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WeShow.com launches video focused social network
My WeShow enables anyone to become an online video aggregator: finding, creating, discussing, sharing and making money from video content
New York – January 23, 2008 – WeShow (www.weshow.com), the human-powered guide to the online video universe, today launched My WeShow, powerful video focused social network that enhances Internet users' online video experience. My WeShow combines the best of video entertainment with social interaction on the web, enabling users to find video, create personalized video communities, share opinions and content while also potentially making money. My WeShow gives users the power to easily become an editor and aggregator of their own video portal, not only finding videos from more than 100 video sites, but immediately adding them to their own My WeShow portal under new titles and descriptions that they have written themselves. Launched today, My WeShow can be found at http://www.weshow.com/my.
Since its launch five months ago, WeShow has seen tremendous growth. Today approximately five million users visit WeShow on a monthly basis. On December 2007 WeShow was already among the 2,000 most visited sites in the world according to Alexa (a nationally recognized traffic ranking that analyzes Web usage around the globe). WeShow success builds off the explosion of online video and the popularity of sites such as YouTube, Metacafe, Google Video, Dailymotion consolidating the highest quality and most popular content from across the Internet into a simple and personalized view of all the top quality videos from around the world. WeShow has video portals specially dedicated to the US, UK, Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Japan and WeShow China is debuting today.
In launching My WeShow, WeShow is leading the industry by fully combining video content and social networking into an entertainment guide that provides a personalized view of the top quality videos from around the world. Key features of My WeShow include:
- Create a Video Community – My WeShow enables anyone to create their own compelling video portals on any subject and customize them with fresh video content, discussions, sharp design, and interactive tools. My WeShow provides its users with templates and tools needed to find, publish, manage, and track their video content so that it can be viewed and discussed across the social network.
- Boundless Video Search – My WeShow provides two different approaches to simultaneously browsing and finding videos, a focused search of the previously selected quality videos WeShow editors have labeled and organized in seven languages and an extensive search of video content from more than 100 video sites including YouTube, Metacafe, Google Video, Spike, Vimeo, Break.com and Dailymotion.
- Socialize and Share Video Content – Once your profile or video community has been created, My WeShow enables its users to build and grow groups of interest surrounding their video community or profile. User friendly tools enable users to build the visibility for their pages, invite people to submit their videos, share opinions and grow a social network of video enthusiasts.
- Make Money from Video Content – My WeShow allows users with a simple way to profit from their videos' and communities' popularity. Utilizing tools from Google Adsense, My WeShow enables any of its users to share in a 50 percent split of the profits from Google ads on all of their video pages, profile pages and communities. As users submit more videos, create more groups, discussions and video communities, they increase their potential for making money. My WeShow projects that by the year of 2012, the company will have distributed $10 million amongst its users if traffic continues to grow as expected.
“Bringing together powerful customization, social networking and the most robust gateway to the world of online videos, My WeShow could do for the online video universe what Flickr has accomplished for photography.” said Marcos Wettreich, CEO and founder of WeShow. “My WeShow will make it simple and easy for anyone to use online video to express themselves, create a community of interest around a single topic and even profit from their popularity.”
According to Comscore, a leader in measuring the digital world, nearly 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched video online (averaging three hours per person) during the month of September. One of the factors driving such intense video consumption are the discussions, opinions and attention that surround each video. My WeShow will build off of this interest making it easy for anyone to create a video community around a specific topic or just join in the dialog by sharing their opinions.
My WeShow will be different from other media specific social networking sites such as Flickr (photos), deviantArt (graphic art) and LastFM (music) in that it is focused exclusively on video content. Because My WeShow will be built collaboratively by people around the world, users will contribute to the content, internationalization and descriptions of videos on the site. Visitors will not need specialized qualifications to contribute, since their primary role is to add videos, write descriptions and provide their personal opinions. People of all ages and cultural and social backgrounds can contribute to WeShow’s growing video community. WeShow’s content descriptions and tags will continue to be translated into seven languages, making it possible for the video enthusiasts to find, experience, and discuss the best videos from around the globe.
