October 3, 2007

Pixsy To Power Search On Veoh

Duncan Riley

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logoMedia search platform provider Pixsy has announced a strategic partnership with video sharing service Veoh Networks that wil see Veoh adopting Pixsy’s media search platform to offer enhanced video and image search functionality on Veoh.com.

Pixsy’s appeal to Veoh is the ability to deliver near-real time search results, allowing Veoh users to search videos and images with content updating to the minute.

Dmitry Shapiro, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Veoh Networks said “Pixsy’s vast index and ability to organize their breadth of video and image content in a way that maps to our users’ interests will meaningfully enhance the viewing experience on Veoh.”

Since taking an additional $26 million in funding back in June, Veoh has seen an increase in traffic whilst facing an increase in lawsuits as well. According to Alexa, Veoh has now broken into the Top 100 sites online, and is edging towards the Top 50. On the other hand their popularity has come at a price, with Veoh being sued by Universal, Viacom and NBC, and perhaps just to keep the lawyers busy, Veoh filed a counter suit against Universal in August.

For Pixsy, the deal will see their technology being used by Veoh’s more than 18 million monthly viewers, validation that their search capabilities not only work, but can scale as well.

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  1. will

    try to get a real quote rather than copy from press releases :)

    (its what separate bloggers from flak happy traditional press!)

  2. Duncan Riley

    Will
    when you have very little notice you sometimes run quotes from the material they send you: if that’s what separates bloggers from journos so be it: because it means bloggers are quicker with stories!

  3. Steve Ballmer

    Pixsy? Veogh?
    What are thesesome kinda porn sites?
    C’mon, write about something people care about dude!

  4. Ian

    1 & 2 -

    It’s not a bad quote. I don’t see anything wrong with using press release quotes provided they’re accurate and fits the post.

  5. Jason

    “According to Alexa”? Let me quote Mr. Arrington “Alexa Is Useless.”

  6. Duncan Riley

    Jason
    I’m not Michael, in case you’d missed the author byline, and as I’ve said previously I don’t fully agree with Michael either when it comes to Alexa, it’s still a reasonable source for mapping trends over time, and it’s also the only free one that provides any decent data.

  7. Jason

    I have access to one large website’s actual traffic data and Alexa certainly does not show correct traffic trend over time. Compete and Quantcast are much superior for U.S. traffic. Doesn’t Techcrunch subscribe to Nielsen NetRating, HitWise, or comScore?

  8. Rahen Mckinny

    no-one knows about this sites?
    is it a commercial ?
    is techcrunch commercial service ?

  9. Computer-Blogger

    I’ve never heard about this site before. but it’s probably a good idea to make more money, so start searchin today ;-)

  10. Omar Chowdhury

    Duncan, you should check out Compete.com for statistics. Actually, I think TechCrunch even wrote about them at one point.

  11. Kendra

    That alien looks like it just found out someone killed its dog.

  12. lawrence

    @11 - that’s not an alien, it appears to be a insect of some sort

  13. Whatthef

    Well I like the idea that now I can find all thoe stolen movies on Veoh.. boy that site is a scam.. a recent metric report stated that the average view time on Veoh was 103 minutes.. wonder what they are watching??? because I know all that UGC is so lenghty…

  14. Whatthef

    Oh and my favorite Joe Nacchio quote… “If you tie 2 rocks together..they still don’t float”…

  15. Ira

    Jason, neither compete nor quantcast have been updated since August… at least not the free data. Alexa may not be 100% but at least the data is current.

  16. phenom

    Whatthef, that quote is awesome and catchy. Appreciate for sharing it.
    http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

  17. Jason

    Ira, that’s not correct: Compete has “Daily Attention” which is updated to a few days ago.

  18. tyler

    looks promising. the top frame on search results in kinda annonying