WorldTV reaches 2 million videos mark

More than 2 million videos have now been added to WorldTV – the World’s most advanced playlisting and video aggregation / publishing platform. This impressive milestone was reached today, 2 1/2 years since our launch in November 2007.

Videos are being added to the system at an impressive rate across 200,000 channels. Recently introduced social sharing features for Twitter and Facebook are seeing clips and channels shared at ever increasing rates. Every day, close to 2 YEARS of viewing takes place on WorldTV, and channels have been created in 200 countries. That’s a lot of “2″ statistics!

WorldTV chosen for UK Trade Mission to SXSW

WorldTV has been chosen to represent the UK web industry alongside 38 other UK companies heading to Austin, Texas for the internationally renowned SXSW festival.

WorldTV will share exhibition space on a huge UK themed stand and be co-host of the Great British Breakfast at this World leading event. Founder Alx Klive said “We’re really excited to be going to SXSW as part of the UK delegation and are grateful to the DTI and Chinwag for organizing what is expected to be a terrific, high profile trip”.

Additional coverage over on Techcrunch.

Affinity Media launches new program for sports publishers

Five years since GoonerNews began aggregating news headlines from a handful of publishers for Arsenal fans, the Affinity Media Sports Network has grown to 40 websites, more than 500 publishers, and reaches 2 million visitors a month. In that time the Network has sent an estimated half-a-billion visits to bloggers, national news websites and online versions of newspapers.

Starting today, the Affinity Media Sports Network is introducing a new paid inclusion program that will streamline the process for publishers wishing to be included in the network. For just £10 a month, publishers can have guaranteed speedy inclusion in the network with professional grade support, additional search-engine-optimization benefits and a simple online sign-up process.

Reaction from publishers has been universally positive with most welcoming a more formalized, easy-to-understand structure and with other aggregation networks closing their doors to new publishers.

We’re delighted to introduce this new program which begins its rollout today.

Affinity Media reaches 3 million users

Continuing growth across all Affinity Media web publishing divisions contributed to us reaching the milestone of 3 million unique users in the month of January, representing 49% growth year on year.

Our Newsfinity division saw YOY growth of 34%, our Smashing division had growth of 23% and WorldTV grew 975% in the same period for a total of 3.03 million uniques in January 2009. Page impressions in the same period rose from 18.3 million to 25.2 million per month.

WorldTV hits 100,000 channels, close to 750,000 users

WorldTV recently passed through the 100,000 channel mark and now has close to 750,000 unique users per month. The service has users in 189 countries.

WorldTV also recently launched WorldTV Empower™ – an advertising and monetization platform for video publishers. Full details can be read on the WorldTV News blog.

WorldTV hits 50,000 channels, close to half a million users

WorldTV.com has reached the milestone of 50,000 channels created by its users, from an astonishing 182 countries. Countries where the service is showing particularly strong interest at the moment include Brazil, Spain, India and Pakistan.

The site has moved quickly up the Alexa rankings and is now among the top 25,000 websites in the world. This is impressive growth in 9 months of operation.

The site had 420,000 unique users in July, up from 365,000 in June. We anticipate reaching half-a-million unique users in August.

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WorldTV launches live video, garners press coverage

WorldTV has partnered with mobile video streaming company Qik.com to provide live video functionality to its users. The news was covered by Techcrunch.com, Mashable, the Washington Post and others. All coverage and the relevant news release can be found on the WorldTV press page.

WorldTV receives UK trademark registration

WorldTV has received a trademark registration from the UK Intellectual Property Office for its mark. The mark has been registered in several classes – 9, 35, 38, 41 and 42.

Registrations in other countries have been filed.

Affinity Media hits 2 million unique users

In just three months, Affinity Media has increased its audience by 1 million users, and has doubled its userbase to 2.03 million unique users in the month of January. The previous publicized figure was 1.03 million users in October. WorldTV, casual gaming and news portals all contributed to strong growth. WorldTV was launched in November, and now has over 8000 user created channels from 123 countries. It is available in six languages.

E-mail database reaches half-a-million users

The e-mail database for the Affinity Media Group network of sites has surpassed 500,000 users. Continued strong growth in casual gaming and new subscribers to WorldTV have all contributed to reaching this milestone.