OnlySimchas.com and The Jerusalem Post to Expand Celebration Photo-Portal Concept
Companies to Leverage JPost.com Global Jewish Market Penetration with OnlySimchas.com’s Successful Celebration Technology Platform
BERGENFIELD, NJ - December 14, 2006 - OnlySimchas.com and The Jerusalem Post today agreed to jointly develop JPostSimchas.com, a print and online feature enabling users to announce and post pictures of happy occasions, reserve a date for upcoming events, see related simchas and post good wishes. ( You can visit the new website at http://simchas.jpost.com )
According to Doron Katz, co-founder of OnlySimchas.com, “By collaborating with The Jerusalem Post we are targeting many hundreds of thousands unique users a month who look to The Jerusalem Post and JPost.com as their primary source of information about Israel, Jewish affairs and developments in the Middle East.” Tzvi Harow, Director of Interactive Media for Jpost.com, feels that, “Jpost Simchas provides our readers with an exciting web2.0 feature. The new partnership with OnlySimchas reflects Jpost.com’s committment to continually engage our readers with new and interesting content”.
The partnership will include other functions of the OnlySimchas.com website including NameTags, which allows users of the site to browse the site and claim (or "tag") photos of themselves. Also popular is FutureSimchas.com, the founding team’s matchmaking initiative.
About OnlySimchas.com ®
OnlySimchas.com was founded in 2000 and has become the pre-eminent site for announcing Jewish celebrations taking place around the world. Innovative web based software allows users anywhere to upload picture galleries of their latest celebration within moments of the event.
Friends and family around the globe are then able to enjoy and post congratulatory wishes to the celebrants on their message board. To date, OnlySimchas.com boasts over 200,000 photos of Jewish Simchas. Last month, 19 million pages were viewed and 1400 simchas were posted to the site.
About JPost.com
JPost.com is the premier English language Israel news website. Over 1.5 million unique users visit the site every month. JPost.com serves a global audience which seeks to be informed about Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world from an Israeli based media company. JPost.com is the crown jewel of The Jerusalem Post Group which also includes The Jerusalem Post daily edition which has been delivering news in English since 1932 and The Jerusalem Report bi-monthly magazine, as well as many other periodicals.
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