5min Launches Web’s Largest ‘How-To’ Video Syndication Network

MarketWatch, December 02, 2008

5min VideoSeed(TM) semantic technology allows publishers to match relevant, ad-supported instructional videos to their lifestyle, knowledge and information textual sites.

5min, ( www.5min.com), a leading destination site and distributor of online how-to videos, today announced its VideoSeed semantic syndication platform for instructional and knowledge video programming now reaches more than 110 million unique users a month via its vast network of comprehensive knowledge and information syndication partner sites. 5min pairs brand advertising with tens of thousands of professionally-produced, niche-specific “how-to” titles produced and licensed from hundreds of content partners for semantic delivery via the VideoSeed platform.

5min has closed syndication deals with horizontal sites such as Answers.com, wikiHow, Wikia and Articlesbase as well as vertical sites including Tim Carter’s Ask the Builder, Recipe4Living and Pregnancy.org. Concurrently, 5Min has closed content agreements with Ford Models, Kiplinger’s, Elle, Car & Driver, Petside, Britannica, Big Think, WatchMojo, Road & Track, Woman’s Day and others.

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