Magnify.net at Center of One of Web 2.0's Biggest Growth Trends:

NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In less than four months after beta launch of Magnify.net, users of the company's video publishing platform have created more than 5,500 user-generated video web sites, called "video channels," making it one of the fastest growing user-trends occurring in the Web 2.0 revolution.

Users of Magnify.net are now creating more than 30 new video channels every day, collecting, organizing and serving videos to a rapidly growing community of Internet viewers who want videos of interest - including their own videos and those collected from sites across the Internet - organized in a single place.

"There's a new way for web site creators and content lovers to engage one another through shared video," said Steven Rosenbaum, Magnify.net CEO. "It used to be that either you watched video or you made video in order to be part of the content community. But now, there's a whole new way for people to program video channels - to 'curate' a channel of videos around their own interests and passion points, no matter how grand or small the interest."

Magnify.net provides simple, free, and open tools to allow first time and expert website creators to instantly construct video-centric websites, or to add a powerful video component to their existing sites. The patented Magnify.net meta-search technology searches virtually all video available on the Internet and aggregates onto a single, organized channel, those videos of unique interest to users.

Creators of user generated video channels (called Channel Producers) have discovered and organized more than 1.2 million videos from across the web using Magnify.net. By doing so, channel producers have generated passionate and engaged communities from a wide variety of subject areas including travel, sports, entertainment, politics and hobbies. Across the 5,500 channels created with Magnify.net, more than five million page views have been racked up in the past 30 days.

Among the fastest growing sites built using the Magnify.net Platform are: RCUvideos.com An intensely collaborative worldwide community of hobbyists that build and fly radio controlled model airplanes. ( http://www.rcuvideos.com/ ) Lankavideos A site that organizes and shares more than 1,000 videos made by and for the Sri Lankan community. ( http://lankavideos.magnify.net/ ) Yousurftubes The world's largest collection of surfing videos delivered to an incredibly passionate community of surfers from around the world. ( http://yousurftubes.magnify.net/ )

Magnify.net is just beginning to see the fruits of almost 2 years of labor building the video search and sharing software, and testing the platform. "We've been amazed at the creative skills, passion, and drive that these new content entrepreneurs bring to the video-channel creation process," said Rosenbaum. "It's clear that this is just the first moment in a trend that turns former couch potatoes into Network Presidents. Now people can find, manage and curate their own media experience, and create entirely new media around subjects that would never have found room on the cable dial."

About Magnify.net:

Magnify.net powers user-generated video channels for everyday people, web publishers, media companies, and video bloggers. The Magnify platform searches and sorts virtually all video available on the Internet (YouTube, Rever, Meta Cafe, etc.) based on a site's unique interest and engages users to discover, share, rate and rank them for relevancy and entertainment value. The company was founded by a team of experienced media, technology, and web development entrepreneurs with track record of best-of-breed innovations. With more than 5,500 UGV (User Generated Video) Channels already on the platform, Magnify.net provides customer focused solutions that are critical to the Video 2.0 revolution. Magnify.net backed by funding from New York Angels, NextStage Capital, Active Angel Investors, and a number of private individuals.