A few years ago, we published a list of companies who ruled the Internet each year, from 1994-2007. Then, we forgot to update it for 2008-2010. On this week’s HipMojo show, we run down the list and picked a company for 2008, 2009, and 2010… and then open it up for you to suggest companies for 2011. Vote for the company of the Year below in the Comments, feel free to vote for the company you work for, but explain WHY, what was the one thing or many things that made the company stand out from the noise? continue reading...
Tech Crunch’s Erick Schonfeld is commenting on Daniel Lyons’ Newsweek piece, which laments the state of Silicon Valley: continue reading...
Our friends at Blip.tv raised some money from Bain Capital. In case the name sounds familiar, that is the company that Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney ran for years. This is the second institutional round for Blip.tv, who Tech Crunch notes is keeping its cards to its chest. Smart move. A lot of companies spend more time issuing press releases touting how much capital they’ve raised, all the while neglecting their clients and partners. From our experience working with Blip.tv (disclosure: we integrated their player in our CMS when we relaunched the site in August 2007), they are the polar opposite of that.
In the summer of 2007, we had to make a call between: continue reading...
If you are a regular reader of this blog (thanks, by the way), you might have noticed the lack of 7, 1,000-word blog entries of late per day… We’ve been busy.
Anyway, a few interesting tidbits: continue reading...
Almost exactly a year ago, Mojo Supreme and WatchMojo.com were looking at relaunching on a new platform.
After a lot of soul searching and due diligence, we opted to build the content management system using Typo3, a powerful open-source system. We then considered many options for the video player. We looked at Brightcove, Maven and other such closed options… but ultimately we were torn between Video Egg and Blip.tv’s players. continue reading...
Daily Motion is escalating the battle for #3 in their space (after YouTube and MySpace TV).
Online video advertising is growing, quickly. continue reading...
Video Egg is one of the many companies that has raised oodles of money: by last count, it had closed a Series D round raising money from WPP. I had looked into Video Egg’s platform last year and balked on them for the simple reason that they were not set up to accept 16×9 video content. I am sure they do now, but it was too late for me, as we were relaunching on August 19 2007 and we publish in 16×9 (instead of 4×3).
Anyway, instead of focusing on that - and a plethora of other things that content producers wanted - Video Egg took a few bizarre turns, doubling up on user-generated content (Video Egg powers a lot of social networking sites that run video content that most advertisers are not interested in) and then diving deep down into social media by billing itself as a Facebook ad network. continue reading...
The next panel sought to answer the question: Is there money in Long Tail Video?” or mainly: how do you make money. The panel was moderated by Jeremy Liew, from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
“There’s 150 people in this room who believe there is money in video, so let’s ask how do you make it,” starts Liew. continue reading...
Paid Content reports that video ad network Bright Roll has raised $5M in Series B. I interviewed the firm’s CEO Tod Sacerdoti some time ago, to read the post, click here.
This comes on the heels of YuMe’s $9M round this week, which in turn came on the heels of the massive Scanscout investment by Time Warner Investments… which itself was a knee-jerk reaction to Video Egg’s Series D round (nope, not a typo, that is D as in dude?). See my interview with Video Egg’s CEO Matt Sanchez here. continue reading...
WPP joined a growing rank of players opposed to DCLK/GOOG’s merger plans. Maybe what they have to say makes sense, but it should be noted, WPP invested in Video Egg. Video Egg claims to have invented - by way of a patent - the video ad overlay Google’s YouTube unit will now be launching with content producers (like WatchMojo.com).
Is that a coincidence. Actually… probably, but one worth noting nonetheless. continue reading...
