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ezboard, Inc.

Product Name

Yuku

Market Segment

Consumer

Funding

Venture capital funding: Labrador Ventures, Scripps Ventures, Staenburg VC and private investors, totals less than $10 million invested in three rounds. Potential for expansion capital investment by strategic partners.

Competitors

Portal Group Products: Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Google and downloadable script products: phpBB and vBulletin.

Product Description

Millions of bloggers and online community creators would like to turn their passion into a business. Yuku’s free, incredibly customizable, collaborative blogging platform provides that opportunity by sharing advertising and premium content subscription revenues with them. Advertising is sold both by our professional ad sales team and community creators. Yuku’s targeted, optimized ad serving technology ensures revenue performance, and its powerful marketing and Seo tools ensure growth for them. Simple to implement and customize, secure, safe and fun, Yuku is available today at www.yuku.com.

Market Opportunity

Yuku has a significant stake in a large and growing market: Yuku has more than 14 million registered users and 500,000 communities. Yuku is growing by more than 200,000 registered users and 6,000 communities a month. Yuku is addressing a market audience of more than 14 million blogs and 4 million communities online today, according to Technorati, ezboard. Yuku’s targeted advertising engine is focused on gaining market share in the $9.8 billion spent on online advertising in 2004 (Source: IAB).

Demo Says

Yuku, now ezboard, has been quietly building a passionate community of users actively participating in a wide range of discussion boards. In this re-launch, ezboard delivers a platform for collaborative blogging, supporting many-to-many communities with a simple, flexible toolset. ezboard’s ad network also provides community leaders with a stronger value proposition for its advertisers by providing more inventory and greater reach, offering a solid business proposition for community blogs.