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| Oct 14, 2013 | Cory Booker's Waywire sold to video startup Magnify | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Waywire, the crowdsourced video curation site fro... |
| Jun 21, 2013 | Video startup Magnify closes $1M from TED’s Chris Anderson, former Facebooker Chris Kelly, & others (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Video discovery and curation startup Magnify clos... |
| Jun 21, 2013 | Funding Daily: Food is for the weak | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The most interesting funding news today was that ... |
| Jun 21, 2013 | Funding Daily: Food is for the weak | The most interesting funding news today was that Soylent racked up over $750,000 for its food replacement product. Now I am all for nutrition and helping to cure hunger, but I just can’t imagine that life is worth living without the joys of... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Magnify.net Opens Funding | Magnify.net, a NYC-based provider of a video curation, publishing, and monetization platform, has opened a round of funding.
The investment is being led by Chris Kelly, the former General Counsel of Facebook.
Led by Steven Rosenbaum, CEO, C... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | [Exclusive] Video curation platform Magnify gets backing from former Facebooker Chris Kelly | We’re in the age of billions of video clips on YouTube and other sites, and it’s overwhelming.
Want to find a video of the protests in Syria? There were more than 350,000 uploaded last year to YouTube alone. How do you find the best one?
Th... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | [Exclusive] Video curation platform Magnify gets backing from former Facebooker Chris Kelly | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We’re in the age of billions of video clips on Yo... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Magnify Teams Up With AOL To Bring Curated, Premium Video Content To Publishers | Mike Arrington first wrote about Magnify.net when it launched back in 2007, because, back then, it was taking a different approach to video than the rest. Rather than becoming a hub for the aggregation of user-generated video, Magnify gave ... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Kindle Fire Code-Base Baffles Developers: Android, KF8, Or Both? | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Steve Rosnebaum is CEO of Magnify.
With two weeks to go before Amazon ships its highly anticipated Kindle Fire to the first 500,000 pre-order customers, folks in the developer community are finding it hard t... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Video Curation Is Growing Up, ShortForm Hits One Million Visitors | With 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the Google-owned video behemoth would be the second largest search engine were it standalone site. Web video has become a powerful medium. But, I think it’s also fair to say that this... |
| Jul 6, 2010 | Magnify Brokers Deals To Run Ads Inside Embedded Videos | From an audience perspective, the ability to embed videos on other sites is what expands their viewership and makes them go viral. But from an advertising perspective, most of that video is the Web equivalent of dead air. “Nobody sells embe... |
| Jun 22, 2010 | At Early Stage East: Delivering real value with social media | This post originally ran on Philly VC Deal Lawyer a blog about Philly startups by Christopher McDemus. It is re-purposed here with permission, as part of a partnership.
I recently attended the Early Stage East venture conference. Amongst al... |
| May 28, 2010 | A New Look For AVC | Nathan and I started thinking about a new design for AVC a few months ago and I blogged about it. We got a ton of great comments from all of you which we read through carefully. We also used a heatmap to determine where all of you actually ... |
| Mar 12, 2010 | AOL's Big SXSW Bet On Seed and "Bionic Journalism" | Editor’s Note: This guest post was written and reported by Steven Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net.
Today, the world of music, film, and the internet converges on Austin, Texas for what is fast becoming one of the key places to launch new ... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | Broadcast your own Christmas special via iPhone (just not live) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The holidays are an ideal time to use your iPhone... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | Broadcast your own Christmas special via iPhone (just not live) | The holidays are an ideal time to use your iPhone’s video capability to catch your nephew freaking out over a Wolverine Electronic Battle Claw — or maybe some bad behavior at the office Christmas party. But don’t expect to live stream any o... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | The New USV.com Launches In Beta | Taking a cue from the advice we give to companies all the time, we've just launched the new USV.com in beta form last night. It still has a few kinks to get out, but it is mostly there.
When Brad and I first thought about our firm's website... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Magnify.net Expands Mobile Strategy With iPhone App | Social video hosting and sharing site Magnify.net is launching an iPhone app to let users submit videos to a Magnify video channel from their 3GS. iPhone users can shoot, upload, store, and share their personal videos on any Magnify-hosted ... |
| Sep 8, 2009 | Mediaite Partners With Magnify.Net To Power Video Platform | Magnify.net has steadily grown its white label video platform in a highly competitive environment. Over the past year, Magnify has accumulated over 50 big name clients which are using Magnify’s video technology, including Zappos, New York M... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | What'll happen to the video platforms? | Online video services proliferated like rabbits in the last few years, but can the market keep up?
