Silicon.com celebrates first birthday

Silicon.com celebrates its first anniversary today. The Web site went live on 6 July 1998 as Europe's first online TV news network; since then, it has become one of the most visited Web sites outside the US, proving that a combined text and video-on-demand format is a compelling way to deliver information and analysis to a top level business audience.
The addition of a recruitment service in January has made Silicon.com an indispensable service for European IT professionals.
The latest ABC audit - the industry's official method of verifying readership statistics - revealed that the site now captures an average of 2,355,000 page impressions per month, an increase of 275 per cent on the previous audit carried out last November. Membership has also grown by more than 70 per cent to 268,498.
At the recent New Media Age awards - the online industry's equivalent of the Oscars - Silicon.com was short-listed for two awards: 'Best use of the Web' and 'Innovation'. Free Internet service provider, Freeserve, scooped the Innovation award at the ceremony held in London two weeks ago.
Rob Lewis, chief executive of Network Multimedia Television, the publisher of Silicon.com, said: "We are delighted with the stunning growth of Silicon.com over the past year and are looking forward to building on its early success into 2000. We will continue to develop a first-class service which genuinely gives IT professionals the information they need to succeed."