Index.hr

Index.hr is a Croatian online newspaper, launched in December 2002 and based in Zagreb. The news site covers politics, business, sports, show business, and features columns covering everything from gossip to political commentary. , it is the leading Croatian news website. According to Alexa Internet, Index.hr is one of the top sites in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Index.hr was founded by Matija Babić and was originally designed as a news aggregation website, providing news content from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The website quickly grew in popularity, and over time more original content produced by the growing staff was being added to the site, until it became a popular media outlet in its own right. Index.hr gained public recognition by exposing a series of scandals, the two most notable being the 2003 controversy stirred by a discovered recording of popular singer Marko Perković in which Perković allegedly performed a song praising the World War II fascist Ustaše regime, and the 2004 celebrity sex tape scandal involving Severina Vučković, a pop singer.
Index.hr managed to keep its place among the top-visited websites in Croatia throughout the period, and has since launched a number of additional services, such as "Bloger.hr" (a blogging website) and "Igra.hr" (a website for online flash gaming).