You’re Growing! We’re Growing!

We just ran some internal reporting and…wow…KickApps affiliates are kicking a**! Monthly video views on KickApps affiliate sites from January to June this year grew by a MASSIVE 11,850%! That’s HUGE! We’re glad that your communities are blossoming. Thanks to all our affiliates, developers and partners who are using the KickApps platform to deliver your social media experiences. We’re going to continue innovating to bring you the best hosted social media platform. As always, let us know if you have any suggestions or ideas about how we can make social media better and your lives easier: info@kickapps.com.

Tonight: Aaron Speaks About Web 2.0 For Small Biz & Non-Profits

KickApps’ own Aaron Bollinger will be speaking tonight about how to use Web 2.0 tools to boost your small business or non-profit. Aaron’s a published author (he wrote a guide to MySpace) and he’s consulted for a variety of organizations about Web 2.0 strategy, so it should be great. More info here and here.

When:
TONIGHT, Tuesday, August 7th, 7:00pm

Where:
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
2 Blocks south of Houston and 1st Ave
212.777.6028

VIBE Verses Winner Announced

The people have spoken. After 3 months, hundreds of thousands of votes, and millions of page views, the VIBE Verses Rap Battle community has picked a winner: OldSkoolyHigh. I’ll be honest, many of us at KickApps were pulling for The Empress, but such is the sacred heartbreak of democracy.

Months before 50 cent got with YouTube, VIBE launched Verses as an experiment in Social Media–kind of an online ‘American Idol’ for rappers. Using KickApps, they took Verses from concept to launch in about three weeks. And with a little viral marketing, the site took off in a big way. In fact, what started as a short-term contest evolved into a community of 60,000 people. These are passionate and engaged hip-hop fans who choose to be involved with the VIBE Verses community because it speaks to them and gives undiscovered artists a forum to get recognition.

The best part: it’s not over. VIBE plans to leverage the success of Verses to launch another contest shortly. So other brands take note–when you pair Social Media with a good idea, you’re building a foundation that will yield benefits in perpetuity. Congrats to VIBE, OldSkoolyHigh and the Verses Community on the beginning of something big.

And to The Empress, there’s always next year…

BunkerShot Gets 1,000,000 Media Views

BunkerShot.com, a KickApps-powered golf community, recently logged it’s millionth audio/video view. It’s an exciting milestone for Rob and the BunkerShot team, and an affirmation that niche communities like this can have a great deal of success using our platform.

I’ve had my eye on BunkerShot for a while, and I’m impressed with the high quality of their content and their dedication to serving their audience with everything they need to master the game. Congrats BunkerShot!