Q1/08 Wrap-up

If you’re following along or just a snoopy competitor, our growth in Q1/08 continued to accelerate. Q1 was a fun few months around here - thank you to all our existing and new partners that have grown their Sphere footprint or added one of our services to their site.

Here’s some of what we’ve been up to:

• we were named one of the 100 most disruptive new media services by Tony Perkins’ AlwaysOn Network;
• we kicked off our second ad campaign with A-list brands like Symantec, Verizon and Dell;
• we added contextual video links to our offering, made our widget draggable and introduced embedded text links for micro-publishers;
• we turned our really bad web-site into a really good one that reflects our focus on servicing publishers, both mainstream media and blog sites;
• we updated our blog and we actually posted with some level of, well, regularity;
• we added two new team members, increasing our total team size to twelve and bringing us closer to conglomerate status; and
• we turned on our service for a lot of new partners like Newsweek, Salon, CBS, Washington Post and high profile blogs like Gothamist (SFist) to a growing list of over 60,000 sites.

For the quantitative types, especially you competitors, here are how things are looking lately - some Q1, 2008 stats:

• 6.3 billion Sphere Related Content icons displayed, generating over 25 billion potential content links; and
• 455 million monetizeable page-views, +50.1% vs. Q4, 2007.

More exciting stuff coming soon, stay tuned.

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