Vzaar Articles

vzaar is an online video for commerce site which launched in 2007. The site supports video streaming, embedding, sharing and video storage. Originally targeted at eBay sellers, the service now provides online video services to other commercial operations.
The company, based in London, was founded in April 2007 by former eBay employees, providing video for eBay users. The service went live in September 2007.
Vzaar was originally founded to provide an online video hosting service to ecommerce merchant eBay. By 2008, Vzaar was offering its services to a wider range of businesses, but does not host entertainment videos; the service is focused on serving commercial video only.
Vzaar’s framework is built in Ruby on Rails and is powered by a MySQL Database. The site runs on the Amazon Web Services platform. The company does not do its own encoding and uses a third party to encode videos to H264 MP4. Users can also select Flash Video as an option. The site supports various video and audio…

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - YouTube Channels Edition

This week, you probably missed even more online video news stories than normal. But you'll be forgiven, since you were no doubt scrambling around getting all the details together for your killer Super Bowl party. And in just a few hours, that party will begin. But until then, you've still got time to catch up ...

Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform

Two years ago, I took a look at Vzaar, an online video hosting & delivery platform, and gave them a fairly good write up. But a lot of things can change in two years, just look at ReelSEO for example, and so, I thought it time I roll back into Vzaar and see what's what. FYI, ...

Volusion Partners With vzaar To Provide Ecommerce Video Solutions

vzaar, the video hosting platform continues to wrap up partnerships with some of the web's leading creative agencies. Today the company announced a new relationship with Volusion, one of the leading providers of ecommerce and shopping cart software, to power ecommerce video solutions for all of Volusion's online merchant clients. 

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up

Every week, we try to cover the most interesting, most important, and most newsworthy stories in the world of online video. But there are limitations to our abilities; we are only human after all. So naturally, we don't have the time or resources to cover everything we think you should know about with a full ...

How to Use Video to Improve Conversions, Reduce Returns & Increase Profits

When you prepared your marketing budget for the current fiscal year, no doubt it was shaped by your objectives to drive traffic and convert those visits to sales.  These traffic driving activities can be costly if you are not converting so it’s essential that your website is engaging. In order to ensure strong returns on ...

Mid-Week Online Video News Reel March 30th

It's Wednesday once again and time for me to clear out the email inbox and catch you up on some stuff that I have been tracking in the industry. Plus, it helps me keep my inbox at a manageable size and get everyone a little extra information in the process (and coverage for the things ...

Money Never Sleeps As Oliver Stone Invests In Online Video Platform

There's plenty of room in the online video space for all sorts of platforms, products, and services.  It's easy to see YouTube as the big dog--and they are--but plenty of other video solutions exist for businesses, and many of them are thriving.  And when you're trying to make some noise amid all the hoopla that ...

IBM Embraces Web Video As A Vital Internal Communication Tool

Here at ReelSEO, we’re interested in pretty much anything to do with video:  video production, video equipment, video marketing, or even video conversion rates for e-commerce.  We’re kind of obsessed with video.  And it seems like maybe IBM is starting to get obsessed with video too.

Vzaar IPhone App Allows Video Uploads From The Road

No longer must you scurry back to your video editing lair to plug-in, transfer and upload your iPhone videos to Vzaar. As of last week, they have an iPhone App that will let you do it on the fly. Vzaar, the video hosting platform late last week released their first iPhone application

Free Webinar - Got Questions About Encoding Video for The Web?

UPDATE - You can watch the entire webinar replay here - Encoding Video for the Web. Please join us tomorrow, May 5th at 11am Pacific, for our free webinar all about encoding video for the web.  If you are producing video for the web and have any questions about video compression, and/or want to learn ...

Online Video Platform Solutions Focus On Video SEO Goodness

Validation feels good ;-)  What do I mean by this?  Well, over the past year, many of the online video platforms that we write about, have begun to focus a bit on helping their customers deploy videos that are more search engine friendly.  I imagine that the focus on video SEO comes from the platform's ...

Vzaar - Making Commercial Web Video Hosting Simple

Vzaar.com is a lot of things. First off, they're a sponsor here at ReelSEO. That  affects me not since I'm just a freelance contributor but because Mark wanted to make sure it was mentioned. Second, probably first to them, it's an online service that lets you upload videos and then display them on your eBay ...

List of Online Video Platform APIs

As most of you know, an online video platform provides companies with video hosting and delivery services among various other features and functionality that can vary (analytics, ad networks, HD support, etc...).  Many of these online video platforms (and there are just too many right now in my opinion but that is another post entirely) offer ...

Vzaar Adds HD Video To EBay Selling Manager

Vzaar, the video hosting service, have now got their new eBay Selling Manager Application approved and ready for users. The application is the first eBay approved to bring video capabilities to the platform as well as customizable video players.

EBay Videos for Ecommerce - Interview With Jamie Perkins of VZAAR

ReelSEO had the opportunity to sit down with VZAAR's Chief Operating Officer, Jamie Parkins to get the scoop on what VZAAR is setting out to do, where they came from and where they hope to go. VZAAR has been operating as a provider of a non-branded video player for eBay sellers to show off their ...