Mashable[5] is a news website, digital media platform and entertainment company founded by Pete Cashmore in 2005.

[7] Early iterations of the site were a simple WordPress blog, with Cashmore as sole author.

[12] Mashable had not been meeting its advertising targets, accumulating $4.2 million in losses in the quarter ending September 2017.

Under Ziff Davis, Mashable has grown and expanded to many countries in multiple continents, including Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia in several languages.

[14][15][16] In June 2021, Jessica Coen, Mashable's editor-in-chief, left the company to join Morning Brew.