Tel Aviv, Israel, May 16, 2006 – eSnips is proud to announce reaching a significant user acquisition milestone. Since its launch in September 2005, over 150,000 users have shared content on eSnips, attracting one million unique monthly visitors to view their sites
eSnips offers users a unique combination of an active social network and user-friendly content sharing. This fusion empowers anyone to easily publish anything that can be digitized, control who gets to see what, and find others who share their interests.
“When we launched eSnips, we knew that it would serve a large audience,” said Yael Elish [http://esnips.blogs.com], CEO and founder of eSnips. “We have seen a truly eclectic community form around the concept of shared storage, with everyone from artists, designers, academics, musicians and activists, professionals and amateurs, publishing their creations on eSnips. For example, in the last few weeks an amazing painter [http://www.esnips.com/web/peterabbottArt], a sari designer [http://esnips.com/web/TuhilMarch2006], a collector of avian flu jokes [http://esnips.com/web/birdfluhashitengland] and a refreshing karaoke singer [http://esnips.com/web/MikesCovers] have all published on eSnips.
To make publishing as easy as possible, eSnips supports diverse content types, allowing members to publish every digital format in their Folders. Members have 1 free gigabyte of online space, providing them a virtually unlimited place to store images, audio, video, documents and many other file formats. As opposed to blogs, which require writing skills and almost daily updates, eSnips Folders are easy to maintain, with an intuitive publishing process.
“We’ve also noticed something very interesting about the eSnips audience, which is somewhat rare in social networks: over 85% of our audience is older than 20 years old,” added Elish. “We believe that this older audience enjoys our intuitive layout and the focus on content sharing as opposed to daily blogging. At eSnips, content is in the spotlight, not dating and partying. We believe that eSnips really is a social networking for the rest of us.”
eSnips – http://www.esnips.com – is the only social network driven by topic-based content sharing, where like-minded members can share ANY digital content showcasing their talents, interests, and passions. eSnips has been live since September 2005 and now has 150,000 members and over 300,000 monthly visitors. The team behind eSnips includes Yael Elish, a veteran of several Internet start-ups and former Vice President of Strategic Development for Sunnyvale-based Commtouch Software and Nahum Sharfman, founder of Shopping.com and Commtouch. In February 2006 eSnips received a seed investment from Gemini Israel Funds (http://www.gemini.co.il)
For more information, or to arrange a review of eSnips or interview with Yael Elish, contact David Parmet at 914-514-8209 or david@parmet.net.