Longer: 7 Tips
Advice – Great insight from Emerson Spartz, founder of Spartz Media, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.

Business Week

May 1, 2012

This week’s Twitter roundup of happenings in the business school world includes Emerson Spartz, an alum of University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

Us Weekly

March 30, 2012

Jessica Simpson’s top quotes about her pregnancy, including a reference to OMG Facts

Crain’s Chicago Business

April 23, 2012

At age 12, media entrepreneur Emerson Spartz persuaded his parents to let him and his 10-year-old brother, Dylan, quit school. Now 25, Mr. Spartz is CEO of Chicago-based Spartz Media Inc., whose 15 sites draw 160 million page views monthly.

Time

March 21, 2012

With more than 3.7 million followers, OMGFacts is your info nugget of the day and inside an personalized Internet, where we’re creating smaller pools of information for ourselves, we could probably use all the left field information we can get.

Mashable

March 2, 2012

SmartphOWNED, a humor blog launched in January 2011 was intended to feature auto-correct fails. However, the site has evolved into more than that. Many of the most-shared texts on the site are witty exchanges between friends, parents saying awkward things (without an additional auto-correct blunder) and text art.

Entrepreneurs Unpluggd

February 27, 2012

Emerson Spartz highlighted in three entrepreneurs you should know, all whom are Chicago based or have roots in Chicago, and are outstanding creative individuals who care about using their talents to change the world around them.

Mashable

February 23, 2012

Words aren’t always enough to express your feelings. At least, that’s according to the makers of That’s So True, a site that allows you to convey your emotions with reaction GIFs.

CBS

July 14, 2011

CNN

August 2, 2010

Along the lines of popular sites like FMyLife, but about 65,000 times more uplifting, Gives Me Hope (GMH) offers user-submitted true stories of kindness and generosity. The stories are sentimental and, at times, almost heartbreakingly sweet.

The New York Times

February 11, 2007

MuggleNet.com’s What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7

USA Today

July 17, 2007

Spartz, a student at Notre Dame and co-author of the best-selling What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7, says, “I would think that both Warner Bros. and Scholastic would want to spread the buzz out for a longer period of time.”

USA Today

November 20, 2005

Harry Potter Fans are Screaming With Delight

Business Week

June 22, 2007

Spartz converted his “abnormal obsession” with the still-obscure Harry Potter into a fan’s Web site. And, as he soon learned, MuggleNet was to become not just a Potter Web site, but the Potter Web site.

Business Week

July 2, 2007

Even if Harry Potter leaves a trail of profit-starved vendors and Potter-addicted producers in its wake as the series wraps up next month, the infatuation is unlikely to die. That’s what Emerson Spartz, founder of the popular fan site MuggleNet.com, is betting on.

Esquire

June 1, 2009

“In times like these, the usual avenues of escapism sports, the local bar, and Sacha Baron Cohen’s ass seem a little watered down. GMH serves it up straight no chaser necessary.”

Los Angeles Times

October 30, 2009

“About the time Operation Beautiful was born, a blog called HMGGMH was created. It was modeled after the Web site GivesMeHope.com, a forum where people share uplifting moments and shore each other up against the vagaries of life.”

WSBT Evening News (CBS 22)

June 16, 2009

CBS 22 ran a three minute segment on GMH and its founders.

Tech Cocktail

October 17, 2011

In two years – with no funding and no full-time developer until 2010 – entertainment company Spartz Media has built popular sites that attract over 115 million monthly page views: sites like MuggleNet, OMG Facts, and GivesMeHope. As they continue to launch one site a month watching for blockbusters, CEO and MuggleNet creator Emerson Spartz shares some insight on their winning formula.

FOX News

June 20, 2007

Emerson Spartz on Fox News with Geraldo Rivera

People

July 12, 2005

Harry Potter Set for Sizzling Saturday

The Washington Post

April 14, 2007

Warner Bros., which once tried to shut down many of the fan sites because of copyright concerns, has invited Spartz and others to the sets of Potter films and premieres, valuing their expertise and, of course, their access to so many fans.

The Huffington Post

July 15, 2011

MuggleNet Founder: Harry Potter is a “Gateway Drug for Reading”

MSNBC

May 25, 2005

Will Era of Superfan End with ‘Star Wars’?

BBC

June 23, 2003

Harry Potter: Ask the Experts

Notre Dame Business Magazine

June 16, 2010

GivesMeHope.com responds to a need in our trash-talking world, according to Spartz. “The problem is, our society celebrates people who are cynical, people who criticize, who are sarcastic. Why is it that we are so free to criticize, but are so hesitant to share praise?

The Observer

September 15, 2011

MuggleNet Founder and ’09 ND Alum Spartz Creates Online Media Corporation

University of Notre Dame

September 15, 2011

No Ordinary Muggle

The Observer

August 25, 2005

Harry Potter in college