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hiphop.cn übernimmt sixshot.com
In Kürze: ARBON / SHANGHAI / LOS ANGELES - 15. September 2007 - Wie die Sedgwick Med.
Vollständig: Sixshot.com, with bases in Los Angeles CA and Luzern Switzerland, is one of
the leading web portals in the area of urban lifestyle worldwide. The
American TV Channel VH1 (MTV) has nominated Sixshot.com for the category of
"Best Hip-Hop Magazine Site" for the coming Hip-Hop Honor 2007 Awards. With
this take over Sedgwick Media Group enters the home market of Hip-Hop and
increases its access to the stars and industry networks for its hiphop.cn
operation.
This acquisition creates the first and largest Asiatic-American Hip-Hop
portal worldwide. Together both sites have over 1 million unique users per
month with current growth indicating this number will increase to 1.5
million towards the end of the year. These figures place hiphop.cn /
sixshot.com among the five biggest Hip-Hop web portals worldwide.
Sedgwick Media confirmed that hiphop.cn and sixshot.com will continue to
operate as independent websites with business operations centralized in
Switzerland. Staff increases have seen the editorial team grow to eight
strong with many freelance journalists contributing from around the world.
Future technology plans will improve synergies between the sites including
database centralization, re-use of functionality, and re-designs.
The ultimate target of Sedgwick Media Group is to produce the best quality
content in the middle term, and to become the worlds No1 Hip-Hop web portal.
To reach these very aggressive target the founders and management of
Sedgwick Media Group, Fahro Aman and Martin Spinnler, will invest time and
resource into developing high quality editorial content and technology
development to the highest professional level.
In the next four weeks both sites will undergo face lifts, followed by
further technology developments.
About Sedgewick Media Group
Sedgwick Media Group, Arbon, is owner of Sedgwick Media Asia Limited, Hong
Kong. Sedgwick Media Asia Hong Kong is operating the leading Asian Hip-Hop
web portal, hiphop.cn, from Shanghai. Sedgwick Media Group is the Holding
Company.
About Hiphop.cn
Sedgwick Media Group launched hiphop.cn 1st September 2007. The portal does
not only provide international and national news, it also supports
interactive urban lifestyle community, which makes it possible for users to
get in contact with the global Hip-Hop network. The entire portal is
available in two languages, English and Chinese. A skilled international
editorial team is responsible for keeping the site updated and to act as
moderators of the sites community.
About Sixshot.com
Sixshot.com is an electronic hip-hop magazine founded 1997 in Switzerland.
Since 2000 Sixshot.com expanded to the US and opened offices California.
It´s primary purpose is to provide information about hip-hop music and
culture. Since 2000 the site developed to one of the leading hip-hop
websites in the USA.
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