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When Life Gave Us 2020, We Said Game On

Brush off your sweatpants and let's go for a virtual ride. From redefining how we create for the web and
run our businesses to staying connected with each other, let’s recap all that we’ve accomplished—together.

We’re a growing global community.

+189M users strong from 190 countries

Typography strip with movement that features the number 850+ describing the new amount of new features created by Wix in 2020.
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We’re pioneers of innovation.

850+ powerful new features that empower you to make a bigger impact online

Online store for fashion brand showcasing items for purchase, elements from the store's back office in mobile view.
Runnerzone fitness website that uses Bookings and Calendar to help clients book sessions.
Runnerzone fitness website that uses Bookings and Calendar to help clients book sessions.
The mobile version of the Runnerzone fitness website featuring the option to purchase packages, how the site looks on mobile and their logo.
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Wix Bookings

Transforming body, mind and business

We gave you must-have tools to take your services online and connect with clients, like our Zoom integration, flexible memberships, new health waivers and SMS reminders—keeping your businesses running and your calendars booked.

Wix eCommerce dashboard showing monthly analytics, order fulfillments and branded packaging.
Online store for fashion brand
Showcasing items for purchase, elements from the store's back office in mobile view.

Wix eCommerce

Redefining eCommerce

We partnered with key sales channels like Amazon, eBay, Facebook and Instagram, integrated leading dropshipping services, adapted to today’s shoppers and expanded our own native payment solution—offering you an eCommerce platform that goes beyond an online store.

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

Drive-in movie theatre website featuring ticket sales, combo deal for members and purchasing tickets from the mobile website.

7x more movies screened

29x more tickets sold

13x more revenue

Drive-in movie theatre website featuring ticket sales, combo deal for members and purchasing tickets from the mobile website.

Wix Events

Bringing people together

We knew the show must go on and we made sure of it—from hosting events over Zoom to live-streaming on YouTube or Facebook Live. With the new Members Area, your attendees got exclusive access to event highlights, guest lists, ticket downloads and more.

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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.

Restaurant website featuring an editorial shot of a chef prepping for service.
Restaurant online menu design.
Restaurant website featuring an editorial shot of a chef prepping for service.

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.

Wix Restaurants

Satisfying cravings 24/7

We updated the Wix Mobile app so you can manage and print orders, edit dish availability and more—wherever you are. Plus, now you can take phone orders and manage them from the restaurants tab of your site.

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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.❤️

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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.

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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.

Three images placed around the screen including a cropped photo of a model wearing white sneakers holding flowers, an image of a woman at the beach taken behind a plastic sheet to create an element of texture and an image of a woman face down on a bed with sun rays flooding in from the window which won Wix's Home Studio Challenge.

DID YOU KNOW?

You used 116M design elements to captivate visitors and make your stories stand out online.

SEO advanced features of Robust text, and structured data.
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Three images places around the screen including a portrait of a woman, a bowl of grape tomatoes on the vine with sun rays and a ceramic plate with eggplants.
Three images placed around the screen including a cropped photo of a model wearing white sneakers holding flowers, an image of a woman at the beach taken behind a plastic sheet to create an element of texture and an image of a woman face down on a bed with sun rays flooding in from the window which won Wix's Home Studio Challenge.

VIDEO & STILLS

  • You uploaded 562M original photos and footage

  • You added 46.5M images and videos to your sites from the Free Media by Wix collection

MUSIC

  • 76.7M tracks streamed on your websites

  • 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.

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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.

A portrait of the artist loading in three different layers.
A portrait of the artist loading in three different layers.
A portrait of the artist loading in three different layers.
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SEO advanced features of Robust text, and structured data.

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.

Website for fashion forward brand in the process of creation in the Wix Editor.
Website for fashion forward brand in the process of creation in the Wix Editor.

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.

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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.

 A published magazine website built using Corvid technology to create a more complex website.
The back-end of a magazine website using Corvid Technology including databases to create multiple pages and custom code.
 A published magazine website built using Corvid technology to create a more complex website.

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.

Website that sells plants and planting workshops using Ascend business tools to promote and manage their business. Including automations, chat, tasks and forms to market and grow online.
Website that sells plants and planting workshops using Ascend business tools to promote and manage their business. Including automations, chat, tasks and forms to market and grow online.

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.

DID YOU KNOW?

You sent 2.6M email marketing campaigns to 1.5B recipients that brought 32M visitors to your sites.

Analytics & Reports

Making data-driven decisions

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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.

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Apparel and accessories brand managed by different team members within the company. Each one has its own role and permission to ensure the business runs smoothly.
Apparel and accessories brand managed by different team members within the company. Each one has its own role and permission to ensure the business runs smoothly.

Roles & Permissions

Defining your team

We gave you more customization options for team management and collaboration. With an update to Roles & Permissions, you can decide who does what on your site—from viewing online orders and managing contacts to editing and updating your web pages and more.

Variety of websites designed by Black artists and business owners on the Wix platform, part of our initiative to support Black Lives Matter.
Portfolio websites created by Wix Playground graduates to showcase their art and talent online.
A variety of posts that feature and showcase Wix users on Wix's social media channels which all gained massive exposure.

We’re giving digital agencies the ultimate platform to grow their business and bring their clients’ vision to life.

Robust project of tech product brand created by an agency that is part of Wix Partners.
Robust project of tech product brand created by an agency that is part of Wix Partners.
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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.

Background image of supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Variety of websites designed by Black artists and business owners on the Wix platform, part of our initiative to support Black Lives Matter.

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.

A variety of posts that feature and showcase Wix users on Wix's social media channels which all gained massive exposure.
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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.

Portfolio websites created by Wix Playground graduates to showcase their art and talent online.

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.

A variety of different people who joined Wix's online sessions.

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.

To all of you creators, innovators and businesses—big and small...

Keep bringing your
best self in 2021.

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