Marketgid (MarketGid, MGID, MGID)

The Marketgid project functions in Russia, in Ukraine, in the markets of Europe, the USA and China.

Performance Indicators

In the Russian and Ukrainian markets the advertizing network "Marketgid" takes the leading positions in the field of exchange of traffic. By data Rambler of TOP 100, audience of the website www.marketgid.com makes more than 21,000,000 unique visitors a month.

For September, 2011 more than 400 specialists are employed in all offices of the company, and projects of the company attract more than 30 million unique visitors a month.

According to Alexa (September, 2011), the website www.mgid.com enters in 1000 the most popular websites of the world, its daily audience exceeds 900,000 visitors. The exchange network of the English-language version includes over 3000 partners among whom there is a set of popular blogs and the websites.

History

• The company is created in September, 2007 with assistance of investment holding "FINAM"

• In January, 2009 successful start of the American version of the MGID project became one of the main achievements of the company. "In the USA new unique Internet products are constantly created, all most demanded innovations come from America. MGID offered the business model allowing to earn from exchange of traffic which did not exist earlier. We not just successfully entered the American market, we created it and we are going to expand presence geography around the world", - the CEO of the company Oleg Shkot notes.

• At the beginning of 2011 start of the Chinese beta of http://www.baihuochang.com/ was performed.

For September, 2011 a number of the leading internet mass-media among which there is Argumenty i Fakty, Echo of Moscow, Rambler, Russian News Service and many others is among partners in exchange of traffic. Among the Ukrainian partners – "RBC Ukraine News agency", the informational portal "Observer", the UNIAN, Bigmir and others. The company creates tizerny network which integrates 12,000 websites. In November, 2009 the special project "Lady Marketgid" (lady.marketgid.com) focused on female audience which also took the leading positions in the segment was started.

"Marketgid – one of the most perspective projects of investment holding 'FINAM'. Through joint efforts we managed to create a team of the experienced professionals capable to successfully solve the most ambitious problems. Active expansion of Marketgid on international market on this background is quite logical business development strategy which will be continued and further", - the director of the Private equity fund of FINAM holding Dmitry Smirnov says.