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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 prayag »

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…

>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).

That's just bull-shit. Just because they covered your competitor doesn't mean you get to talk shit about the coverage.

In addition, I just don't get why are you getting so excited about this. You know who is eating your lunch, not VidYard, it's YouTube and the Sales executive who don't know any better than uploading video on YouTube. You have a common enemy called ignorance. Instead of getting riled up about competition may be you guys should work together.

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

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Post by seliopou »

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!

Wistia customer here (correct url: http://wistia.com). I haven't used any of the other products listed here (it's the first time I've heard of any of them), but I will say that Wistia has a nice clean player, awesome web app, and amazing customer service.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

metachris wrote: post #29

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 a…

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

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Post by Gaussian »

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…

>What I don't get is why TechCrunch seems to give YC companies more coverage than 500 Startups companies.

How can you possibly not get that? YC is a bigger deal, so it gets more coverage. There's little nuance to the matter. If 500 Startups rattles off the hits and builds a pedigree similar to YC, it will receive commensurate coverage. I'm not saying other startups don't deserve coverage. I'm saying that the Valley and the tech crowd (TC's audience, by and large) are demonstrably interested in what comes out of YC -- so why wouldn't TC cover it well?

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

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Post by shad0wfax »

michaelrlitt wrote: post #11
ig1 wrote: post #6

Pretty 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 ?

Our focus is on consolidating your web video. Many companies leverage YouTube, that makes sense. We help them kill the outbound link created by the YouTube embed on their site. You can host with us or YouTube and your video players will all look the same.

It is not very clear from your website so have a few questions: - do you transcode on your servers to support different devices?

- it appears from the techcrunch article your PC based players are using RTMP. which essentially is a flash based solution(?). Is there a html5 based solution as well?

- Is there support for livestreaming or is this just progressive download?

- How are you different from these services: Brightcove/Ooyala/Panvidea/etc...

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

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Post by genieyclo »

prayag wrote: post #41
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…

>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). That's just bull-shit. Just because they covered your competitor doesn't mean you get to talk shit about the coverage. In addition, I just don't get why are you getting so excited about this. You know who is eating your lunch, no…

?

iamelgringo is a customer of VidCaster, not a competitor of Vidyard.

I also don't understand your ignorance comment. Vidcaster and Vidyard are two competing companies.

iamelgringo brings up a salient point I think, YC companies get a disproportionate amount of coverage on TC as compared to other startups.

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

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Post by Terretta »

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: http://www.sproutvideo.com/

And Vively: http://www.vive.ly/

EDIT: Sorry, I noticed SproutVideo founder's list was missing SproutVideo; I failed to notice it was in the grandparent.

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

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Post by OmarIsmail »

As a fellow entrepreneur from sunny Waterloo, Ontario I've had the pleasure of interacting with michaelrlitt and what I can say is that these guys are going to be big. There's obviously a lot of competition in this space and everybody has good technology under their belt. But what sets these guys apart is that they really get sales and marketing and that's exactly the service they're providing. I have no doubt these guys are going to crush it.

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

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Post by olivercameron »

genieyclo wrote: post #46
prayag wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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). That's just bull-shit. Just because they covered your competitor doesn't mean you get to talk shit about the coverage. In addition, I just don't get why are you getting so excited about this. You know who is eating your lunch, no…

? iamelgringo is a customer of VidCaster, not a competitor of Vidyard. I also don't understand your ignorance comment. Vidcaster and Vidyard are two competing companies. iamelgringo brings up a salient point I think, YC companies get a disproportionate amount of coverage on TC as compared to other startups.

Customer of VidCaster? I don't think so, check his previous comments:

"I happen to know Kieran Farr quite well. http://www.vidcaster.com/ was one of the first companies in our Co-op incubator. And, I have no doubt, that Kieran is going to be far richer than some reporter who still makes his living writing for a company that think that selling yesterday's news written on pieces of dead tree is a viable business model."

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

#50

Post by ig1 »

prayag wrote: post #41
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…

>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). That's just bull-shit. Just because they covered your competitor doesn't mean you get to talk shit about the coverage. In addition, I just don't get why are you getting so excited about this. You know who is eating your lunch, no…

Although the OP didn't phrase it in perhaps the most tactful way, there is a serious issue of undisclosed conflict of interest going on here. Techcrunch's own policy (I suspect general AOL editorial policy as well) requires full disclosure, and it's simply not happening here.
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