Magnify's best-of-breed video tools to power Vidiac channels

New York, NY. June 9th, 2009. Vidiac, the leader in enthusiast video verticals and Magnify.net, the web's fastest growing video curation and publishing platform, announced today a partnership which will enable Vidiac hosted sites to transition to a video 2.0 discovery platform.  Magnify.net will power the new sites, giving Vidiac.com access to a wide array of new features and services.

Vidiac was one of the early innovators in the channel creation space, building a solid and fast growing network of enthusiast sites and verticals. Vidiac is currently seeing almost 4 million unique visitors each month, reaching core verticals including Anime, Automotive, Entertainment, Film/TV, Hobbies, Men's Lifestyle, Music, Sports and Video Games.

Magnify will assume responsibility for the creation and management of all future channels created at Vidiac.com.  

For Vidiac.com channel builders, some of the great new features available include a custom filtered Twitter feed, 20-plus new page templates, Google Maps Widget, and seven additional video search sources.

“We are pleased that Vidiac users will have the opportunity to take advantage of Magnify’s robust platform" said Jeremy Farber a founder and CTO of Vidiac.  "This will allow our sites to continue to expand their sites and keep up with rapidly changing technologies”

“We are seeing the channel construction arena rapidly becoming the center piece for content creators and site builders who have a serious interest in making, curating, and presented quality video content” said Maginfy.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum.  “Now, working with the professionals at Vidiac, we’re able to offer channel builders and content entrepreneurs a single destination for channel development.

For more information, visit www.vidiac.magnify.net

For current site owners: www.vidiac.net/affiliate/vidiac

About Vidiac
Vidiac is an Internet broadcast company that helps web site owners create video communities. We leverage our infrastructure and sponsorship relationships so that site owners can quickly create their own "Internet TV Channel". Users create and upload the video content and site owners are given tools to moderate and manage their site's content.

Conceived in 1999 and launched in 2004, Vidiac is one of the many successful companies to grow out of Georgia Tech.


About Magnify.net
Magnify.net powers publishers, ecommerce companies, and web sites, looking to deploy a Video 2.0 Curation Solution. By offering an integrated video publishing solution, Magnify.net gives online businesses the ability to leverage their knowledge and sector expertise by providing market leading video search, aggregation, and curation technology. Curated video has editorial value and it is this credibility that permits Magnify’s customers to leverage any video content to drive audience engagement, brand awareness and, for media companies and publishing customers, higher advertising revenue. The  Magnify platform currently serves 55,000 web publishers. www.Magnify.net