21st Jun 2007 07:00
Media Corporation plc, a leading internet media and advertising company focusedon internet search, publishing and media sales, is pleased to announce there-launch of Onthebox.com, the leading online UK TV listings guide. Onthebox, which receives over 1 million unique visitors per month and 3.42million page views, today launches a complete redesign and significantfunctionality upgrade. The site has long been at the top of search engine rankings, but the redesignand overhaul will keep it at the front of web 2.0. Some of the added featuresinclude a blog space that reports celebrity news and other information relatedto TV programming, community forums, streaming video clips and user membership.These enable Onthebox to develop a relationship with the site users andencourage them to return on a regular basis. In addition, MediaCorp's in-house technical team has written a "Google widget".This is a piece of software that users can plug into the Google sidebarapplication to deliver TV news and celebrity gossip direct to the user's screen.A customisable SMS alerting system will also soon be available. Commenting on the re-launch, CEO Justin Drummond said: "The rebuilt Onthebox site is a good example of how we can bring the synergieswithin our group to bear on individual products. With the redesign and addedfeatures, we expect advertising revenues to increase dramatically along withgrowing site traffic and page impressions. We have further developments in thepipeline to build off this very strong platform." For further information please visit www.onthebox.com or contact: \* TMedia Corporation plc Tel: 020 7618 9000Sam TilstonBuchanan Communications Tel: 020 7466 5000Charles Ryland / Suzanne Brocks / Susanna Gale\* T Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
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