Mobile video service Kyte is trying hard these days to please its biggest (paying) customers: music labels and their artists, primarily. Performers such as 50 Cent and John Legend use Kyte to record behind-the-scenes moments on their cell phones and then share them over the web immediately with their fans. To help its customers manage their mobile video channels just as they would any other Web property, Kyte will introduce a new dashboard and management console on Tuesday at a conference in Las Vegas.
The Kyte Dashboard is a bit like Google Analytics for cell-phone video. It is filled with charts showing the number of views for each show, ad impressions, bandwidth usage, most watched shows, and the sites where the embeddable videos are watched the most.
A content view lets users see the individual video lineup for each upcoming show and change it aroubd by dragging and dropping . And the moderation tab lets users accept or reject new videos into their channel from their audience.
Below are screenshots:
This is slick. For my websites I run a variety of analytics services, and I have to say that this is one of the best UI’s that I have seen in a while (albeit this is for mobile videos). Nice to see that there are still some great designers around.
This is a great way to track digital content on your mobile. It does look amazingly easy to use. When can I get it?
Kyte is one of those sites that has never made any sense to me.
I think they are doing too many things and are confusing.
My 2 cents.
Agree with Alan.
Lots of ‘flash’, little value.
Personally I think their mobile apps sucks in my opinion.
Kyte sucks. Next..
this is not newsworthy…too boring for Techcrunch imho. I thought Kyte was dead by Qik. I guess they’re still around…
Agree w/James…too much flash for my taste…they’re trying too hard
Hi Erick,
Ulysses from Kyte here.
Thanks for the post.
Just wanted to clarify that Kyte Dashboard works with all video assets (not just mobile) including professionally produced, uploaded content.
Celeb entertainment show Extra (http://extratv.warnerbros.com/) is a great example, as they use Kyte for mobile video, webcam-based UGC video and professionally produced, high-quality video segments.
Extra btw recently saw a 69% increase in their traffic, in part, due to their use of Kyte. Check out what they said here: http://www.kyte..._now_available/.
This video itself is an example of professionally produced content (fancy cameras, post-production, etc.) being managed and delivered via Kyte Dashboard.
Kyte is definitely making progress in filling their feature gaps with bigger platform-players like Brightcove. Should be interesting!