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"Storify, a platform that lets users aggregate and display photos, tweets and other social content sourced across the web, stepped up its game Thursday by announcing a new premium service for media organizations, enterprise and other power users.\nWith the new paid Storify VIP service, premium users will be able to live update all stories, have a custom story display, use custom sources in Storify, share private stories within their own organizations and get enterprise-level support.\nStorify also announced they are now a part of the WordPress VIP program, meaning publishers can easily embed Storify stories from within the WordPress dashboard.\n\n\"This means they (publishers) can now use Storify a little bit more and have it be integrated,\" Storify co-founder Burt Herman told Mashable. \"And it's just like a quick way to get reaction and create more posts for their site really easily and leverage all the amazing media that's out there on social networks and all across the web.\"\nStorify's free service will remain intact and available for everyone.\nMedia organizations, brands, blogs, political organizations and non-profits across the world have been using Storify for live blogging and social storytelling. News organizations including The New York Times, CNN and The Guardian are among its high-profile users. Just this week, PBS NewsHour used Storify to live blog\u00A0reactions to the Supreme Court's arguments about same-sex marriage.\nThe BBC will be among the first media organizations to have a formal partnership with Storify, allowing BBC staffers to display Storify stories in a custom format.\n\u00A0\nSEE ALSO: Storify Aims to Become Portal for Content Discovery\n\u00A0\nThursday's announcement about premium services is part of Storify's developing monetization strategy. Herman said they've recently hired on Don Loeb (formerly of Yahoo, FeedBurner, Google, Typekit) to head the company's business development.\nWhile Herman says the new services are really about working more closely with publishers, he also added that it's \"the first time we're really systematically monetizing what we do.\"\nIt's been almost two years since Storify's public beta debut, and just in the last year, Storify tripled its traffic. More than 600,000 curators are now registered on Storify, and there are more than 15 million unique readers a month.\nBack in November, Storify unveiled a website redesign that made it easier to discover content and featured a Pinterest-like scrolling tile design.\nImage via iStockphoto, levoncigol "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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