| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.09.2010 | VideoEgg Will Acquire Six Apart And Rename Itself SAY Media | Advertising network VideoEgg will acquire blogging and advertising network Six Apart, and the combined entity will be renamed Say Media. The companies will officially announce the transaction tomorrow. VideoEgg CEO Matt Sanchez will run the... |
| 21.09.2010 | VideoEgg, Six Apart form online advertising play Say Media | Life never turns out quite the way you planned. Nor do startups. Two San Francisco-based companies, VideoEgg and Six Apart, are formally announcing tomorrow that they’re forming a new company, Say Media, built around online advertising — a ... |
| 03.08.2010 | eMusic gets new CEO, plans redesigned site and streaming music service | Subscription-based music service eMusic has a new CEO in Adam Klein, as well as plans to revamp its website by the end of the year and launch an ambitious-sounding streaming music service, reports All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka.
Klein’s r... |
| 03.08.2010 | eMusic gets new CEO, plans redesigned site and streaming music service | 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!
Subscription-based music service eMusic has a new... |
| 18.03.2010 | Four ways to make money “selling” free mobile apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The mobile app market is heating up, both for paid and free apps. And we’re seeing numerous app developers and content publishers jumpi... |
| 18.03.2010 | Four ways to make money “selling” free mobile apps | The mobile app market is heating up, both for paid and free apps. And we’re seeing numerous app developers and content publishers jumping into the market every day looking to make money on this opportunity. If you can get consumers to pay f... |
| 10.03.2010 | VideoEgg to Present at iMedia Brand Summit 2010 | Session to Highlight how Brand Lift can be Maximised with Online Advertising
London, March 10, 2010 – VideoEgg president Troy Young will present at the iMedia Brand Summit 2010 on ‘Maximising Brand Lift with Online Advertising.’ The session... |
| 13.01.2010 | VideoEgg Reaches Profitability | Cost-per-Engagement pioneer achieves 100 per cent year-on-year global sales growth thanks to comprehensive brand advertising offering
San Francisco, CA. January 13, 2010 – VideoEgg, the engagement ad network, today announced seven months of... |
| 12.01.2010 | In A Year When Online Ads Slumped, VideoEgg Doubled Revenues To More Than $25 Million | Last year was the first time the online advertising industry saw a slump in revenues (JP Morgan is estimating a 5.2 percent decline, although things looked like they started to stabilize in the third quarter). But for online advertising net... |
| 27.08.2009 | Admob buys mobile ad aggregrator AdWhirl — takes out major threat | updated with comments from Quattro and Mobclix
Admob, a leading mobile advertising service, is acquiring AdWhirl, a service that aggregates ads from mobile ad networks.
In an interview confirming the deal, Admob chief executive Omar Hamoui ... |
| 27.08.2009 | Admob buys mobile ad aggregrator AdWhirl — takes out major threat | 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!
updated with comments from Quattro and Mobclix
Ad... |
| 16.06.2009 | AdWhirl raises $1M for ad platform | One problem iPhone app developers wrestle with is which ad network to sign up with. It can take a couple of weeks to switch ad providers because the app needs to be re-approved by Apple.
AdWhirl is what computer programmers would call a met... |
| 06.05.2009 | VideoEgg Exposes the Value of Online Media | Launches AttentionRank™ to Optimize Brand Advertising for Attention
San Francisco, CA. May 6, 2009 – VideoEgg, a new kind of rich media ad network, today announced AttentionRank™, an innovative ad delivery approach to optimize the placement... |
| 16.04.2009 | VideoEgg Introduces Twig: Industry’s First Performance-Based Ad Unit Built for Blogs | New Ad Stays in View While Users Scroll, Making Content Work Harder for Brand Advertisers
San Francisco, CA. April 16, 2009 - VideoEgg, the rich media ad network for guaranteed engagement, today introduced Twig, a new AdFrames unit designed... |
| 15.04.2009 | Attack of The Frames: VideoEgg Introduces The Twig Ad Bar | Frames are definitely back. More and more Web apps like the Diggbar are using frames to overlay a thin toolbar on top of other Websites, and the practice is causing some controversy because frames are generally frowned upon as messy Web des... |
| 15.04.2009 | VideoEgg’s Twig: An ad toolbar that’s hard to ignore | VideoEgg is offering a new advertising format that will be hard for web users to ignore: A toolbar-style ad that it calls Twig. It runs at the top or bottom of web pages, scrolls with you as you move up and down the page, and expands to sho... |
| 01.04.2009 | How Tough Is It Today Being a VC? 10 Questions for Two Early-Stage Stars | Pity the poor venture capitalist. Times were… well, so cushy. Money was flowing, deals were being done in record time, monetization was something one worried about later, and Silicon Valley was bursting at the seams. The sweet smell of weal... |
