Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Blip.tv deal with CNN, others
We’re thrilled that we can finally talk about this. Please excuse the press release, but we’ve got to be very careful about how we talk about this for, uhhh, obvious reasons. But we are super happy and excited and hope you all share in our smiles today.
Blip.tv Signs Licensing Deal With Media Companies
Company Licenses Software to CNN, Oxygen TV Network and the William Shatner DVD Club
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 — Blip.tv, an Internet media company that hosts and distributes Web-based TV shows and videoblogs, announced that CNN has licensed its software to enable people around the world to
send CNN newsworthy footage shot on a cell phone, camcorder or digital camera. Beginning today, anyone can upload footage directly to CNN, via blip.tv software, for consideration for use by the CNN broadcast networks, CNN.com, and its other platforms and services.
Blip.tv also announced today software licensing deals with the Oxygen
Network and the William Shatner DVD Club. The agreements enable anyone to share content directly with these companies for contests, promotions and Web-based features.
“Corporations are recognizing the importance of giving their customers a voice,” said Mike Hudack, CEO of blip.tv. “With tremendous competition in the market, media companies are embracing user-generated content as a way to build strong relationships with their viewers while continuing to reinforce their brands. CNN is elevating the concept of citizen journalism by using blip.tv software to power its I-Report initiative to collect and air — potentially within minutes — eyewitness reports shot anywhere in the world.”
Blip.tv’s software and tools enable companies to attract, collect and manage user-generated content. Oxygen recently licensed blip.tv software for a promotion connected to the Oxygen TV show “Mo’Nique’s F.A.T Chance.” Plus-sized women around the country were invited to compete in an online beauty pageant by submitting photos, videos and comments to a Web site, at http://monique.blip.tv, explaining why they should win a $10,000 “people’s choice” prize. The William Shatner DVD club has licensed blip.tv’s software for a contest, hosted at http://shatner.blip.tv, to find its first spokesperson.
Blip.tv is a leading Internet media company that makes it easy for people to create and distribute original video shows on the Web. Blip.tv gives show producers the freedom to build their own brands and audience while giving them a stake in their own success. Show producers can opt-in to advertising, and blip.tv will split all ad revenues with them. With the most advanced video distribution platform available today, Blip.tv also gives users the tools to distribute videos to blogs, to iTunes, video aggregators and search engines, del.icio.us, Flickr and more. Blip.tv lets show creators maintain complete ownership of their content and supports
Creative Commons licensing.
The blip.tv co-founders spent years building the software that powers http://www.blip.tv and that is now available to corporations who want to accept consumer videos, photos and text on their own sites. “We have built software and created a business model that benefits both our business clients and the videobloggers on our site,” added Hudack.
Blip.tv is a leading Internet media company that empowers individuals to create, produce and distribute video content through the Web. With the most advanced distribution platform for independent video content on the Web, blip.tv utilizes a wide network of partnerships with premier Internet companies.
on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 5:20 pm:
Congratulations! I read about Exchange, but didn’t think for one second CNN would use a service like blip.tv. All the best!
on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 7:51 pm:
Sweet. When’s the party?
on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 at 4:42 am:
Erm. Like wow? that’s great news. blip has great underlying code you can tell from the quality and ease of use of the backend and the way that you can deploy features. It has been well thought out. I wish you all the best.
Give us a job.
Phil
http://r3wind.com/blog
on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 at 6:46 pm:
I am so very happy to hear of your success! Congratulations! I’m also very happy that CNN has taken the initiative to allow citizen journalism. What a great step in the democratic process!
Adam
on Sunday, August 6th, 2006 at 1:03 am:
Party, yes! Good news guys, go on vacation now :)
on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 6:50 am:
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