File delivery company YouSendIt told TechCrunch yesterday that it had recently surpassed its three millionth user. While our initial experiences with YouSendIt were not smooth, we have since come to consider it quite a good service. We spoke to CEO Ivan Koon today to see what the company has been up to lately.
“The real reason behind the press release, aside from just wanting to brag a little bit, is that we are a very good case of proving Web 2.0, Office 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, whatever you want to call it,” Koon said. “We started as a free-for-all where anyone could come to our site and use us to send large files and we have very successfully evolved from a Web service for consumers into a Web service for business users.”
Koon said that the majority of YouSendIt customers are business users from small to medium-sized business. The company is also reporting 300 percent growth since September of this year and 200 percent growth in paid subscribers in the same time period.
“Our quarter-to-quarter growth in terms of total revenue is about 50 percent,” Koon said. “Consumers don’t necessarily pay for the service but business users are very willing to pay for services as long as it helps them do their work and it is a service they trust.”
With YouSendIt, the sender chooses either password protection or authentication through login to control who receives their files. Koon said that the company has over 200 highly-secured file servers on both coasts.
Other file sharing sites that we’ve found comparable to YouSendIt are Pando and Zapr.
Web services are changing the way we do business.
Any webapp that allows us to do more of the thing we want to
do will become successful.
The other day I tried sending a large mp3 file to my
collogue ,but it was too large to send as an attachment. I think YouSentIt will solve this and similar issues.
They’re actually giving away some free months of their Biz accounts which is sweet. I might have to try it.
Three millionth file send or three millionth user? Big difference there.
The title of the post is wrong lol.
YouSentit! =)
yousenDit
http://www.dropload.com is another company competing in this space.
there are couple of other sites with much better sharing options, like
http://www.orbitfiles.com
http://www.drivehq.com
u get an email with the link of the file, this way ur mailbox does not get full and it will not take u ages to open the email if file size is big
what I think is, IM is better than this kind of web based service.
http://www.ezecho.com
Ack! Fixed the title. Thanks Frank!
Wang … have you not learned from what others had to say in the last post you spammed?
Yea Wang, quit plugging your shitty blog.
another line of business sprouting from the shortcomings of email!
WhaleMail.com is probably the oldest site offering this type of service. I don’t know why most people haven’t heard of it.
So who will be suing who?
http://www.yousendit.com/
http://www.lighttpd.net/
Logo’s look a bit too similar.
Certainly seems like this was taken from CenterNetworks (http://www.centernetworks.com/yousendit-surpasses-three-million-registered-users) - they posted the same story this morning, hours before tc. Why not note the originator of the post?
Some other services I recommend are….
http://www.dropsend.com is directly comparable as a web platform to yousendit. Has limited free service for consumers but is built mainly for business. TC has covered them as they are live blogging the sale of their service.
http://www.civilnetizen.com is a downloadable app which you can send up to 4GB of files and folders free and it is built on the Mozilla platform. With direct p2p transfer only so it is completely secure. They are still in beta but I have been watching this software closely.
Denver, how would someone send a file to a friend who is not online via IM?
I love YouSendIt and web sites like LinkedIn would be smart to partner with them to allow their users to send files to eachother.
I wonder what technologies they are using to secure the sites? What qualities as extremely secure servers?
I used to use YouSendIt, but now I have started using a newer service called http://www.YouSwap.com. I stopped using YouSendIt cause they always kept changing the max upload size. Sometimes it was 100mb and sometimes 1 gb. Also, the excessive advertising is annoying. I prefer using http://www.YouSwap.com. It offers 1 gb of file sending and there are no stupid, annoying ads. also the uploader looks nicer. worth trying out!
Congrats to YouSendIt for reaching the 3mm milestone.
It would be interesting to see some coverage on the file delivery issues and solutions for larger enterprises. After all, knowledge workers at large enterprises are under equal, if not more, pressure to get the job done when it comes to very large files.
I found yousendit a bit unreliable and not professional (the ads). So I signed up for Attachmore.com
It has a little desktop utlity that allows me to right click to upload things.
Plus I was able to brand my download pages. So my customer’s download from a page that looks like my website (no ads). It’s sweet. Check out my download page:
http://www.attachmore.com/Down.....=808345711
YouSendIt is crap. I had a colleague try to send me an important file for a presentation and I was unable to download it - kept getting “server busy, try again later” messages for over an hour. I would not recommend this service.
Intraware who delivers files around the world for IBM, 3COM, Borland, Adobe, Dell, Business Objects, and Macfee has the best upload and download service that is FREEEEEEEEEEE
http://WWW.DIGITALFASTBALL.COM
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