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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 iamelgringo »

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…

Please delete the above comment, or failing that..

Downvote my comment to get it to the bottom of the page.

Sorry about the above, if it came off as dickish, or as trying to steal the thunder from VidYard. That's my bad.

I'm still seething from this crap article in the NYT yesterday, and feeling full of piss and vinegar about the whole thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2907570

I'm my pissy attitude bled over into my comment about TechCrunch and YC. Poor form. I apologize.

This is VidYard's chance to shine. I have no right to post links to another startup.

Apologies...

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

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Post by Shenglong »

Your pricing says $40 per 100 GB, up to 3 TB, but your Grande plan is only $20, which also includes 100GB. You also make the claim that for most businesses, that 100GB is enough bandwidth - which I assume means businesses that go over probably do so on account of multiple videos.

If one video of mine in particular was running over-bandwidth, wouldn't it make more sense for me to buy an additional plan at half the price, rather than pay the bandwidth fee? I know it's potentially inconvenient to do so, but it makes the pricing a little silly. I could also host the same video multiple times, and have a rand() select between them, or select the ones that have been selected the least in order to redistribute bandwidth.

It's kind of like on some McDonald's menus, where an Apple Pie is $0.69, or you can buy 2 for $1.39.

Edit: I'm going to email your sales with the FYI.

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

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Post by mdasen »

michaelrlitt wrote: post #66
mdasen wrote: post #58

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…

Great questions re: price and margins. The unlimited videos is achievable both through the scale with the number of videos we host; along with scaling of the file-size post-encoding. 2) Captions are currently not supported - would you be looking for transcriptions on the videos, or time-coded captions based on the point in the video? We're working on some cool features for time-coded commenting that probably covers w…

So, we actually have time-coded captions for some of our library. It's more just a place to upload the caption file and have it served by the player. Although, now that you mention it I'm not personally thrilled with the service we use so more power to you! And it's nice to know that 3 and 4 are on your radar for the future. I tend to trust YC backed companies not to do the evil vendor lock-in type things, but it can be a hard sell to my boss who has gotten burned many times by vendors that promise the world, we put our content in, deliver poorly, and then we're stuck.

Good Luck!

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

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Post by wmboy »

Looks like a great easy-to-use service, but not one that I expect hackers would use. Why wouldn't you just host your video on Amazon S3 and play them back on your website using something like JW FLV Player?

That solution would cost about 10-20 cents a month (unless you've got heaps of traffic, in which case you're hopefully making heaps of sales anyway...).

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

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Post by rdl »

I'm always amazed at people who embed YouTube videos on corporate websites, after agonizing about fonts, colors, etc. to get pixel perfect design everywhere else.

At the very least, if you're going to embed youtube, turn off comments on the video :)

Vidyard looks like a great solution for a lot of people.

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

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Post by JoshTriplett »

michaelrlitt wrote: post #57
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.

The usual solutions of Bronze/Silver/Gold work rather well for that and have the advantage of self-evident meanings and widespread usage. If you want something more amusing, you might try a movie or video metaphor.

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

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Post by prayag »

davemc500hats wrote: post #56
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…

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 no…

Copy pasted from below: "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."

Now this is just a mean comment.

Nothing against 500 start-ups. Personally I don't think either YC or any company they fund considers 500start-ups as a competitor. There are tons of incubators in Silicon Valley.

The spirit in which the comment was made was just mean, in a manner that was directly attacking the company for being a competitor to their company(or his friend's company, or however it works).

No comments about Techcrunch's conflict of interest. I am not in the know-how of how the investment tree looks like.

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