Archive for March, 2007
Newer sevenload Trailer
Our newest sevenload trailer has just been completed by our designer Philipp!
The music was made exclusively for sevenload by our friend Oliver Kels (he both composed and produced it). Oliver is a successful composer and has already made a name for himself in the media scene with his many various jungles which hve become known through their use in advertisements- his references speak for themselves. Thank you very much Oliver! *For the trailer available below we only use a part of his composition.
Link: sevenload.com
We intend to use this video in the future for promotional purposes– this visualization will be displayed on screens at conventions and events. But take a look for yourself and be the judge. 
sevenload on Technorati’s Top 10 (Update – 2nd place)
The Blog world is hot for sevenload. We’re really excited to see that sevenload is generating attention on an international level.
Update: We’ve gone from 11 to 9 and then jumped on up to number 6. HOT!
Update 2: At 10:45 pm, we’ve reached number 5!
Update 3: Alright! We’re still climbing and currently at number 4 – and have now beat MySpace and YouTube.
Update 4: This morning we were at number 3!
Update 5: At 2:15 pm, we saw that we reached number 2…
Burda Digital Ventures is Our New Partner
On behalf of the entire sevenload team I’d like to say, alongside our press release, officially in our Blog that we are very pleased to announce the news of gaining a new partner, Burda Digital Ventures. We are looking forward to a very eventful and exciting future.
Our getting together with Burda shows just how important our vision and ideas are for the future of the media branch. We will, of course, continue to concentrate on sevenload- the company, the portal and the technology behind it- to make it better, more diverse and expand it even more. We’re conviced, that we’ve found the perfect partner in Burda Digital Ventures for this enterprise.
sevenload is and will remain sevenload, and we’d like to thank all of our users, bloggers, clients and friends right now who’ve helped make sevenload what it is today. We’d like to make a promise to all of you, that sevenload will continue striving to be the best photo and video platform available on the web.
sevenload Receives Financing from Burda Digital Ventures
From the Corporate Finance Department of Burda’s Venture Capital Ablegers: German market’s leading photo and video platform will maintain full autonomy.
Cologne, 26.03.2007 – Burda Digital Ventures GmbH has completed a minority investment in sevenload GmbH and has simultaneously agreed to a comprehensive (though non-exclusive) cooperation with Burda R&D, Marketing & Communications.
“We are delighted to have won Burda as a partner, who we feel has recognized the potential of digital media very early on”, said Ibrahim Evsan, Founder and CTO of sevenload.
“Burda offers us complete company autonomy paired with deeper media expertise”, highlighted Axel Schmiegelow, sevenload’s CEO. “Burda’s thematic range and target markets will work well with our strategy.”
sevenload’s goal is to win new users through qualitative differentiation and new clients through additional internet portals and implementation of the company’s unique video technology. “In addition to an unbeatable technological advance, we were persuaded by the consequent orientation of an efficient business model. The management team understood where the value from video platforms on the web are added”, explained Frank Seehaus, Director of Burda Digital Ventures.
Burda R&D, Marketing and Communications Director Dr. Marcel Reichart also added: “Our investment in sevenload makes it possible for us to strengthen our position in the video publishing market, and that includes our media brands and communities, new formats and marketing offers.”
sevenload received financial consultation for this year’s transaction for the German ” Web 2.0″ from IEG Investment Banking in Berlin.
About sevenload:
sevenload GmbH was founded in 2006 and can be found online under www.sevenload.com. sevenload is represented by it’s CEOs Ibrahim Evsan and Axel Schmiegelow. sevenload is Germany’s leading media platform for photos and videos on the web. The platform offers its users comprehensive possibilities to manage and share their multi media contents and the company offers various interactive video formats with their own moderators and actors, who exclusively release their shows and formats on sevenload. sevenload’s investors (apart from the company’s founders and managing directors) include: Burda Digital Ventures, media ventures (Dirk Ströer) and dw capital GmbH from the Cologne based internet agency, denkwerk. Founders of the company in addition to Ibrahim Evsan include: Akgün and Tamer Kulmac, who run the Vaybee.com portal.
sevenload GmbH is currently preparing for international expansion. Facts & Figures: 87,000 registered users / 4 Mill. unique visits (February 2007) / 950,000 photo and video uploads / 25 million photo and video downloads / 3 million minutes of video broadcast daily / server capacity of 16,000 videos a second / 1.6 million external pages that have an embedded sevenload player / Website of the Year 2006 (user survey via MetrixLab, Nielsen / Netratings and TechCrunch).
Burda Digital Ventures is the group is the group company responsible for VC and investment activities in the field of new media. Including sevenload, the portfolio comprises 25 affiliated companies in the areas Media, Platforms, Commerce, Games & Entertainment as well as Wireless. The managing directors are Dr. Christoph Braun and Frank Seehaus.
Burda R&D, Marketing & Communications includes the areas group market research, umbrella brand development and integration, events (DLD) and development of new digital medial communities as well as corporate communications. The unit headed by managing directors Dr. Marcel Reichert and Stephanie Czerny directly report to publisher Dr Hubert Burda.
Integration of a New Server System in our Data Network
We will be integrating a bunch of new server systems today, which might eventually cause brief delays in video streams. We’d like to apologize to our users in advance and ask that you be patient as these steps are necessary for us to allow the onslaught of our growing user community to continue growing and to make it possible for sevenload videos to be quickly fed to our users in the future.
After the adjustments have been made, we will have a total connection of more than 10,5 GBit available- which should provide for us for quite well for the next few months. *I will also introduce our partner and carrier in this blog in the next couple of weeks.
Stars of the Internet are Paving the Way
Last monday, the German version of Der Spiegel magazine made a statement (which happens to perfectly embody our own motto here at sevenload):”TV was yesterday” (in German)- the article (of the same title) referencing how one can become and internet star. The essential potential to become a star can be achieved by anyone- “whoever can be original or allow themself to be embarrassed, whoever is politically aware or even simply has a good story to tell […] Age, sex and looks do not make a difference here.”
We believe that our work has the ability to change things- that the people in front of the camera and the team behind them, have the chance to re-write the future of the media scene. Internet television offers people an alternative to classical broadcasting mediums and sevenload is ready to charge full steam ahead into the future.
Tip: Staying on Top of Things
A lot of sevenloaders are always on the prowl, ready to comment on and rate the newest photos and videos. Anyone can see where what’s going on and what the newest discussions are with the corresponding pages for Photos and Videos. And for a lot of sevenloaders it’s also important to keep track of what’s being said about their own uploaded contents.
We’ve made the “My sevenload” page even better- now users have the chance to check out the new “What’s new?” page. This way, every user can have, at a glance, an overview of what has been going on with their photos and videos.
Who just left a comment? How was that photo rated? Who has added new tags and who has been on my profile? – These questions can all be answered with a singly click, and can be found here!
