Vulture debuted in April 2007 as an entertainment
blog on nymag.com, the website of
New York Magazine. Melissa Maerz and Dan Kois were the founding editors. The initial focus was television and film news, especially recaps of recent television episodes. Over time, it expanded to publish news and criticism in other areas of high and low culture, such as music, books, comedy, and podcasts.
Vulture subsequently moved to an independent
URL/
domain (Vulture.com) in February 2012. The first Vulture Festival, an annual two-day event featuring celebrities from various pop culture fields, took place in New York City in 2014.
Vulture parent company, New York Media, bought the comedy news site
Splitsider from
The Awl Network in 2018 and folded some of its coverage and its editor Megh Wright into
Vulture. In September 2019,
Vulture became a property of
Vox Media when New York Media was acquired by
Vox. ==Vulture Stunt Awards ==