Date Printed: 10.19.06
Publication : Xinhua Finacial News
Several competitors offer sites with a similar appearance and function to those of YouTube, where users upload video clips for people to see…
November 21, 2006
Youtube sees Heavy Competition in October
Date Printed: 10.12.06
Publication : VNUNET.com
Website traffic analysis firm Hitwise reported that Heavy.com, the largest independent broadband network in the US, is the second largest entertainment video site on the web with a 17 per cent market share..
Online Media Daily 10.12.06
Date Printed: 10.12.06
Publication : Online Media Daily
BROADBAND VIDEO SITE HEAVY.COM WEDNESDAY unveiled its newest channel, “Heavy’s Angels,”
featuring clips submitted by 20 female video creators. The 20 selected “angels” were among hundreds of applicants who submitted original videos to their MyHeavy.com profiles this summer. Each week, the vloggers will upload new clips, and those that draw the most views per month will win prizes–including a Honda Civic, a Mini Cooper, and a Scion TC.
Advertising Age Article 10.10.06
Date Printed: 10.10.06
Publication : Advertising Age
Who reading this likes to be interrupted? When was the last time you thanked someone for interrupting you? We put up with it from children because they don’t know any better, but from adults we expect more. Yet we have built an industry around interruption…
New York Times Article 10.09.06
Date Printed: 10.09.06
Publication : New York Times
Mike Hirshland, a partner at Polaris Venture Partners in Boston, said, “This is obviously the talk of the sector.” Polaris has invested $11 million in Heavy.com, an Internet video site founded in 1999 that aims at men ages 18 to 34. Mr. Hirshland called the deal the “first major venture-level return for an online video company, a sector that’s probably the most-watched and commented-on sector around the Internet.”
