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In April 2006 the International Business Times made its first foray into the online world with the launch of ibtimes.com. This provided a summary of news from around the globe, which was supplemented in November 2007 with a dedicated Foreign Exchange (Forex) portal, providing 24/7 coverage. After 2007 the site underwent several revamps and changes of strategy as the company reacted to changes online, culminating with a design to highlight its journalism and better serve advertisers in 2017.
From 2012, IBTimes won or was nominated for a series of online media and journalism awards, including best investigative journalism, editor of the year, best video journalism and best writer of the year.
Ex-journalists told The Guardian in 2014 that at times they seemed to operate more as "content farms" – demanding high-volume output - than a source of quality journalism. At least two journalists were allegedly threatened with firing unless readership to their articles increased sharply.
In 2015, IBT was nominated Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business journalism in the beat reporting around state pension corruption. The series of reports by the IBT team led New Jersey state government to open a formal pay to play investigation and to divest state holdings in a venture capital firm. The series also led San Francisco officials to delay a proposed $3 billion investment in hedge funds.
In 2016, IBT received four "Best in Business" awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), the most of any publication that year. The works included the International Explainer winner "Lebanon's Refugee Economy" which brought new understanding to the economic and human dimensions of the crisis in Syria. An examination of exorbitant fees charged to prisoners, prompted a response by the FCC. while an in-depth series on the business of marijuana won the Small Business Category.
Goodman said of the time the awards were "validation of our aggressive investment in original reporting and story-telling."
Also 2016, IBT hired John Crowley, the Wall Street Journal's EMEA digital editor, as its UK editor-in-chief. According to The Guardian, "Crowley said his focus would be on helping the site break exclusives, in-depth storytelling and new forms of digital journalism. He said IBT was putting together a UK business desk and hiring an audience team." Crowley stated, "We are not a wire service or so-called paper of record... but I have a vision of where I want to take a site... we've got to have a USP (unique selling proposition)... make ourselves distinctive in journalistic terms."
In early 2017, International Business Times joined a partnership along with the likes of Bloomberg, Channel 4 and the BBC to work together to combat the spread of fake news.
In June 2017, Jason Murdock — who covers cybersecurity for the International Business Times UK — won Digital Writer of the year at the Drum Online Media Awards, which according to InPublishing magazine "identify the cleverest, boldest and most original purveyors of news and views from around the world."
In 2017, during the buildup to what would become the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the International Business Times broke news that a last-minute revision was added to the bill that allowed people who hold real estate holdings through a limited liability company to be able to take advantage of a new deduction for "pass-through" businesses. The report noted President Trump and several policy makers stood to benefit from the language. The reporting spread quickly, prompting responses from senators and lawmakers and subsequently won a SABEW for 2017 Breaking News Category.
In the Columbia Journalism Review, contributing editor Trudy Lieberman credited IBTs David Sirota's investigative reporting for helping to drive a call for reform in Connecticut health insurance regulation.
In October 2017, as media and public frenzy grew around Harvey Weinstein allegations, which in-turn led to national and global movements for the protection of women with #MeToo being the most recognized of them, IBT dropped a bombshell exclusive piece linking Weinstein with the New York District Attorney, Cy Vance. The story was the first to financially connect Vance with Weinstein and elevated subsequent scrutiny around the DA's prosecution record.