Automattic Acquires PollDaddy!

October 15th, 2008 by Lenny

PollDaddy Blog

We are really pleased to announce today that PollDaddy has been acquired by Automattic! Automattic is the super team behind the blogging phenomenon that is WordPress. As most of you know, PollDaddy has been run by Lenny and Eoin up to now, and at times we have been pushed to the edge due to our various growth spurts over the past couple of years.

About 1 million polls have been created and 195 million votes have been collected to date. We have been busy!

The majority of our users are bloggers, and a large portion of them are using WordPress. We have been working closely with the Automattic team for the past few months on building better integration with WordPress and, in the end, it just seemed like the perfect fit for us to join them!

What does this mean for PollDaddy users?
We have now moved PollDaddy.com into the Automattic data centers, so over the coming weeks and months this will mean our site will be a lot more stable, polls will load faster and everything should run just the way you want it to.

We are still 100% focused on building PollDaddy support into as many platforms as possible, so you will see our support for MySpace, Ning, Blogger, Typepad, Hi5, Orkut, Piczo, etc. continue to improve and grow.

We are no longer a two-person team, we are now a 30 person team!

And best of all, if you happen to be using PollDaddy on your WordPress.com blog, from today on PollDaddy will be available directly in your WordPress.com post editor. (It will also be available to WordPress.org users as a free plugin)

Thank You
Thank you to all of our users who have stuck with us through good times and “down times.” There will be more good times than down time from here on in! Thank you to all of the support we received from our old parents in Infacta, Enterprise Ireland, WDC, Fergus Burns, Scott Rafer, Jonathan Hill, and Derek Mcdermott. And finally to Barry, Mike, Matt, Toni, and everyone at Automattic for helping us get setup so quickly.

If you have any questions about this news, please contact us directly and we’ll be happy to help.

Regards,
Eoin & Lenny.


This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm.



62 Responses to “Automattic Acquires PollDaddy!”

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    Posted By: Welcome PollDaddy « toni.org | October 15th, 2008 7:56 pm



  2. Best news this year. Delighted for all of you. Well done Lenny!
    Posted By: Conor O'Neill | October 15th, 2008 8:04 pm



  3. congrats!!
    Posted By: Scott Rafer | October 15th, 2008 8:23 pm



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  5. well done all in PollDaddy – a short and sweet story :-)

    keith
    Posted By: keith bohanna | October 15th, 2008 8:32 pm



  6. Excited to have you guys as part of the team. Any bets on how long it takes us to get to 2 million polls?
    Posted By: Matt | October 15th, 2008 8:37 pm



  7. Super news and congratulations to the team. Looking forward to using Pollydaddy in IGOpeople.
    Posted By: Campbell Scott | October 15th, 2008 8:37 pm



  8. [...] It appears that they’ve been acquired by Automattic. [...]
    Posted By: roddy.ie» Blog Archive » Well done to Sligo’s Polldaddy | October 15th, 2008 8:43 pm



  9. @matt next week :)

    Posted By: Lenny | October 15th, 2008 8:49 pm



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  11. Well done Lenny and Eoin – great work – and to Jonathan [a sweet send off to Oz :-) ]

    You can now wear your WP sweaters in public :-)

    Posted By: Fergus Burns | October 15th, 2008 8:52 pm



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  14. Great news guys.

    now i know why i haven’t see Dave for the last few weeks 8)

    Posted By: Kevin Peyton | October 15th, 2008 9:25 pm



  15. Wow congratulations!!
    Posted By: John Breslin | October 15th, 2008 9:33 pm



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  21. That’s fantastic news lads – major congrats!
    Posted By: James Corbett | October 15th, 2008 10:12 pm



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    Posted By: Copacetic » Blog Archive » Automattic Acquires PollDaddy! | October 15th, 2008 10:23 pm



  23. Congrats lads, you’ve both worked hard. Great to see everything on the up and up!
    Posted By: Dave Beirne | October 15th, 2008 10:23 pm



