Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses
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Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses
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#2Using vidyard on my site and Tumblr blog. Best part is seeing the viewing analytics.
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#3Using vidyard on my site and Tumblr blog. Best part is seeing the viewing analytics.
Thanks (I'm a founder). We're super glad you're getting value!
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#4We're using them as well. We like the ability to queue up videos in the player. Has helped conversions. We also found out that the average attention span was just about 20 seconds on a 90 second vid, so we cut it down to 15 seconds. Cool stuff.
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#5Vimeo recently released Vimeo Pro (http://vimeo.com/pro) which seems to be addressing a similar market.
Is Vidyard competing with Vimeo or are you addressing a different need?
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#6Pretty poor journalism, the article is written as if there were no alternatives to youtube for hosting. There are a couple of dozen companies in the video hosting/serving space from Brightcove to Viddler. Wikipedia even has a "List of video hosting services" page.
What makes this company different ?
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#7Vimeo recently released Vimeo Pro ( http://vimeo.com/pro ) which seems to be addressing a similar market. Is Vidyard competing with Vimeo or are you addressing a different need?
It's directly competitive. We've bundled in more features (chaptering, real-time analytics, player customization, etc.) that should make it much more compelling. We're also an easy implementation of YouTube Chromeless + analytics.
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#8This is why I love Hacker News - although there are other options out there, their feature set (and pricing) pretty much perfectly describes what I was looking for.
I don't know whether this will be the eventual solution vs. ZenCoder (or something similar) and S3, but this certainly seems like a potential option.
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#9This is why I love Hacker News - although there are other options out there, their feature set (and pricing) pretty much perfectly describes what I was looking for. I don't know whether this will be the eventual solution vs. ZenCoder (or something similar) and S3, but this certainly seems like a potential option.
Maybe I'm just cheap, but I don't see the pricing as very attractive relative to the free options available.
I'm saying that from a relatively small business that is looking to do more video perspective. I'm small enough to be able to host this myself with my own player and not have problems, and not large enough to see the value in $20 or $50 a month. I could see doing the free trial, but 1 video makes it not seem as attractive to me.
If I were you I'd consider doing the trial for a certain number of views instead of the 1 video - that way your true functionality grows with the views (and value) coming to the business. If it were 5000 views a month or something then I get to use the cue up features, see the analytics, etc, but when I'm doing xxxx number of views a month on the videos then I'm more likely to drop the money and convert to a paid plan.
Anyway, just my opinion, but I doubt my monthly small business video hosting will ever be nearing the cost of my invoicing system...
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#10Article says they're using RTMP streaming. Doesn't that mean it won't work on iPhone/iPad because there's no Flash there?