During the early stages of development Hollywood life, 1,500 trucks, as well as tractors, were employed in clearing land and grading streets; two yacht basins were dredged and linked towards the Intracostal Waterway, constructed by General George Washington Goethals, chief engineer inside the building of the Panama Canal. Whenever the city lights turned there for the first time, ships at sea claimed that Miami was on fire, as well as their radio alerts as well as the red glow inside the sky drew people form miles around enough to help.
In January 2015, the website launched a weekly podcast, led by editor-in-chief Bonnie Fuller, that features conversation, debate, celebrity interviews, and exclusive celebrity news. Hollywood Life and PIX11, Tribune Broadcasting’s flagship station in New York, established a programming as well as cross-promotional collaboration in June 2015. Hollywood Life now offers PIX11 News with programming on air as well as on PIX11.com as part of the partnership.
By 2016, the site somewhere between 20 and 35 million unique monthly users, was posting 650 items each week, and also had a 70% mobile readership. In 2018, the website debuted annual Beauty Awards, followed by Fitness & Wellness Awards in 2019. It also offers a GenNext Award, which recognises women who have excelled in various fields.
Fuller acquired full control of the brand through Penske Media in 2021.
The Hollywood Style Awards have been held by Hollywood Life since 2003 to honour “style achievements towards the Hollywood aesthetic landscape.”