Userplane, the company behind Webchat and a number of other online communication services, has introduced a new video app dubbed “Mediaplayer”. The free white-label app will allow web publishers to add hosted video uploads to their sites under an ad-supported model.
Mediaplayer users will be able to upload videos as large as 100MB, and there is no limit on the amount of upload or streaming bandwidth they can consume. For the time being, all ad revenue from Mediaplayer will go to Userplane, but Michael Jones, the company’s CEO, says that they hope to introduce the revenue sharing model seen on their other apps in the near future. The current version of the app is restricted to video only, but the next release will feature Minichat, allowing users to chat while they watch clips.
Mediaplayer should see a significant boost in initial usage from ex-VideoEgg members. VideoEgg announced last March that it would be leaving the free video hosting space, and has named MediaPlayer as one of its recommended replacements.
Userplane was acquired by AOL in 2006 and, with more than 200,000 publishers, is one of the largest providers of online white-label services. For the time being their product will see competition from other video hosting sites including VSocial and KickApps, but with the eventual introduction of simultaneous chat they will also face off with Meeboand Videophlow, among others.
Wow, double posted spam. Awesome!
Mediaplayer?? are you kidding?
What’s next? InternetExplorer?
noooo kiddin’ wow, this is the next BIG THING, LoL.
So now we are going to have more free porn ?, may be their AUP will prevent that, if not its going to be a bandwidth killer
They’ve got an emoticon for a logo. I bet that cost them a fortune.
Nice work Mike!
Putting chat and video together is a great idea!
Until now video has been a solo experience, this opens the possibility for spontaneous communities to gather around video….Consider the chat rooms that will form around major political and social events captured on video.
This is big…
Khris
Actually khris, Meebo has been doing this for a while, with “meebo rooms” and any video source that can be embedded. One could also do this on justin tv, ustream tv, etc.
No revenue-sharing opportunity though, but how compelling is that yet-to-be-released feature?
Are you sure you understand all other relevant product offerings enough to know the significance of this?
It’s great to see an acquired company continue to forge ahead with this kind of new feature set. Many of their competitors will be joining the party late. Very impressive…
If they added an API, it would even be competitive with YouTube. Nice looking product though…
Hope they don’t pull a video egg and bail on all the sites that depend on them for video hosting.