To experience how easy it is to build a video community, demonstrations are available at http://www.weshow.com/my.
About WeShow (www.WeShow.com)
A leading company in the video aggregation market, WeShow is a human-powered entertainment guide that provides a personalized view of the top quality videos from around the world. WeShow simplifies the process of finding and viewing your favorite videos by adding a human touch. It is an easy to navigate site that provides a window into the world’s most popular video repositories including: YouTube, MetaCafe, Google Video, MySpace and Dailymotion. With a team of web editors categorizing and filtering content, WeShow offers visitors quality, relevance and simplicity across more than 1000 channels of video content customized for a variety of different countries and cultures. WeShow has video portals specially dedicated to the US, UK, Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Japan and China, and has headquarters in New York. WeShow also provides a comprehensive collection of widgets for blogs, MySpace and Facebook profiles (enabling users to broadcast their video selections) and desktops. WeShow is backed by funding from The Pilot Group and other investors.
WeShow Brings the World’s Best Online Videos to Facebook, MySpace and the Desktop
WeShow offers unique collection of video widgets to organize and deliver quality videos to the masses
New York – August 22, 2007 – WeShow, the human-powered guide to the world’s online videos, is making it easier for Web users to enjoy an ever-changing collection of high-quality videos tailored to viewers’ specific interests with new products. Officially launching today for consumers, WeShow onDesktop is a mini-application that resides on the user’s desktop and can be launched on demand—without opening a Web browser—to enjoy the latest videos from over 200 channels. Similarly, new widgets designed specifically for the social networking communities such as Facebook, MySpace, Hi5 and Ning enable members to easily choose their favorite entertainment categories and broadcast automatically updated videos directly on their profile pages. With the launch of these products and the recently launched onSite—a video widget application for bloggers and Web site owners—WeShow provides users with a unique portfolio of video widgets.
Starting today, viewers will also have the ability to select and stream their favorite videos, from video repository sites such as YouTube, Dailymotion and Metacafe, which are outside of WeShow’s editorialized collection directly through WeShow widgets and mini-applications. This new feature gives WeShow viewers even greater freedom to customize and share their favorite videos in one simple, convenient place whether on a blog, the desktop or inside of MySpace, Facebook and other social networks.
“WeShow’s goal is to make enjoying and sharing the best online videos, from anywhere on the web, effortless and convenient for the broadest audience possible,” said Marcos Wettreich, CEO and co-founder of WeShow. “With a complete set of widgets, WeShow has simplified the process of viewing tailored video content on the Web with minimal effort to all users. In just a few simple clicks, anyone can display automatically updated videos on their blog, Web site, desktop or social network page in a fresh and visually engaging way.”
High-Quality Videos Delivered to the Desktop
Consumers can download WeShow onDesktop free of charge on http://www.weshow.com/us/widget.action. WeShow onDesktop displays the ten most recent videos featured on a selected channel and allows users to play videos on the desktop by clicking on a video thumbnail without having to open a browser. Users are only taken to the WeShow portal if they choose to click on the “more videos” link.
In addition to choosing the subject(s) of the videos from any of WeShow’s 200 channels to be showcased on the desktop, users can further customize their content by choosing to display their personal list of video favorites from nearly anywhere on the Web. To display a chosen video feed, users can select from different visual formats – such as a vertical or horizontal strip – as well as various colors.
Share Favorite Videos with Your Social Network
The social networking widgets make it easy for members of MySpace, Hi5 and Ning to share their favorite and ever-changing video collection with their virtual friends by seamlessly copying and pasting a code, available from http://www.weshow.com/us/widget.action, on their profile page.
Users can customize the widget with their favorite WeShow channels or videos from nearly anywhere on the Web. The widget can also be configured to visually match the look and feel of the user’s page.
