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

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Post by ryanjmo »

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. Not using them for your embedded videos (and getting the extra views on your site that will launch you higher in search) could be a mistake for many businesses.

If you want to prevent click throughs, after the video starts to play, just put up an invisible div over the video, but above the controls, so the user can't click through, but can still controle the video.

Once the video ends, pop up whatever you want if you don't want their recommended videos to show.

Best of both worlds.

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

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Post by genieyclo »

olivercameron wrote: post #49
genieyclo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

? 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.…

Pardon me, I inferred from the hackersandfounders.tv site that uses VidCaster was an independent venture and not by a co-op incubator or anything.

The main point I have against this article are that

1) It's poor journalism in that little research into competitors was done. Leena Rao doesn't seem to be aware of the many competitors who have been in this space for years (like VidCaster) but only a few like Ooyala and Brightcove (which TechCrunch uses iirc).

2) Lack of disclosure as to the relationship between TechCrunch and YC startups is a problem. There's an inherent bias without full disclosure.

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

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Post by michaelrlitt »

ryanjmo wrote: post #51

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. Not using them for your embedded videos (and getting the extra views on your site that will launch you higher in search) could be a mistake for many businesses. If you want to prevent click throughs, after the video starts to play, just put up an invisible div over the video, but above the controls, so the user can't click through, but can still controle the v…

That's a good solution for devs.

Many of our customers aren't technical and like having a customized player + instant detailed analytics + landing page creation + chaptering, etc.

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

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Post by chedigitz »

Looks like a Compelling offering! Congrats on the techcrunch coverage.

A key selling point in platform selection is YouTube's massive traffic, while tons of other platforms may win based on the feature set, at the end of the day, the views are on YouTube.

Vidyard seems to be playing the youtube traffic angle well by allowing the videos to remain on YouTube while wrapping the YT API + chrome less layer.

GOOD WORK by you! I'll be testing out that 100GB cap soon.

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

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Post by prayag »

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.

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

Ignorance on the part of Sales executives who upload their videos on youtube.

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

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Post by davemc500hats »

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…

maybe i'm mistaken, but i think the comment was made by Jonathan Nelson, who runs the Hackers & Founders meetup, not by anyone at Vidcaster (a 500 company).

also to clarify: 500 Startup is an investor in many YC companies (close to 20 at current count), so altho we may occasionally compete at the incubator level we have tremendous respect for PG & team, as well as their companies, and we would go out of our way to not talk shit about them, as well as taking issue with people who do.

kisses,

dmc

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

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Post by michaelrlitt »

jordanroher wrote: post #13

What was behind the decision to use Starbucks' size names for your plans? I really like the site and the prices are reasonable, but the thought of signing up for a "Venti" video hosting service doesn't sound appealing to me.

Good feedback. We needed some way to refer to the plans on calls, this was an easy solution.

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

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Post by mdasen »

I have a few questions that the Vidyard site doesn't seem to address (that I'd need answers to in order to sell it to my boss).

1) The "Venti" plan says "unlimited videos". Does that mean that there's no storage quota? If there is no storage quota, how would you make money off of a large customer? Like, we have a decently sizable video library (about 250GB and it grows by about 25GB each year) and it isn't that high trafficked, but I can see a video library like our's becoming a burden on your service.

2) Do you support captions for the videos?

3) Is there any way to export our data out of the system?

4) Is there any API in case we want/need some further customization in front of it?

Your service looks excellent, but what makes me so hesitant is that it seems potentially low-to-no-margin and my boss would want to know that we aren't getting into a service that's destined to raise prices or cut us off.

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

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Post by michaelrlitt »

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…

Thanks for the insight - we'll definitely change it, we just thought it was something fun for launch :)

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

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Post by kfarr »

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…

Hi all, I'm Kieran, one of the founders of VidCaster here. iamelgringo is a passionate fan of our service but does not speak for our company.

VidYard's product looks simple and solid. I am happy to see continued validation of the business video market and congrats to the team for addressing what we agree is a common and growing pain -- the difficulty for businesses to leverage video to drive sales and increase the efficiency of their operations.

Welcome Vidyard and congrats on the launch of a solid product. Let's grab drinks soon, we're still here in Mountain View for another few weeks before 500 HQ kicks us out :)

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