Interesting Engineering

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Interesting Engineering
Interesting Engineering.jpg
Type of site
 Online magazine
Available inEnglish
FoundedJanuary 1, 2011;13 years ago (2011-01-01)
Headquarters
Istanbul
,
Turkey
Founder(s) Hüseyin Kilic
Employees56 [1]
URL interestingengineering.com
Current statusActive

Interesting Engineering is an online magazine covering topics such as innovation, science, culture, health, and transportation.

Contents

History

Hüseyin Kilic, a native of Turkey, founded Interesting Engineering on Blogspot in 2011 to improve his English language skills. [2] The original blog is no longer online. The online magazine employs people in Turkey, the United States, Spain, India, and the United Kingdom. [1]

Leadership team

Founder Kilic remains as CEO. Filiz Topcu is the Vice President of Operations and Strategy. Vanessa Oberlaender is the Executive Editor. Kutay Soysal is the Executive Editor of Video. Eric Frias is the Director of Revenue. [1]

References in the media

Interesting Engineering articles, guides, and reports have been cited as supporting sources by:

Audience

According to SimilarWeb, a digital intelligence provider, [13] Interesting Engineering held a global rank of 21,952, a country rank of 10,249, and a News and Media (United States) category rank of 736 as of January 2022. The site received 3.9 million visits in January 2022, according to publicly available SimilarWeb data. [14]

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