Magnifynet Surpasses 18,000 Publishers, Announces Featured Video Channels as User Curated Service Continues Rapid Growth
Released on: October 31, 2007, 10:19 am
Press Release Author: Alison McNeill
Industry: Internet & Online
Press Release Summary: Magnify.net attracts publishers looking to build communities around aggregated video content
Press Release Body: NEW YORK - October 31, 2007 -- Magnify.net, a peer-driven online video discovery and broadcast channel for people, groups and businesses, announced new statistics that point to the growth opportunity for the emerging video curation market.
In October 2007, more than 4,000 new users registered and built content-specific video channels with Magnify.net's technology.
Twice a month, Magnify.net chooses four sites to feature on its home page - providing new visitors and potential publishers a glimpse at the diverse community of users that have adopted the platform.
Among the sites launched in the past two weeks, Magnify.net is featuring a fast growing ethnic social network, the world's third largest community of student community service members, a progressive and locally engaged newspaper chain, and a unique e-commerce site for very expensive toys.
The Spanish language site, Que Pasa, added a community news feature, inviting members of its one million-strong registered member base to discover, submit, and share video on the new Que Passa News Network (www.QPNN.com).
QPNN is a carefully curated mix of Hispanic focused news content, user submitted video footage, and targeted feature videos. With the success of QPNN,com, QuePasa is now considering adding a number of other themed video channels to the service, also to be built on the Magnify.net platform.
Executive producer, Patrico Espinoza, chose Magnify.net to build the service after an extensive investigation into the tools and services available in the video space observing, "I thought that Magnify.net was the leader in this space and they continue to provide extraordinary support for the service."
AIESEC is the world's largest network of active students and the third largest non-profit organization in the world. The organization realized that there were thousands of videos out there on various posting sites of AIESEC, but there wasn't a channel for the organization.
Site creator, Andras Bodrog, found Magnify.net easy to implement stating, "It is very user friendly and even more editor friendly. The site is fully customized and extends our brand cosmetically even though the content is mainly user generated."
Shifting from global to local, the TimeLeader in Wilkes-Barre, PA is using its Magnify.net channel to gather video created about the region from the Web and also from members of its community. The TimesLeader is one of a number of newspaper partners - both local and newspaper chains - that are building video offerings on the Magnify.net platform in order to enhance video around its social network strategy.
AeroHunter, an extreme e-commerce site, added video of private pilots and aircraft owners. AeroHunter is a community for people looking to buy or sell their fixed-wing aircraft. Using Magnify.net, the team at AeroHunter was able to allow visitors to post high-quality video recordings of the aircraft they have for sale.
Magnify.net supports every site with its market-leading free video curation and upload tools and provides free bandwidth and storage to support every customer.
About Magnify.net Magnify.net is founded by a team of experienced media, technology and Web development entrepreneurs with a strong track record of best-of-breed innovations. The Magnify.net team is led by 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\". Magnify has been financed by its founders, Venture Capital firm Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, and Active Angels Investors, and a group of private individuals. More information can be found at www.magnify.net
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