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At MSN, we bring you personalized content that not only informs, but also entertains and inspires. Our platform handles over 250,000 pieces of content daily.

Employees

51-200

Funding

Growth ($10B)

G2 Rating

1.1/5 · 1.0k reviews

G2 Category

Email Service Provider

AI Classification

MediaDigital Media/PublishingEmail Service ProviderNews ServiceMedia CompanyNewspaper Publisher

MSN is Microsoft's consumer web portal aggregating news, entertainment, sports, and finance content, serving over 1.42 billion monthly visitors globally through an advertising-supported model. It operates as a top-tier digital media destination under Microsoft's broader consumer and cloud ecosystem.

Deep Intelligence

Account Scoring

Medium Churn Risk
  • Poor reviews (1.1/5, 1040 ratings)
  • Growth — mature / stable
  • Thin digital footprint

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Msn is one of 2,671 B2B companies in the Kustiq directory.

Msn sits among 331 digital media / publishing companies in our Media directory.

Similar profiles: Latimes, Loom, Graphy, and Acunetix.

Latimes sits in the 1001-5000 headcount band while Msn is at 51-200. See Msn vs Latimes side by side.

Both sit in the 51-200 headcount band, and both are at Growth. See Msn vs Loom side by side.

Both sit in the 51-200 headcount band, and both are at Growth. See Msn vs Graphy side by side.

Segment benchmark

How Msn compares with other Digital Media/Publishing companies

Msn is one of 331 Digital Media/Publishing companies profiled in the Kustiq Media directory, which holds 361 Media companies in total. Every number below is computed from those profiles.

Msn sits in the 51-200 headcount band. 60% of the 173 segment peers with a known team size are smaller. 25% of those peers share the same band.

The most common tech detections across the 132 peers with a visible stack are Cloudflare (45%), Google Analytics (31%), and nginx (24%). Msn lists none of them.

Among the 84 segment companies with disclosed funding, Growth is the most common stage (45%). Msn is at Growth.

The median founding year across 82 peers with a known founding date is 2008.

New York is the most common HQ city in this segment, home to 13% of the 46 peers with a known location.

Benchmarks are recomputed from live directory data, so they move as profiles refresh. Counts cover Kustiq-profiled companies, not the whole market.

How Kustiq built this profile

How this profile was built

  • Live web rendering via Browserless headless Chrome, not a stale cached scrape.
  • Search intelligence via Serper API across the company site, LinkedIn, press, and GitHub.
  • Claude only picks the buckets. It never decides facts.
  • 12-factor churn engine. Deterministic score, zero LLM at scoring time.
  • SMTP RCPT TO handshake on every contact, at delivery time on full profiles (paid plan).

This profile was built from search coverage across the live web and a review parse of 1,040 ratings on .

Read the full methodology in our LLM-readable reference or compare against the deterministic-vs-AI framework.

Frequently asked questions

How many employees does Msn have?
Msn has 51-200 employees, based on public sources read at the last profile run. That makes it larger than 60% of the 173 profiled Digital Media/Publishing peers with a known team size.
What industry is Msn in?
Msn is a Media company in the Digital Media/Publishing segment. Related industry tags from the profile: Email Service Provider, News Service, Media Company, Newspaper Publisher.
Is this profile actually verified, or just generated by AI?
The structured fields come from a hybrid pipeline. Facts (location, employee range, funding, tech stack) come from live web rendering plus Serper search across the company site, LinkedIn, press, and GitHub. Claude only picks the buckets: vertical, segment, growth signal. It never decides facts. Contact emails on full profiles pass an SMTP RCPT TO handshake at delivery time.
How is this different from a contact database?
Kustiq profiles one company at a time, live from the web when you ask. Tools like Apollo and ZoomInfo rent access to a 50M+ row pool that ages every quarter. Different shape, different price, and the freshness story is the opposite.
What does "track this profile" do?
Tracking saves Msn to your free dashboard so you can re-run the full pipeline on it anytime. Free with a signed-in account: 3 profiles a week, no card.
Can the profiled company remove this page?
Any company in the Kustiq directory can request removal at /trust#removal. Removed profiles return 410 Gone and stay out of search.
How fresh is the data?
Msn was last verified 1 month ago. The data refreshes when anyone re-runs the profile (the Re-run now button above does exactly that), and we run the SMTP handshake on contacts when you ask for them, not when we cached the row. The freshness card above the profile shows the exact relative date for the current visit.
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