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Re: SellStage (YC S11) Wants To Help You Better Showcase Your Products

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Post by dnprock » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 11:20 PM UTC

tomsaffell wrote: post #2

Founders here. Any questions?

What does SellStage offer that will make video of product shine? I'm curious what makes you different from a lot of video hosting services out there. They can do it in one line of js too.

Re: SellStage (YC S11) Wants To Help You Better Showcase Your Products

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Post by its4tom » Sat, Sep 17, 2011, 12:21 AM UTC

dnprock wrote: post #11

tomsaffell wrote: post #2

Founders here. Any questions?

What does SellStage offer that will make video of product shine? I'm curious what makes you different from a lot of video hosting services out there. They can do it in one line of js too.

Yes, retailers need more than just hosting. They need help creating the videos (we offer templates, editing tools and professional services). They need the video to be inserted without breaking page layout (we make it easy to add play buttons that expand and play the video in a lightbox). They need video a/b testing (ways to re-edit the video based on analytics). Also Video SEO is technical for product pages, and not done well. We help with that too.

Re: SellStage (YC S11) Wants To Help You Better Showcase Your Products

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Post by rdl » Sat, Sep 17, 2011, 1:53 AM UTC

This is an awesome company -- video is still hard to do, but really compelling when buying products.

Re: SellStage (YC S11) Wants To Help You Better Showcase Your Products

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Post by dnprock » Sat, Sep 17, 2011, 3:54 AM UTC

its4tom wrote: post #12

dnprock wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does SellStage offer that will make video of product shine? I'm curious what makes you different from a lot of video hosting services out there. They can do it in one line of js too.

Yes, retailers need more than just hosting. They need help creating the videos (we offer templates, editing tools and professional services). They need the video to be inserted without breaking page layout (we make it easy to add play buttons that expand and play the video in a lightbox). They need video a/b testing (ways to re-edit the video based on analytics). Also Video SEO is technical for product pages, and not…

Interesting strategies. I notice non-buffer seek isn't working. You guys might want to take a look at pseudostreaming plugin for flowplayer http://h264.code-shop.com/trac.