| 10.03.2009 | VideoEgg ad network performing well | Online display advertising is getting hit by shrinking ad budgets and ever-increasing inventory — and VideoEgg thinks it has come up with a set of solutions. The company offers an ad network for “rich media” — videos, games, polls and other... |
| 18.11.2008 | VideoEgg Extends Its Ad Network To the iPhone, Disses AdMob | Those free iPhone apps will soon be filled with ads. VideoEgg is the latest ad network to extend its ads to the iPhone. The company is known for its video and social-app ads that entice people to click on them to open up a Flash window fill... |
| 09.07.2008 | VideoEgg Launches New Video Ad Units. Maybe YouTube Should Pay Attention | As YouTube struggles to make money on advertising, according to a story today in the Wall Street Journal, and reportedly may resort to pre-roll ads (which consumers hate, but advertisers love), maybe they should take a look at some of the i... |
| 02.07.2008 | EMI takes legal action against music video-based mashups | The other shoe -- or is it the other egg? -- has dropped on VideoEgg Inc., a company whose mission is to make it easier for advertising to be distributed by giving individuals the incentive to do it instead. Apparently they made it too easy... |
| 27.06.2008 | EMI Music Sues Hi5, VideoEgg and Ten Defendants To Be Named Later | EMI, which is looking less like a music label and more like a lawsuit label, is at it again. This afternoon they filed a lawsuit alleging “massive and blatant” copyright infringement by Hi5, VideoEgg and ten John Doe defendants to be named ... |
| 16.06.2008 | Jivox matches local advertisers and user-generated video, raises $10.7 million | With Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, acknowledging that Google has yet to find a way to make money with YouTube, it’s not clear that video advertising and user-generated content mesh. But Jivox, a San Mateo, California video ad network, would beg... |
| 23.04.2008 | Facebook Platform Faces Rough Road Ahead, Despite Successes | The Facebook developer community is thriving but faces a good deal of uncertainty about its future. That was the general message from a session held at the Web 2.0 Expo today called “The Facebook Platform: Finding Success in the Facebook Ec... |
| 06.03.2008 | Graphing Social Patterns Recap | O’Reilly’s
Graphing Social
Patterns conference, which was held this week in San Diego, brought together key people who are shaping the newly
born social platforms industry; platform providers, app makers, investors,
advertising networks, et... |
| 20.02.2008 | VideoEgg: Rich Media Ads, Pay Only When Users Engage | Videoegg, the one-time video startup that sort of competed with YouTube and sort of competed with BrightCove (very different companies), has basically transitioned itself into a very robust rich media advertising network. In August 2007 the... |
| 14.02.2008 | Greenplum unveils petabyte-scale database | Database software company Greenplum says there’s a simple selling point that sets it apart from the competition: Greenplum databases are the biggest.
That’s particularly true with the recently unveiled Greenplum 3, said Luke Lonergan, a Gre... |
| 13.02.2008 | GumGum Launches New Image Licensing Platform | GumGum launches an ambitious new project today – a new platform and business model for licensing content on the Internet, beginning with images.
Image piracy runs rampant on the Internet, of course. Blogger Perez Hilton was sued for stealin... |
| 21.01.2008 | Advertising Giant WPP On The Prowl For Acquisitions: Spot Runner, VideoEgg Rumored As Potential Targets | Advertising conglomerate WPP is looking to increase its Web advertising revenues through more acquisitions. Last year it purchased 24/7 Real Media for $649 million, and is currently making a run at Nurun, a Montreal-based interactive ad fir... |
| 08.12.2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 3-7 December 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News
This week the Facebook... |
| 06.12.2007 | Meebo partners with VideoEgg to help app developers make money | Meebo, the Silicon Valley company that lets you message across multiple IM services from a single Web site, is taking significant pains to make money from its millions of users.
Last month, it launched a way for outside developers to produc... |
| 29.10.2007 | Simpler Video Ads (for advertisers) With Adap.tv | 2007 has been a milestone year for video advertising with a gamut of companies attacking the opportunity from every which way. Today Adap.tv, a relatively new entrant into the contextual video advertising space, is announcing a new initiati... |
| 17.10.2007 | App-Camp 2007 to Facilitate Discussion about Open Platforms this Saturday in San Francisco | We are sponsoring an event hosted by VideoEgg called App-Camp 2007 that will take place this Saturday in San Francisco.