  24. Congratulations on the great news guys! Stoked for PolDaddy.
    Posted By: Cormac Moylan | October 15th, 2008 10:25 pm



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  26. Well done guys. Looking forward to integrating PollDaddy polls into the blog! Good luck with the new team.
    Posted By: Roseanne Smith | October 15th, 2008 10:36 pm



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  28. No wonder you weren’t in Dublin on Saturday night ;-) lol!!!
    Posted By: Robin Blandford | October 15th, 2008 10:37 pm



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  31. [...] PollDaddy Blog   [...]
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  32. [...] WordPress of the polling space. There’s also a post about the acquisition on the PollDaddy blog here. Webware notes that Automattic says they will continue to make PollDaddy support other platforms as [...]



  33. [...] Intense Debateと同じく、Polldaddyは自社の技術を提供しているのはWordPressサイトだけではなく、買収後も他のプラットホームのサポートを中止する予定はない。しかし、この2社の取り組みが主としてWordPressを改善する方向に進んでいくことは予想できる。両社ともオープンソースバージョンをWordPress.orgで公開しており、さらに重要なことにはホスティングバージョンをWordPress.com（Automatticが実際に利益をあげることのできるサイト）で公開している。既にPollDaddyは、440万人のブロガーが使うWordPress.comに組み込み済みだ。 [...]



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  35. Huge Congrats guys!

    Big up for Ireland and my Home town Sligo :)

    Posted By: Ciaran Rooney | October 16th, 2008 12:16 am



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  41. Congratulations Lenny and Eoin, what brilliant news!
    Posted By: Blair Millen | October 16th, 2008 6:38 am



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  43. [...] created and 195 million votes have been collected to date since its inception in October 06. As their blog claims: The majority of our users are bloggers, and a large portion of them are using WordPress. We [...]



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  47. *snicker*

    Maybe you should change this blog’s tagline to “Just another WordPress.com acquisition”. :roll:

    Posted By: Catshade | October 16th, 2008 9:54 am



  48. [...] more thoughts on the deal, check out Mashable. Check out the Poll Daddy blog as [...]
    Posted By: Automattic Goes Shopping Again | Mark Evans | October 16th, 2008 10:14 am



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  50. [...] Intense Debate, Polldaddy doesn’t offer its technology to WordPress publishers alone – and it doesn’t plan to phase out its support for other platforms post-acquisition. But we can expect both [...]
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  52. Congrats on the acquisition. When are ye coming up to Carrickglass to celebrate. Bring back some moonshine from Aspen and watch-out for the rabid ski bunnies.
    Posted By: Turlough Mor | October 16th, 2008 9:49 pm



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  54. Great!

    I love Automattic!!! :)

    Posted By: awflasher | October 17th, 2008 3:19 pm



  55. [...] was never related to GoDaddy, but now it is part of the WordPress family. Automattic, the developer of the WordPress blogging platform, has acquired [...]
    Posted By: WordPress Parent Automattic Buys Polling Site PollDaddy | October 17th, 2008 4:03 pm



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  57. [...] has recently acquired Poll Daddy. The world’s market-leading poll and survey service. What once was an independent [...]
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  58. Congrats Lenny and Eoin,

    I guess the pints are on you guys! All the best.
    Posted By: Brian Kelly | October 18th, 2008 9:04 am



  59. i think you should edit this blog with a new header (like your site), some pages like ‘about polldaddy.com’ or ‘poll examples’ or ‘our creators’ or something like that. you get the idea?
    Posted By: Kelly | October 18th, 2008 1:21 pm



  60. [...] Hi5, Orkut, Piczo, etc. continue to improve and grow.” Check out the official blog post on PollDaddy and the one by Matt on his [...]



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  62. [...] tell you about some of the projects we have been working on over the past few months. As you know we were acquired by Automattic last October, and since then we have been integrating with the Automattic team and [...]
    Posted By: Whats new on PollDaddy.com? « PollDaddy Blog | February 23rd, 2009 2:16 pm



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