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By Alan Medvin, VP of Operations and Strategy, Magnify.net

In my role at Magnify.net, I sit at the nexus of content, technology, and business strategy with regards to online video. In the past few months there have been some very exciting developments in the video space that all web publishers should be aware of. There are two types of online video business models that seem to be taking off. I’ll refer to these models as “aggregators” and “sitewide video”.

The Aggregators

In the past…

By Steve Rosenbaum

Today is one of those days when the future seems remarkably clear. In fact, it feels to me like I can see around the bend and start to talk about the future of news with some certainty.

Take a look at the news sites that are gaining traction and you’ll see that one of the fastest growing is Mediaite.com

If you haven’t gone to take a look at Mediaite.com, take a moment and check it out, I’ll wait.

It’s the brainchild of Dan Abrams, one of the smartest and best known…

The New York Tech Scene is RED HOT right now and the folks at AlwaysOn are throwing the biggest nyc media bash at the swankiest digs.

Magnify.net is honored to have been invited to present at the fourth annual AlwaysOn “OnMedia NYC” Conference, taking place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, Feb. 2-4.

OnMedia NYC is one of the premier events of the year, for the Digital Media and Advertising Technology industries, focusing on the “Breakout” companies in Advertising…

There’s quite a lot of exciting news coming out of Magnify these days and we wanted to make sure you weren’t missing out on anything! After announcing amazing growth across all sectors yesterday (the number of Magnify Channels Increased 270%, while embedded player traffic grew 700%), we were excited to see a variety of news outlets report on the great news.

Magnify also officially proclaimed 2010 the Year of Video Curation - who would of thought this idea of Curation we’ve been pitching…

Today we are handing the floor over to the wonderful Rachel Cantor, Magnify Intern and Public Transit All Star (a reference that will make sense if you keep reading). Rachel has been with us for a couple months helping with everything from building out channels to ordering thousands of clementines (don’t ask). As a New Yorker and natural videographer, Rachel has been recording some interesting videos around town and came up with the brilliant idea to create a Magnify channel focused on…

If you are making the trip out to Las Vegas for CES 2010 (the largest electronics show in the world), Magnify will be there and would love to meet you! Steve Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify, will be out and about as well be speaking on The Broadband Economy Panel at Digital Hollywood (part of CES) on Friday, Janauary 8th. The panel brings together a group of industry leaders to weigh in on today’s biggest issues in the space and it is garenteed to be a good show. To catch up with Steve,…

Below is a group picture of the Magnify.net team taking a little break at our beach getaway (thanks to the wonders of photoshop). Anyone who can correctly identify each staff member, including a few hidden surprises, will get a Magnify gift pack shipped to them (which has an amazing amount of schwag and useful gadgets). Email billy@magnify.net with your entry.