WorldTV Competition Winners Announced

The winners of the WorldTV ‘Become a TV Mogul’ Competition have been announced.

WorldTV launches ‘Become a TV Mogul’ Competition

WorldTV has today launched a competition that will see 3 winners have their channels professionally converted into a ‘real’ TV channel, viewable on Internet enabled TV’s. Full details of this exciting competition on the WorldTV blog.

Affinity makes disposition of website

Affinity Media has transferred one of its websites in what is described as “a significant transaction for the Company”. Terms of the transaction are not disclosed. Overall unique visitor numbers and page impressions will be affected by the transaction, which was approved by the Board and Shareholders.

WorldTV HD covered in Techcrunch article

WorldTV’s new HD features were covered in this article on Techcrunch today.

WorldTV goes HD!

In a major upgrade to the platform, WorldTV has today gone HD and introduced a new embeddable player design. Full details on the WorldTV blog.

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.