Phonezoo.com Wins Hitwise US Top 10 Award

Fast growing mobile content and social networking site breaks into US top-10 beating out bigger and established players.

Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) January 6, 2009 -- Phonezoo's website has ranked 8th in the Mobile entertainment online industry based on the market share of US visits it has received for July-September of 2008.

The Hitwise US Top 10 Awards Program celebrates the most successful US websites in 160+ online industries. As Hitwise reports on the anonymous online usage and search behavior of more than 10 million US Internet users--the largest online sample of its kind--this unique awards program recognizes excellence in online performance through public popularity.

Phonezoo Communications, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale and focuses on making it extremely easy for users to customize their mobile phones with the free ringtones, photos and games that best suit their personality. Phonezoo also makes it easy to keep track of the people that are important to the users with feeds on the website, via email, on the mobile (WAP) site and/or by a text message.
Ram Ramkumar, Phonezoo's Co-founder and CEO said, "The success of our website's popularity is a result of our singular focus on making the site easy to use and fun."

"One of our most successful strategies has been to keep the site truly free to the end users. Along with that we have implemented state-of-the-art technologies to prevent sharing of copyrighted content" Ram Ramkumar said.

About Phonezoo Communications, Inc

Phonezoo.com is a next-generation mobile content site. By bridging the web and the mobile, Phonezoo has enabled effortless content creation, discovery, download and mobile personalization experience. It has revolutionized the mobile content marketplace by applying the ideas of user created content and the power of the community.
Since its launch, Phonezoo has become a leading mobile social media and entertainment site in North America with more than 7 Million users. Every day, hundreds of thousands of contents are created, discovered and downloaded by members of the Phonezoo community.

About Hitwise

Hitwise is the leading online competitive intelligence service. Only Hitwise provides its 1,400 clients around the world with daily insights on how their customers interact with a broad range of competitive websites, and how their competitors use different tactics to attract online customers.

Since 1997, Hitwise has pioneered a unique, network-based approach to Internet measurement. Through relationships with ISPs around the world, Hitwise's patented methodology anonymously captures the online usage, search and conversion behavior of 25 million Internet users. This unprecedented volume of Internet usage data is seamlessly integrated into an easy to use, web-based service, designed to help marketers better plan, implement and report on a range of online marketing programs.

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