Silicon Valley has a way of getting ahead of itself. The bust in 2000 didn’t happen because the internet was overhyped—it is, as promised, tr... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Quick.tv launches out of private beta with clickable video | Earlier this month Joost set down its arms in the race to beat YouTube, Hulu and others to become the predominant consumer online video giant. It fixed its sights instead on providing white label video platforms for companies. However, ther... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Joost, Meet The Competition. Magnify.Net Sees Growth In White Label Video Platform | With the news surrounding the implosion of Joost and the startup’s move towards providing white label video platforms for companies, we thought it would be a good idea to check in with one of Joost’s new competitors. As we wrote in our post... |
| Apr 14, 2009 | HD Cloud Puts Video Formatting In The Cloud | Producing and editing compelling video is only half the work involved in publishing video content to the web. Once finalized, video needs to be formatted and converted to the proper version, or transcoded, to adapt content to the proper for... |
| Mar 11, 2009 | Zappos and Magnify Join Forces to Combine The Thrill Of Retail Therapy With Web 2.0 Video | Online footware and apparel retailer Zappos.com is partnering with video hosting and sharing platform Magnify.net to launch a “BoxBreak” campaign to engage the retailer’s customers into building a video community around Zappos. BoxBreak wil... |
| Dec 18, 2008 | WorldTV Bids To Aggregate All Web Video And Put It On Your TV | In the wake of YouTube fully embracing HD video, online video aggregator WorldTV hopes to take advantage by turning all embedded video into a linear, TV-like experience. Unlike US-based Magnify, which focuses on the PC, WorldTV’s end-game i... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Magnify.net takes $750K for web video hosting | Magnify.net, a New York-based startup that helps regular people add videos to their web sites, snagged $750K in first-round financing to expand its operations. It tacks this total onto the $1 million it raised in February. The service allow... |
| Nov 15, 2008 | Is Obama Ready To Be A Two-Way President? | Where there’s victory, there’s also opportunity…
This Presidential election was profound in its results. Obama won both the Electoral College vote 364 to 163 and the popular vote 53% to 46% with roughly 120,000,000 votes cast. This election... |
| Oct 28, 2008 | The FeedRoom Updates Enterprise Video Platform | Fresh on the heels of being dropped as the premier video platform for The NYTimes.com in favor of Brightcove, The FeedRoom has unveiled the latest iteration of its enterprise video platform.
The release of FeedRoom 4.0 Enterprise Video Plat... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | ffwd: Channel Surfing Comes To The Web… And Your Wii | Channel surfing has a bad rap, at least according to iLike co-founder Patrick Koppula. Koppula says that this time honored tradition of staring at the television and repeatedly hitting a button is actually a highly efficient means of conten... |
| May 14, 2008 | Magnify's New Blogging Plugin Tries to Make Multimedia Simple | Magnify.net has introduced a plugin for Movable Type and WordPress that attempts to minimize the effort required to add multimedia content to a blog. Magnify.net is a video discovery and broadcast platform that provides a hosted framework f... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Create Your Own YouTube, Pray You Can Make Money | “YouTube sold for $1.6 billion. How much will you sell yours for?”
That’s the over-optimistic hook being used by StartYourTube to entice people into setting up branded video sharing sites on its white label platform.
StartYourTube does exac... |
| Mar 19, 2008 | Magnify Wants to Turn Video Channels Into Social Networks. Good Luck. | Does everything need to be a social network? Apparently it does. Magnify.net, a video-hosting and sharing platform that raised $1 million in February, is adding social networking features to its video channels.
Magnify lets Web publishers a... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Video sharing site Magnify.net raises $1 million round | Magnify.net, a video sharing site that lets users collect and share videos from around the web as well as upload their own, has raised $1 million to use for continued growth. Specifically, the company hopes to expand customer acquisition ef... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Magnify.net Raises $1M for Video Discovery, Broadcasting | New York-based Magnify.net has raised $1M in a Series A round involving Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, Rose Tech Ventures, Active Angel Investors, Ogden Capital, Gideon Gartner, and Chris Anderson.
The company is also claiming to have... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Strike this: Video sites you can make money from (or not) | While the strike by Hollywood writers is dragging on long enough to threaten the hallowed Oscars, video-viewing on the web is expanding as fast as ever. As a result, writers, directors and actors are considering splitting from the studios f... |
| Jan 9, 2008 | ClipSyndicate Videos Now On Truveo, Bebo, Magnify, and Lingospot | Video clips from local TV news affiliates are making their way onto the Web through a service called ClipSyndicate that’s been in beta for more than a year. The service, which is owned by New York City startup Critical Media, has more than ... |
| Dec 19, 2007 | Magnify.net Releases Video Blogging Platform, Seesmic Competitor? | Magnify.net, hitherto a platform intended primarily for collecting and sharing videos found around the web, is broadening its focus with the release of a service that lets you record video clips directly into the browser using a webcam.
Whi... |
| Dec 13, 2007 | Magnify.net And ClipSyndicate Partner For Embedded Content | Video discovery and broadcast service Magnify.net has partnered with ClipSyndicate to give users the ability to search and embed content from a variety of mainstream media sites.
Magnify.net users will have access to content from providers ... |
| Nov 7, 2007 | Video Series nextNYers to Interview New York Startups | A new weekly web series called nextNYers will be filming five-minute-long interviews with tech startups based in New York City. The company behind the production of nextNYers, For Your Imagination, aims to give better exposure to local tech... |
| Aug 28, 2007 | Magnify to help publishers make money from niche videos | There are too many video sharing sites. There’s clearly a bubble in this sector, and we’re tired of writing about me-too companies.
That said, Magnify, is notable for its different take: It lets web publishers create video-sharing sites tha... |
| Apr 8, 2007 | Internet Video Hyperaggregation | About a week ago, the hot topic online was NBC Universal and News Corp launching a joint-venture to provide “the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled.” The joint-venture is still months away from being finalized – and ... |
| Mar 31, 2007 | Magnify.net Different Than The Rest Of The Video Crowd | Magnify.net is a new video startup that is different from the rest of the crowd. Unlike YouTube and dozens of others, it isn’t focused on building a portal around user-uploaded videos. Instead, they are allowing website publishers to create... |
| Aug 16, 2006 | Startups Given The Floor At Digital Hollywood | I was Digital Hollywood today rubbing elbows with content creators and distributors in San Jose. On the agenda were several entrepreneurial forums where local startups pitched their companies to an audience of competitors, peers and venture... |