Congratulations to Clipta user ILmaRin for winning this year’s Clipta Holiday Video Contest! We hope you all enjoyed participating, and we want to remind you to stay tuned for more exciting contests in the New Year.
Clipta would like to wish a happy and safe holiday to all of our friends and fans! To add to the holiday spirit, Clipta invites you to participate in the Clipta Holiday Video Contest. Clipta is giving away $100 to a random lucky winner for voting for their favorite holiday video.
It could be a video about Chanukah, Kwanzaa, or my favorite… about a drunken Santa. Anything goes, just find a holiday themed video on Clipta.com, click on the “submit to contest” button under the video player, and you are automatically entered to win!!
It’s the easiest $100 bucks you will ever win!
Click here to read more about the contest, or visit our Contest Video Submission page to see the all videos other fans have submitted.
Hurry up and vote because the contest ends on December 25th!
One of the hottest destinations for categorized topics and a “guide to the web”- Kosmix.com– has integratedCliptavideo search into their site to provide more video options to over 5 million of their monthly visitors.
Utilizing Clipta’s easy-to-use and flexible API, Kosmix can now search and display our index of hundreds of millions of online videos and the latest videos from the most popular destinations on the web. Our API allows web publishers and developers to bring completely customizable video search to their sites, along with the ability to use video search results in custom applications and widgets. As users engage with videos on API partner sites, Clipta’s unique search algorithm records the engagement in order to continue improving and to continue delivering even more relevant and tailored search results.
Integration on Kosmix part varies from displaying Clipta video search results on all of their Video sections and also providing Clipta in a list of sources for video on Topic Pages.
Do you have a website with video on it? Do you want to add relevant and related videos from around the web on your site? Then Clipta’s video search API can work for just as it has for many other Clipta partners. For more information, please visit our Clipta API overview or reach us at help@clipta.com.
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About Kosmix (source: CrunchBase): Location: Mountain View, CA Funding: $55M Description: Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Co-Founders Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman previously created Junglee - a Sunnyvale-based provider of database technology that was acquired by Amazon in 1998.
We are excited to announce that last night Clipta’s Video Informer Network showed its 800 millionth video informer! That means that over 3.2 billion individual video news where shown across the web and across Clipta’s partner network
Here is an example of what a Video Informer looks like:
Recently joined web sites like CelebTV.com– leading celebrity, gossip, and entertainment news video provider - help us deliver and promote quality video content across the web and throughout the Clipta Network.
To learn more about Clipta Informer Network and to view our video tutorial click here, and start promoting your content today!
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact our staff at info@clipta.com
Last night’s Clipta Video Search Meetup was a great success thanks to all the guests and panelists who made it out!
Despite the terrible traffic conditions due to the Bay Bridge closing, Club Mighty was filled with a community of entrepreneurs, video enthusiasts and industry leaders – including CEO of Sports Business Simulations and Bay Area Vlogger, Zenophon Abraham, and Cuil’s VP of Biz Dev. Seval Oz Ozveren. While our President, Serge Doubinski, and I demonstrated Clipta’s services, the crowd enjoyed free drinks, and shortly after listened to guest speakers Justin Kan (justin.tv), Tobias Peggs (OneRiot), Jamie Davidson (YouTube Search), and our very own Lenny Doubinski, share their insights about the future online video.
We finished the night with a Clipta Raffle, where 5 lucky winners went home with either an iPod Nano, iTouch, iFlip Ultra, or gift basket from Blue Angle Vodka (congrats!!).
We were excited not only to have an engaged audience at Club Mighty, but we hit over 3,300 views from people tuned in last night @ http://justin.tv/CliptaMeetup!
Julie Blaustein took some excellent photos of the event – see the full photo album here. The photos will also be available on our Facebook Page. Here are a few samples of her pics:
On October 28, we are hosting our first Clipta Video Search Meetup. Come join us at San Francisco’s Club Mightyfor night of networking and discussion with a community of inspired entrepreneurs and video enthusiasts. Our Founder and CTO, Lenny Doubinski, along with expert speakers and business icons Justin Kan (Founder of Justin.Tv), Jamie Davidson (Product Manager for YouTube Search), and Tobias Peggs (General Manager of OneRiot), will share their insights and opinions about the future of online video.
In company with eating delicious pizza, mingling with fellow entrepreneurs, and drinking free booze, Clipta will introduce a new product that will change the way online video is watched on television!
Thanks to our gracious sponsors we are giving away 2 free drinks for the first 100 attendees, and over $1000 worth of raffle prizes, including an iPod Touch, iPod Nano, and much more! Oh, and did I mention this event is FREE!
We welcome all entrepreneurs, video enthusiasts, geeks, and of course…our loyal Clipta Fans.
Based on feedback from our loyal users, Clipta now offers RSS feeds for personal searches, Spotlight Videos, and Top Rated Videos. Clipta will feed videos based on your individual searches and interests from sources around web including Fox, The WB, Hulu, Metacafe, Dailymotion, and thousands more. For example, if you are interested in recent videos on Kanye West, simply type in the keyword in our search, and scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the RSS icon.
Our team will continue to work hard to make sure your suggestions are executed. For any additional feedback, questions, or concerns feel free to email us at info@clipta.com
Remember to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for your favorite online videos:
After receiving feedback from our loyal users around the world, Clipta has released five new localized video search portals, making Clipta one of the most comprehensive online video indexes worldwide. The new language versions are in Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
In our efforts to showcase the breadth of content that is available in our search engine, and to deliver the most relevant results to each country’s Clipta users, Clipta has developed localized ranking algorithms and personalized site design. For example, a search on Clipta’s Turkish portal, http://tr.clipta.com, will most likely deliver Turkish language videos from Turkish providers like Izlesene, Mynet Eksenim, or Hurriet Video. In addition to having access to a complete video library that includes content from leading local providers, users can now upload videos in those particular languages to Clipta Community.
Clipta’s 17 localized portals:
As always, we appreciate your feedback and support. Please send your feedback and/or questions to info@clipta.com, and follow us for more company news, updates, and features on Twitter @Clipta.
In efforts to bring more conversation and live interaction on Clipta, we have implemented a new video commenting feature and live video streams powered by Justin.tv. You can now create video comments as you watch videos on any play page on Clipta.
Video comments that you make will be broadcasted and automatically saved to your Justin.tv channel once you are finished recording. Once a video comment is saved, an image and link to the video will automatically appear in the “About” section of your Justin.tv personal channel.
In order to make live video comments, the user must have an active account with Justin.tv. Sign up with Justin.tv and start making your own live video commentary.
In addition to the live video commentary service, users can now access constantly updated live video streams directly from Justin.Tv on Clipta’s home page.
As always, we appreciate the feedback, questions, and comments of our users. Stay tuned for more live video services and features on Clipta, and let us know what you think!
Today Clipta is excited to announce the release of Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect enables its users to login, watch, rate, and share videos on Clipta. If you are already a Clipta member, linking to your account makes it possible for you to share your video experience on Clipta with your friends on Facebook.
The Clipta integration is extremely simple. Facebook users can now login and watch videos from sources across the web like YouTube,Hulu,TV.com,Metacafe,Myspace, Dailymotion, and hundreds more. After connecting, any video that you “V’Rate”, comment, and add to your favorites, you’ll see a dialog window asking whether or not you want to share that info with your Facebook friends and post it on your feed.
Clipta will continue to offer new ways for you to connect your friends with your online video experience. If you have any suggestions and feedback let us know atinfo@clipta.com.
