Knew The News, the user driven news prediction game, launched its US Presidential Election Center, a powerful dashboard providing information about predictions gathered on one page.

Only weeks remain towards the United States Presidential Election. Knew The News makes it a lot easier for those interested in predictions surrounding the result of the election by publishing a special section in its site.

Predictions for each state are combined into a map of the United States, a clear and accurate view on the predicted election result for around the united states. The maps offers a significant clear view on especially the developments in the so called swing states, those states assumed to decide the result of the vote.

Additionally, a selection of the most important predictions is shown with a development graph illustrating the development of the user base assumptions.

All data on the site is updated continuously, making it a very useful tool to keep updated with current developments and public perceptions.

“User commitment is very important on Knew The News. Therefore, a special contest has been launched to encourage even more activity related to the unites states elections.” Knew The News founder Constantinus van der Kruijs said. “Knew The News promises to send every participating user making a prediction on ‘who will win the election’ free stickers in return. The one who creates the most valuable question about the election will win a set of Knew The News mugs.”

To see who Knew The News users think who will win, and with what margin, simply visit
Presidential Election Center

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• Enhanced Market Creation
  The market creation wizard has been enhanced with the ability to fetch background information about a news topic by simply providing an url to an article on a news site. The wizard automatically reads the keywords from the given page, a summary and an image – if provided by the website.
• Market Sponsoring
  Knew The News introduces the sponsoring of markets by promoters of the site. On a promoted market, a prize is raffled among the players who’s first, unsold prediction was made on the winning outcome.
• Design Changes
  Among others, instead of the colored bubble, the users avatar is shown along with his name throughout the site.
• New categories in Sports
  A number of sub categories have been added to the Sports category: Boxing, Cricket, Golf and Cycling.

Knew The News, the free online news prediction game, introduces a new way to promote products and companies on their site. In addition to common, content related advertisements provided by affiliate programs and add networks, advertisers act as site sponsors, providing incentives for players on the site.

In contrast to advertisement forms used on the site so far, the relationship between advertiser and site user in this case is much closer. Sponsoring content and supplying prizes for raffles is something a user will actually appreciate – and not annoying. The user will recognize the effort of the sponsor and will connect positive and sympathetic feelings towards the entity offering the incentive.

“Knew The News chose to additionally support a positive user experience, by directly inserting the promotions into the content area of the page in an eye-catching, yet consistent way,”, explains Constantinus van der Kruijs, founder of Knew The News and adds, “and to prevent any detraction from it, no other advertisement is being displayed concurrently”.

Advertisers may freely chose on which of the user generated questions they wish to supply a promotion, with only few exceptions. Knew The News offers plenty diversified content, rich in variation of topics and aspiration.

To support advertisement promotions even further, they are being mentioned in newsletters as well as in social media postings from Knew The News.

“Although the supplied prizes may be small in value, the total effort to create an effective promotion is clearly remarkably higher. This is where Knew The News offers an easy way and a worthy channel to reach out to a dedicated user community and to a large number of occasional visitors to the site on current news topics,” emphasize van der Kruijs.

To start with, Knew The News partnered with Whatabeautifullife (http://www.whatabeautifullife.com/), A platform for online shopping of stylish fashion, Evening & Party Dresses and club wear, among others and own promotion prizes.

After a few months of reduced development on the site, some new features and improvements have been implemented during the last month:

• Subscribe to markets
  A digest notification message is send to users periodically containing information on developments in markets to which the user subscribed. Subscription to a market is independent from making predictions.
• Short selling
  Expert mode users may bet against options. Players are able to predict that a certain outcome may not occur in their opinion, without the need to buy stakes on each of the other options.
• Track your invitations to Knew The News
  Whenever you send an invitation, you are now able to track the invitations state, and eventually resend the invitation.
• Improvements on market details
  Knew The News tracks the number of visits on a market page, and now allows more suitable news stories related to the market topic to be displayed on the page.