When Life Gave Us 2020, We Said Game On
DID YOU KNOW?
You and your clients really broke a sweat, completing over 8.3M workouts.
You used Wix Bookings to control the number of visitors in your business and 4.9M of your clients enjoyed safer in-person experiences.
What You Sold in 2020
You broke new records in 2020, making +140% sales transactions YoY. Cha-ching.
PET SUPPLIES
You pampered your fur babies.
+261% YoY
BOOKS & LITERATURE
You staycationed with your imagination
+336% YoY
FOOD & BEVERAGES
You always kept your glass half-full.
+614% YoY
FLOWERS & PLANTS
You stopped to smell the roses.
+314% YoY
GIFTS
You sent random acts of love and kindness.
+255% YoY
7x more movies screened
29x more tickets sold
13x more revenue
EMPTY THEATERS, CROWDED DRIVE-INS
7x more movies screened | 29x more tickets sold | 13x more revenue
DID YOU KNOW?
Despite COVID-19, you hosted lively on and offline events that drew over 9.3M guests.
DID YOU KNOW?
From online orders to outdoor seating, you served up over 26.5M menu items. Bon appetit.
You went back to the kitchen, invented dishes and added 10M new items to your menus.
We’re finding new ways to share ideas, stay connected and build strong online communities.
Blog
We gave you more ways to express yourself with new blog layouts and widgets. Now you can build a loyal readership around exclusive content by monetizing your blog with ads and subscription plans.
Forum & Groups
We let you take control over who sees what on your forum with private categories and access to select content via paid subscriptions. For groups, you can boost engagement with polls and implement the new Wix Events integration.
Members
We added more customization features for your members, like cover photos and custom badges. Combine Members with apps like the new Wix Challenges to create and sell your own programs based on common goals.
DID YOU KNOW?
Your words mattered, reaching 1.2B people across the globe with your thoughts, opinions and stories.
You united friends and strangers alike, creating more groups than ever before, +255% YoY.
You gave loyal visitors an online space to call home—with 12.6M installs of Members Area, connecting over 37.5M new members.
DID YOU KNOW?
All together, you received 39.9M reactions on your blog, forum and groups posts.❤️
Design Features
We’re all about pushing creative limits.
We developed new innovative technology, exclusive to Wix, so you can elevate your design game. Mask videos, play with transparent videos, add captivating scroll effects, custom interactions and more to create BIGGER PROJECTS and bolder websites.
Media from Wix
Cultivating cutting-edge visuals
We added 14K free high-quality images, videos and vector art illustrations for a diverse,
one-of-a-kind arsenal to digital storytelling.
DID YOU KNOW?
You used 116M design elements to captivate visitors and make your stories stand out online.
VIDEO & STILLS
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You uploaded 562M original photos and footage
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You added 46.5M images and videos to your sites from the Free Media by Wix collection
MUSIC
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76.7M tracks streamed on your websites
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You sold 4.3M of your albums and singles
COLLABS WITH CREATIVES
We called on creatives to submit their media content and get paid for it. This year, we added 100s of new photos and videos to our media library—from users like you.
Faster websites, better performance.
We redesigned our platform and rewrote our code, so your sites load in just fractions of a second. With strategic caching, smart feature download and performance-driven models, time-consuming actions are eliminated from the browser workload. What does this mean for you and your visitors? Faster page loading and a slicker online experience.
Wix SEO
Growing your organic traffic
This year, we created new advanced SEO tools and improved your sitemap infrastructure. We developed the Robots.txt Editor so you can tell bots what to crawl on your site and made log files accessible so you can understand how they crawl it. Additionally, we added group and bulk 301 redirects, expanded the SEO Patterns tool to new page types (like blogs and events), and started offering quick site verification with Bing, Yandex and Pinterest.
DID YOU KNOW?
You drove 3.6B visitors to your sites via Google organic search.
Unparalleled design.
Functionality forward.
Wix Editor
Designing websites your way
We weren’t kidding about creating a complete, site-building platform for everyone—more features, advanced capabilities, in any language. Plus now, drag and drop editing is 63% faster and smoother than ever before.
THE EDITOR: 2020 FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
Vertical text
(yeah, it’s big in Japan).
My Designs—because your masterpieces are made to be reused by you.
Get text ideas tailored to your business or site content.
Multilingual URL slugs, supporting non-English characters.
Search in the Editor to find any app or element in seconds.
Velo (formerly known as Corvid)
Building robust websites with advanced functionality
We made major improvements to the platform’s UI, including code autocompletion, error handling, a Google Operations integration and introduced a job scheduler. The addition of dynamic repeaters let you manage all your repeater elements from one place. Plus with 23 new APIs, you have even more control over site elements, database content, Wix Apps and external services.
Editor X
Unveiling the future of web design for digital creators
We launched a whole new web design and development platform for building responsive websites with flexible grids and full breakpoint control. Discover a revolutionary way to create for the web, while integrating all the Wix business solutions you already know.
We’re building the tools you need to run your business smarter.
Ascend Marketing and Business Tools
Always be converting
We streamlined marketing and customer management features, adding email templates (including ones for COVID-19), new automation triggers, time-saving multi-step automations and the ability to accept recurring payments via invoices. With advanced form templates, you can now add conditional fields and a double opt-in to better manage your contacts.
We built you a new analytics dashboard with valuable info about your site’s performance and how visitors interact with it. Get insights from 30+ new reports, including site traffic, sales and revenue, customer retention and more. Plus, you’ll receive real-time notifications on dramatic shifts to site activity so you can make changes when it matters most.
We’re giving digital agencies the ultimate platform to grow their business and bring their clients’ vision to life.
Wix Partners
Empowering agencies to scale
This year, Wix became the ultimate place for agencies to create client sites, streamline their workflow and grow their client base. As part of our new Partner Program, agencies can now earn access to exclusive benefits, like collaboration features, marketing tools and getting matched with qualified leads in the Wix Marketplace.
DID YOU KNOW?
The Wix Marketplace saw record growth, with 3x more project requests submitted and 2.5x more projects completed YoY.
We’re empowering YOU.
Black Lives Matter
We’re showing support and standing with our Black-owned businesses, organizations and artists.
DID YOU KNOW?
You supported the Black Lives Matter movement with the purchase of a limited edition tee. Wix matched your contributions and 100% of the proceeds were donated to the NAACP, Black Girls Code and Know Your Rights Camp.
Wix Social Media
We’re following, loving and sharing your sites, stories and achievements with the rest of the Wix Community.
DID YOU KNOW?
Over a third of our social posts featured you—reaching 68M people worldwide, garnering 4.2M likes, reactions and comments.
Wix Playground Academy
For the first time we’re expanding our NYC-based Playground Academy to Europe—online, of course. Join a talented group of international designers for a multidisciplinary curriculum led by award-winning creatives.
DID YOU KNOW?
48 talented designers just wrapped a 3-month stint in our intensive web design program. Congrats, grads.
Meetups, Webinars and More
We hosted online Meetups globally, ran dozens of webinars and launched the Wix eCommerce School. You were always at the forefront of these efforts—whether it was growing your online presence or your business.