Create your own video aggregator site with Vodpod
Vodpod, a company that lets you collect and republish online videos, is launching a way to publish your video collections within a single site. It has already offered a way for sites to code their own such video-aggregation features. The new service allows a publisher to add a video section with customizable domain names, templates and other features without doing any coding themselves. Selling ads on such a site could be a quick way for… Continue Reading
Taboola clinches $4.5 million, and CNN to boot
Taboola, a Tel Aviv-based video discovery startup, has just launched its “ViDiscovery” product, which analyzes the context and content of videos, and the viewing and behavior patterns of users in order to recommend videos. It has also secured $4.5 million in a second round of funding. The company aims to make money by running targeted ads with relevant videos.
Viewers watching a Sarah Palin interview on CNN, for example, will see a gray pop-up tab that… Continue Reading
Vodpod takes funding, grows in face of stiff competition
San Francisco-based VodPod is another also-ran online video site that’s growing.
Vodpod lets you collect videos from around the web and organize them on your own VodPod page, then share them with others. Typically, a user will pick a theme for their collection, or “pod,” such as the Turkish music video pod example shown at bottom.
The most interesting part: You can then embed your video pod on a separate site. The NewTeeVee blog has a… Continue Reading