Since 1995, yacht brokers around the world have used YachtWorld.com to advertise their boat listings to Internet boat buyers and sellers. Here are some benchmarks of our history together:

1995: Launched site and services for the brokerage industry to reach boat buyers/sellers.
1996: 3000 boats listed for sale. Traffic reaches 10,000 daily page views in one day.
1997: 4500 boats for sale. BoatWizard launched.
1998: 10,000 boats. Traffic reaches 100,000 pages views a day.
1999: 20,000 boats; Traffic reaches 200,000 page views/day.
2000: 40,000 boats. Boats.com acquires YW. YW International opens.
2001: 45,000 boats, 1500 broker/members.
2002: 50,000 boats. Established member policies. Launched Soldboats.com
2003: 65,000 boats, 1750 brokers, 100,000 sold boats
2004: 79.000 boats, 154,000 sold boats, 1.8 mil daily page views. Trader Publishing acquires YW and Boats.com.
2005: 83,000 boats, 2040 brokers. Hosted 24 YachtWorld Universities around US/Canada.
2006: 90,000 boats, 2200 brokers. Trader Publishing becomes Dominion Enterprises.
2007: 106,000 boats, 2459 brokers, 280,000 sold boats, new YachtWorld.com look and search engine
2008: 117,000 boats, 2563 brokers, 3 million visitors view 70 million page views a month

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Jessica Muffett
Publisher Emeritus
YachtWorld.com