As we prepare for the new year, we want to take a moment to celebrate everything we have accomplished in 2023. It has been a landmark year for us – we celebrated our 20th anniversary, and released some of the biggest advancements to our commerce product to date. We are proud of our continuous work building products to help entrepreneurs stand out and succeed, and are incredibly grateful for the millions of customers choosing Squarespace.
Take a look at some of the most exciting moments from 2023:
Celebrated our 20th Anniversary: We celebrated 20 incredible years on the web. From our culture of innovation to shaping technology, we have come a long way from a publishing tool to an entire suite of products for entrepreneurs. It’s incredible what we have accomplished over the last two decades. You can explore our journey through a timeline celebrating pivotal moments in our history.
Launched Squarespace Domains, Welcomed Google Domains customers: Following our landmark acquisition of Google Domains assets this year, we are welcoming millions of new Google Domains customers to our platform. To support these customers, we relaunched Squarespace Domains with a more complete domain management experience, well-suited to provide domain-first customers a seamless experience.
Launched Squarespace Refresh 2023: Our annual compilation of new products, features, and updates for a future where everyone can be an entrepreneur. This year’s Refresh showcased updates that span all of Squarespace's brands and platforms including Acuity Scheduling, Squarespace Payments, Squarespace AI, Courses, Client Invoicing, Bio Sites Pro, and Squarespace Domains, in addition to new ways to grow and scale with Enterprise and Tock.
Launched Squarespace Payments: Central to our 2023 product releases was the launch of Squarespace Payments, which closes the gap for millions of customers seeking an integrated, secure way to transact seamlessly on a single online platform. The native payment solution enables merchants to collect money for goods and services directly, without having to integrate an external payment processor. In extending our beautiful design to transaction interfaces, we believe Squarespace Payments provides a better user experience for end users and customers, creating a seamless experience at every stop. The Payment solution will work seamlessly with other Squarespace offerings, such as email marketing tools and the scheduling platform.
Launched Squarespace Blueprint: We believe design is the ultimate competitive advantage, and this year, we introduced Squarespace Blueprint to help customers unlock endless design possibilities with more than a billion combinations to build a unique online presence. The interactive design experience features expert guidance, handpicked layouts and styles, live preview and progress bar, and more. When starting a new site with Blueprint, customers can now leverage AI in the onboarding phase to produce core site copy early on.
Launched Award Winning Creative Work: Our award-winning in-house Creative team continued to push the limits of creative excellence through innovative and dynamic campaigns. We produced global campaigns with renowned talent including Super Bowl with Adam Driver (The Singularity), a social campaign with Joseph Lee (The Artist and the Actor), and ran localized campaigns across international key markets such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France and Australia. The team received multiple Fast Company Innovation by Design awards, won two Webby Awards, and our Super Bowl commercial was one of the most awarded of the year, winning top honors at ADC, AICP, Cannes Lions, Ciclope, D&AD and the One Show.
Launched Squarespace Collection: We launched the latest installment in our Squarespace Collection program in partnership with trailblazing photography collective Magnum Photos. For this campaign, we partnered with six of Magnum's world renowned photographers to capture original imagery from across the world. The results came together in a one-of-a-kind photography project, which includes six signature website designs inspired by each photographer’s creativity and the design choices they made for their own Squarespace websites.
Continued Globalization of Our Suite of Products: In a testament to Squarespace's continuous commitment to supporting entrepreneurs globally, we increased our currency options 5x, which, alongside our growing support languages, bolsters our ability to support our international customers. We are excited to continue empowering a broader community of entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed no matter where they are, further solidifying Squarespace's position as a global web-building leader.
Brought Pro Users Together for Our 2nd Annual Circle Day: Circle Day is a hybrid event dedicated to giving our Circle community, Squarespace’s partner program for professional web designers, behind-the-scenes product access and first-hand knowledge from some of Squarespace Circle’s most influential members. This year, we extended the conference to two days, adding a Member Workshop Day where attendees got to experience using the Courses product and develop their own "course" with fellow Circle members. Our CEO, Anthony Casalena, joined us this year for a Q&A and our Chief Creative Officer, David Lee, wrapped the conference discussing creativity and how to stay inspired.
Held Our Annual Hack Weeks & Design Weeks: At Squarespace, we celebrate creative possibilities. There is no greater example of this commitment at work than our annual Hack Week and Design Week, where members of the Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design departments have the opportunity to investigate creative concepts, freeing themselves to work on anything they want.
Celebrated the 10 Year Anniversary of Dublin Office: We celebrated the 10th anniversary of launching Squarespace’s office in Dublin, Ireland in July 2013. In honor of this occasion we hosted various games, activities, and events such as Squarespace Olympics, video game tournaments and an in person happy hour for all employees in Ireland.
Achieved Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies & Other Global Recognition: We are continuously humbled to be recognized as a best in class organization in various areas including being employer of choice, the excellence of our customer support team, our impeccable in-house creative work, or as an accelerating business. In 2023 alone Squarespace won over 25 awards and recognitions, including a Fast Company Award for Most Innovative Companies and Comparably’s Best Places to Work in New York.
We thank our customers and employees who continuously push us to be the best company we can be. We can’t wait to share more about what is in store for Squarespace in 2024. Stay tuned!