We’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled blogging tips and advertising updates to bring you lots and lots of cuteness.
With all that’s going on in the world, we thought it would be extra fun to celebrate National Pet Day this year, which is April 11, with a flurry of furry friend photos. In case you didn’t know: The people of Mediavine are pet people.
Our animals play an important role in our jobs, usually contributing occasional barks and cameos on video calls.
While we are reviewing applications, building WordPress themes and making deals with advertisers (to name just a few of the many, many things that we do here!), you can count on our pets helping out behind the scenes — sleeping at our feet, batting at our headphones and letting us know when a package gets delivered.
Our 100% remote team also has an entire Slack channel dedicated to sharing photos of our fuzzy coworkers. It always brightens the day to see the dogs, cats and chickens. (And… snakes?)
The Mediavine Pet Count is up from our 2019 Year in Review post, when we had 67 employees and more than 70 pets we obsess over (including 41 dogs, 19 cats, a sometimes dog named Bean, a Great Dane farm, a Shih Tzu Rescue, a snake and some chickens.
As of this writing, we are now up to 81 employees and count among us more than — wait for it — 93 pets, including 51 dogs, 30 cats, a sometimes dog named Bean, a Great Dane farm, a Shih Tzu Rescue, 3 snakes and some chickens.
We asked our team to share photos of their furbabies with us, so you can virtually meet our celebrated coworkers.
Jada, Oreo and Millie
Eric, CEO & Co-Founder
Fritzie
Trista, Lead Launch Engineer
Charlie and Hela
Rose, Senior Publisher Support Specialist
Bear
Rose, Senior Publisher Support Specialist
Hodor
Alex, Senior Software Engineer
Salem
Alex, Senior Software Engineer
Top row: Annie, Sawyer, Charlie
Bottom row: Betty, Lucy, Gertrude, Leslie
(Not pictured: foster dogs Penny and Shirley, cats Norma Jean and Gidget)
Heather, Director of Publisher Support
Anya and Reus
Stephie, Director of Influencer Marketing
Cora
(Not pictured: Roux)
Stephie, Director of Influencer Marketing
Atlas
Renae, Senior Software Engineer
Cash
Karla, Publisher Support Specialist
Glitter and Gadget
(Not pictured: Gizmo)
Kat, Senior UI/UX Designer
Connor
Amber Bracegirdle, Co-Founder
Tucker
Sam, Assistant Publisher Support Manager
Julep
Susannah, Senior Graphic Designer
Pixel
Susannah, Senior Graphic Designer
Louie and Simon
Ryan, Senior Software Engineer
Rune
(Not Pictured: Kayzie)
Megan, Events Coordinator
Louie
Stephanie, Senior Publisher Support Specialist
Poppy
Jenny, Director of Marketing
Jay Catsby and Persephone
Sara, Virtual Assistant
Henry and Beatrix
(Not pictured: Pepper, Pretzel and Biscuit the ball pythons)
Palmer, Publisher Support Specialist
Frankenstein (Frankie for short)
Rachel, Vice President of Programmatic Sales
Gordy
Kristie, Senior Publisher Support Specialist
Simon and Bernie
Jacob, Support Engineering Manager
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