Scribd, Inc.

📣 Billionaire club alert 🚨 Scribd, Inc. now has 1 BILLION users! Yes, that's Billion with a B. What started in 2007 with a single document has grown into a global community across Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and now Fable, all built around a simple idea: helping people discover, share, and build knowledge. Nearly two decades in, there’s a lot to celebrate. Thank you to everyone who downloaded a document, listened to an audiobook, or shared a presentation with the world for helping us get here. You can read more about the milestone on our newsroom: https://lnkd.in/ggwAer62 Cheers to the next billion!

The employees of Scribd, Inc. are a smart, empathetic group of folks, but we also have a deep competitive streak. That hits full stride during our annual Step Into Summer wellbeing challenge, where employees race their way to the top of the leaderboard through the activity of their choice. 👟 This year, 57 participants combined to log 12.1 million steps in just 22 days. That’s enough steps to have played in every minute of every match of the 2026 World Cup…6 times! Here’s to friendly competition, stronger connections, and staying in motion. Congrats to our top 3 steppers: 🥇 1st place Andre T. 🥈 2nd place Harrison Anderson 🥉 3rd place Natalie Medvedchuk

Last week, our team joined the fifth annual TrustCon in San Francisco - the largest gathering of trust and safety professionals in the industry. Our very own Harry Huang and Jeanie Lam took the stage to share some of our team's approaches to content moderation infrastructure and building scalable systems for content review. Three days of sessions, conversations, and shared problem-solving with practitioners from across platforms, regulators, and vendors - staying sharp in this field means staying in the room with the people doing this work everyday. Grateful to have been part of the conversation, and to keep learning alongside this community. #TrustCon2026 Trust & Safety Professional Association

Today, we released the 2026 Scribd Understanding Index, our inaugural look at how people actually find, build, and trust knowledge in the AI era. We surveyed 1,500 people and the results are clear: AI has created a new verification layer: 🔘 Trust is the new x-factor: 4 in 10 say the hardest part of any research session is knowing which sources to trust. 🔘 Human expertise is how we get it: Subject matter experts with first-hand experience and human-authored expert documents score almost four times higher on trust than AI-generated summaries.  🔘 The new workflow: 68% spend 1-6 hours a week verifying AI or search engine output 🔘 Depth still favors documents: PDFs and text remain the top format for complex content (39%), ahead of video (38%). The takeaway: AI didn’t replace the need for real expertise. It made it more valuable. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gT3CYrQp

4 in 10 people say the hardest part of research isn't finding information. It's knowing what to trust. This week Scribd launches its first-ever Understanding Index, a look at how people research, learn, and build confidence in what they know. How has the new information landscape changed the way you gain knowledge and understanding?

The ‘adaptation effect’ has been one of the defining trends in reading this year, as movies like Project Hail Mary and shows like Heated Rivalry drove their respective books to the top of the charts. Wuthering Heights also saw a 1000% jump in listening time on Everand following the release of the new movie in March, proving the effect isn’t limited to new titles. And with Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey hitting theaters today, now a 2800 year old epic is the hottest topic across Fable book clubs. Odyssey readers already love to debate which translation is the best, now they’ll get to weigh “movie, or book?” (though if you ask us, it’s almost always the book.) Check it out on Everand and decide for yourself! https://lnkd.in/grQRxD6c

Can you believe we’re already halfway through the year? As we hit the midpoint, Everand and Fable took a look at what our readers have been loving most in 2026. This year, readers have been captivated by thrillers, fantasy favorites, and returns to beloved series, with The Housemaid, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, and Fourth Wing among the books topping the charts. From novels that keep you turning the page, to the stories sparking conversations across our communities, see what’s trending this so far this year: https://lnkd.in/gzUjQpX4

When Scribd, Inc. received recognition from Fast Company last fall on their Best Workplaces for Innovators list within the Flexible Workplace for Innovation category, it was partly due to ScribdFlex, which allows our employees to spend most of their time working wherever they’re at their best, while also creating intentional in-person moments. Once a month, in cities where we have 10 or more employees, we gather for Hub Day, which gives us regular opportunities for face-to-face collaboration and connection. Not to mention- the chance to have a little fun together! Like last month, where the NYC team did a group painting activity, or our Vancouver crew, who went on a boat! The SF office played ‘human bingo’ with sticky notes, while Seattle went out after work for a vinyl listening party. It’s always good to remember that our work is important, and so are the humans who do it. Sound like your kind of innovative, flexible team? Check out our open positions here: https://lnkd.in/gmfK-27Z

Behind every document is a person who learned something, solved a problem, and shared it with others. Our latest newsroom story explores what’s trending on Scribd, and what it says about how people use real human knowledge to get things done. This spring, people are turning to study guides to prep for exams, repair manuals before tackling car maintenance, graduation speeches for inspiration, and language learning materials to build new skills. See what’s hot on Scribd: https://lnkd.in/gAGUR4hz

🎧 June is Audiobook Appreciation Month- the perfect time to remind everyone that whether you prefer audiobooks, ebooks, or paper books, it all counts as reading! (If you’re anything like us, it’s probably a combo of all 3.) Every month at our internal Company All Hands, our Data & Analytics team shows us a comparison of the top 10 titles employees read vs Everand users as a whole in the last month. It’s fun to spot where we differ, and even more where we overlap. Last month, users and employees were both in the weeds with My Husband’s Wife, Theo of Golden, and The Night We Met. If a team full of hard working readers, learners, and book nerds sounds like your speed, check our our open roles at: https://lnkd.in/gmfK-27Z