Online TV Listing website MeeVee is aspiring to become the TV Guide for “television in an interconnected world”, according to the company’s CEO.
MeeVee, which originally launched in 2005, claim to be the first online destination to bring together traditional TV listings and online video from hundreds of sources. The website currently attracts 3.4 million unique visitors per month.
The idea behind the site is for people to be able to discover new entertainment content – whether it originates online or on old fashioned TV. People can customize their own guides and the site will suggest new content based on individual preferences.
The idea isn’t a bad one – a survey conducted by Jupiter Research revealed most people who watch video clips on the internet don’t discover them through the original sites they were posted on.
MeeVee is backed by several venture capital firms and makes its money from advertising revenue generated through the site.
MeeVee Losing Visitors
Despite the confident claims of 3.4 million visitors a month and new site features MeeVee appears to be drastically losing visitors. In the past few months its Alexa rank has dropped from a peak of nearly 10,000 down to over 40,000.
As of today it appears to be gaining some of that back but such big traffic slumps are not traditional of a growing company, but more of a company struggling to keep up with fierce competition.
Webtvwire.com co-writer Chris Tew told me that earlier this year he found out that MeeVee had approx. 1.3 million visitors a month with a traffic rank slightly higher than it is now.
If this is true then it makes the claim of 3.4 million visitors a month from MeeVee appear to be just a little over confident.
An Alexa graph speaks a 1000 words:
