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Barak Obama for President 2008 is among the first new channels to feature contentfrom ClipSyndicate. The site is one of the 48 political sites created and managedby Policks (http://obama08.policlicks.com ) that will make use of ClipSynidcatecontent.
Curren tly delivering more than 12 million page views per month and serving over22,000 high-quality user-generated content publishers, Magnify.net is the fastestgrowing video platform on the web today and it s free.
Unlike typical social networks that host video and connect people, Magnify.netprovides the tools and resources to discover, review, organize and broadcast themedvideo -- regardless of where it's hosted. Videos can be easily collected from othernetworks including Revver, Blip.tv, MetaCafe, and YouTube, and now news affiliatesand networks, or uploaded directly. Users can fully customize their channels toreflect their personal or corporate brand as well as share ad pages through theMagnify Ad Network to also monetize traffic.
Magnify.net's strength is in the channels that people and businesses create to builda community around activities, niche markets, topics, etc. With the integration ofbroadcast video search and instant publishing, Magnify provides a new category ofcontent that results in the creation of entirely new varieties of channels andvisitors.
Clip Syndicate, a service of Critical Media s Media and Publishing Services Group,will soon release its search API to other social network, news and video syndicationapplication programmers under its standard revenue-share terms for web publishers.Magnify.net was the first company to test and deploy an application built using thenew API.
With the upcoming API release, ClipSyndicate, a rapidly growing, ad-supported viralbroadcast video syndication platform, will provide participating developers with adeep level of access and integration options beginning with an archive of over200,000 broadcast video clips delivered immediately as embedded flash assets. Inpartnership with more broadcast affiliate partners than any other online syndicationplatform, applications and widgets developed under the program will have access tofeeds of over 1,000 new video news clips per day.
By distributing our API, we are providing instant access to all of the videos inthe Clip Syndicate archive as well as all breaking news clips delivered to ourplatform in near real-time, on demand, said Sean Morgan, CEO of Critical Media. More importantly, the API will no longer require that videos play at theClipSyndicate website; instead, our customizable and embeddable flash player ispulled directly into each new application as the player has been createdspecifically to enable easy integration with websites, applications, and social newsand networking platforms.
With the addition of video news content from ClipSyndicate to the Magnify.netPlatform, our more than 21,000 channels and channel creators will have access tovideo licensed from major news producers internationally including Clear ChannelTelevision, and the FOX Television Station Group, Fisher Communications, BloombergTelevision, Meredith Corporation and Agence France-Press among others, said SteveRosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net. The ClipSyndicate API enables us to deliver themost in-depth, authoritative and continually replenishing video news materialavailable to our channel developers.
About ClipSyndicate ClipSyndicate is an ad-supported platform for aggregating, distributing andmonetizing licensed video and audio assets in near real-time on the Web. Theplatform is positioned to become the definitive syndication network for video newsassets, having more license agreements with more authoritative news outlets than any other online syndication platform. Viral distribution ofhighly monetizable Professionally Generated Media ( PGM ) clips across thousands ofhigh-quality registered websites aligns content owners and web publishers with theinterests of long tail advertisers looking for brand- safe inventory online. Formore information please visit ClipSyndicate.com.
About Critical Media Critical Media Inc. is a company at the forefront of real-time broadcast mediacapture, search, syndication and information services. The Company provides toolsand services to content consumers, providers, distributors and advertisers,leveraging its real-time broadcast capture infrastructure. Every day, Critical Mediadigitizes and monetizes over 10,000 hours of keyword searchable broadcast contentfrom 4 continents. The Company is comprised of three divisions, The InformationServices Group which markets Critical Mention , the company s dynamic real-timebusiness intelligence platform, utilized by 25% of the Fortune 100, The Media andConsumer Services Group which is focused on building ClipSyndicate into the world slargest repository of fully searchable authoritative video news and information, andthe Broadcaster Services Group focused on providing broadcasters and other contentowners with risk-free, streamlined solutions, such as its clip publishing platform,Syndicaster , intended to take all complexity out of distributing and monetizingtheir video assets online. Critical Media was founded in 2002 under the nameCritical Mention by one of the founders of Screaming Media - one of the largest textsyndication companies on the Internet now owned by Dow Jones, Inc. and isheadquartered in New York City. For more information please visitwww.criticalmediainc.com
About Magnify.net Magnify.net team is led by CEO Steve Rosenbaum, one of the early innovators in theuse of small format video, and user-created video. Rosenbaum created MTV Unfiltered,the first series produced entirely by viewers, and directed the multi-perspectivefeature Documentary 7 Days in September. Magnify.net has been financed by itsfounders, Venture Capital firm Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, and ActiveAngels Investors, and a group of private individuals. More information can be foundat www.magnify.net
Press Contacts
Alison McNeillFutureWorks for Magnify.netAlison@future-work s.com 408-720-8228 Ext. 1112
ClipSyndicate Press Anne G. Andiorio aandiorio@criticalmediainc.co m www.criticalmediainc.com (212) 398.1141 ext. 166
