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The A.V. Club

American online newspaper and entertainment website
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Summary

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of online newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,457 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: website[3]
  • Owned by: The Onion[4], G/O Media[5]
  • Genre: entertainment journalism[6]
  • Headquarters location: Chicago[7]
  • Place of publication: Chicago[8]
  • Commons category: The A.V. Club[9]
  • Language of work or name: English[10]
  • Country of origin: United States[11]
  • Inception: 1993[12]
  • Official website: https://www.avclub.com[13]
  • Web feed URL: https://www.avclub.com/rss[14]
  • Title: The A.V. Club[15]
  • Alexa rank: 8637[16]
  • Social media followers: 456,753[17], 458,948[18], 191,000[19], 450,224[20], 433,918[21], 195,000[22], 197,000[23], 206,000[24]

Why It Matters

The A.V. Club has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

online newspaper United States website

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Web feed url → https://www.avclub.com/rss
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    Title → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The A.V. Club'}
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Owned by: G/O Media"
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