Posts Tagged ‘blip.tv’

Original web series destination site Blip has just closed a $12 million financing round to develop new tools and services for independent producers.

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The founders of companies including social news service Reddit, Web video service Blip.tv college social networking venture 2tor briefed an assembly of 150 high-school and college students from the D.C. area on how to start a business from nothing.

Blip.tv is looking to become more than a blip on the online-video radar screen following its agreement with The Collective’s Collective Digital Studio, which will allow it to distribute and monetize content from Collective creators — including Annoying Orange, FreddieW, Fred, and iJustine — to YouTube and other platforms.

I was at a prominent internet startup event in New York City last November, where one of the guest speakers was Justin Day, the Chief Technology Officer of huge web success story, blip.tv. He said that one should NOT build a web business with the goal of selling it, using himself and his friends as [...]

Thinking about running an online video ad campaign can be daunting, especially if you’ve already maxed out your resources on creating television and print ads. Blip.tv is taking the load off advertisers, producing their Web video ads for them.

Blip.tv has announced that they are going to start sending checks out to creators on a monthly basis. It’s payday, Blip creators!

Money really is one of the biggest motivators, and Blip.tv is sure to motivate their creators to improve upon their content and promotions with the announcement that they will be paying $10 to $15 per 1,000 views.

Blip.tv co-founder and chief technology officer Justin Day told Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser the online-video site will adopt HTML5 as its standard player for the Web and other platforms, replacing Adobe’s Flash.

Day told Beet.TV HTML5 runs within the browser without a plug-in, and “faster.” Beet.TV uses Blip.tv as its principal video player. Read more

Twitter announced content partnerships with blip.tv, Instagram, Rdio, SlideShare, and Dipdive, as announced in a post on the Twitter Blog by Jodi Olson of its corporate-communications team. Highlights:

We’re on a mission to give you more great multimedia content on Twitter, and today we’re adding five new companies to bring you independent TV shows, photos, works of art, slide presentations, and entire songs, all right inside the details pane. Twitter users can access embedded media from more than 20 partners in total, including these new companies:

blip.tv: Watch more than 50,000 independently-produced Web TV shows.

Instagram: View mobile photos, personalized with Instagram’s colorful filters.

Rdio: When a subscriber Tweets out a song, you can listen to full-length songs right inside the details pane, for the first time ever.

SlideShare: Read and share entire presentations, directly on Twitter.

Dipdive: See photos, videos and new works from Dipdive’s community of artists.

In the next few months, we’ll integrate with more content partners. For Twitter users, this means that 140 characters can contain a world of multimedia content, and instantly connect you to video, photo, music, and media services all across the Web.

Blip.tv announced some exciting news on their blog today – the online video platform has surpassed 100 million video views per month. The site had a total of 113 million views in October and is on pace to reach 137 million in November.