PureVideo Networks, known for their flagship video search portal PureVideo and Stupid Videos, launches their latest niche media site, PoliticsUpClose.
Modeled in a very similar manner to one of their other sites, HollywoodUpClose, PoliticsUpClose brings you a focused search site dedicated to politics. The site includes bios on all the members of the U.S. Congress and the Senate, as well as all 50 governors and every political hopeful out there. PoliticsUpClose offers multimedia search results, bringing videos, images and articles to the forefront of your search. Their main tabs give easy access to humor, political blogs, featured politicians, videos, issues and more. As PoliticsUpClose is bipartisan, you'll get information from all points on the spectrum, from liberal to conservative.
With the increasing interest in the '08 elections, and the utilization of the Internet for political information dissemination, it's no surprise that PureVideo Networks has chosen politics to be one of the many verticals they're launching this year. While politicians are creating their own social networks and have profiles and blogs with all the major players, finding a centralized wealth of information is often difficult when it comes to politics. Others entering this realm include OpenCongress, which brings a level of transparency to the legislative process while offering political information, and Knover, which aims to join political bio information with user-generated opinions.