Wix — founded 2006, Tel Aviv; NASDAQ:WIX; market-share leader among DIY builders
Created 2026-06-23
Summary
Claim: Wix was founded in 2006 in Tel Aviv and trades as NASDAQ: WIX. It is the market-share leader among DIY hosted website builders.
Source: Company filings / industry-consensus.
Confidence: Verified.
Why this matters for Candid: Wix is the primary subject of the DIY-effectiveness audit — its SEC filings provide the cleanest primary-source admissions about the category (see Wix Form F-1 (SEC, March 20 2014) — verbatim admission that many registered users never publish a website).
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Related
- reference Wix Form F-1 (SEC, March 20 2014) — verbatim admission that many registered users never publish a website
- reference Wix FY2025 net revenue retention 105% (Q4 earnings call) — NRR is not logo retention
- reference Wix "over 35% of paid users don't renew for a second year" — NOT a Wix disclosure; analyst (Mick Weinstein, 2014) interpretation
- reference Wix end-2025 — 304M registered users, 6.11M premium subscriptions (~2% paid conversion); ~8–8.5M live sites (BuiltWith)