Metacafe Articles

Metacafe is a media and video sharing community on the internet. Metacafe users upload and share thousands of new videos every day. Metacafe offers a desktop application, mainly targeted at users who are “video addicts” and download many of the videos every week. The desktop application is capable of downloading high-quality media to the local computer while the computer is idle. Metacafe features user generated videos, humor videos, Internet videos (memes) and viral ads as well as sports and news-related media. Some of the other features on the site include flash games and sound clips. Metacafe Inc. was founded in July 2003 by Israeli entrepreneurs Eyal Hertzog (CTO) and Arik Czerniak (CEO) and received early funding from Ofer Adler (former Board Member) and later raising $3 million from Benchmark Capital. On February 5, 2007, Erick Hachenburg, previously of Electronic Arts and Pogo, took over as CEO of the company.

Metacafe Is The Leading Destination for Independent Online Video Content

Metacafe solidified its position as the world's leading independent online video site with 37.1 million unique monthly viewers worldwide and 7.4 million unique monthly viewers in the U.S. during the month of August, as reported in the recently released comScore Media Metrix data. Worldwide, traffic to Metacafe in August grew 37.7% year-over-year, including an 8.7% ...

Metacafe's New Toolkit for Video Personalization

Metacafe, whose more than 30 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world’s largest video entertainment sites, now enables viewers to personalize their entertainment experiences by adding dialog bubbles, photos, webcam video, clip art, subtitles and more to online videos. These viewers turned co-creators can save their work for the enjoyment of ...

Study - Short-Form Videos Dominate Online Viewing

Frank N. Magid Associates, the world leader in research-based consultation, and Metacafe, whose more than 30 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world’s largest video entertainment sites, today released survey results revealing consumer behavior and preferences in online video viewing. Notably, the survey found that the top-five most popular categories of ...

Research - Most Popular Video Sites and Categories

Last week, Tubemogul released new research that proves the current dominance of Youtube and demonstrates that videos on Youtube receive more views on average than other video sites, regardless of category. The research also demonstrates that while this is currently the case, other sites like Metacafe are quickly gaining momentum. For those of you that ...

Search Engines Use UGC To Improve Video Search

As you likely have heard, Youtube recently a new annotations feature that basically enables video creators to add add background information to a video hosted on Youtube. You can also use the annotations to link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video. Just this past weekend, Metacafe announced a new ...

Review of Revenue Sharing Video Sharing Sites

This is a direct excerpt from a great article titled, "Rise of an Internet Star - Parlaying YouTube Fame Into Big Business" on ReadWriteWeb. You might not have the time to create a regular series of videos, but if you can find the time to generate even a few great videos, here are some video ...

Metacafe Video Search Undergoes Redesign

I just got an email from Metacafe that they have redesigned their website.  There is a new "popular now" section, a new look to the homepage, and new features coming soon.  The email I received can be found below this screenshot of their new homepage. "Metacafe is sporting a new look this spring. You may ...

Aaron Wall's 5 Video Search Optimization Tips

Aaron Wall of SEO Book (you likely know of Aaron if you have done anything in search engine optimization" has done a special guest post on O’Flaherty blog with some excellent tips about using video SEO. Excerpt: "Six more bonus video optimization tips: When in doubt, shorter with better clarity is typically better than comprehensive. ...

Metacafe Introduces Mobile Video Delivery

Enables Consumers to Send Favorite Short Videos to Mobile Devices Metacafe®, whose more than 28 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world’s largest video entertainment sites, is working with two global leaders in mobile content delivery to provide anytime, anywhere access to short-form video entertainment. Metacafe has integrated “Send to Mobile” ...

Metacafe Video Creators Earn $1 Million

According to the press release below, metacafe video sharing contributors have earned a total of $1 million dollars in revenue sharing since the launch of Metacafe in 2006. One particular producer earned more than $80,000. An additional seven people earned more than $20,000, while 21 people earned more than $10,000. Forty-four video contributors made more ...

Links To Video Sharing's Most Popular Videos

Below are links to view the most popular videos at the following Video Sharing Websites: Youtube Myspace Yahoo Video AOL Video Metacafe VideoSift IFilm Grouper VSocial Revver Truveo

Free Video Upload and Tracking Tool - Vidmetrix

VidMetrix is a new online video service and tool which enables you to automatically upload your video file to all major video sharing website networks. Similar to Tubemogul, vidmetrix will not only help you upload your file at once to all major engines, but will enable viewership and engagement tracking of your video across the ...

Characteristics of Video Sharing Sites and Monetization

TubeMogul released a nice summary of the online-video search and sharing sites that it supports and provided an excellent post with a summary of user feedback about each site and the monetization opportunities and status. The following sites are included: Youtube, Yahoo, DailyMotion, MySpace, MetaCafe, Google, Revver, Blip.tv, Veoh, StupidVideo, Crackle, BrightCove, and AOL. You ...

Video Search Monitoring and Clipping Service

Video Monitoring and Video Clipping Service New Video Monitoring Service Automatically Searches Consumer Video Sharing Sites Each Day for Video Clips about Companies or Brands; Free Trial Offered CyberAlert, Inc., the worldwide media monitoring and measurement service, today announced the launch of CyberAlert VDO, the first subscription service that automatically searches and monitors for new ...

Places To Find High Definition (HD) Videos Online

Each day it seems we hear a news item related to HD video online. Just this week, we saw an announcement from Akamai about their HD Web site which offers videos from a host of television networks such as BBC, NBA, MTV, and CBS. So, I thought it may be useful to point out all ...