Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses • Hacker News Board

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by bretthopper » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:33 PM UTC

SproutVideo (http://www.sproutvideo.com) is already well established and probably their closest competitor as opposed to Vimeo PRO.

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

jpdoctor wrote: post #18

An entire company built around an incremental change to youtube/vimeo/100 other video sites?! Really?

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Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by iamelgringo » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

http://VidCaster.com has been building branded pages for companies for well over a year. We've been using them for http://hackersandfounders.tv for months, and we've been thrilled.

VidCaster's also more than just a wrapper around the YouTube API.

They let you import the videos that are already on YouTube and Vimeo, and move them over to VidCaster's streaming service. Crazy good service. Team has been working with online video for years.

Also, VidCaster just demoed at 500 Startups last week and already has paying clients like Microsoft, ZenDesk AirBnb, Twilio, etc...

What I don't get is why TechCrunch seems to give YC companies more coverage than 500 Startups companies. I suppose it's nice to have Arrington as the LP of one of your investors (SV Angel).

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by cal5k » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

jpdoctor wrote: post #18

An entire company built around an incremental change to youtube/vimeo/100 other video sites?! Really?

An entire company built around yet another version of Friendster/MySpace/Orkut?

Facebook will never pan out.

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by michaelrlitt » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:35 PM UTC

philipkimmey wrote: post #8

This 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.

We funnel all of our encoding through ZenCoder (it's an awesome service). Our focus is on the simplicity of putting video online.

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by podman » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:36 PM UTC

bretthopper wrote: post #21

SproutVideo ( http://www.sproutvideo.com ) is already well established and probably their closest competitor as opposed to Vimeo PRO.

Hi, founder of SproutVideo here!

There are a ton of players in this space. Here are some others:

Edit: I'd also like to congratulate the founders of VidYard on their product. It looks great. Good luck you guys!

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by matdwyer » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:36 PM UTC

jeffreymcmanus wrote: post #12

matdwyer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

Almost anytime you see a product and your reaction is "I could do that myself slightly more cheaply," it means that that product isn't intended for your use.

Touche. I say that a lot :-) But there are things I could easily do for cheaper that I still happily pay for - example freshbooks & formstack

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by genieyclo » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:37 PM UTC

bretthopper wrote: post #21

SproutVideo ( http://www.sproutvideo.com ) is already well established and probably their closest competitor as opposed to Vimeo PRO.

I've heard pretty great things about SproutVideo, I've also tried VidCaster with success in the past as well.

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by metachris » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:43 PM UTC

I've just seen the pool-party video which appears after clicking on any of the pictures on the about page (https://secure.vidyard.com/about_us). It's weird, and the background music reminds me of erotic movies. I understand that you want to come across as young and dynamic, but I'm not sure this is bringing the message across for your target audience.

Edit: Downvoters, please explain. I didn't mean to insult, but am offering honest feedback on a perceived weak spot - one which I fear could impair the founders intention to make the right impression on their target audience.

Re: Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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Post by awfycooper » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 6:45 PM UTC

iamelgringo wrote: post #23

http://VidCaster.com has been building branded pages for companies for well over a year. We've been using them for http://hackersandfounders.tv for months, and we've been thrilled. VidCaster's also more than just a wrapper around the YouTube API. They let you import the videos that are already on YouTube and Vimeo, and move them over to VidCaster's streaming service. Crazy good service. Team has been working with onl…

Not cool man, really not cool. Hi-jacking is a lacking-services way of advertising.