A unique event is under development at the largest site of the Merry Network, My Merry Christmas.com, to be called The World’s Largest Christmas Party. The event is a 34-hour marathon of Christmas-themed contests, chats and online gatherings scheduled for December 11th, 2011.

“This really came about as a means of celebrating our 20th birthday at My Merry Christmas,” said Jeff Westover of Merry Network LLC. “As we talked about what we could do it was clear that what we needed to do wasn’t a birthday party but a massive Christmas party instead. My Merry Christmas has become the largest Christmas community online with many countries, languages and cultures involved. We wanted to find a way to include everyone.”

Designed to provide unqiue events in each time zone, The World’s Largest Christmas Party will focus on the hours of Noon to Midnight in each time zone on December 11th. During those hours a number of online-only features and events lauch:

– Chats & Workshops will be scheduled almost non-stop via ChristmasChatter.com to discuss everything from How to Make Eggnog to the Best Christmas Movies of All Time. Dozens of such events will be scheduled.

– Video, Photo and Essay Contest material on the theme of “Christmas Where You Live” will be released. Meant to showcase the diversity of Christmas celebration around the world these contests are designed to solicit user-submitted creations intended to share Christmas. Prize money will be awarded to contest winners.

– My Merry Christmas.com is compiling the Top 100 Christmas Songs of all time through user voting during the month of November 2011. These will be played via Merry Christmas Radio.com on two streams during the event.

– Live broadcasting will also be a part of the event.

We expect further news and information about this world-wide event to be disclosed in the coming weeks.

The Merry Network has expanded its reach on Christmas radio by teaming with two online stations — The Christmas Station and Sounds of Christmas.com.

“Both of these stations reach a diverse audience and bring more variety to our Christmas radio fans than what we can offer alone through two streams of Merry Christmas Radio,” explains Jeff Westover of Merry Network LLC. “It broadens the audience and brings more awareness of the offering of Christmas online. We hope to continue to expand in radio as we find more willing partners who want to showcase their offerings through the Merry Network.”

The stations operate independently of Merry Christmas Radio and Merry Network. They will cross promote and participate in Christmas community events of their choice.

Christmas on television is as big a tradition as eggnog and mistletoe. It is also a wild landscape that is almost impossible to navigate or to track when it comes to what is offered for Christmas fans. What is needs is a comprehensive, authoritative resource that clearly lists what is available. Enter MerryChristmasTV.net — the newest affiliate of the Merry Network.

“We’re very excited about MerryChristmasTV.net”, said Jeff Westover of Merry Network LLC. “The is a resource that fans of Christmas have been asking about for years. To do it right it requires connections and research year round and the staff at MerryChristmasTV.net have experience with that.”

Run by a television industry insider, the site is the natural evolution of what was once a Christmas hobby of making television listings of Christmas for family and friends. As the hobby grew so too did the distribution list. Here we are years later and like other sites of the Merry Network what was once a labor of love is shared resource for millions of Christmas lovers around the world.

Merry Network LLC announces the launch of Merry Christmas Recipes.com, a site dedicated to growing the world’s largest user-submitted database of Christmas recipes online. Operated in partnership with SayerFoods.com the site works to solicit and organize recipes from the Christmas community sites of the Merry Network, including the world’s largest and most active year round Christmas community, the Merry Forums of My Merry Christmas.com.

The effort has produced the first-ever Christmas cookbook of My Merry Christmas.com, titled “The Sweet Treats of Christmas”, slated for publication in November 2011. The sales of the book will be used to support Santa’s Sleigh, the charitable efforts of the webmasters of the Merry Network.

“This is a massive project with far reaching opportunities and benefits for the Christmas community online,” said Jeff Westover, CEO of Merry Network LLC. “The site will be a hub for the efforts of focusing on Christmas foods in the overall Christmas community. What makes it unique and different is that it will be ever evolving as the community continues to develop depth from dozens of cultures and countries from around the world. While there is an endless supply of Christmas recipes available on the Internet none will be as diverse and constantly evolving and updated as Merry Christmas Recipes.com will be. We’re very proud of this addition and look forward to it becoming a unique asset to the Christmas community online.”

We’re pleased to announce the expansion of Merry Christmas Radio to a 2nd stream. The new stream is located on a Shoutcast server, operating independently of Live365.com.

“We’re doing this to meet expanded demand for our audio offerings,” explained Jeff Westover, of Merry Network LLC. “The new stream offers a number of capabilities we don’t presently have. We can now accomodate more listeners, we are broadcasting now in HD and we have an alternative channel to broadcast live events or alternative content.”

The new stream is also accessible via Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Apple Quick Time or Real Media Players.

Merry Network has expanded Christmas advertising opportunities to more than 33 holiday-related websites. These are now available in seasonal package pricing of 1-month, 2-months and 3-months packages in addition to the traditional 6-month and 12-month offerings Merry Network has offered in the past. As always, the greatest discounts are applied to six-month and twelve-month packages.

Also new is promotional couponing of ad products during select seasons and times of the year. For a list of available discount coupon codes, please send a blank email to:

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Find Christmas.com, established in 2003, was re-launched today as a full Christmas niche search engine. Completely updated with a new code core, Find Christmas segregates search results from multiple sources: websites, news sources, blogs, forums, auction sites, image collections, iTunes, wikis and all social media outlets are scoured in search of Christmas-specific keywords and phrases.

“This project represents a significant investment and hours and hours of engineering.” said Jeff Westover of Merry Network LLC. “And it will get better as it matures and more people use it. Coupled with Link Christmas.com, we feel we now have the premiere tools of helping our site users and visitors find Christmas anywhere online.”

Find Christmas will now be extended as branded search boxes will be added on appropriate Christmas venues.

The Merry Network has developed Christmas Feeds.com, an aggregator of Christmas headlines from news feeds around the Internet. Different from Christmas Newswire.com, which distributes news, Christmas Feeds.com doesn’t actually contain originally generated content — it merely pools the content headlines of as many Christmas news sources as can be found and posts summaries and headlines all in one place.

“Our vision for this site is simple,” said Merry Network’s Jeff Westover, “We want a site where someone can access links and headlines to everything current in a specific Christmas category — say, for example, “Christmas decorating” — all in one place. We hunt out sources online and build those categories to link the feeds of as many online venues as there are out there. It is a very unique site.”

Christmas Feeds.com becomes the 43rd site of the Merry Network.

Merry Network has acquired an established niche site, ChristmasScrapbooknig.com.

This site fits well within the Christmas niche and contains a wealth of information relative to scrap booking. It is well indexed and known amongst the scrap booking community and will be supported by experts and freelance writers, with all feeds pointing to established forums of the Merry Network.

The site becomes the 30th legacy site of the Merry Network and the 43rd site in our family of sites.

We’re pleased to announce a new offering from our friends at Why Christmas — a new Christmas Karaoke site located at Tis the Season To.Be. Expertly designed and festively arranged are all the beloved songs of Christmas ready to sing with! This comprehensive Christmas resource is one-of-a-kind!

This site is the second Merry Network affiliate site run by Why Christmas and the 13th affiliate overall to join the network.