The event is not a conference but a more casual gathering like BarCamp where attendees will have the opportunity to disc... |
| 15.10.2007 | YuMe, Blinkx latest video ad companies to make splash | With all the video content online, the video advertising market is booming. Investors are still placing bets on new companies, and existing companies are getting more aggressive with ad techniques.
The latest company to raise money is YuMe,... |
| 12.10.2007 | NEW: Chris Thomas | Video: It’s not the next big thing, it’s the big thing Right Now – and getting the video advantage is yours for the taking. Here’s how… Video on the web. Will it help your online sales?
“Never stand in the way of a freight train.” It’s a co... |
| 24.09.2007 | Blip Lands Deal with Rocketboom and Claims Revolution in Video Advertising | New York based video platform Blip.tv announced today that the company will now host and serve all episodes of the long-running variety show video blog Rocketboom. Rocketboom is famous for distributing its content officially on a large numb... |
| 04.09.2007 | Videoegg, a video ad network, raises $15 million | Videoegg, a video advertising network, has raised $15 million from Focus Ventures and returning investors.
The San Francisco company offers Web sites technology to help them publish videos, and ways to run advertising within those videos.
I... |
| 23.08.2007 | Will Google Face Patent Battle Over YouTube's New Ad Format? | Google and YouTube got a ton of press coverage for releasing their new video ad overlay program on Tuesday evening. However, despite some amount of fawning from some tech publications, many people noted that the ads were remarkably similar ... |
| 23.08.2007 | Facebook developing own ad targeting technology | Facebook, the booming social network company, is quietly creating a technology that would let advertisers target Facebook users based on the “massive amounts of information people reveal” about themselves, according to a story in today’s WS... |
| 15.08.2007 | Roundup: Twickr, Yappd, EggNetwork, My iTunes, iMovie, Classmates & more | Here’s the latest action, about 80 percent of it in Silicon Valley:
Introducing Twickr — This is Flickr photos on Twitter, the messaging service that lets you send one-liners to your friends. Web guru Dave Winer came up with it , and Twitte... |
| 13.08.2007 | VideoEgg: Suddenly They're A Facebook Ad Network | VideoEgg has been exceptionally good at thinking ahead in their business and changing strategies when it made sense.
They launched in September 2005 as a way to publish video to the web from mobile and other devices. Soon they were allowing... |
| 14.05.2007 | Adap.tv launches, offering less intrusive video ads | Adap.tv, a San Mateo, Calif. company, launches today with less-intrusive ways of matching advertisements with online video.
Most video advertising dominates your screen: Ads blast you for a few seconds, either before or after a video plays,... |
| 16.04.2007 | WPP acquires stake in VideoEgg | WPP said it has acquired a stake in VideoEgg, a San Francisco company that offers Web sites video services and a way to run advertising within those videos.
See the statement here. The size of the stake WPP received for its $3.5 million inv... |
| 20.02.2007 | VideoEgg Hits 3 Million Uploads | VideoEgg and its content delivery network Akamai Technologies have announced this morning that the two companies have passed 3 million video uploads together. Akami provides the webcam capture and video uploading service for users of some A... |
| 13.02.2007 | Online Video Industry Index | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it’s easy to lose track
of them all. So let’s take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the
major play... |
| 10.11.2006 | 1videoConference: Free, Open Source Web Conferencing for Your Domain | 1videoConference is a free web conferencing tool in alpha stage that’s burning up the charts on Sourceforge. Like the previously profiled DimDim, it’s software you download and install on your server. It’s designed to be folded into your do... |
| 06.11.2006 | Splashcast Aims to Offer A Frictionless Web Media Player | I got an early look last week at a media publishing tool being developed by Portland startup Splashcast and what I saw looked like something that anyone tired of overbranding and limited options in online media is sure to like. The product,... |
| 25.10.2006 | VCs Open Wallets for Eyespot, Mind Candy | It’s been a big day for Web 2.0 funding announcements. This morning we posted on Series A closing at $3 million for GotVoice. Now San Diego based online video editing service Eyespot has announced closure of its own first round of funding. ... |
| 10.10.2006 | Roundup: The valley’s lure, Sequoia out of Google, Office 2.0, Lala & more | YouTube will contribute to valley’s allure — Two years ago, Google’s buzz, even before its IPO, gave entrepreneurs like Tribe’s founder Mark Pincus inspiration to dream up the social networking revolution. YouTube’s grand sale will also ins... |
| 04.10.2006 | Podzinger to listen for ad opportunities | Audio and video search engine Podzinger will launch a new advertising platform for podcasters and online video publishers tomorrow. The first write up was in ClickZ this evening. I think the strategy for video ads could be unpleasantly anno... |
| 02.10.2006 | StashSpace to Take Full-length Online Video Editing to the Masses | Online video storage, editing and management service StashSpace will make a full public launch and media press on Wednesday. Unlike the many services we see focused on short form video, such as Jumpcut (a Yahoo! acquisition) for editing and... |
| 27.09.2006 | VideoEgg raises $12 million, going for bigtime | San Francisco photo editing start-up VideoEgg has raised $12 million from a team of investors led by Maveron, the venture capital firm of Starbucks Chairman Howard Schulz.
