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MyVideo launched in April 2006 and had grown to more than 1.9 million videos, over eight million daily clip views and more than 9,000 daily user uploads. Twenty months after its German launch, the video community entered the Netherlands and Belgium.
Dominic Hesse, head of Content and Cooperations at Magic Internet, said MyVideo had focused on German-speaking users through content specials, community features and themes, and would apply this principle to expansion while building video and user numbers in the new markets from the beginning.
German MyVideo already included specials around TV formats and artists in music, lifestyle and entertainment. Content partnerships in the Netherlands began with the television programme Dancing Queen and a Uri Geller show; Belgium received a specially produced web-TV format, 2000 Antwerpen.
