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Next New Networks and Collarity Launch New Community Approach to Targeted Online Television Networks
Collarity Harnesses the Interests of Next New Networks' Viewers to Improve Discovery, Search and Engagement, First on Veracifier and PulpSecret
| Quelle: Collarity, Inc.
PALO ALTO, CA and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - April 22, 2008) - Collarity, a leading
provider of behavioral content and ad targeting services for online
publishers, today announced a partnership with Next New Networks to enable
their site visitors to find and discover what content others "like them"
are looking for and interested in. Collarity improves searching and
browsing experiences -- and increases the time visitors spend consuming
video and other content. This relationship will be integral to Next New
Networks as they expand their roster, which already includes popular
networks such as Barely Political, Veracifier, IndyMogul, Pulp Secret, and
Threadbanger. The functionality will roll out first at Next New Networks
destinations Veracifier, the network for political reporting and commentary
and PulpSecret, the World's first network dedicated to comic book news and
culture.
Based on Next New Networks' passionate viewers, Collarity is able to
uncover the dynamic community segments from their video streams and page
views. Typical video searching depends on tagging, ranking, voting or
other explicit efforts made by the video producers and perhaps a handful of
viewers. Instead, Collarity creates more relevant results based on the
anonymous interests of all people visiting the sites. When anyone searches
for a video, they can see what videos mattered to people who are most like
themselves.
"Online video has become an increasingly more powerful method of reaching
audiences," said Herb Scannell, co-founder and CEO, Next New Networks. "Our
partnership with Collarity will allow Next New Networks to reach into the
real interests of viewers, and deliver better experiences for our vertical
web-based programming. Our goal is to encourage audiences to share their
interests and allow them to have control over content they are viewing.
With these community-oriented objectives, Collarity was the ideal choice
for helping us meet viewers' needs and monetize our destinations."
Collarity will deliver search, site recommendations and advertising to Next
New Networks, through their community-based service. Collarity will place
various ad units to maximize revenues for niche video programming,
including "ticker-type" ads that display while video plays on the site.
Viewers will see more relevant ads along with their videos too.
"This is opportunity to demonstrate Collarity's video discovery and ad
optimization functionality for embedded material in online video," said
Levy Cohen, CEO, Collarity. "Next New Networks' variety of original content
presents an ideal arrangement for exhibiting our optimized video search and
discovery technology, and we are excited about contributing to their
viewership."
About Collarity
Collarity provides behavioral content and ad targeting to web publishers,
through a unique community-based platform that harnesses the implicit
interests of site visitors. Collarity's services help publishers provide
highly relevant search, recommendations and ads on their domains or
syndicated elsewhere. Collarity improves visitor satisfaction, and
publishers usually experience as much as double-digit increases in
consumption of content and ads conversion. Collarity Web services require
no software to install or infrastructure to maintain and can be deployed in
several days. Collarity serves leading web publishers, including Fox,
Pearson Education and Crain's Chicago Business, and is headquartered in
Palo Alto, CA. For more information, please visit www.collarity.com.
About Next New Networks
Next New Networks is a new kind of media company, creating and programming
online television networks for targeted communities, incorporating the best
elements of television and the web. Since its start in March 2007, the
company has launched sixteen networks, and its video programming has been
viewed over 190 million times via the company's "super-distribution"
strategy, which includes formal content partnerships with leading
destinations including YouTube, iTunes, MySpace TV, AOL Video, Amazon
Unbox, Tivo, and Yahoo! Video.
Hit programming from Next New Networks includes Channel Frederator (home of
"Internet People" and popular series The Meth Minute 39), Barely Political
(the creators of Obama Girl), daily auto news network Fast Lane Daily, pop
culture series EPIC-FU, and Indy Mogul, a network for the YouTube
generation of DIY filmmakers. The company, headquartered in New York, is
privately owned, with investors including Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs and
Velocity Interactive. For more information, please visit
www.nextnewnetworks.com