2008 – A Record Year for MeFeedia

By Frank

2008 was a extraordinary, breakout year for MeFeedia!! Thank you to all of our loyal users for using Mefeedia.com, and providing great feedback as we continue to develop the next generation of video watching on the Web!

Here is a recap of some of the highlights from 2008

2008

Audience
Our audience growth catapulted Mefeedia.com to be the #1 fastest-growing, independently-owned video portal in 2008 (source: Quantcast)

  • 323% Growth in Unique Visitors (now at 6 million uniques a month)
  • 361% Growth in Pageviews
  • 490% Growth in Direct Traffic (i.e. directly type-in Mefeedia.com)


Product:

We made some huge leaps forward in terms of our product in 2008:

  • Mefeedia Video Search was launched in 2008, and was immediately heralded as “the best multimedia search out there” by CNET and others. Some highlights of Mefeedia Video Search:
  • Comprehensiveness – Mefeedia Video Search beats the competition in terms of depth and breadth of content, covering over 15,000 video sources.
  • Relevancy – Our social relevancy approach to video search is unique and brings highly relevant results in the first 10 results. Most important, our relevancy algorithm scales as the number of videos on the web has reached hundreds of millions.
  • Flexibility – Watch what you want, where you want – easily. Mefeedia Video Search brings the video to the consumer. Mefeedia Video Search is now available on desktop, mobile devices, and via widgets.
  • Technology – Mefeedia’s proprietary technology currently handles over 300 different formats of MRSS feeds and over 100 different custom flash players. This enables us to automate the updating, categorization, and playback of hundreds of thousands of videos a day!
  • Social Activity Aggregation – Mefeedia enables its users to aggregate their social activity and video subscriptions from YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, Blip, iTunes, and DailyMotion – a great way to track all of your friends” favorite videos from around the Web.
  • User Interface – a completely revamped user experience on Mefeedia.com, with very positive results – 25% increase in pageviews per visit, and of course, a much better user experience!
  • Mefeedia Video Search was featured in articles in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNET, Investors Business Daily, and others – it was truly a breakout product in a year where Video Search became increasingly important.

    • Partners:

    2008 was a big year for content deals, which included content from 3 out of the 4 major TV networks (ABC, FOX, and NBC). Here is a complete summary of these deals:

    • Hulu and ABC were added as TV content partners.
    • Revision3, Next New Networks, 60 Frames, and On Networks were added as Internet TV content partners.
    • Blip.tv and Revver were added as Videoblogging content partners.
    • ClipSyndicate was added as a News content partner, bringing in AP, Reuters, Bloomburg, New York Times, and over 300 news sources.
    • 5min was added as a How To content partner.

    As we look ahead to 2009 and another great year, please feel free to leave us a comment or send me an email – frank at mefeedia dot com – with any requests for what you would like to see in 2009!

    Yours,

    The Mefeedia Team

    One Response to “2008 – A Record Year for MeFeedia”

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    1. Click says:
      March 18, 2009 at 11:41 am

      congratulations!

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