Today, video Website Veoh.com is adding more videos from traditional TV networks, including NBC (The A-Team, The Office, Heroes), Fox (The Simpsons, Family Guy, 24), the Sci-Fi Channel (Battlestar Galactica), the USA Network (Monk), and FX (Damages). All of this new content comes from Hulu, the NBC-Fox joint venture. CBS content was already on the site through a previous deal, but now all videos from traditional TV networks can be found under a new “TV Shows” tab on its main page today, which replaces the “Series” tab. (Video series can now be found in the “Channels” tab).
Founder Dmitry Shapiro tells me this is part of his strategy to turn Veoh into a “hyper-aggregator” of video on the Web, something he already does with his downloadable client, VeohTV, which can show (and download) Flash video from anywhere on the Web. Now he is embedding video players from other sites, such as Hulu, on Veoh.com proper. Says Shapiro:
That is the tip of the strategy—to become the hyper-aggregator. We will continue to provide a breadth of content. Embedding third-party players will be extended to other offerings, including other video-sharing sites.
He even plans on adding videos from rivals YouTube and MetaCafe because he thinks the way to survive is to become the one place where people can find videos from allover the Web. Shapiro also shared some internal stats with me.
—From November, 2006 to November, 2007 worldwide unique monthly visitors to Veoh.com grew 760 percent from 2.5 million to 21.5 million. (comScore measures 3.5 million in the U.S. and 13.4 million worldwide for November, 2007. Quantcast measures 6.7 million in the U.S., and 18.4 million worldwide).
—In November, 2007, Veoh served more than 30 million hours of videos.
—The average user watches 80 minutes per month, even with advertising.
—VeohTV has 2.5 million active viewers (also, as of November).
—Only 40 percent of Veoh’s audience is in the U.S.
—40 percent watch during early evening and during prime time (i.e., Veoh is stealing attention away from traditional TV).
Very interesting, I’ve always liked Veoh and I’ve also downloaded lots of videos from them - this means more to download esp for those who do not get this TV show like Simpson or Family Guy
I got invited to Hulu and watched some things there. Hulu is def better than Veoh, Faster and better quality.
I think video search is a better market than video hosting.
isn’t YouTube still losing money>?
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Very interesting on the strategy. Hyper-aggregation (we at Mefeedia.com have been at this for 2+ years) makes a lot of sense in a market where video is becoming standard on every website and lots of niche video sites / verticals are popping up everywhere. Scale becomes the hard part - from aggregating a few sites to thousands of sites - as the issues with integration, varying standards, and different metadata is quite a challenge. Will look forward to watching Veoh’s transition.
This is sweet. I like that I can watch everything on one site instead of having to go to multiple sites. Veoh is being smart by offering not only TV content but also independent web shows.
Does someone know http://www.searchforvideo.com?
It seems as they also do video search and also have loads of video publishers on their page.
Veoh is obviously doing some neat stuff, and hats off to them for what they’ve accomplished. There’s more than just marketing hype at play in the tremendous growth they’ve experienced
There is an alternative hyper-aggregation approach, however, to the one that Veoh is taking.
Veoh wants users to both search for *and* view videos at their site.
The alternative approach we offer at Zuula is to allow users to get search results from a large number of video search and hosting sites, but then enable the users to view the videos at the original sites (e.g., Youtube, Dailymotion, etc.). By viewing the videos at the original sites, users get full access to the comments and other content at those sites, which can be quite valuable.
these videos won’t work over here. So I guess bittorrent shouldn’t really be concerned with their new competition.
Isn’t it amazing when companies listen to their lawyers instead of their customers?
FYI - Dmitry’s new title is “Chief Innovation Officer.” CEO is recently hired ex-Yahoo Steve Mitgang
This is great news!
I suppose it sort of gets rid of the need for openhulu now though, doesn’t it?
I will definitely be blogging about this one
Dom
I’ve known Dmitry for quite a while now and he is wickedly smart. He’s only sharing the part of the strategy that he is OK with the competitors knowing about.
Veoh has cash in the bank(they’ve raised around 40M from top banks), great technology and a fast growing user base. When you combine Dmitry’s creative ability with Steve Mitgang (current Veoh CEO) operational expertise and a heap of passionate, talented employees you get a company destined for success. Keep an eye out for Veoh, they’re just getting warmed up.
-Jon
Out of all the screen captures of Heroes, why of the woman that apparently had no powers and only gave “Adam” the final location? At least some Peter or Sylar action or the cheerleader for your next screencapture.
Thanks to veoh and all uploaders i can watch heroes, it still s2e5 at my country,
Now You can watch every episode of Doogie Howser, M.D.
They should’ve partnered with Veoh in the first place. hulu is just a really bad idea.
On top right of the screen you have:
“Watch free, full-length episodes of your favorite shows:”
And a bunch of links: Heroes, Family Guy, etc.
When you click on those you get:
“This TV Show has no full episodes.”
Hum………………..
Oh, let me see, only non US people are getting that message? Maybe…
@ 16,17
No, to play clips over 10 mins you have to download veoh player, which is extremely nice by the way! =)