How To Geek

How-To Geek, founded in 2006 and acquired by Valnet in 2023, is a digital publication focused on technology that reaches millions of readers each month on our website and across social media on Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn. Since its founding in 2006, the publication's 20,000+ in-depth articles have been read billions of times.

Our readers love How-To Geek because of its unique voice. We’re not only a publication for geeks — we are the geeks. We’re the team of experts you turn to when your computer isn’t working right, you need to do something technical, or you want to understand the latest gadgets — and which are the best ones to buy. We explain it all in simple, approachable terms. How-To Geek is for everyone.

How-To Geek has been recommended as an expert resource by industry groups like the Wi-Fi Alliance and newspapers like The New York Times. Organizations like the BBC and Wirecutter have directed their readers to us for our helpful tutorials. Technology news outlets like Techmeme, The Verge, Slate, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, and John Gruber’s Daring Fireball have linked to stories we’ve broken. We’ve been cited as a source in books like Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff, a media theory professor at the City University of New York’s Queens College and CNN contributor. How-To Geek has been used as a resource for everything from university textbooks to late-night TV.