Mobile video site Mywaves growing fast, despite competition

February 11, 2008 | Eric Eldon | Comments | |

mywaveslogo021108.pngLeading video-sharing web site YouTube may have just launched a new mobile web version of its site, but startup mobile video site Mywaves doesn’t seem to care, because its growing fast around the world.

Mywaves launched towards the end of 2006, and is now getting around five million unique visitors a month, with the average user spending 24 minutes per session. A total of 18 million phones have been used to watch videos on Mywaves, it claims.

The Sunnyvale, Calif. company offers both a mobile-compatible web site and a mobile download application that lets you watch user-submitted videos, or watch professional videos provided by partners like Fox, CBS and other big media companies. The site includes user profiles, email and text messaging, a way to rate videos, and a channel for your favorite videos. It uses demographic information about users to serve them relevant videos, based on where they are in the world.

It has just released versions mobile download application for Palm Treo 680, 700p, 755p, Palm Centro and BlackBerry Pearl 8130. Windows Mobile compatibility is slated to be introduced later this year. It otherwise works on 3G, EDGE, BREW and EV-DO carriers, and other most video-capable mobile phones,

It has received funding from ).

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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.

  • no wonder that they grow fast, I got another spam short message on my mobile phone today... and I believe many people out there get these spam messages... the only statement of this spam mail was, go check out this video, with URL to their site... does anyone else got this kind of spam?