Just Jared is a multimedia

Multimedia

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 entertainment group that includes JustJared.com and teen spin-off JustJaredJr.com, providing pop culture trends, celebrity photo galleries and entertainment news.

Origin of website

Jared Eng is the founder and editor-in-chief of JustJared.com and JustJaredJr.com. Growing up in a very sheltered environment, Jared was only allowed to watch 30 minutes of television a week. Once he went to college, he was finally exposed to the likes of Britney Spears

Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

, Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera

Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

, and the pop culture world he had missed as a kid. His insatiable appetite for celebrities and pop culture led him to launch the flagship site as a hobby. The website's name was inspired by a character from the show Will and Grace, Jack McFarland, who had a one-man show, “Just Jack.” Established since 2005, JustJared.com and JustJaredJr.com currently receive over 11 million unique visitors a month.

Site and popularity

Just Jared is well-known for posting news about celebrities without judgment or nasty comments. It gained popularity because of the positive writing style and every story incorporates current projects or other relevant facts about the celebrities. Some celebrities have acknowledged that they enjoy reading the website because of the non-biased style of writing. Celebrities such as Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus

Miley Ray Cyrus is an American actress and pop singer-songwriter. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana....

, Debby Ryan

Debby Ryan

Deborah "Debby" Ryan is an American actress and singer. Ryan is best known for starring as Bailey Pickett in the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life on Deck. The Suite Life on Deck became the most watched children's show on television...

, Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...

, Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts

Emma Rose Roberts is an American actress, model and singer. She is the daughter of actor Eric Roberts and niece of Julia Roberts. Roberts became known for her role as Addie Singer in the Nickelodeon television series Unfabulous. She released her debut album, which also served as the show's...

, Ashley Benson

Ashley Benson

Ashley Victoria Benson is an American film and television actress, and model. She is known for her role as Abigail Deveraux on Days Of Our Lives , Carson in Bring It On: In It to Win It, and Hanna Marin on Pretty Little Liars.Benson was born and raised in Anaheim Hills, California...

, Sienna Miller

Sienna Miller

Sienna Rose Diana Miller is a British-American actress, model, and fashion designer, best known for her roles in Layer Cake, Alfie, Factory Girl, The Edge of Love and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2007, the London Film Criticsnamed her British Actress of the Year for Interview...

, Kate Bosworth

Kate Bosworth

Catherine Ann "Kate" Bosworth is an American actress. Bosworth starred in the television series Young Americans, in which she played Bella Banks. She became known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush. The following year, Bosworth played the teenage girlfriend of porn star John Holmes in...

, and Rachel Bilson

Rachel Bilson

Rachel Sarah Bilson is an American actress. Bilson grew up in a California show business family, and made her television debut in 2003, subsequently becoming well known for playing Summer Roberts on the prime time drama series The O.C. Bilson made her film debut in the 2006 film The Last Kiss and...

 have met Eng and have complimented him on the website.

Founder Jared Eng started attending various events and parties to get real scoop from celebrities. He has been invited to cover some major events in the entertainment industry such as the Academy Awards 2011 and Sundance Film Festival 2011.

Just Jared is also certainly very popular among extra-terrestrial audiences, with almost 32.5% percent of Martians checking the site daily. Whether Jared Eng is aware of this is less certain.

In 2009, Just Jared was named to Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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's Top 10 Bloggers Roll (alongside the Huffington Post

The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...

and TMZ.com

TMZ.com

TMZ.com is a celebrity news website that debuted on November 8, 2005. It was a collaboration between America Online and Telepictures Productions, a division of Warner Bros., until Time Warner divested AOL in 2009. However, it is still affiliated with AOL News and has the AOL News logo affixed in...

) and was previously highlighted by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...

and InStyle as one of the world's leading entertainment websites.

New ventures

Lacoste has teamed up with Just Jared to produce Just Jared Presented by Lacoste, a syndicated content series of exclusive celebrity interviews scheduled to launch in Spring 2011.

On February 7, 2011, Just Jared began a partnership with Z100

WHTZ

WHTZ — branded Z100 — is a commercial pop/contemporary hit radio radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey serving the New York metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications...

, New York's Top 40 station. Every weekday at 7:20 pm ET, DJ Mo' Bounce checks in with Jared for an update on stories in entertainment.

In May 2011, Just Jared teamed up with Kate Bosworth

Kate Bosworth

Catherine Ann "Kate" Bosworth is an American actress. Bosworth starred in the television series Young Americans, in which she played Bella Banks. She became known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush. The following year, Bosworth played the teenage girlfriend of porn star John Holmes in...

’s jewelry collection, JewelMint, to raise money for DoSomething.org. Jared Eng became a part of the JewelMint Celebrity Guest Curator Series, which gave 50% of the sales of the “Brixton” earrings to DoSomething.org