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April 18, 2006

Grouper Kung Fu Action (Humor)

Michael Arrington

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As I’ve written many times before, the online video space is getting fairly….ahem…crowded (more).

One company in the space, Grouper, is dealing with the competitive heat through humor (in an intelligent way - by using their product as the host).

An internal Grouper email was sent out to all employees today that said “Grouper Street Fighter. Description: It’s coming for you…watch Grouper destroy the competition“. The email also had a link to a (Grouper) video that shows Grouper beating up (literally) its competitors.

My favorite part is when Grouper does a flying face kick to YouTube.

Previous TechCrunch posts on Grouper are here.

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  1. poe

    April 18th, 2006 at 5:58 pm

    Pretty clever!

    Great way to get some mind share.

  2. hamlet

    April 18th, 2006 at 6:53 pm

    Wow, silly or challenging, maybe they are so ambitious.

    keep an eye on them.

  3. Klim

    April 18th, 2006 at 7:37 pm

    Icky… clicking on the links within the video opens them in IE. :( Why?

  4. Don Wilson

    April 18th, 2006 at 7:41 pm

    They’ve removed the video.

  5. Michael Arrington

    April 18th, 2006 at 7:41 pm

    Klim, I’m not seeing that. The links under the video player?

  6. Anonymous

    April 18th, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    IE-only. Windows Media.

    Oh boy, fun.

  7. Saul Weiner

    April 18th, 2006 at 8:10 pm

    It’s working fine in Firefox for me. It does default to windows media player.

    Nice way to create some buzz.

  8. Eric Willis

    April 18th, 2006 at 8:25 pm

    Nothing wrong with having a sense of humor…nice!

  9. Adam Bruce

    April 18th, 2006 at 11:20 pm

    Very funny!

    PS worked in OSX-Safari

  10. Blaze

    April 19th, 2006 at 2:24 am

    Right.

  11. Jakob

    April 19th, 2006 at 6:11 am

    (yawn)

  12. Luis

    April 19th, 2006 at 8:27 am

    Really useless effort and only saw it because I read your blog. On top of that the windows only support is going to kill it. Well its already DOA.

  13. Alex Ezell

    April 19th, 2006 at 8:56 am

    Until the Grouper client supports HTTP Proxy, it’s worthless to a lot of users, especially the young people in schools and offices to which it might appeal.

  14. michperu

    April 19th, 2006 at 9:22 am

    Buena!! Ouch YouTube!!!!

  15. Klim

    April 19th, 2006 at 12:43 pm

    @Mike - No, the links that were right in the video. The thumbnails you could click.

  16. mynimal

    April 19th, 2006 at 2:08 pm

    Hey - they didn’t beat up Google! If you watch closely, around the part where it beats up YouTube Google peeks in through the doorway for like a second.

  17. Brent

    April 19th, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    I think the clip is hilarious. However, we here at vSocial think we can give our competition, like Grouper, a little more of a fight than the weak effort depicted in this video. You know this demands a rebuttal…. Coming soon!

  18. jason

    April 24th, 2006 at 4:32 pm

    Come on! We totally would’ve gotten back up! Oof. We’ll see you guys in the ring!

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