My WeShow enables anyone
to become an online video aggregator:
finding, creating, discussing, sharing
and making money from video content
NEW YORK, NY (February 2008)
– WeShow.com (www.weshow.com), the human
powered guide to the online video
universe, is launching My WeShow, a
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. 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. In 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 1,000 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.
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