ProfileHeaven

Profileheaven is a social networking website, winner of 2006 UK Website of the Year and Best Community Site, with a goal to encourage online social interaction, launched in March 2005. The website has an Alexa Internet traffic ranking of 12,875 [Alexa Internet " [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=www.profileheaven.com Alexa Traffic Ranking for profileheaven.com] ". Retrieved 19 December, 2006.] .

About

The site has an audience which is 96% UK derived. The typical demographic profile is 16-22 year olds with a 60% lean towards females.

Profileheaven was a re-launch of a previous social networking site formed March 2004. Its brand change jumpstarted the traffic flow to the site and lead to its eventual winning of the 2005 UK "Website of the Year" contest [Website of the Year " [http://www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk/2005_uk/home.php 2005 results] ". 2005.] in the community site category and overall winner for 2006. The website currently has approximately 250,000 members [PRWeb "http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb359657.htm press release] ". March 18, 2006.] , many of which are from the UK, in particular Scotland and northern England with some from the United States, Australia and the rest of the world.

As many other social networking sites provide, each user can create a profile and blog about themselves. Users can link these profiles together to form a linked friend network. Other notable features are web forums, unlimited photo galeries, video, live video chat, flash games and a points ranking system.

The website has also won Website of the Year 2006. [ [http://www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk/winners.php Website of the Year awards 2006] ]

Profileheaven has recently been bought over by 3bill, and is in the process of a complete makeover.

The website is currently undergoing a relaunch, which will soon become www.faces.com. The launch date was expected to be the 1st September 2008, however due to an unforseen circumstances in the transferring of data, this has been put on hold.

ProfileHeaven Music

ProfileHeaven is a UK focused social networking site allowing new and existing artists to post a profile about themselves. While other community space’s have huge international reach ProfileHeaven is more relevant to music fans looking for gigs in Bristol and important to artists building a local base. Artists who use ProfileHeaven Music can showcase their music using the free integrated music player, upload videos, photos, create blogs and forums and engage in real-time live chat directly with fans.

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Profileheaven uses a LAMP setup to run the site.

References

ee also

* List of social networking websites

External links

* [http://www.profileheaven.com/ ProfileHeaven website]