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MediaFire – Managing, Storing And Uploading Files Is Easier Now

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Your phone’s storage is turning full? Don’t know where to keep your files? Running out of space? Need a specifically designed host and a proper backup? Want a synchronisation process too? Adding, changing, deleting is no more an issue here.

MediaFire is a file hosting, synchronisation and cloud storage services. Now, it’s easier to upload all files like videos, documents, photos and audios and is super accessible. Customers can access them from anywhere using phones, tablets, etc. It is simple yet an efficient file storage service. It is an online solution. Read the MediaFire success story below.

MediaFire – Company Highlights

Company Name	MediaFire
Headquarters	Shenandoah, Texas, US
Sector	Cloud Storage, File Hosting and File Synchronisation
Founders	Derek Labian and Tom Langridge
Founded	August 2006
Website	mediafire.com

MediaFire – About
MediaFire – Startup Story
MediaFire – Founders And Team
MediaFire – Logo
Mediafire – Business Model
MediaFire – Revenue Model
MediaFire – Funding And Investors
MediaFire – Growth
MediaFire – Competitors

MediaFire – About

MediaFire is a cloud storage service that helps consumers to organize, share data and store via the Internet. It offers secure, unlimited and free cloud storage so that customers can share and store data with their friends, family members and colleagues.

MediaFire – Startup Story

A group of entrepreneurs and enthusiasts were having a difficult time with sending large files and emails. Together they all decided to create a site where customers of all ages could feel safe and happily share their large files or emails. They created one and it slowly continued to grow. More and more features got added as well as invented. Ultimately now it is providing unlimited cloud storage and also enabling users to share files with family, friends, etc with branding tools.

MediaFire – Founders And Team

Derek Labian and Tom Langridge are the founders of the company MediaFire.

Derek Labian is a Network, Software Engineer, Architect, Advisor and an Investor. He is currently the co-founder and CEO at 2 companies. One is Fast Technologies, Inc and the other one is MediaFire.com. He was also the Technology Principal at IntoMobile for 7 years. He was the founder and CEO at FileFront.com.
Tom Langridge is also currently the co-founder of 2 companies. Those are Fast Technologies, Inc and MediaFire.com. He was the co-founder at IntoMobile. He began his career as a Lead UI Designer at FileFront.com. He completed his education from The University of California, Davis.

Derek Labian and Tom Langridge (left to right), co-founders, MediaFire

MediaFire – Logo

Mediafire – Business Model

MediaFire allows its users to store and share various sizes of files. It is available for Android, iPhone, Web and Windows. It is the only storage solution that offers unlimited downloads all for free. MediaFire provides clients software for Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Blackberry and Linux. In 2014, it declared public access to its platform. They have a public forum and have released SDKs for JavaScript, Java, etc. Storage starts at 10GB and can be increased up to 40GB. The company’s features include up to 50GB of storage.

MediaFire – Revenue Model

MediaFire has got 43 million registered users. Also, the company attracted around 1.3 billion unique visitors to its sphere in 2012. MediaFire has got more than 150 million people using the application every month to store the professional data quickly and safely in the cloud. It has got different plans –

Basic plan – 10GB = Free
Pro plan – 1 TB (1000 GB) = $4.99 a month
Business plan – Up to 100 TB = $49.99 a month

Hence, there are 2 subscriptions levels – Pro and Business plan and the Basic plan is free. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any point of time without any obligations.

MediaFire – Funding And Investors

Date	Transaction Name	Money Raised	Lead Investor
April 2020	Debt	$150,000 – $350,000	U.S. Small Business Administration
October 2008	Self	$2.5 million	–

MediaFire hasn’t made any investments till date.

MediaFire – Growth

Reports say that MediaFire has progressed a lot in terms of growth. It has also become the fastest growing site on the web with 100% yearly growth. As it is allowing unlimited downloads and uploads it is gaining more customers. Every day the group of developers and designers are working to progress and advance the sharing interest to make it best for its customers.

MediaFire – Competitors

The top competitors of the company are Onehub, Tresorit and ArchiverFS.

Onehub is a secured file sharing and storage service built for various businesses. It has a role-based permission structure which means the user can control whoever is accessing his/her content and can also share business files with confidence.
Tresorit is an ultra-secure platform. It has got an end to end encrypted file sync & sharing subscription model. It is accessible to its users anywhere and at any point of time.
ArchiverFS provides file archiving solutions to its customers. It features a tiny footprint on the host system.

MediaFire handles all the file needs. It has made the storage issue easier now. It has got powerful features which can’t be found anywhere else. It simplifies the workflow.

December 22, 2020

Know All About MediaFire And Its Business Model

MediaFire is an online storage and collaborations company which focuses on providing the world an easy to use solution for managing their digital stuff online and on the go. MediaFire is available for iPhone, Android, OSX, Windows and Web and is the only online storage solution that offers unlimited downloads, download resuming, zero wait times and more all for free. MediaFire Business Model is what makes the company stand out.

MediaFire is known for file hosting, file synchronization and cloud storage service based in Shenandoah, Texas, United States. The company was founded in June 2006 by Derek Labian and Tom Langridge, the company provides clients software for Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Blackberry 10 and web browsers. MediaFire has 43 million registered users and attracted 1.3 billion unique visitors to its domain in 2012.