Starting today, Facebook users will have the option of integrating the WeShow widget application in their profile by choosing it from the list of applications available on Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/weshow-channels/). Different from widget setup on most of the other social networks, Facebook users configure the application with their selected videos and visual options from within their Facebook profile.
About WeShow (www.WeShow.co.uk)
With headquarters in New York, NY, WeShow (www.weshow.co.uk) is creating a revolution in video consumption on the web. It is a human-powered entertainment guide that provides a simple and personalized view of the top quality videos from around the world. WeShow simplifies the process of finding and viewing your favorite videos by adding a human touch. It is an easy to navigate site that provides a window into the world's most popular video depositories including: YouTube, MetaCafe, Google Video, MySpace, Facebook, Dailymotion and more. With a team of web editors categorizing and filtering content, WeShow offers visitors quality, relevance and simplicity across 200 channels of video content customized for a variety of different countries and cultures. WeShow also provides a comprehensive collection of widgets, enabling users to broadcast their video selections. WeShow is backed by funding from The Pilot Group and other investors.
WeShow Launches Online Video Widget for Bloggers and Website Owners
WeShow onSite showcases automatically updated videos from viewer-selected channels; enables video playback inside widget
August 8, 2007 – WeShow, the human-powered guide to online videos, is making it easier for bloggers and website owners to offer a high quality and ever-changing collection of videos tailored to the specific interests of their audiences. Officially launching today, WeShow onSite combines the dynamic “push” capability of online widgets with editorially selected videos available on the WeShow portal to enhance the web experiences of blog and website visitors.
Available free of charge on www.WeShow.co.uk to any blogger or website owner, WeShow onSite is customisable to provide dynamically updated, high quality entertainment from any of WeShow’s 200 channels to meet the viewing preferences of any audience. Once embedded on a web page, WeShow onSite displays thumbnail images of the ten most recent videos featured on a selected channel. By clicking on the thumbnail, WeShow onSite plays the full video directly on the site hosting the widget.
“Maintaining fresh content on blogs and websites is hugely important to attracting and keeping the attention of any online audience today,” said Marcos Wettreich, CEO and co-founder of WeShow. “With the introduction of WeShow onSite, we have simplified the process of sharing tailored video content on the web with minimal effort to bloggers and site owners. In just a few simple clicks, anyone can display automatically updated videos on their site in a visually engaging way.”
In addition to choosing the subjects of the video selection, bloggers and site owners can further customise WeShow onSite content, displaying any personal list of video favourites. To display a chosen video feed, onSite users can select from two sleek formats – vertical strip or horizontal strip – as well as various colours to best fit their page format and engage viewers. All of these elements provide an enhanced visual aspect for website owners while offering relevant video clips to viewers.
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About WeShow (www.WeShow.com)
With headquarters in New York, NY, WeShow (www.weshow.com) is creating a revolution in video consumption on the web. It is a human-powered entertainment guide that provides a simple and personalised view of all the top quality videos from around the world. WeShow simplifies the process of finding and viewing your favourite videos by adding a human touch. It is an easy to navigate site that provides a window into the world’s most popular video depositories including: YouTube, MetaCafe, Google Video, MySpace, Dailymotion and more. With a team of web editors categorising and filtering content, WeShow offers visitors quality, relevance and simplicity across 200 channels of video content customised for a variety of different countries and cultures. WeShow is backed by funding from The Pilot Group and other investors.
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Online Video: Global Movement or Mass Confusion?
Survey Finds Most Americans Overwhelmed and Frustrated by Video Chaos
WeShow (www.WeShow.co.uk) launches a human-powered guide to making Online Video as Entertaining and Organized as Television
New York - July 11, 2007 - Despite estimates that an astounding 126 million people in the US alone view online videos each month, a majority of consumers are dissatisfied with their video experience online. A survey released today by Kelton Research has found that most of these viewers are lost, frustrated and overwhelmed by online video chaos. Officially launching and available today in North America, the United Kingdom and Brazil, WeShow (www.WeShow.co.uk) has created a human-powered guide to organize the chaos and provide a convenient, easy-to-navigate view of high quality videos from around the world.
