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Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

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

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Post by olivercameron »

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…

This trend of other companies trying to hijack other companies launches is really disappointing, especially when said company is in your incubator. Why not submit something for Vidcaster separately?

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

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Post by cwhepburn »

podman wrote: post #26
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: http://vzaar.com http://viddler.com http://fliqz.com http://wistia.com http://dovie.tv Edit: I'd also like to congratulate the founders of VidYard on their product. It looks great. Good luck you guys!

SproutVideo's pricing model seems a little mis-aligned in the space with Vidyard and Vimeo Pro. Half the bandwidth for double the price? If you know anything about bandwidth, $1/GB seems excessive.

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

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Post by scotje »

Personally, I find the "Pricing" line of the comparison chart to be misleading. For $199 (a year) you get 50GB of space and 250k views with Vimeo Pro. Under the Free Viyard plan you get 1 video and 101GB of bandwidth. Also, the "Unbranded Player" line of the comparison is checked for Vidyard even though the pricing page says the Free plan uses a branded player.

Maybe just get rid of that pricing line in the comparison?

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

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Post by jammur »

jpdoctor wrote: post #18

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

Depends what the incremental change is. If the change results in increased conversion rates, then it sounds like a legitimate business to me.

Most businesses would be more than willing to pay for a small change if it results in them making more money.

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

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Post by jpdoctor »

cal5k wrote: post #24
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.

Good point. Anyone want to start an automobile company?

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

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Post by cal5k »

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…

Why the hate-on for Vidyard? It was founded a bunch of smart young guys from Waterloo with a passion for building a good product... I, for one, think it's great that they got a writeup in TC.

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

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Post by michaelrlitt »

scotje wrote: post #33

Personally, I find the "Pricing" line of the comparison chart to be misleading. For $199 (a year) you get 50GB of space and 250k views with Vimeo Pro. Under the Free Viyard plan you get 1 video and 101GB of bandwidth. Also, the "Unbranded Player" line of the comparison is checked for Vidyard even though the pricing page says the Free plan uses a branded player. Maybe just get rid of that pricing line in the compariso…

Will do! Thanks for the positive feedback.

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

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Post by podman »

cwhepburn wrote: post #32
podman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, founder of SproutVideo here! There are a ton of players in this space. Here are some others: http://vzaar.com http://viddler.com http://fliqz.com http://wistia.com http://dovie.tv Edit: I'd also like to congratulate the founders of VidYard on their product. It looks great. Good luck you guys!

SproutVideo's pricing model seems a little mis-aligned in the space with Vidyard and Vimeo Pro. Half the bandwidth for double the price? If you know anything about bandwidth, $1/GB seems excessive.

VidYard and Vimeo Pro are both incredibly new offerings. If you look at just about every single established player you'll see that they have very similar pricing models to SproutVideo. VidYard and Vimeo Pro's pricing models seem to be based on the assumption that the majority of their users will not use that much bandwidth.
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