There are more than 150 million people that use MediaFire every month in order to quickly and security store, organize and share all their personal and professional data in the cloud. MediaFire announced public access to its platform, API, and Developer Center, in July 2014. Along with documentation on the API, they also have a public forum and have released SDKs for Java, JavaScript, and Objective-C.

Mediafire storage

The features of MediaFire include up to 50 GB of storage which starts at 10GB and can increase as high as 40GB when various activities like installing mobile or desktop clients, or when sharing on Facebook and Twitter are done. In April 2014, MediaFire responded to reduced pricing from Google Drive by increasing its Professional Storage plan from 100GB to 1 TB and reducing its monthly price to US $2.50 per month.

Business account storage is shared across all sub accounts allowing for single billing and management of multiple users at a single company. Media Fire free account service does not require download activity in order to preserve files, and is often suitable as a backup only solution. MediaFire does not support free long term storage for free and inactive accounts.

Client

Mobile – The cloud storage service company originally released Android (January 2013) and iOS (July 2012) clients based on the Appcelerator framework and updated them with native versions in 2014. The mobile apps provide importing of photos and video taken on the device and remote access to the contents of your MediaFire account.

Desktop – The MediaFire desktop clients, originally launched in November 2013, are available for macOS and Microsoft Windows providing file and folder synchronization with any MediaFire account. Additional features include file and folder sharing, notifications, screen capture and selective syncing. MediaFire desktop client software is available for the following devices: PCs running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows8 or Mac OS X 10.7.

The public and private file sharing are supported through MediaFire. Private file sharing mainly consists of a user sharing directly to another user or a group of users and is done through importing contacts or email. The account holder is than able to control read or write permissions as per user basis.

Public sharing consists of a user getting a public link, which allows anyone with the link to download the file. MediaFire also supports sharing with one-time links, which are only valid for a single use. It supports both audio and video streaming through its online file viewer. MediaFire supports a variety of different file formats through its web based file viewer, such as

Content	Types of files
Image files	JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP
Video files	WebM, MPEG4, MOV, AVI, MPEGPS, WMV, FLV, 3GP, OGG, VOB
Text files	TXT
Markup/Code	HTML, PHP, C, CPP, H, HPP, JS, java
Microsoft Word	DOC and DOCX
Microsoft Excel	XLS and XLSX
Microsoft PowerPoint	PPT and PPTX
Adobe Portable Document Format	PDF

MediaFire offers an incredibly easy to way to share 200MB files for free with other people, the company has attracted employees at 86%of the Fortune 500 for sending files that are too large for e-mail. It offers unlimited downloads and file storage and if you want to upload larger files with long tern storage, you can pay $9 a month for a Pro account or $49 a month for a Business account.

But the company free file sharing solution can also be used easily for sharing copyrighted files, especially music with friends, relatives or anyone on the web. A google search for a song name an artist name and Mediafire for example will likely bring you to a copy of that file that can easily be downloaded from a MediaFire page.

Subcriptions

MediaFire offers 2 subscriptions levels, Professional and Business. While all services offer additional features over the free services such as custom branding, detailed analytics, distribution through direct linking and more. The business services additionally offer multi user accounts and customized subdomains.

The subscriber can also cancel a subscription at any time with no obligation by visiting your settings page. After you cancel your subscription, your services will continue until the end of the period for which you have paid. When that period expires, your account will be returned to a non-premium account.

Billing

When you sign up for a MediaFire service you are billed at the beginning of service delivery. Customers signing up for yearly service are billed for the initial 12 months of service at the time of signup. While MediaFire accepts all major credit cards. It also has money back guarantee from the date of original purchase. Users signing up for monthly and quarterly subscriptions are billed according to the day of the month when they signed up.

Advertising Benefits

Massive reach – Every month MediaFire receives over 345 million visits from around the world, with more than 60 million monthly US visits. Advertisements on Mediafire reach a vast portion of the Internet.

Audience Diversity – In order to reach the diverse audience with numerous interests. Within the US, it has visits have an average $47,000 household income. Out of the total number of visitors 85% of those visitors are age 18 to 54, while 53% of them are male. Other than exhibiting a generally high affinity for technology and media, our audience represents a cross section of the general population with wide ranging interests.

Engaged User Base Showing Steady Growth – Our users are actively engaged, spending an average 8 minutes per visit. That total nearly 2 million hours per day spent on MediaFire. More than 3.5 million Facebook fans have declared their approval and trust in the service we provide and word is still spreading. Our visitors have increased an average 85% year over year for the past 3 years.

Terms of service

MediaFire Terms of service prohibits the distribution of any copyright, trademark or patent, without the necessary licenses, rights, consents and permission to distribute the content. Distributing any content that violates the right of others and sexually explicit material are other examples of the company’s terms of service violations.

Unlike other competitors like Megaload, MediaFire don’t have a business that is built on copyright infringement. It is similar to other cloud based sharing services like Box.net and Dropbox, we’re a legitimate business targeting Professionals. Comparatively megaupload structure gives its users monetary rewards for uploading pirated content, which is not accepted by MediaFire.

MediaFire’s Customer Support team responds to potential violations of MediaFire’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you are reporting a potential violation, the person can send a support ticket and include a direct link to the Content. For the account holder, a confirmed report of a violation will result in account suspension. If you feel your account was suspended in error, contact our support department with detailed information for further evaluation.

October 7, 2020