The Mansueto Ventures-owned title released its annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. today.

FriendFinder, which also operates sexually-oriented online social networks, placed 303 overall on the list and eighth in the media category. The company grew its revenues by 993 percent from $30 million in 2006 to more than $327 million in 2009.

The top ranking privately-held media company this year, according to Inc., is Blurb, an online resource for authors to design, publish, market and sell books. Also cracking the media category this year are Thrillist (ranked third in media, 93 overall), StumbleUpon (fifth in media, 126 overall) and avatar-based 3-D social network IMVU (tenth in media, 456 overall).

Other magazine publishers making the list this year include: Hoffman Media (#38 in media, #3,102 overall), Mental Floss (#43 in media, #3,546 overall), SmartCEO Media (#45 in media, #3,566 overall), Advocate Media (#48 in media, #3,748 overall), Chansen Publishing (#50 in media, #3,963 overall), S&A Cherokee (#52 in media, #3,963 overall), Performance Media (#54 in media, #4,451 overall) and Hanover, Massachusetts-based Pinnacle Publishing Group (#59 in media, #4,861 overall).

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