Web 2.0 User Generated Sport Website Sportingo Announces Record Growth

Following the outstanding success of the football, tennis and cricket sections, Sportingo will be launching new sections covering Rugby, Golf and Cycling. Several leading sport federations and clubs around the world will soon begin using Sportingo's platform to integrate edited user generated content into their websites.

Herzliya, Israel (PRWeb) February 2, 2007 -- Web 2.0 user generated sport website Sportingo (http://www.sportingo.com) announced that its monthly growth exceeded more then 150% in January 2007. Following the outstanding success of the football, cricket and tennis sections Sportingo will be launching an updated version of the site in mid February that will include new Rugby, Golf and Cycling sections.

Sportingo is leading a new trend of web 2.0 sport sites such as FanNation that was recently acquired by Sports Illustrated, Bleacherreport and others by offering an opportunity for sport fans to set the sport media agenda. Several leading sport federations and clubs around the world will soon begin using Sportingo's platform to integrate edited user generated content into their websites.

"There are a lot of very talented people that enjoy the opportunity to get their work published in a professional way. Our goal is to encourage an alternative voice in the sport world, one that is driven by fans," said Sportingo's CEO Ze'ev Rozov (http://sportingoblog.blogspot.com/).

The site, launched in September 2006, has signed up over 300 fan writers that regularly comment on football, tennis and cricket. More than 100 new authors are signing up monthly. The site currently receives 10,000 unique visitors daily from a global audience.

"Sportingo offers me a new type of journalism, I can write my opinions about sport and know that my copy is being professionally edited. I feel like I am part of a real sport desk and enjoy how my articles can be enhanced," added Kevin Dixie from Fuelmyblog (http://www.fuelmyblog.com/), who has been writing on the site over the past few months.

About Sportingo

Sportingo (http://www.sportingo.com) is a new sport news community designed by fans for fans, building an online media platform for discussions, opinions, latest news, results and fan conversations about all sports.

Sportingo offers a platform for sport fans around the world to write about sports and get their articles professionally edited and enhanced by a team of experienced sport editors. Its unique technology platform provides an advanced and innovative content management system that allows authors to submit their articles with ease at all times from all places and then for the editors to pull the articles and edit and enhance them accordingly.

Sportingo represents the newest wave in online sports reporting and 'citizen journalism.' To experience, www.sportingo.com.

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