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In May 1997, WBS had 1.4 million registered users. The other large web chat company at this time was WebGenesis Inc.'s [[theGlobe.com|The Globe]]. Also internet service provider AOL had over 14,000 chat rooms available to their customers through their non-web interface.<ref name="business_week">{{Cite news | first=Robert D | last=Hof | title=Breaking out of the yak pack | work=Business Week | publisher=McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. | date=May 5, 1997 | url=http://www.businessweek.com/1997/18/b35257.htm | access-date=19 August 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970617020734/http://www.businessweek.com/1997/18/b35257.htm | archive-date=17 June 1997 | url-status=dead}}</ref>
In June 1997, WBS hit 1.5 million registered users and had 7 million daily page views with over 200 rooms.<ref name="business_journal">{{Cite news | first=Lorna | last=Fernandes | title=Techweek - WebChat serves 1.5 million | work=Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal | date=20 June 1997 | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1997/06/23/newscolumn2.html | access-date=19 August 2009 | archive-url=https://archive.
WBS frequently hosted real-time multimedia programming events, which only increased as its popularity grew. Such events attracted celebrities such as [[Tom Clancy]], the celebrity cast of [[Star Trek]], bands [[Soundgarden]] and [[Metallica]], the former president of [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]], Lawrence Grossman from [[NBC|NBC News]], United States Senator [[Arlen Specter]], [[Intel]] CEO [[Andy Grove]] and feminist [[Gloria Steinem]].<ref name="1_million_accounts" /><ref>{{Cite press release | title=Internet Users Flock to WebChat Broadcasting System; Site Now the Largest Chatting Hub on the World Wide Web | ___location=Menlo Park, California | publisher=Business Wire, FindArticles | date=20 November 1995 | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_Nov_20/ai_17769738 | access-date=23 May 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912013719/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_Nov_20/ai_17769738 | archive-date=12 September 2009 | url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==Executives==
President and CEO Bayard Winthrop was a frequent spokesperson for the company.<ref>{{Cite news | first1=Robert D | last1=Hof | first2=Seanna | last2=Browder | first3=Peter | last3=Elstrom | title=Internet Communities – Forget surfers. A new class of Netizen is settling right in | url=http://www.businessweek.com/1997/18/b35251.htm | work=[[BusinessWeek]] | date=5 May 1997 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970617020651/http://www.businessweek.com/1997/18/b35251.htm | archive-date=17 June 1997 | url-status=dead}}</ref> After its buyout, he co-founded Freebord, a San Francisco-based sporting goods manufacturer, in January 2001.<ref>{{Cite web | title=BSV 09 Judging Panel | url=https://www.freebord.com/bsv-09-judging-panel/ | date=17 November 2009 | website=Freebord | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523102605/https://www.freebord.com/bsv-09-judging-panel/ | archive-date=23 May 2020 | url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Winthrop's_LinkedIn">{{Cite web | title=Bayard Winthrop | url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/bayard-winthrop-bbbb04b | website=[[LinkedIn]] | archive-url=https://archive.
==2009 revival==
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