About Us

Founded in 2000, Neowin.net reaches a deep community of IT professionals, extreme tech enthusiasts and a hardcore gaming community by providing technology industry news with added emphasis on software. New posts often set off a firework like response, generating hundreds if not thousands of views in just minutes.

Neowin LLC is part owned by Stardock (40%) represented by Brad Wardell, with Steven Parker & Marcel Klum equally sharing the remaining 60%; Neowin LLC was set up in March 2005.

For a brief summary of the different staff groups on Neowin, please click here.

For advertising opportunities start here, or if you want to write for Neowin go here.

To contact us by postal mail:

Neowin, LLC
15090 Beck Road
Plymouth
Michigan (MI) 48170
United States of America

News management

Editors

News Reporter (Paid Contributors)

Jobs at Neowin

We are always looking for people to complement our team, from news reporters through to the development team.

We offer paid positions for news reporters, below you can see what you could earn as a staff reporter, the payments are made in stages depending on how popular the article is and is calculated against revenue sharing, these figures are recalculated and/or reviewed annually.

This means we reward our news reporters based on the popularity of the articles they submit online. We "hold" articles for four weeks before paying out so that the reporter gets the maximum amount of views paid for the article. We also have several bonus options in place for those that go above and beyond.

  • 1 - 3999 hits
  • 4000 - 4999 hits
  • 5,000 - 8,999 hits
  • 9,000 - 14,999 hits
  • 15,000 - 19,999 hits
  • 20,000 - 34,999 hits
  • 35,000 - 99,999 hits
  • 100,000 hits and over views bonus at the discretion of the Editor staff

Monthly bonuses (articles total views)

  • >250,000 views
  • >300,000 views
  • >400,000 views
  • >500,000 views

Views counted for payment are unique, not page hits.

We are currently looking for:

Below are the positions currently open on Neowin.

Neowin.net Policy for product reviews and promotions

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a stated guideline for media and bloggers who accept products of value and cash payments as quid pro quo for product mentions and reviews.

Writers for Neowin LLC are strictly compensated by Neowin LLC and are not paid in any fashion by third party vendors; nor are writers allowed to accept payment of any form for personal gain for promotion, advertising, recommendation, or opinions on products.

Hardware and software vendors often provide Neowin LLC writers products for review which is deemed necessary to cover these products. At the end of any product review (software or hardware) the product is returned to the vendor, donated to a public organization, or given away to Neowin LLC readers.

In some cases, a third party, representing a vendor, will provide Neowin LLC with products for review. In these cases, the third party is considered the vendor and all applicable rules still apply.

Some events that Neowin LLC attends may be sponsored events. In such cases, all rules regarding payment and promotion still apply. If travel, meal, and entertainment costs have been provided by the vendor, full disclosure will apply in associated articles.

Neowin LLC writers abide by these standards and work diligently to provide honest and un-influenced opinions. All vendors that are reviewed and represented understand that by reviewing, representing, or covering the costs for an event, does not guarantee, in any form, a positive refection of the event or product.

Contacting & Following us

You can use the Tip Us form, or Like and follow us on Facebook and Twitter @NeowinFeed.

Please note that we do not respond to personal technical support requests, for that you can register on our forums and ask our community for assistance.

Server Hardware and hosting

We moved back to our own servers in November 2018, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). We currently utilize:

  • One Dell Poweredge R740 (database and caching)
  • Two Dell Poweredge R440 (web servers and development systems)
  • One Intel Nuc (status and performance monitoring)

Our servers are hosted in a UK datacenter with fully redundant power, cooling and network

Fair usage of the Neowin logo

The Neowin logo was created by Jason Kelley and was based off an earlier version that Larry Cook made in 2001. We allow external websites to use it in reference to Neowin.net. The logo has seen many incremental "polish" updates, but remains the same branding.