BNO News was founded by Michael van Poppel of the Netherlands in May 2007.

[1][2] The service was maintained by journalists from the Netherlands, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States.

[6] BNO News re-established a social media presence in June 2015, when it launched a website featuring some of its content.

[8][9] It also provided a coronavirus tracker, which was visited more than 71 million times, in the early months of the pandemic.

[10] In August 2020 the company also created a database for confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 reinfection,[11][12][13] which was used by researchers and government officials, including the health ministries in Spain and Brazil.