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OVGuide.com’s Olympics Guide Receives Gold-Medal Traction
Internet’s largest video guide directs more than 100,000 visitors to Olympic-related sites
OVGuide.com, the Internet’s most comprehensive guide to online video sites, including TV shows, movies,
user-generated content and video games, today identified the top online video destinations for August, including the most popular properties its more than 10 million visitors viewed to satisfy their Olympic cravings.
The statistics for August include:
1. 9 million searches
2. 10 million unique visitors
3. 100,000+ Olympics-related page views
Top Olympic sites:
1. NBCOlympics.com (more than 14,000 visits from OVGuide.com users)
2. ESPN Video (more than 13,000 visits)
3. Watch The Olympics Online (more than 11,000 visits)
4. BBC (more than 8,000 visits)
5. TheStar.com (more than 7,000 visits)
Top five searches:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Pineapple Express
3. Step Brothers
4. Tropic Thunder
5. Hancock
Top five genres:
1. Movies / TV
2. Anime
3. Asian Bollywood
4. Games
5. Sports
Most recent additions:
1. The WB
2. Democratic National Convention
3. Cinema Woof
4. BestArcade
5. MovieTVOnline
OVGuide.com also experienced an increase in popularity from gamers last month, receiving more than 100,000 visits from individuals using their consoles. On average, OVGuide.com’s August users spent more than six minutes on the site. To search and discover the best online video sites on the Web, please visit www.ovguide.com. For a chance of winning $1,000, enter OVGuide.com’s ‘Suggest a Site’ contest at www.ovguide.com/post.html.
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“This year marks another first for online video with the Olympics being broadcast on the Internet, further underscoring the increased popularity and consumer demand for this emerging medium. We are proud to offer individuals a single destination to weed through the noise and find the best videos on the Web,” said Chad Cooper, OVGuide.com marketing and editorial content director. “We received a positive response from our visitors that relied on OVGuide.com to direct them to the Olympic content they were seeking. We continue to scour the Web and enhance our search engine to provide them with the highest-quality and most relevant content.”
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About OVGuide.com
Founded in 2006, OVGuide.com is the Internet’s most comprehensive guide to online video sites, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content and video games. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the privately-held company delivers an innovative, user-friendly way to search and browse relevant, high-quality video content on the Web. OVGuide.com currently indexes more than 2,200 online destinations, offering both short- and long-form video integrated into an intuitive and categorized directory. OVGuide.com’s team of experienced editors review all video sites prior to listing them, ensuring all content listed is valuable and categorized appropriately. The site offers a very relevant, powerful search engine, receiving more than 10 million visitors, 80 million page views and 10 million searches per month. comScore also ranked it the third-fastest growing Web property in the US, in terms of audience size, from May 2007-2008.
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LEWIS PR for OVGuide.com
ovguide@lewispr.com
310-407-5186
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