"My Forrester Groundswell Award Submission"

Zvents Media Platform

 

Over 250 media channels like MSN City Guides, Boston.com, LA.com, YELLOWPAGES.COM, and MTV's Campus Daily Guides (just to drop a few names) have joined the Zvents Media Network. Hundreds of newspaper publishers, tv, radio stations, and online media partners are embracing the Zvents Media Platform: a co-branded local search experience and advertising platform - powered by Zvents. Why? Zvents connects millions of people with the things they care about, map what's happening in the real world, and enables local promotion for businesses and advertisers through listings, reviews, and mobile application.

In a two-way exchange of information, Zvents collects partner content, and at the same time uploads its own listings on partner sites. It also aggregates event and business information from the open web, and user-generated content to create one of the most comprehensive localized search indexes on the Internet.

The Zvents Media Platform uses highly advanced technology, and earlier this year launched Federated Local Search, making Zvents the first to provide a localized version of Google’s Universal Search. Federated (or blended) Local Search presents results that include images, text, local reviews, events, news, and business listings for a comprehensive search experience.

Considering the groundswell, look at how Zvents works. Zvents’ goal is to connect people in the most social way – through live contact. Zvents uses an online organic network to bring people together in the physical world where things are happening right now and right where you are. Zvents is aggregating local event information across the web to let you know what’s happening where you live or wherever you are -- in the real world. Anyone can create events, add them to Zvents’ search index, and use Zvents’ “Share” tools to attract interested people in the vicinity, linking them to any or many other social networking sites for broad discussion about an event or to get a group together to go to an event. Zvents brings the next dimension to the category of social media, marrying online contacts to real world encounters…now that’s social!