Food Network Launches a New Site: Food2

Focusing to engage the younger generation through blogs and video content, Food Network has started a flashier site called food2. It should be a useful platform for its 20+ age group audience, who would be more interested in cooking quick and cheap meals.

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Focusing to engage the younger generation through blogs and video content, Food Network has started a flashier site called food2.

Features

  • Videos: Short five minute visuals on ‘how to make a dish’.
  • Video series: From young cooks. e.g. Kitchen Conspirators,clip_image003 Brooklyn (A NY-based b group- Whisk & Ladle).
  • $12 Challenge: Aclip_image003[1] ‘food meets love’ show, where two young chefs try to woo a bystander with an inexpensive meal.
  • How-to series: Leading viewers through how to make simple drinks and food items.
  • Blog section: Features content from recipes to other news about food.
  • Tips: Focusing on the kitchen basics.
  • Social Media: Integration with Facebook.

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It should be a useful platform for its 20+ age group audience, who would be more interested in cooking quick and cheap meals.

Though Techcrunch claims it to be a new site, the blogs on the site dates back to February 2009.

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The Alexa report shows traffic on the site since 1st April, though there is no data about the launch date of the site. See the chart below:

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(Source: TechCrunch)

(Image Credits: Food2, Food2 Blog, Alexa)

2 Comments

Prateek May 3, 2009

Whats the reason for so much high Ranking???

Rahul Bansal May 8, 2009

@Prateek
I guess number of backlinks!
Anything that goes on top blog attracts large number of backlinks and thus ranking. 🙂