SMO Tools > Digital Media Sharing > Social Video Sharing Platforms
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vSocial
2007/05
Video Sharing
vSocial Inc
vSocial, powered by vCONNECT, is a social networking for video platform that enables content owners, site operators and online marketing organizations to custom brand, target, virally distribute and monetize their message via video.
vSocial.com is our showcase video community, and it’s built for individuals like you. Tell us how to make it better and we will
What is social networking for video?
Social networking is all about enabling like minds to find and communicate with one another in a contextually meaningful fashion. It’s about users, their profiles, their content and their extended network. Whether this network is formally organized or loosely and opportunistically coupled around common interests matters not.
Online video can deliver a monologue, cultivate a conversation, convey a position or just entertain.
We believe that integrating the power of social networking with the digital spark that is online video is destined to be a game changer for you personally and for your business or organization.
Why? Two reasons. One is that it is hard to argue against global reach carried on the wings of viral distribution models. Two is that the concept of delivering rich messages that can be brand-active and monetized (via advertising) in a self-serve fashion opens the doors to a lot of different applications
Do I have to be a business to use your service?
The short answer is no. We deliver a service that millions of people can use and get great joy and utility out of without ever spending a dime. Don’t get us wrong. We need to make money, but experience has taught us that our customers discover us through our free offerings and over time, some of them grow into premium product users.
Some people call this model of providing both free and premium offerings in one space “free-mium,” which simply means that we need to deliver enough value for free users to tell their business user friends about the goodness that is the vCONNECT product.
Tell me about some applications for vCONNECT!
We have found that some users embrace our service because they are fanatical about a certain type of content. Anime users, for example, literally plug in their videos, tag them, comment, rate and review videos of interest, and then follow the traversal paths to make friends with other fans of anime.
Others have something to promote. We take great pride in a certain band that uploaded their video and saw it viewed over 850,000 times in 90 days. That changes the equation for local bands, as it did for this brand.
Still others have piggybacked on our platform to launch video channels that generate many thousands of visitors every day, and they are building a powerful social network of their own!
We see traditional media striving to cultivate citizen journalism. Vertical portals that use every chunk of functionality that we can provide them to launch YouTube-like video communities. No less exciting to us, we see major brands, politicians, and bloggers crafting new types of messages and engaging audiences in ways previously unavailable to them.
What Is vCONNECT?
Delivered as a hosted service, vConnect is a turnkey software package that integrates uploading, encoding, hosting, publishing and advertising with video channel, micro-site and community-building tools. vConnect services can be self-administered through an ordinary web browser.
vConnect provides a fully integrated social networking for video platform. It is browser-based, platform-independent, and ready for you to set-up, customize and launch your video community in as little as an hour.
Complete and Turnkey
vConnect stands alone in the marketplace in terms of its marriage of functional richness, seamless integration and simplicity to set up and manage.
Blog It!: post videos directly to TypePad and Blogger
Distribution: RSS-based subscription/syndication, clip mails, email alerts, iPod integration
Context: tag, rate, review and user comment functions
MyBrand™: customizable players by logo, contact forms, links to data sheets, web site etc.
Ad Marketplace Interface: self-service pre-roll, post-roll or interstitial ad integration
Video Roll: tell short stories using an amalgam of clips
User badges: enables friends to dynamically view latest uploads, favorites, etc.
Folksonomy: automatically recognize relationships between users and content
Transparency: see what’s new, popular, recently viewed and/or talked about in a click
Video Search: find videos by tag, text, user and/or category
Stats Tracking: monitor users and usage patterns based on multiple parameters
Rich Profile: express interests and plug into interfaces to popular online services
Account management: automated user registration; easily feature, filter or suspend users
Templates: customize hot pages, play pages, channel definitions, etc.
Scaleable hosted service: industrial strength, proven reliable architecture
- publisher-author
- vSocial Inc
- License
- Free
- Created
- 2005/06/17
- Updated
- 2007/05/23
- Money Back
- n/a
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