Publisha has got some very exciting news that we can finally make public today!

We’ve spoken to hundreds and hundreds of Publisha users over the last year, and we’ve consistently heard that most of you find it easy to write articles, but difficult to promote your site and gain readership. So we thought we’d launch a sister site that takes a different approach! This time you just focus on the writing, and we’ll do the rest! (Seeing as this is a crowd-sourced community effort, any promotion that you can do will really help us to grow the site quickly.) 

ViewsHound is going live on May 2nd, but you can sign up right now and get busy. Here’s the low-down, and why we think you’re going to love it:

ViewsHound is the first crowd-sourced news site to offer daily prizes for the best articles, photographs and cartoons. The site will focus on opinion and comment pieces and contributors are invited to compete for a daily prize fund of $120.

We’ve also got a pre-launch prize fund of $1,000, made up of one $500 top prize and 10 prizes of $50 each for material contributed before May 2nd. You can sign up right now to compete to win one of these pre-launch prizes.

The site will have major sections covering politics, business, travel, sport, technology, art and culture, and will be promoted heavily to build a large and active reader base.

Whether you win a cash prize or not, everyone who contributes can link their articles back to their blog and benefit from ViewsHound’s traffic. We hope that many journalistic careers can be launched and sustained by ViewsHound.

Anyone is welcome to submit material for consideration. We use human editors, plagiarism checkers and other filters to make sure that everything published is original and of high quality. Right from the start we want ViewsHound to be about quality content that people want to read, and will carefully choose the material that makes it onto the site.

The ViewsHound website is at www.viewshound.com and the ViewsHound Facebook page is at www.facebook.com/viewshound. If you want to help us spread the word, become a ViewsHound fan on Facebook.