The June survey results from Kelton Research demonstrate that while there is much hype about online video, the lack of quality, organization and entertainment value threatens to prevent many people from actively participating in the online video revolution. Among the key findings of the survey:
- I am overwhelmed by too many videos - More than 60 percent of Americans feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of online videos and 46 percent of these people do not watch more online videos because they dread the task of weeding through too many search results.
- I know what I want but can't find it - 96 percent of Americans cannot find the videos they are looking for when initially conducting a search for specific content.
- I'll watch online video ONLY when someone directs me - 45 percent of people only view videos when they are recommended by a friend or colleague. These people are not utilizing online video as a primary entertainment source.
WeShow will provide an alternative to online video chaos and provide a rich entertainment experience - inviting even the most overwhelmed, time-constrained and web-averse viewers to participate in the online video movement. The entertainment site thrives off the ever-expanding number of videos and online video sites - uniquely utilizing a staff of content experts to identify, filter and organize the best online videos across 200 channels, eliminating the need to spend hours searching for quality clips.
Unlike many existing video sites that rely purely on search technologies to yield relevant content, WeShow brings a human-powered approach to filtering and organizing content. Each day, WeShow uses technology and a global team of category experts to scour more than 15 video repositories such as YouTube, MetaCafe, Google Video, MySpace, Dailymotion and many others in search of the best quality and delivers the most entertaining videos. WeShow delivers content to consumers through a comprehensive channel system, targeted newsletters distributed to registered users and a WeShow TV program that highlights daily the best world wide video content available.
"WeShow thrives off of the explosion of online video that has until now frustrated a significant portion of consumers on the Web" said Marcos Wettreich, CEO and founder of WeShow. "By consolidating the highest quality and most popular content from across the Internet into a simple and personalized view of all the top quality videos from around the world, WeShow is making online video a pure entertainment experience similar to that of television."
WeShow's unique entertainment experience
- WeShow videos are the best from across the Internet, arranged into more than 200 channels designed to deliver a highly personalized entertainment experience based on viewers' individual interests. WeShow videos also offer different portals for different countries and customs around the world.
- WeShow TV is a high-quality, professional Internet television broadcast based on user-generated content. WeShow produces shows featuring some of the world's best online videos.
- WeShow Awards is the world's biggest online video contest representing the best videos from across video sites around the world. The WeShow Awards enables anyone to choose their favorite videos from among the best online.
Survey Methodology
This survey of online video viewers was conducted by Kelton Research in June 2007 using an email invitation and an online survey. Quotas were set to ensure accurate representation of the total U.S. population 18 years and older in regard to the country's age, regional, and income distributions. Kelton does not offer incentives to join the sample.
Results of any sample are subject to sampling variation. The magnitude of the variation is measurable and is affected by the number of interviews and the level of the percentages expressing the results.
In this particular study, the chances are 95 in 100 that a survey result does not vary, plus or minus, by more than 4 percentage points from the result that would be obtained if interviews had been conducted with all persons in the universe represented by the sample.
About WeShow (www.WeShow.co.uk)
With headquarters in New York, NY, WeShow (www.weshow.co.uk) is creating a revolution in video consumption on the web. It is a human-powered entertainment guide that provides a simple and personalized view of all the top quality videos from around the world. WeShow simplifies the process of finding and viewing your favorite videos by adding a human touch. It is an easy to navigate site that provides a window into the world's most popular video depositories including: YouTube, MetaCafe, Google Video, MySpace, Dailymotion and more. With a team of web editors categorizing and filtering content, WeShow offers visitors quality, relevance and simplicity across 200 channels of video content customized for a variety of different countries and cultures.
For additional information contact:
Joana EricsonWeShow
P: (1 646) 673 8409
E: joana.ericson (at) weshow.com