Candidates and Clients are always asking us; who’s the hottest company in the marketplace, what companies are on the rise and on the decline, how are certain companies perceived in the eyes of the marketplace and other such questions surrounding the “who’s hot” leader board of the web world. We have strong opinions to all of these questions and often debate this not only with our clients and candidates, but amongst ourselves as well.

Truth be told, I can’t remember how or why we started comparing top web companies to top female celebrities (I kind of wish I had a better story for this). I think it started as an inside joke between my brother and I when we would actually get into some pretty heated debates over which web company and celebrity is hotter in the public eye and who’s best matched up together. And then when other people heard our debates, more fuel would be added to the fire and it all pretty much spiraled down hill from there. So after months of random debate and no clear resolution, I did what any good manager would do in this situation. I held an official meeting (after hours of course), bought some booze to foster the flow of creativity, turned off the phones and I refused to let anybody leave the room until the perfect matches were decided on once and for all.

So after a ton of laughs, a few too many drinks, some very heated arguments and a near office wrestling match ;), we finally came up with our official comparison of the top web companies to the top female celebrities (watch out Maxim). We hope you have as much fun reading our comparisons as we had coming up with them. Just one caveat, please don’t take them too seriously - we definitely don’t. And if we missed a good comparison or you can think of a better one than we came up with, please let us know - we’ll post all comments and ideas. Enjoy!!! To view the comparisons please read here.