Magnify.net Older, Bigger
Dan Frommer | February 13, 2008 4:44 PM

Alley-based Web video startup Magnify.net celebrates its first birthday today. How's it doing? Pretty well.

In the last month (31 days ending yesterday), the company got 2.3 million uniques and served 13 million pageviews, up from 370,000 uniques and 1.1 million pageviews during the same period last year. The average visitors spends more than 6 minutes n the site, triple the amount they were spending a year ago. (Per Google analytics.)

And in January, when the company launched its new video platform at the DEMO show, visitors created 2,200 new "channels" and submitted 1.1 million new pieces of content. At the end of last month, users had created 30,000 "channels," up from 23 million last December and 14 million last September.

Magnify hits three million visits per month
By Cristina Ledesma · Posted on February 14, 2008

Magnify.net is celebrating its first anniversary with almost three million visitors per month, up from one million just three months earlier. Magnify.net lets people create and run an online, themed TV station out of their home or office.
 
Unlike typical social networks that host video and connect people, Magnify.net provides the tools and resources to discover, review, organize and broadcast themed video — regardless of where it’s hosted.
 
Videos can be easily collected from other networks including YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Crackle.com, Yahoo, ClipSyndicate, Veoh, among others, or uploaded directly. Users can fully customize their channels to reflect their personal or corporate brand as well as share ad pages through the Magnify Ad Share Network to also monetize traffic.
 
Magnify.net January 2008 Stats:
 
• Page views totaled 15,745,953, which represents a 23.71% increase
• Unique visitors jumped by 30.18% increase
• 2,209 new channels created
• 1,134,376 new content items were submitted to the network
• Total channels on the network are now over 30,000, up from 14,000 in September 2007
• Worldwide growth has skyrocketed by 174% in six months

 

Magnify.net Reports Big Growth, Eyes the Upper Tier of Video Sites

February 13, 2008 — 09:54 AM PST — by Adam Ostrow —

Magnify.net is out with some numbers that move it towards the upper tier of video sharing sites. Internal traffic stats show total unique visits over the Jan 13th-Feb 12th period up 531% year-over-year, to 2.3 million. Over the same period, page views shot up nearly 1,100% to 12.9 million.

 

The team at Magnify has used these numbers to show it is now the #11 video site in the US when using these numbers versus comScore. As Allen Stern properly notes however, it’s not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison since Magnify is using internal numbers from Google Analytics, but nonetheless, its growth rate is surpassed only by that of Crackle and Blip.tv.

In terms of what’s driving the growth, other numbers show that users are simply creating more content. There are now more than 30,000 user-created video “channels” on the site, up from 14,000 in September.

 

Not bad numbers at all for a site that is celebrating its first birthday this week.

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Just hours after KickApps released their latest stats and just a few blocks north in Manhattan, Magnify.net is also releasing their latest stats. Magnify is celebrating their first anniversary this month as well.

While not a completely accurate comparison, Magnify's PR firm has put together a chart showing that Magnify has broken into the top 10 most popular online video networks worldwide. I say not completely accurate as Magnify's numbers come from their own stats and the other companies stats come from comScore. We know that comScore has had some reporting issues with Flux recently so perhaps Magnify actually ranks higher.

Here are the numbers reported to us (unaudited):

    * Page views totaled 15,745,953, which represents a 23.71% increase
    * Unique visitors jumped by 30.18% increase
    * 2,209 new channels created
    * 1,134,376 new content items were submitted to the network
    * Total channels on the network are now over 30,000, up from 14,000 in September 2007
    * Worldwide growth has skyrocketed by 174% in six months

This should be an interesting year for the white-label social networks including KickApps, Magnify and Ning. Just how many social networks can we handle?