# Ning Interactive

> Ning Interactive sells hosted software for creating branded online communities, with member profiles, forums, groups, publishing and paid access. Its customers include niche-interest communities, educators, nonprofits and businesses that want their own social website.

- **Founded:** 2004
- **Headquarters:** Henderson, United States
- **Founders:** Gina Bianchini (Co-founder and original CEO), Marc Andreessen (Co-founder and chairman)
- **Products:** NING community platform, NING 3.0, NING E-commerce
- **Notable:** Launched a public social-network creation platform in 2005., Historical customers used the platform for collaborative engineering and community publishing., Company reports more than two million networks built over its lifetime; this is not a count of active networks.

## Products & services

- **NING community platform** — Hosted social website builder with profiles, groups, forums, blogs, events, media, customization and analytics. Public launch in October 2005.
- **NING 3.0** — A new generation of the community platform, launched in 2013.
- **NING E-commerce** — Paid content access, one-time or recurring membership payments and donations. The monetization platform launched in 2018.

## Achievements

- Launched a public social-network creation platform in 2005.
- Historical customers used the platform for collaborative engineering and community publishing.
- Company reports more than two million networks built over its lifetime; this is not a count of active networks.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — On October 22, Ning Support reported a platform-wide PHP security update and said it had found no evidence of exploitation.
- **2026-06** — On June 10, Ning announced more favicon image formats and delivery through its CDN.
- **2025-07** — On July 20, Ning introduced a permission allowing group administrators to delete comments.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ning.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ning
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Ning
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0AW4dfoE9N-kmsAs9CAmHg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ning_websites/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NingNetworkPlatform/

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Last updated: 2026-10-23