Magnify Hits Three Million Visits Per Month; Leads 30,000 Channel Network into Top Ten
Released on: February 13, 2008, 9:02 am
Press Release Author: Alison McNeill
Industry: Internet & Online
Press Release Summary: Celebrating its one year anniversary, online video network empowers people to create online \"themed\" TV stations
Press Release Body: NEW YORK -- February 13, 2008 -- Magnify.net, a peer-driven online video discovery and broadcast channel for websites, groups and businesses, announced its that it is celebrating its first anniversary with almost three million visitors per month, up from 1 million just three months earlier.
In January 2007, Magnify.net launched its community video platform at DEMO 07 in Palm Springs. On the first birthday of the service, Magnify.net is celebrating with a cake that has 30,000 candles - one for every new channel built on the platform.
Magnify.net lets people create and run an online, "themed" TV station out of their home or office.
Unlike typical social networks that host video and connect people, Magnify.net provides the tools and resources to discover, review, organize and broadcast themed video -- regardless of where it\'s hosted.
Videos can be easily collected from other networks including YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Crackle.com, Yahoo, ClipSyndicate, Veoh, among others, or uploaded directly. Users can fully customize their channels to reflect their personal or corporate brand as well as share ad pages through the Magnify Ad Share Network to also monetize traffic.
Magnify.net January 2008 Stats:
1. Page views totaled 15,745,953, which represents a 23.71% increase 2. Unique visitors jumped by 30.18% increase 3. 2,209 new channels created. 4. 1,134,376 new content items were submitted to the network 5. Total channels on the network are now over 30,000, up from 14,000 in September 2007 6. Worldwide growth has skyrocketed by 174% in six months
According to Comscore's latest numbers, combined with Magnify's Google Analytics, the company is set to break into the top most visited online video networks, and its momentum will only continue.
Magnify.net\'s strength is in the channels that people and businesses create to build a community around activities, niche markets, topics, etc. With the integration of broadcast video search and instant publishing, Magnify provides a new category of content that result in the creation of entirely new varieties of channels and visitors.
About Magnify.net Currently delivering more than 14 million page views per month and serving over 30,000 content publishers, Magnify.net is the fastest growing video platform on the web today -- and it\'s free.
The Magnify.net team is led by CEO Steve Rosenbaum, one of the early innovators in the use of small format video, and user-created video. Rosenbaum created MTV Unfiltered, the first series produced entirely by viewers, and directed the multi-perspective feature Documentary \"7 Days in September.\"
More information can be found at http://www.magnify.net/company/presskit