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ORGANIZATION
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZATION
ANGI Homeservices is the world's largest digital marketplace for home services, connecting millions of homeowners across the globe with home service professionals. ANGI Homeservices operates leading brands in eight countries, including HomeAdvisor® and Angie's List® (United States), HomeStars (Canada), Travaux.com (France), MyHammer (Germany and Austria), MyBuilder (UK), Werkspot (Netherlands) and Instapro (Italy).
ANGI Homeservices owns and operates the HomeAdvisor digital marketplace in the United States (the “Marketplace”), which connects consumers with service professionals nationwide for home repair, maintenance and improvement projects. The Marketplace provides consumers with tools and resources to help them find local, pre-screened and customer-rated service professionals, as well as instantly book appointments with those professionals online or connect with them by telephone. Effective September 29, 2017, the Company also owns and operates Angie’s List, which connects consumers with service professionals for local services through a nationwide online directory of service professionals in over 700 service categories and provides consumers with valuable tools, services and content, including more than ten million verified reviews of local service professionals, to help them research, shop and hire for local services. In addition to its market-leading U.S. operations, ANGI Homeservices owns the leading home services online marketplaces in Canada (HomeStars, acquired on February 8, 2017), Germany and Austria (MyHammer, acquired on November 3, 2016), France (Travaux.com) and the Netherlands (Werkspot), as well as operations in Italy (Instapro) and the United Kingdom (MyBuilder, acquired on March 24, 2017). ANGI Homeservices also owns mHelpDesk, a provider of cloud-based field service software for small to mid-size businesses, and Felix, a pay-per-call advertising service.
As of December 31, 2017, the Company had a network of approximately 181,000 Marketplace Paying Service Professionals providing services in more than 500 categories and 400 discrete markets in the United States, ranging from simple home repairs to larger home remodeling projects. The Company generated approximately 18.1 million Marketplace Service Requests from consumers during the year ended December 31, 2017. As of December 31, 2017, the Company also had approximately 45,000 Angie's List Advertising Service Professionals.
The Company has two operating segments: (i) North America, which primarily includes HomeAdvisor's operations in the United States, Angie's List, mHelpDesk and HomeStars, and (ii) Europe, which includes Travaux.com, MyHammer, MyBuilder, Werkspot and Instapro.
On September 29, 2017, IAC/InterActiveCorp ("IAC") and Angie's List Inc. ("Angie's List") combined IAC's HomeAdvisor business and Angie's List under a new publicly traded company called ANGI Homeservices Inc. The merger agreement provided for the combination with Angie’s List by way of the merger of a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of ANGI Homeservices with and into Angie’s List (the "Combination"), with Angie’s List continuing as the surviving company in the Combination. Prior to the effective time of the Combination, IAC contributed its HomeAdvisor business, along with certain cash, to ANGI Homeservices in exchange for shares of ANGI Homeservices Class B common stock. Following the Combination, Angie’s List and the legal entity that holds the HomeAdvisor business are direct wholly-owned subsidiaries of ANGI Homeservices Inc. At December 31, 2017, IAC owned 86.9% and 98.5% of the economic and voting interest, respectively, of ANGI Homeservices. See "Note 4—Business Combinations" for additional information related to the Combination.
All references to "ANGI Homeservices," the "Company," "we," "our" or "us" in this report are to ANGI Homeservices Inc.