We’re delighted to announce that MUZU.TV won two Golden Spider awards last night — the overall Grand Prix award and the award for best Entertainment and Games related website. Thanks for all your support!

Here’s the press release:

MUZU.TV WINS OVERALL GRAND PRIX AWARD AT EIRCOM GOLDEN SPIDERS
& Wins in Best Entertainment & Games Related Website Category

Dublin — November 20, 2009 — MUZU.TV (www.muzu.tv), the music video website got a major accolade last night when it picked up the overall Grand Prix prize at the 2009 eircom Golden Spider Awards, after already winning the gong for Best Entertainment & Games Related Website earlier in the evening. The wins come off the back of MUZU.TV founders being awarded the overall Net Visionary award by the Irish Internet Association earlier in the year.

MUZU.TV’s Grand Prix award was unanimously decided upon by a panel of 14 industry experts, many from major companies such as IBM, eBay and eircom. MUZU.TV was described as a groundbreaking site offering one of the largest music video offerings on the web. The judges were impressed with the business model that brought content owners to the table and delivered videos in a great site that is easy to use, has great functionality and facilitates social networking.

MUZU.TV has built one of the largest music video offerings on the web, where music lovers can watch and discover tens of thousand of music videos for free, covering everything from live concerts and documentaries to official music videos and rare, archive footage. Site visitors can create and watch their own personal video playlists and share them with their friends by embedding them on their social networking pages like Bebo and Facebook. MUZU.TV is a global business with a 100% focus on music video, and an emphasis on high quality, license cleared content.

“It’s been a fantastic year for MUZU.TV, and this really caps it for us. We’re honoured and humbled to have picked up these awards, particularly the overall Grand Prix – it’s unbelievable!,” said Ciaran Bollard, CEO and co-founder of MUZU.TV. “The site has seen phenomenal growth over the past 12 months particularly in the UK and Ireland where most of our efforts have been focused. We’re now the second biggest music video site in the UK, doing more than 11 million video views a month. MUZU.TV continues to receive incredible support from the music industry and advertisers alike and we look forward to building upon these relationships and making the site a global success.”