Archive for October, 2007
Spooktacular Halloween Costume Contest!!
Calling all ghouls, goblins, witches and werewolves! The time has come for the very first ever sevenload Spooktacular Halloween Costume Contest! This scare-tastic photo contest is sure to send shivers up your spine! Upload your best shot of your Halloween costume onto the sevenload Spooktacular Halloween Special and you could win a brand new Apple iPod Nano and up to 5 pounds of Halloween candy!
sevenloaders are invited to rate all of the photos based on their choice for the best costume. The total ratings will be tallied and a winners will be announced on November 15th. First prize is a new Apple iPod Nano and 2 lbs. of Halloween candy, second prize is 5 lbs. of Halloween candy, and third prize is 2 lbs. of Halloween candy. So get into the spirit of the season and upload and rate those photos now- and we’ll scare ya later! 
The In-Betweens of Holly Malone
Holly Malone is sevenload’s newest Special featured in our Comedy & Shows Channel.
And who/what/where/when is Holly in-between? Well, she’s in-between boyfriends, apartments, bra sizes, menstrual cycles, shades of lipstick and other experiences both monumental and mundane. When she meets Dimitri while buying a wedding present at The Pleasure Chest, she thinks she just might be over her in-betweens. See the latest serialized video podcast where you decide whether the story is sexier than “Sex and the City” and friendlier than “Friends”.
Link: sevenload.com
Holly Malone is an On the Leesh production and has an array of regularly featured characters. Keep up to date with Holly’s newest mis-adventures right here on sevenload! 
Abbe Drake on sevenload!
We just can’t get over how cute, quirky and funny Abbe Drake is! She’s the latest addition to our Comedy & Shows Channel, and we’ve just got to say how happy we are to have here on sevenload!
Abbe lets you into her world by offering you a variety of self-produced videos that run a gambit of different characters and situations. Some of you may already be familiar with Abbe through her Catwoman audition video, which shows off her karate talents and whipping skills. In any case, she’ll be continuing to give us more reasons to laugh in the near future- and possibly inspire us to go out and get some blue box mac’n'cheese. So check out her Special here, add her as a friend, let her know if you’re and fan and definitely leave some comments!
Róisín Murphy- Overpowered
Irish musician Róisín Murphy found fame at the end of the nineties as one half of English duo Moloko. Although she didn’t have any professional singing experience at the beginning of her career, she impressed the masses with her voice and performance in front of the camera and on stage. After the well-deserved successes of past years, Róisín is now also finally proving her talent as a solo artist. With “Overpowered” from the album of the same name, she is now making her sevenload debut.
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The single release from her second album, which will be available from 12th October 2007 in well-stocked record stores, and the acid house-oriented ambience of “Overpowered” is attuned to her past as singer of Moloko. She has teamed up with producer, London drum’n’bass specialist and DJ Paul Dolby alias “Seiji”, with whom she can develop her huge hit potential in a befitting melancholy atmosphere.
Linkin Park Special
The band Linkin Park is meanwhile surfing on a huge wave of success: their new album “Minutes To Midnight” went in at Number 1 in the charts in 38 countries. This was also the case in Germany, where they managed to hold onto the coveted pole position for a total of four weeks. The album has long since achieved platinum status and continues to have a place in the album charts.
After “What I’ve done,” their second single is now in the starting blocks: the title of the party track is “Bleed it out” and one can almost hear the fun and pleasure the guys had while recording the album. “It’s such a unique song. I don’t think we’ve ever made a song like that and I don’t think that anyone could make a song like that. I mean, there are elements in it that are so random, but yet they work together so well and it has such a fun energy,” says guitarist Brad Delson about the new single. You can enjoy the new music video to the single “Bleed it out” here on sevenload!
As well as inspiring sensational enthusiasm with their new album, the sextet from Los Angeles also played four acclaimed live shows in Germany. The absolute highlight had to be their two headlining appearances at Rock am Ring & Rock im Park! On 25th July 2007 Linkin Park embarked upon their own festival tour in the USA entitled “Projekt Revolution,” which will be setting up camp in a total of 30 cities. Alongside Linkin Park such illustrious and well-known bands like My Chemical Romance, Placebo, HIM, Taking Back Sunday and Julien-K will also be making an appearance!
sevenload Management Team Addition: Andreas Heyden
With effect from 1st October 2007 Andreas Heyden will be joining the management team at sevenload GmbH in Cologne as Chief Operating Officer. In his function as COO of sevenload GmbH he is taking over the operative daily business as well as the development and control of cooperation and content partnerships of the media platform for photos and videos. The filling of this vacancy reflects the positive business development of sevenload during the last few years.
“With his media, advertising and technological experience, Andreas combines the different facets of our business model,” said CEO Axel Schmiegelow. “We are exceptionally delighted to have gained such an entrepreneurial co-worker for our management team.”
Ibrahim Evsan, founder and CTO of sevenload GmbH, added: “Andreas has made some extraordinary achievements in his career to date. We are happy to be able to give him this corporate perspective as a proven specialist for product innovation.”
Andreas Heyden (34) can look back on more than eleven years of experience in the media business on a national and international level. His successful career in the internet business began at Metronet GmbH in Subscriber Marketing. During the first internet boom phase he worked in consulting at I-D Media AG and after a career detour in Singapore he moved to Munich where he worked at Microsoft GmbH in the Product Marketing sector of MSN. After this he returned to his hometown of Cologne for a role at RTL interactive GmbH, where he more recently was manager of the innovation and production unit and responsible for the expansion of new internet business models. As division manager he significantly led the expansion of Clipfish.de.
