Cointelegraph

Cointelegraph was founded in New York in 2013, starting with early Bitcoin coverage and expanding into blockchain, AI, NFTs and fintech.

In July 2022 Luna Media Corporation acquired Cointelegraph's Middle East and North Africa franchise to support its global and regional expansion.

In December 2024 Cointelegraph drew more than 12 million monthly visits, still firmly in the top tier of crypto media, with advertising and content deals as its main revenue.

In June 2025 a front-end exploit hit Cointelegraph's website and served phishing pop-ups offering fake airdrops, exposing gaps in its technical security.

In October 2025 Google issued a manual penalty against Cointelegraph, briefly removing it from search results and cutting organic traffic by about 80%.

By September 1, 2026 monthly visits had fallen to just over 700,000, a decline of more than 90% from late 2024.

In 2026 Cointelegraph was reported to be seeking a buyer, with no asking price or acquirer disclosed; it still employs more than 200 people, making it a case study in the pressure on crypto media business models.

Google applied a manual penalty in October 2025 that cut organic search traffic by roughly 80% and briefly removed the site from results; Similarweb estimates monthly visits fell from more than 12 million in December 2024 to just above 700,000 by September 1, 2026. On October 7-8, 2026 CoinDesk cited an anonymous source saying Cointelegraph was seeking a buyer, and the company denied it on X within hours, calling the report false with multiple factual errors and demanding a correction of equal prominence; it employs more than 200 people. Cointelegraph's site still publishes normally, with its magazine and Hodler's Digest franchises continuing and coverage centred on institutional bitcoin ETF filings and fund flows. Future strategy and roadmap: reduce dependence on search distribution and shift traffic toward direct visits, newsletters and events such as LONGITUDE and CT Connect; commercially, cut costs and raise the share of research and conference revenue, while leaving open whether new shareholders are brought in depending on talks. Cointelegraph faces a cost structure problem rather than a traffic cycle: more than 200 staff across a newsroom spread over 50 countries cannot be funded by display advertising against 700,000 monthly visits. Moving to direct visits, newsletters and events such as LONGITUDE and CT Connect is really a retreat from mass media into a smaller, higher-margin business of institutional events and research, the same route CoinDesk took to offset search losses with paid events. Industry data agrees: traffic across 349 crypto outlets fell about 33% in 2025. The October buyer rumour was denied, but the franchise precedent stands — the Middle East and North Africa edition went to Luna Media in 2022 — and new shareholders in the main brand remain the likeliest exit.

Yana Prikhodchenko, CEO and Partner, formerly Managing Director at Sberbank and COO of its insurance line with over 15 years of management experience, is based in Dubai, completed the INSEAD leadership program in 2019 and now leads Cointelegraph.

Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, Editor-in-Chief, from a media and content background, leads Cointelegraph's global editorial direction, coordinating a multilingual editorial desk.

Nick Vilson, CTO, from a technology and engineering background, owns Cointelegraph's technical architecture and engineering line.

Alex Cohen, Managing Editor, from a news-editing background, runs Cointelegraph's daily editorial operations and publishing cadence.

Daniel Seman, VP of Cointelegraph Labs, from an incubation background, leads the innovation lab and internal incubation projects.