video creation
Facebook giveth, Facebook taketh: A curious case of video apps
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Nick Bilton, in today’s The New York Times, writes about Facebook’s ability to look at what is happening on its network and predict the future. He says since more than nine million apps and services use Facebook Connect, the Open Graph developer platform, the company can essentially predict what comes...
15 Startups Invade Fab's Old Headquarters And Gear Up For DreamIt's Summer Accelerator Program
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DreamIt Ventures, which has produced startups like ShowMe and Adaptly, has selected 15 companies selected for its summer accelerator program. They will be demoing on August 8 in New York City. Until then, the startups are working out of the old Fab office on 330 West 38th Street. Here's the...
YouTube to end YouTube Create on Jan. 31
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YouTube plans to permanently halt 18-month-old YouTube Create tomorrow. The third-party application essentially ran in an HTML iframe on YouTube, as Google described when Create launched in 2011, and the user would create a video and uploaded it to YouTube with the application. However, according to GigaOM, YouTube Create “never got all that much traction,”...
Google Releases Goofy Video Creation Tool
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Google today launched a video creation tool called Search Stories. It's a very lightweight little Flash tool to put together a little YouTube video of a number of search queries set to music. It's mildly amusing but not really useful. If you've seen LMGTFY (You haven't? Well, LMGTFY) this is...
YouTube Hits 24 Hours of Video Per Minute!
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Jack Bauer and YouTube now have something in common: the number 24. Today on its blog, YouTube announced a major milestone. Every minute that goes by, an entire day of video is added to its site. Yes, you read correctly: 24 hours of video are now uploaded to YouTube every...
Will the iPad spark a new video creation revolution?
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Quick question: How many times have you seen someone using a tablet to capture video or take pictures? The odds are likely that most people will say “never,” but with the introduction of Apple’s new iPad, I think that answer is about to change for three reasons. The new iPad’s...
Meet 500 Startups' new Argentine participant, DIY animated video creation platform Wideo
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DIY video creation platform Wideo is one of the two first Argentine startups to join 500 Startups, which unveiled its new batch of companies today. Alongside Femininas, it confirms the growing interest of Dave McClure and his team for Latin America. According to 500 Startups’ partner Christine Tsai, the accelerator was also...
TurnHere And Its Network Of 8,000 Filmmakers To Flood Yelp With Videos
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Online video production startup TurnHere is now the exclusive provider of video creation services for Yelp, the popular local search and business review site. TurnHere, through its network of over 8,000 professional filmmakers, will be providing local video production for businesses that advertise on Yelp, as well as a slate...
Strum is the best answer yet to the "awkwardness problem" in social video
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Social video has proven a tough nut to crack. Over the last year, few platforms have achieved viral growth and attracted tens of millions of registrations, but none have maintained ongoing engagement levels that would suggest the winner has been identified – or that the space will have a near...
YouTube Adds Real-Time Discussion Support with Google Moderator
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Google announced this morning that it is enabling real-time discussions on YouTube channels by adding support for Google Moderator. Moderator allows sites to request questions or ideas from its audience that can then be voted up or down by the site's community of visitors. The service had previously only made...
Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor Talks Echograph Acquisition, Monetization, And The Future Of Mobile Video Creation
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For Vimeo, the David to YouTube’s Goliath, the focus moving forward will be on creating and delivering mobile video, according to CEO Kerry Trainor. A big part of that future focus will come from Echograph, a GIF-making app that was recently acquired by Vimeo in a deal whose details...
Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor Talks Echograph Acquisition, Monetization, And The Future Of Mobile Video Creation
Viewbix lands $2 million for its interactive video creation and analytics platform
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Viewbix, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company that offers a nifty interactive video platform and analytics software suite, has raised $2 million in Series A financing in a round led by Canaan Partners with participation from Longfellow Venture Partners. Viewbix’s platform allows small and medium-sized businesses and non-profits to put a...
YouTube shuts down its YouTube Create program for partner apps
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YouTube is shutting down YouTube Create at the end of this month, ending what was supposed to be a promotion of both the YouTube API and third-party apps taking advantage of it. YouTube Create was launched some 18 months ago as a showcase for third-party video editors like WeVideo, Vibop...
For Facebook-boosted video apps, reality checks in
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When Facebook made it easy to share what videos you were watching Socialcam, Metacafe, DailyMotion and Viddy rocketed up the app-charts and saw a sharp increase in the usage and downloads of these apps. Of course, with this friction-less sharing actions, came howls of complaints from Facebook’s users. Well, it...
Pixorial Tag Teams Rumblefish for Infringement-Free Videos
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You’ve got this video you’ve put together of some cats all climbing over each other to get to the top of the stairs. It’s funny, but it won’t reach viral status unless you add a killer soundtrack. Do you know what would work? “O Fortuna”. Over the top drama,...
