Contact Us
For submissions or any other editorial matters contact – editorial @thepoke.co.uk and for promotional opportunities use advertising @thepoke.co.uk.
What We Do
The Poke is the fastest growing humour site in the UK with over 650,000 unique users viewing up to 7 Million videos, stories and pictures per month.
Our aim is to administer an antidote to the daily grind – so on here you’ll get original spoof news stories, satirical mash-ups and photoshoppery.
Original content on the site is produced by a freelance collective of up-and-coming comedy writers, photoshop wizards and video mixologists.
The Poke aims to champion all manner of new and exciting comedy talent rising up from the interweb, give them a platform and then work on developing projects together with us as part of the Poke collective.
Plus – with the help of our growing army of followers we handpick the funniest stuff on the web delivering up to 10 daily updates.
The Poke Community
In just over 12 months we have amassed over 70,000 super fans who have signed up to our Facebook, Twitter and YouTube feeds and our weekly newsletter, The Poke On Friday.
On Twitter we’ve collected some high profile followers and retweets from the likes of Stephen Mangan, Caitlin Moran, Graham Linehan, Rufus Hound and Danny Wallace.
Radio 1′s Greg James said “The Poke is one of the funniest, most retweeted accounts on Twitter” and John Prescott reckons that a retweet by The Poke is better than a peerage.
Media Coverage
In 2012 The Poke was featured on a Greg James BBC Radio 1 documentary about internet trends and several of our videos made multiple appearances on Channel 4′s Rude Tube.
We’ve also picked up a fair bit of media coverage in outlets like The New Yorker, The Huffington Post and Media Guardian.
Earlier this year one of our stories about a zombie invasion caused quite a stir in French media.
The Poke Awards
We also have an annual awards initiative called The Pokes which honours the best-in-show of UK web comedy.
Our award-winning App
We made an app for the iPhone and also for Android – you can find out more about it HERE
The Sunday Times put it in their Top Apps of 2012 list.
Read what > The Guardian thought.
History
The Poke started out as fanzine in Aug 2002 – we printed 50,000 copies and distributed it via independent music shops and up at the Edinburgh Festival. People liked it. We really wanted to do a news-stand version..but we got distracted and did some other things instead..until July 2010.
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