for the month of March 2019, behind The Daily. In April 2019, Podtrac ranked The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show the second most listened-to podcast in the U.S. In 2021, stories published by The Daily Wire received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher, according to NPR.

The site also had the second most articles among Facebook's 10,000 top stories. According to NewsWhip, The Daily Wire was the sixth-leading English-language publisher on Facebook in 2019 through the month of March. In 2018, NewsWhip identified The Daily Wire as 'by far' the top right-wing publisher on Facebook. The Daily Wire became one of the leading news sites and publishers on Facebook in terms of engagement.

In September 2020, Shapiro announced that The Daily Wire headquarters would move to Nashville, Tennessee. Initially, the company was headquartered in Los Angeles, California and supported mostly by advertisements. Farris manages Bentkey Ventures, LLC (formerly Forward Publishing, LLC), which publishes The Daily Wire. After the duo secured several million dollars in seed funding from billionaire petroleum industry brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, The Daily Wire was launched in 2015. The Daily Wire was conceived by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, who both worked for TruthRevolt, a news website that was formerly funded by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Ben Shapiro, co-founder of The Daily Wire

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