[2] 9to5Mac has developed and implemented its affiliate program for freelance writers to earn from advertising banners being shown on their articles' pages.

[1] 9to5Mac was founded in 2007 by Seth Weintraub as an Apple news website initially focused on Macs in the enterprise.

[2] In June 2016, Mark Gurman, one of the world's most influential Apple reporters, left 9to5Mac for Bloomberg News.

[4][5] Gurman has had major scoops, such as uncovering iSlate.com, confirming a tablet was coming from Apple back in 2009, while he’s also leaked news about Siri, iOS 7, the first Retina iMacs, and last year’s 12-inch MacBook before the company’s special events.

[6] In 2012, in a research paper entitled The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network (Taipei) 9to5Mac was ranked as having the highest Jaccard index among Mac-related websites, including MacRumors.