Two of the most popular things to do on the Web are play games and watch videos. Popjax, a startup backed by Shasta Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, combines the to to create a new form of casual game: video trivia. The company creates mashups of its own trivia questions with embedded videos from YouTube.
Now it is going after rock bands to create branded video trivia games for their fans. The first band to create a game is Avenged Sevenfold. If you are a heavy metal fan (and I know that you are), you can play the game here. The band will also embed the game on its fan site and MySpace page (where it has 719,000 friends). It keeps fans on their site longer and Popjax splits the ad revenue and affiliate sales fees from the application with the band.
Now how about creating a trivia game for a band I actually listen to? (I know, I’m old).
nice screenshot lol
It’d be sweet if they did one for CCR!!!!
Your game link is broken
It would be cooler and more social if they integrated their trivia into IRC with a trivia bot. That way people could play together in separate “channels” and compete in real-time with one another.
Hopefully TechCrunch will fix the link soon (as well as our url http://www.popjax.com), but here’s 2 places you can play the Avenged Sevenfold games (there are 3 actually).
Either go to http://www.popjax.com/videocube/a7x.htm
or play us on Facebook at
http://apps.facebook.com/popja.....mp;SR1=NIL
It’s an interesting idea…wonder if it’ll get legs.
@Dion, Way to engage in discussion with your potential users. I guess you don’t really *get* social media. Good luck to you and your customers. Don’t forget to clock out at 5pm.
@Frank
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ugh, worst band ever.
other than that, it’s a nifty idea.