Our Story
Having worked in the Advanced Ceramics industry for over a decade in the 90’s, founder, Dr. Ian Birkby recognized that engineers, designers and scientists often required educating in the potential uses and applications of Advanced Materials before they could utilize them in their products and processes.
This recognition of market demand and the emerging power of the internet led to the launch of our first site, AZoM.com – The A to Z of Materials in 2000.
Although the business has grown significantly to include a range of science, technology, medical and life science platforms, it has always stayed true to its principal aim:
We love telling science, technology and medical stories to people who can make a difference. Everything else follows from that.
Today we tell these stories across all digital platforms to an annual addressable audience of over 100 million unique individuals.
Our customers come from all scientific, technological and medical sectors. Our extensive web footprint and subscriber base allow us to display a measurable return on investment to billion-dollar multi-nationals and SME start-ups.
From Content Creation, through targeted distribution to closing the loop with the unique AZoIntel Content Performance analytics platform, AZoNetwork now provides a highly effective Science Marketing Platform based on its own unique Marketing Science.
The company is an Australian Public Company with headquarters in Sydney, Australia and satellite offices in London, Manchester, UK and Upstate New York, USA.
Check out our timeline below to see how we grew to become the company we are today.
AZoNetwork is shortlisted for the North West Business of the Year - International Trade
July, 2024AZoNetwork launches AZoScience powered by Azthena - Your personal scientific assistant
November, 2023The AZoNetwork reaches 1 million active subscribers
August, 2023AZoNetwork launches AZoAI.com the A to Z of Artificial Intelligence
August, 2023The Lead Generation eBook is launched
May, 2023The AZoNetwork sites celebrate Women in Science Day
February, 2023AZoLifeSciences reaches 1Million website visits
February, 2023The #MarketingScience 2023 Webinar series launches
February, 2023The Something About Science podcast launches
January, 2023The fourth season of the #MarketingScience podcast is completed with The State of Scientific Marketing 2023
December, 2022AZoNetwork exhibit at the 10th anniversary of Lab Innovations and Advanced Engineering
November, 2022AZoNetwork visit Düsseldorf for Medica 2022
November, 2022Industry Focus eBooks are launched across the AZoNetwork sites
September, 2022AZoNetwork visit Birmingham for Advanced Materials 2022
June, 2022AZoNetwork visit Munich for Analytica 2022
June, 2022Named in the Northern Tech Awards Top 100 fastest growing companies
April, 2022We welcome 4 new starters to the team, totalling 54 employees.
December, 2021The team goes from strength to strength, reaching 50 employees
September, 2021We launch the Marketing Science Webinar Series
January, 2021We welcome 8 new starters to the AZo Team
November, 2020We launch the Marketing Science Podcast
April, 2020We exhibit in Chicago at the Society for Neuroscience
October, 2019Welcomed 70+ to the Life Science Marketing Roadshow at the Francis Crick Institute.
May, 2019Ran first Marketing Science Webinar with over 300 registrants Life Science Marketing Roadshow.
March, 2019Exhibited at Pittcon in Philadelphia.
March, 2019First SEO Workshop held in Manchester.
February, 2019Marketing Science Roadshow heads to Cambridge and Alderley Science Park.
May, 2018AZoIntel integrated directly with other CRM systems.
March, 2018The first Marketing Science Roadshow is held in Manchester.
January, 2018We celebrate our move to NEO, Manchester
April, 2017We are featured in Prolific North
June, 2016We move operations to Manchester City Centre
April, 2016Our Scientific Content Marketing blog is launched
January, 2016We attend Inbound15 with over 14,000 fellow content marketers
September, 2015The 200 millionth unique user is reached
July, 2015200th Video Produced
June, 2015We proudly sponsor the Medilink UK Awards
April, 2015Our London office opens
January, 2015We attend Inbound content marketing conference for the first time
2014Our first subject specific newsletter is sent out
2013AZoNetwork raises 2.6M AUD to fund the development of our inbound marketing and data analytics platform
2012AZoNetwork, the online publisher, pivots to become an inbound marketing platform for scientific, medical and related technologies
2012We launch AZoQuantum - The A to Z of Quantum Technology.
2011AZoRobotics launches with all of the latest news, insights and information from the robotics industries
2010We add AZoMining to serve the booming mining industry
2010AZoCleantech is launched to provide the latest news and content from new and exciting clean technology industries
2008AZoM wins a Hitwise top 10 award
2007AZoNetwork, our parent site, is launched to tie together our rapidly expanding portfolio of sites, products and services
2007AZoOptics is added to cater to the optics and photonics communities
2007AZoBuild is developed to share news from the building and construction industry
2007AZoM.com becomes a Google News accredited site
2005News-Medical, our life science and medical news site, is added to the portfolio
2004AZoNano is created as an online resource for nanotechnology news and content
2004AZoM registers 3 million visitors
2003Trading name 'AZoNetwork' is registered to reflect the move into related sectors
2003Our first article is published
2001Founding content providers include The Institute of Materials (UK), Ceram Research Ltd. (UK) now Lucideon, Rapra Ltd.
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