How do you guys plan to monetize Coub? If it's through ads I can see a problem since the videos are very short.
Coub (YC S16) makes it easy to create short, looped videos
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#12Yay! Russians are coming... to YC :D
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#13The monthly viewership figures (50m viewers, 500m views) are interesting, I've never heard of Coub before. Are there places we might have seen a Coub and not realised it, do you have integrations with other services, or are all your views driven through your website (from social media?)? Thanks!
Coub is very popular in Eastern Europe, but it is not well known in US yet. We are not locking content on our platform, our goal is to deliver our content in every social network, messengers, media. We already work great in FB, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Telegram, Kik and lot more. A lot of media and news sites use coubs as a quote or animated illustrations. And we are heavily focused on more integrations to make coubs work everywhere.
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#14How do you guys plan to monetize Coub? If it's through ads I can see a problem since the videos are very short.
Our users produce tons of great viral content. And while it is short, it is much easier to consume and become viral. So it could be a perfect marketing tool for brands. We have already made some experiments with monetization. We've made special projects with brands to involve our users to create viral coubs from their content, like this one we've made with Disney and Star Wars: http://coub.com/theforceawakens
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#15...So, webms?