MySpace aims to bring mobile videos to the masses
Social network MySpace is launching a new worldwide service that will let its users watch videos on its mobile site from their phones. Mobile video has not been a smashing consumer success. But MySpace’s mobile site (m.myspace.com) gets more than 10 million monthly unique visitors and more than 3 billion monthly pageviews, the company says. So the introduction of video could give mobile-video streaming a big boost.
MySpace users will be able to watch any video… Continue Reading
Mywaves cuts content and ad deal with MTV, a first
While many an entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley imagine their start-ups replacing established media companies, fast-growing mobile video startup MyWaves is instead working with the big companies.
Today, for example, it is announcing a deal with MTV, where MTV will — for the first time in its history — license its content to a third party mobile site that is not related to a carrier.
MTV will also sell advertising on the MyWaves site and the two companies… Continue Reading
Mobile video site Mywaves growing fast, despite competition
Leading 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… Continue Reading
Mywaves reports strong growth, unveils mobile video search
Updated
Mywaves, the Sunnyvale start-up that lets people view video clips on their mobile phone, is offering a new way to search for videos.
Essentially, it is video equivalent of Google news alerts.
You can select a term or a phrase, such as “basketball.” Mywaves then searches the Web for video clips tagged with “basketball,” as well as user-generated video on its own system. It delivers the content to your phone, and continues doing that until you tell… Continue Reading
Video retrenchment begins, Juice Wireless going for broke
(Updated with substantial clarifications from Juice co-founder Nick Desai)
Juice Wireless, the New York mobile video-sharing start-up, is still on hunt for financing, raising questions about its prospects amid a retrenchment hitting the video sharing industry in the new year.
Juice is raising a roughly $3.5 million round of financing, now calling it a “bridge” to raise even more capital — in recognition that competition has raised the stakes, and will require more resources.
A month ago,… Continue Reading
Mywaves offers lots of mobile video, and is growing
Mywaves, a Sunnyvale start-up that delivers video to your mobile phone, launched in September, but we didn’t give it much coverage.
Mywaves has since grown quickly, however, and now is boasting one of the largest mobile video services.
Large, at least, when compared with YouTube’s mobile offering, which is selecting on high-quality specific videos for you to see on your mobile phone, or with MobiTV, which is cutting deals to deliver mobile TV programming. Mywaves… Continue Reading
Pitch your business plan to VCs via mobile phone — on MyWaves
MyWaves, a Sunnyvale start-up that lets you shoot video with your mobile and email it to an online account where others can see it, has raised $6 million from Menlo Ventures.
VentureBeat may write more about this company next week, but for now, we point to their latest gimmick: Pitch your start-up idea to a panel of high-profile venture capitalists in a competition than runs through Feb. 15. The winning entrepreneurs will be flown to Silicon… Continue Reading