Comments on: Yahoo To Announce Large Video Acquisition—Maven Networks For $150 Million.

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Microyahoogleonlinespace | Room 112 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:46:59 +0000

[...] to sit idly, Yahoo purchased advertiser Maven Networks on February 12. This was seen largely as an attempt to convince shareholders it’s doing the [...]

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Anonymous — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:28:56 +0000

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By: GRDGF » Blog Archive » $44 Billion for Yahoo?

GRDGF » Blog Archive » $44 Billion for Yahoo? — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:34:18 +0000

[...] ad exchange, should help the optimization of all that inventory, so there’s value there. And Yahoo just offered $150 million for Maven Networks, who powers video for Fox News, CBS Sports, CNet, and Scripps Networks. So [...]

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:39:05 +0000

There is a lot of sniffing around PermissionTV, a Boston based competitor of both Maven and Brightcove. Their technology is excellent and they continue to win clients. More revs than Maven.

By: Broadscaler

Broadscaler — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:12:45 +0000

RGRP would be the sensible buy. THey have all the same tech as Maven, a syndication network of over 1,000+ websites across the globe & heavy in the USA,Europe & AustraliAsia regions w/recent jumpcut president taking over now have a heavy LIVE TV integration and the mid-easy covered. Spend 8+ years on their tech and have global operations in place to manage most any load. They’d be half the price of Maven given their current trading price it would be a steal!

By: Andy Warhole

Andy Warhole — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:51:31 +0000

Did the deal fall through?

By: Raman Shukla

Raman Shukla — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:58:11 +0000

Microsoft is eager to buy yahoo. Yahoo busy in buying others. What will be the result depends on time.

By: Microsoft Makes Unsolicited Bid to Acquire Yahoo | RyanSpoon.com

Microsoft Makes Unsolicited Bid to Acquire Yahoo | RyanSpoon.com — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:17:37 +0000

[...] been publicly rumored to court Yahoo and eBay for months (or longer) * Yahoo was set to announce a $150mm video acquisition of Maven Networks - just yesterday * Yahoo has had a tumultuous year… would this have happened if Semel were [...]

By: John G

John G — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:16:10 +0000

I would be quite surprised if this happens with the news that Microsoft is now making a strong bid to buy all of Yahoo for $31/share. Sorry Maven shareholders, but I think that this deal got stuck in a bigger swamp.

By: rubu

rubu — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:47:49 +0000

The Maven and Brightcove players both provide a way to both manage video on a user-account basis, and to also create a custom skin with the player.

By: Logitech

Logitech — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:44:20 +0000

Just to add that the Adobe Media Player, slated for release in 2008, uses maven networks content management solution - so any content provider that uses Adobe Media Player, will use Maven Networks to manage their content.

Understand that we most likely are talking about some of the heavy content providers of the world, and Maven Networks CMS solution also can function as a aggregator to other flash driven video sites - potentially becoming a one shop solution for flash video aggregation.

This could explain some of the 150M USD price tag…

By: Lakshmi

Lakshmi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:04:05 +0000

I remember yahoo had a potential revenue loss last year and they better gear up and make up for the loss.

By: Dyde

Dyde — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:46:47 +0000

I think somewhere Marc Cuban is laughing is a** off.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:14:43 +0000

Good move bad move no one knows at this point. Yahoo has tons of cash and for them to build a player and distribution method was just not going to happen. So they had to buy. Maven is a good company with good tech.

Yahoo uses another video overlay technology called Panache - they use them to do overlays. Seems like they are trying every angle here to make sure they are covered.

By: Report: Yahoo to acquire Maven Networks | Site Toolkit

Report: Yahoo to acquire Maven Networks | Site Toolkit — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:01:14 +0000

[...] Yahoo will announce that it has acquired Maven Networks, a video-hosting startup, according to a report in the blog TechCrunch. [...]

By: Report: Yahoo to acquire Maven Networks - pcpartfinder

Report: Yahoo to acquire Maven Networks - pcpartfinder — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:59:51 +0000

[...] that it has acquired Maven Networks, a video-hosting startup, according to a report in the blog TechCrunch. Citing three unnamed sources, TechCrunch reported that Yahoo has paid about $150 million for the [...]

By: Daniel Konopacki

Daniel Konopacki — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:59:45 +0000

@23 The problem with Yahoo purchasing Move Networks is more of an issue with workflow process and player delivery than it is in actual stream delivery. The Maven and Brightcove players both provide a way to both manage video on a user-account basis, and to also create a custom skin with the player. In order to do this with Move Networks, Yahoo would have to create a whole workflow process around the creation of the custom skinning, since skinning is not provided by Move. It would make very little sense to Yahoo to make such a move, since the companies currently using Move Networks - Discovery Networks, Fox Television, ABC - all have to create their own GUI assets.

As for Flash video being just a fad - it hasn’t fizzled yet. That’s not to say it won’t, but I think that Adobe still has a commitment to FLV. With that said, though, I think that MP4 and H.264 inside of AS3 will become far more powerful, with adaptive bitrates. All that Move provides is breaking the stream into data chucks in order to adapt to new bitrates.

And finally, with the purchase of either Brightcove or Maven, Yahoo is still going to have to play catch-up. Both systems use AS2 code, and to truly begin to leverage the power of Adobe and Flash, they are going to have some serious rearchitecture issues in getting the system to where it needs to be. The CEO of Maven was quoted as saying that what they do is rocket science. They may want to consider updating their space ship, then.

By: Yahoo! May Acquire Maven Networks For $150 Million+

Yahoo! May Acquire Maven Networks For $150 Million+ — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:47:25 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:38:35 +0000

Maven competitor Roo Media, RGRP.ob is trading at .22 and has a market cap of 10mil. according to Yahoo! Finance.
Roo has as many key website partners as Maven.

Also interestingly Maven serves Newscorp’s Fox Business News. NWS (Fox) owns 5% of Roo.

Brightcove and Roo, where will they call home in 2008?

By: Jaisen

Jaisen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:21:13 +0000

@23 - I agree. Flash video is just a fad. Better off investing into some other unestablished technology with low market penetration.

By: Media Grunt: Michael Bazeley

Media Grunt: Michael Bazeley — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:53:44 +0000

Uh oh, Yahoo buying Maven video platform…

There may yet be a smart business strategy behind Yahoo’s rumored purchase of web video company Maven Networks. I’m finding it hard to understand much of anything Yahoo is doing these days, even as I try to root for them. But the Maven deal…

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:46:22 +0000

They would have been better off buying Move Networks. Flash video still sucks.

By: Der Blogbote

Der Blogbote — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:46:10 +0000

Yahoo, Social Networks, TV, Nokia…

Gerücht: Yahoo zahlt $ 150 Mio. für Video-Plattform
Angeblich wurde Maven Networks eingekauft.
techcrunch.com >>
maven.net >>
Studie: Web 2.0 soll TV verdrängen
Das will AOL Digital Marketing Group (DMG) herausgefunden haben.
PM auf presseportal.de …

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:33:27 +0000

Likely announcement, if anything, to come tomorrow given that it’ll get lost in Google earnings news.

By: Collarbone

Collarbone — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:14:04 +0000

I bet Maven was pushed into private sale instead of IPO, due to the stock market tanking as of late.

Maven was founded in 2002, so from a VC perspective, they were within the investment exit period.

I think were going to see other technology plays pushed to private sales in the upcoming weeks and months instead of IPO filings due to the surrounding market conditions as post-bubble tech plays reach exit periods for VCs.