The funding, reported in BusinessWeek (worth reading, for the backgr... |
| 20.09.2006 | Roundup: Apple secrets, India hype, Cheney’s visit, VideoEgg, Zillow, | Here is a shotgun of the latest stuff in raging Silicon Valley, leading of course with video:
VideoEgg gets easier — VideoEgg, a site that lets you download software so you can post video on any site, has partnered to make the process easie... |
| 19.09.2006 | VideoEgg bringing video recording to Bebo, Dogster and more | The very cool video capture service VideoEgg is announcing today that they have entered into agreements to provide their easy video creation tool to a wide range of social networking sites including Bebo, Dogster, Tagged, Hi5, Current.tv an... |
| 14.09.2006 | Fliqz raises $1 million…for yet another video site | Updated
Folks, it’s time to stop launching video sites. We have lost count. No human mind can keep track of all the video sites out there, or the tiny nuances of sharing and hosting technology that differentiate them.
We’re wondering if Fli... |
| 08.08.2006 | Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary | A couple of weeks ago Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith... |
| 16.05.2006 | AOL to Release YouTube Clone | Prepare for the launch of AOL UnCut (currently in open beta), a near perfect clone of YouTube. The service is powered by Video Egg (see Josh Kopelman for more).
Videos of up to 5 minutes can be uploaded to the service, and they are then con... |
| 16.05.2006 | AOL Preparing YouTube Rival | Further expanding its repertoire of online services as it moves away from subscription revenues, AOL is beta testing a new video hosting service it calls UnCut. The offering appears strikingly similar to YouTube, which has surged into the m... |
| 02.04.2006 | Motionbox – Best Online Video Sharing So Far | There have been big changes in the online video space since I wrote a comparison post of the companies in the space (Flickrs of Video) last November.
Some things haven’t changed: Flickr still hasn’t released a video product, and YouTube (Te... |
| 21.03.2006 | More Consolidation in Internet TV Space | VideoEgg, a service that allows users to take video from virtually any device, transcode it to Flash and upload it for viewing on websites (see our posts on VideoEgg here) will be announcing the acquisition of Popcast in an hour or so.
This... |
| 21.03.2006 | VideoEgg opens service to most publishers | VideoEgg continues to make strides with its web video publishing service. The company is releasing an integration kit tomorrow that will make it easy for web site owners to add VideoEgg’s video publisher and player into their sites. This wi... |
| 18.01.2006 | VideoEgg, to good reviews, raises cash from August | VideoEgg, a San Francisco start-up that lets users drag-and-drop their videos for easy publishing on their Website, from just about any device, has raised venture capital from Silicon Valley firm August Capital. No surprise here. VideoEgg h... |
| 18.01.2006 | August Capital Bets on VideoEgg | VideoEgg is announcing that it has closed a venture round with August Capital, and David Hornik has joined the board of directors. They are not disclosing the size of the round or the valuation, although I’m sure that information will be fl... |
| 06.11.2005 | Comparing The Flickrs of Video | I’ve been tracking a number of sites that offer flickr-like services for video.
I’ve taken a look at as many of these services that I could find. The most well known is YouTube, which we profiled in August and which recently raised venture ... |
| 25.10.2005 | VideoEgg News | VideoEgg is a web-based publishing service that allows users to capture video content from virtually any device and format and publish it to the web. We profiled it on September 21, 2005, just after they launched at DEMO.
Michael Bazeley at... |
| 25.10.2005 | VideoEgg: Westward ho, and a deal with Six Apart | Speculate all you want about Silicon Valley losing its status as the tech epicenter. For some companies, location still matters. The latest example of a company making the move is VideoEgg, a small start-up out of New Haven, Connecticut. Fo... |
| 21.09.2005 | VideoEgg Launches | Company: VideoEgg
Launched: September 19, 2005
Location: New Haven CT
VideoEgg, founded by three Yale graduates, launched at DEMO in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday.
Given the light content on their website, my bet is that the folks at Video... |