Monthly Archive for January, 2009

Mininova Content Distribution welcomes 1000th participant

Hi everyone, we just send out the following press release:

Free distribution channel for producers and artists successful

Mininova Content Distribution welcomes 1000th participant

Today, BitTorrent platform Mininova welcomes the 1000th professional user of its Content Distribution service. This service enables producers and artists to distribute their work in a simple way and free of charge through the website www.mininova.org.

Erik Dubbelboer, co-founder of Mininova: “Content Distribution enables producers and artists to bring their work to the attention of the public, free of charge. It’s the perfect solution for bands that don’t have the means to bring out a record yet. Since the launch in 2007, an average of three participants a day have registered.” Mininova offers a platform on the Internet for the exchange of information by users through BitTorrent technology.

Success in the Netherlands and abroad
In 2008, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation decided to offer a television series for free by using Content Distribution. The popular Dutch band ‘Silence is Sexy’ also decided to use this system in 2008, and distributed an entire album for free. The band recently won the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so.

Thirty kilometers of CDs
Dubbelboer: “Through Content Distribution, we have already had about 5.800 uploads and 15 million downloads. That means some 40.000 downloads a day. The amount of data that has been downloaded equals a pile of CDs of about 30 kilometers high!” For 2009, Mininova is expecting an explosive growth in the number of professional users of its Content Distribution service.

For access to Mininova Content Distribution: www.mininova.org/apply

Mininova’s fourth birthday!

Hi everyone,

It’s January 14, and that means we’re celebrating Mininova’s fourth birthday today!

The past year was a very interesting year: we saw the number of Content Distribution users/producers grow to more than 1000. The total number of downloads nearly doubled this year and reached 7 billion last week. We’re now serving 10+ million (unique) downloads a day, and handling over 8 million daily search queries. Some more stats: in December we counted 44.7 million unique users who generated 683.7 million pageviews on Mininova.

Of course we made a bunch of improvements to Mininova on our other website, Snotr. We moved our server, got sued, and counted billions of downloads. Overall, a very busy year, which would have never been possible without our dedicated team of moderators: thank you!

We are excited about the coming year and its challenges: please stay tuned for some important announcements in the coming months.

Cheers! The Mininova team

Silence is Sexy/Mininova nominated for award

Hi there,

Almost 4 months ago, we wrote that the Dutch indie band Silence is Sexy joined Mininova to distribute their full album for free. Their album This Ain’t Hollywood has been downloaded by almost 15 thousand users using the Mininova Content Distribution service.

Due to this success, the band has been nominated for the Interactive Award 2009. We think that every band that uses torrents as a promotion tool deserves an award, so please hit 5 stars and vote for them on the website.

That’s it for now, please stay tuned for more updates soon! :)

Update: Silence is Sexy won the award! More info on their blog.