Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Zvents, the leading producer of entertainment guides online, announced today the integration of Facebook’s recently released social plug-ins across their network of 290 local media websites. These new social networking options allow users to personalize their experience on the Zvents Network and share, like and recommend things to do with their Facebook friends and, in turn, see what their friends like, recommend and share about things they want to do.
"We’re excited to add these new enhanced social features," said Ethan Stock, CEO of Zvents. "They give users of the entertainment guides that Zvents powers a more personally relevant things to do discovery experience and make it even easier to get out to more local events and share the experience with friends."
The features introduced across Zvents include:
* Like button: The Like button lets users share pages on Zvents to their Facebook news stream with one click. Users will have the option to like events, performers, venues, movies and restaurants — and will also be able to see what their friends like as well.
* Activity stream: When users visit Zvents, a mini-Facebook newsfeed appears showing what their friends are doing on Zvents through likes and comments.
* Recommendations: Gives users personalized suggestions for pages on Zvents they might like –displaying the top ‘likes’ on Zvents from all Facebook users as well as likes from your Facebook friends.
By implementing Facebook social plug-ins across a network of locally branded entertainment guides, Zvents becomes the first to bring powerful social tools to the hyperlocal event space for millions of users. To see the new integration in action, visit Zvents.com or any one of the sites powered by Zvents, including Boston.com, SFGate and GuideLive.com.
About Zvents:
Discover Things To Do — Zvents helps over 10 million monthly users find fun and interesting things to do in their local area, and helps thousands of event advertisers increase attendance at their events. Our network of locally branded entertainment guides reaches the largest audience of people actively looking for things to do. More than 15,000 advertisers work with Zvents every month to promote a wide range of local events and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities.
In addition to its own branded destination site Zvents.com, Zvents produces online entertainment guides for more than 290 media partners, including major national sites and brands such as AT&T’s Yellowpages.com and YP.COM, Microsoft’s MSN and Bing properties, and NBC’s local station properties, as well as premier local media brands such as SFGate.com, SeattlePI.com, Boston.com, Austin360.com, GuideLive.com (Dallas Morning News), AccessAtlanta.com (Atlanta Journal Constitution), NYDailyNews.com, and OCRegister.com.
