We build communities and social networks where there are none. We organize and mobilize millions toward a national movement for change. We serve as a bullhorn for a voiceless generation of cancer survivors.
Our innovative and award-winning programs and services have been directly crowdsourced straight from our constituency from the ground up to patch cracks and fill in gaps, just like spackle. In the end, we help young adults fight cancer and empower them to get busy living every single day.
A TIME Magazine Best 50 Website, http://stupidcancer.com is the Web's #1 portal for access to targeted, trusted and peer-vetted content specific to young adult cancer survivorship and the young adult cancer movement. With nearly 1,000,000 unique visits per year¹, our website has consistently ranked highest in traffic, referrals and trackbacks than any other source on the Internet.
Now in it's 4th generation, our website, it's design, navigation, user experience, content, social media integration and targeted features have been completely redesigned from scrarch based on months of crowdsourced comments, feedback, opinions and suggestions direct from the young adult cancer community. You spoke. We listened... and we're are proud to say that we are truly a platform developed by and for young adults affected by stupid cancer.
It's everywhere and you can't escape it. Follow. Friend. Like. Poke. Tweet. Tag. (Who made up these words anyway?) Social media is here to stay and, when used not for evil, it can bring much needed peer support and community to thousands at a time in one fail swoop. And that is exactly what is happening.
With profiles and avatars on over 30 primary and secondary social media platforms, i[2]y is able to reach hundreds of thousands of friends, fans and followers, connecting them not just with the support resources and compelling content they seek, but with one another. Age-appropriate peer support has met it's match, literally and figuratively. We're thrilled to be a trusted source and key market influencer with global reach and an incredibly passionate base. Join us!.
The Stupid Cancer Show won "Most Innovative Use Of Social Media" at the 2011 Stay Classy Awards in San Diego on Saturday, September 17th. This prestigious honor only further solidifies our broadcast as a paradigm shifting media platform in healthcare. Thank you to Stay Classy and the thousands of fans out there who voted for us and made this possible![Website]
After attending an advanced screening, and with permission from Summit Entertainment, Matthew Zachary is proud to share his official "he's not a film critic" review of the game-changing cancer comedy flick, 50/50[StupidCancerBlog]
Writer Edward Winstead of the prestigious NCI Bulletin (a publication of the National Cancer Institute) recently sat down with i[2]y CEO Matthew Zachary to get the low down on what he's got up his sleeve for the growing young adult cancer movement [NationalCancerInstitute]