With Help From Facebook Timeline, Viddy Becomes Top Free iPhone App
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With the skyrocketing popularity and billion-dollar sale of Instagram, there’s an ongoing race to apply Instagram’s wildly successful photo sharing model to mobile video. There are a number of startups vying to claim the “Instagram for Video” title, with Socialcam, Viddy, Klip, Mobli, and even the infamous Color all in...
500 Startups alumnus Switchcam moves into public beta with its multi-camera video creation service
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500 Startups alumnus Switchcam is now in public beta. The company announced the news today and says that it’s aimed at bringing its multi-camera video creation service to the masses. Backed by Mark Cuban and 500 Startups, Switchcam is also part of the inaugural class of Turner Broadcasting’s Media Camp...
Videolicious Relaunches Its App For Mobile Video Editing, Raises $1.4 Million From Amazon And Others
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Last year, we wrote about an app called Videolicious designed to quickly let users create videos without having any editing expertise. The startup has been refining its app since then, and just released a new version to improve automatic video creation. In addition to the release of the new app,...
Videolicious Relaunches Its App For Mobile Video Editing, Raises $1.4 Million From Amazon And Others
Vyclone Launches An iPhone App For Truly Social Video Creation And Sharing
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There’s no shortage of ‘social/mobile/location-based’ video sharing apps out there, which will let you take a video and maybe slap a filter on it and share what you’re doing with people nearby and show off how friggin cool you are. Think Socialcam/Viddy/Klip/etc. But how social is that, really? Well how...
An Ecosystem Is Born: Animoto Opens Up API
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We’re big fans of Animoto, a website that lets you easily create photo and video slideshows matched to music. The site is constantly innovating its nifty product, most recently adding an iPhone app and the ability to incorporate video. For those not familiar with Animoto, the startup basically allows...
CAA For Nyan Cats: How Viral Spiral Helps The Meme-Famous Profit From Their 15 Minutes
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Viral Spiral founder Damian Collier: as comfortable in front of the camera as his amateur web-video stars. | Photos by Alex Sturrock Bart Jansen loves cats and airplanes. When the 33-year-old Dutch artist's tabby, Orville--named after Orville Wright--was killed by a car in September of 2011, Jansen confronted his grief...
Socialcam Founder: There Will Be No Instagram of Video
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After the dust settled on this morning’s shocking announcement of Autodesk’s Socialcam acquisition, I was able to catch up with senior members of each team to get their thoughts. While I stand by my earlier assessment of the deflated state of the overall social video market and the impact...
Now At 4M Users, Video Startup Animoto Adds Former Aol/Yahoo Exec Brad Garlinghouse To Board
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Back in July of last year, Animoto, the startup that lets people easily create good-looking videos from user-uploaded audio, video, images, raised $25 million in venture funding, led by Spectrum Equity Investors, bringing its total outside investment to $30 million. As Mike pointed out at the time, were Animoto interested...
Demand Media Adds Editorial Advisory Board; Includes UCLA, USC Deans, Ex-Lifetime CEO
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It’s a tried-and-true tactic: in the face of criticism about quality and methods, enlist an advisory board of experts and/or respected figures in the field. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I learned that Demand Media is about to announce an Editorial Advisory Board with charter...
Vine Takes Early Command In The Mobile Video Market Over Viddy, Socialcam And Others Despite Low Adoption
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Editor’s note: Robert J. Moore is the co-founder of RJMetrics, a company whose software helps online businesses make smarter decisions using their own data. He also previously served on the Investment Team of Insight Venture Partners. Follow him on Twitter @RJMetrics. On January 24, 2013, Twitter released Vine, a mobile service that lets...
Vine Takes Early Command In The Mobile Video Market Over Viddy, Socialcam And Others Despite Low Adoption
VMix Media Reincarnation Givit Aims to Be the Instagram of Online Video
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Greg Kostello was boarding a plan to Las Vegas when he got a text that made his heart stop. “It was an ‘oh my God’ from my lead engineer along with a link to an article about Flip exiting the business,” said Kostello, who was chief executive of San Diego-based VMix...
Stupeflix video maker passes 10 million videos, cuts price by 50%
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Stupeflix just shared two milestones with us: its video creation platform has surpassed the 10 million videos three years after launch and its developer API now features a “friendlier” business model. The French startup also proudly noted it powers apps for Samsung, Sprint, American Express, Coca-Cola, and Visa, among others....
Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal
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According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically. While deals such as this always go sideways, sources...
Want To Rent A Founder? Justin Kan’s Exec Is Making That Happen (For Charity)
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Justin Kan is a busy guy. The serial entrepreneur is best known as the founder of Justin.tv, the online community that lets users broadcast, watch, and interact around video. Last year, he and team spun-off Twitch.tv, a gaming-focused version of the video streaming site, and the fast-growing Socialcam, which is...
Vimeo Offers Tips-Based Monetization For Videos, Creator-Controlled Pay Walls Coming Soon
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Vimeo is a great site that’s done a lot for independent online video creation and publishing, but one thing that’s been missing from its platform is a way for creators to make money directly from their movies. The video network now offers that, thanks to a new Tip Jar feature...
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