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November 12, 2006

vpod.tv to launch new video publishing service

Ouriel Ohayon

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Paris and Madrid based startup vpod.tv will open its doors in the next few hours. We covered Vpod.tv back in May at Zaragoza Innovate conference while it was still is closed beta.

vpod.tv is a new online video service, aiming to simplify the technical barriers to working with video online and to enable consumers and corporations to create their personal online and mobile TV channels. The service will open in the next hours in English Spanish and French.

The first release tomorrow will include mainly upload and publishing functions and the company will roll out progressively other features such as footage editing, playlist creation, mixing and broadcast features. Vpod’s service takes video from almost any source and, more importantly, transcodes for almost any device. All you have to do then, is pick your device and download the video.

As we already said, this is a massively competitive space but vpod.tv will take advantage from its European presence where it has a chance to become a local player in video publishing and editing. Other European online video services are already present (like Dailymotion or Sevenload) but with a focus on online video sharing. Vpod.tv approach is more comparable to what BrightCove is doing in the United States. Rodrigo Sepulveda, founder and CEO of vpod.tv precises however that his business model is closer to what Revver is doing when they share ad revenues with contributors.

In case this is not a good reason enough for you to try this video service, vpod.tv is organizing a sweepstake offering one Panasonic video camera every week, during the first 10 weeks. All you have to do is register. I hope this will not be the best reason they have to get new users :)

Vpod raised 5.1 million dollars from Innovacom and our previous screenshots are here . More on their blog.

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  1. Drama 2.0

    November 12th, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    There are going to be a lot of venture capitalists losing a lot of money on these video startups. The idea that they have some advantage over the other dozens of funded video startups doing similar things because of their European presence is laughable, especially when the author goes on to mention that there are other European services that have already launched.

    To all interested investors: I am starting a video service in Kazakhstan and am looking to raise $5 million. Our market research has shown that there are at least 50 real life Borats in the country and that our Revver-like model will enable us to find them. It is expected that Borat will reach $100 million in box office sales this week so we are conservatively projecting that with only 10 real life Borats located by giving away VHS camcorders for the first 10 weeks after our launch, we can generate at least $100 million in revenues in the first year. We will be the only online video service with a presence in Kazakhstan and this will give us an incredible advantage. I have sent a postcard to Bogatov Films about a strategic partnership and this will cement our dominance in the marketplace.

  2. Sergio

    November 12th, 2006 at 10:37 pm

    I don’t know if you guys have covered this one yet, but Magnify Networks does something similar. They let users create their own custom video sitelets. Instead of creating a profile on a sterile serivice, you can make your own video sitelet that you can style and call your own. They also let users incorporate videos into blogs, etc. What’s neat is that they search the popular video sites like Grouper, YouTube, Yahoo Video, etc. and let you add any of their videos to your sitelet. Users can also upload their own. And if your video sitelet becomes popular, they share with you the revenues from AdSense ads. The brilliant part is they do not host most of the videos and thus don’t have to pay for the bandwidth. I think they are onto somethng, and I hope they do well.

  3. Manu

    November 12th, 2006 at 11:47 pm

    Adopts the “Orange” web look&feel; any link with Innovacom (FT Group) or anticipate a purchase by Orange ?

  4. Sylvain

    November 13th, 2006 at 1:12 am

    The difference between US and Europe (especially France) is that providers will soon charge the bandwidth used by the viewer to the content provider… and than can be a big issue for those building their business model on “almost free” bandwidth… There’s a lot ok talk concerning this right now amongst hosting providers and operators…

  5. Fred Destin

    November 13th, 2006 at 5:41 am

    Hey ! It’s my ugly mug on these videos !!

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