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.

Research - Comparison of Online Video Viewership Statistics

What Counts as a View? - Testing for Various Online Video Sites I. Research Abstract This report discusses the findings of an experiment designed to test which actions result in a “view” as measured on eight online video websites. The impetus for this research was to identify the differences in view counting among popular video ...

Video Marketing and Video SEO Best Practices WhiteSheet

The folks over at TubeMogul have compiled a great report titled, “Web Video Marketing - Best Practices.” They were kind enough to let me know that I could share this report with my readers. In this report, TubeMogul shares with us a formula that they feel works in terms of where to focus your efforts ...

How To Upload Videos To Multiple Sites At Once.

Has anyone tried HeySpread.com? I am curious what your comments are on this tool if you have tried it. Basically, it is a FREE (as of 8/2009, not Free anymore... bummer) online tool that allows users to send videos to multiple video search and video sharing platforms all at once. Because you can upload the ...

MetaCafe Video Sharing Site - History and Overview

Metacafe.com is the media and video sharing community found on Internet, it is one of the world's largest online video presenters with an international audience of 16 million exclusive visitors watching over 400 million videos every month. Metacafe.com is controlled by Metacafe.Inc. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with additional office in ...

List of Major Video Search Engines and Summaries of Each.

When the World Wide Web was first conceptualized by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee at CERN, he might never have thought that one day his gift to the mankind would be used for searching and sharing videos. But today searching the web is a big phenomena and searching the web for videos has become a great ...

Searchles - Support for Embeded Videos From Other Video Sites

Social media site gives nod to alternative video content providers in response to web-users' calls of 'YouTube ain't all that' Searchles - the intelligent social search platform that gets smarter every time you use it - has expanded the range of its video indexing capabilities to display embeds from popular video sites Metacafe, Liveleak, Veoh, and ...

Viral Video Marketing With YouTube - Web 2.0 Presentation

This discussion of video marketing, using YouTube as an example, is from a Communications 2.0 presentation. This presentation was given before a nonprofit communications class at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota on April 16, 2007. The presentation was given by Ann Treacy of Treacy Information Services and David Erickson of e-strategy.com. Very good video….

Video SEO: Tips for Clips That Capture Results

Video SEO: Tips for Clips that Capture Results By Michelle Megna June 20, 2007 One of the hottest trends in e-commerce right now is the use of video, whether to showcase how to use a product and highlight features, to provide more intimate testimonials or to foster community by uploading clips of your customers using ...