merinews is a social news room. Common people can report about issues that they see in their daily life, analyse news that's been reported by traditional media, share photos etc. and connect to a community of citizen journalists working towards bringing to light the lesser known incidents and thoughts. Editorial desk at merinews.com targets, involves andengage students, journalists, NGOs, prominent personalities in the society to create and opinion around any and every debatable topic in the society.
merinews had been the winner of Manthan Awards (2006) for best e-content and also received a special mention at the Webby Awards in 2007.
merinews has a team of highly motivated people who not only work towards making a success of the company's vision - power to people, but also towards making the society a better place. They are supported by a highly experienced tech-team from an indo-japanese software firm.
- Company Name:Merinews
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Headquarters: (View Map)Gurgaon, India
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Desktop Display, Email, Mobile Display, Social
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Web Publisher
- Headline:Largest citizen journalism based news platform in India
- Self / Managed Service:Managed Service
- IndustriesClothing & Fashion, Education, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Government & Politics, Health & Beauty, Sports, Technology, Travel & Leisure
- Key DifferentiatorBurgeoning population, while on one hand champions India as the world's largest democracy, it sets forth newer challenges for us as a nation, towards building a responsible society. Evolution of technology and emergence of new modes of communication add bigger dimensions to this daunting task raising the expectations and information needs of the people on one hand while facilitating instant and seamless flow of information. Thus People to People (P2P) interaction is of paramount importance and rather inevitable. Emanating from the need to empower democracy by providing a media to the people of the country to communicate with one and all, www.merinews.com is an effort to provide one such platform to interact and express. It is a news platform for collective wisdom, Based on the concept of participatory media and citizen journalism, which transcend beyond the limitations of conventional media and allows citizens of the country to report, read, write, comment and debate news, views - happenings they find significant. In unique ways, it provides the tools of informing and opinion shaping to the people in both text and visual forms.Each submission is open to scrutiny of the people who bring in a rare diversity of views on a single issue. At the least, they tell you about the people's mood, and at higher levels, enlarge the original perspective to sum up the general view. This makes merinews unmistakably a powerful means to foster democratic values and innovative governance, thus marks the much-needed forward step for a more just and democratic dispensations, in which people are the winners.Winner of India's BEST e-CONTENT AWARD for the Year 2006 Official Honoree at Webby Awards 2007, alongside the likes of Bloomberg.com & aolnews.com, cnn.com Ranking 5th in the world, in the participatory news category.
- 2420965 Global Rank
- 144139 India
- 198 K Estimated Visits
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Direct57.11%
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Search39.05%
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Referrals3.84%
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- India 89.3%
- United States 2.9%
- Philippines 0.8%
- Pakistan 0.7%
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They are headquartered at Gurgaon, India, and have advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. According to their Ads.txt, Merinews inventory partners include: freewheel.tv, fyber.com, advertising.com, tremorhub.com, appnexus.com, outbrain.com, google.com.
Merinews works with Advertising technology companies such as Openads/OpenX, Conversant, AppNexus, Rubicon Project, AdMeld, DoubleClick.Net, BlueKai, GumGum, Image Space Media, Google Ad Partner Services, Google Adsense, Pixazza, Komli Indian Ad Network, Atlas, DirectTrack, X Plus One, Flashtalking, Mediaplex, Korrelate, Aggregate Knowledge, Media.net, Google Publisher Tag, SiteScout, Chango, Digilant, IponWeb BidSwitch, MLN Advertising, Neustar AdAdvisor, Yahoo Small Business, Evidon, MyBuys, Turn, Open AdStream, Integral Ad Science, Media Innovation Group, Adconion, DoubleVerify, Spongecell, Commission Junction, comScore adXpose, DoubleClick Bid Manager, BlueKai DMP, Brandscreen, RadiumOne, Specific Media, VINDICO, AcuityAds, Google Adsense Asynchronous, Outbrain, Rocket Fuel, Adition, Simpli.fi, Advertising.com, Adap.TV, Index Exchange, SpotXchange, The Trade Desk, StickyAds TV, Tapad, Walmart, Adobe Audience Manager Sync, DemDex, ContextWeb, Falk Realtime, Clickagy, SpringServe, Ventuno, Trueffect, AdBlade Embed, Adblade, Ads.txt, Google Direct, Google Reseller, Outbrain Direct, Outbrain Reseller, AppNexus Reseller, Tremor Video Reseller, AOL Reseller, Fyber Reseller, FreeWheel Reseller, BannerFlow, Adify, GetIntent, Vidible, Adform, Outbrain Sponsored Content, Google AdSense Integrator, Sojern, Innovid, Pubmatic, AdBlock Acceptable Ads, Network Solutions Ads, comScore Activation.