23
Oct

Just impressive HD

by Videoagency
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hey guys have a look and you will will really understand why quality has a real smart future…(watch fullscreen and wait a few seconds…)

You have to go to Vimeo to check it in FULL HD. You won’t regret.

20
Oct

A long time ago…

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Hi it’s been a while I didn’t post. But we had good reasons…We focus on clients and might have good news to announce soon :)

In meantime we pursue our goal : Make video production a commodity. I really trust that diffuse is already a commodity but produce is still hard (who ? background ? pricing?)… So Videoagency will achieve his goal : Make video production a commodity.
Jimmy is now our unique developer but this guy really rocks and he is impressive about maturity and volunteer. Only 22 years old but so determined. Obviously we also rely on free lance we love to work with to boost development.

Flavio is always on top, efficient, productive and positive.

It’s so powerful to be a small and strong team.

We’ll soon have 4 000 filmmakers in our filmmaker network in over 1 800 cities worldwide. Impressive ? No, it’s just a beginning. We are really looking for people with talent and passion everywhere. The ones who show you the world with fresh and creative eyes.

In my next posts I will talk more and more about and to filmmakers.

At Videoagency the real stars at the end are the ones who produce, the ones with a camera…

23
Jul

Interview with Sam Osborne Director of photography (Film & Video). (Spain/UK/Ireland)

by Flavio Garcea
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Sam Osbornetells us about himself and his career as well as describing his experience as a Videoagency filmmaker.

23
Jul

Interview with John Love – CEO of Spotmixer (USA)

by Flavio Garcea
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Interview with John Love, CEO of SpotMixer. He tells us how the idea for SpotMixer (the B2B service they recently launched) wasborn because they noticed that many small businesses were using their consumer service to create internet video ads.

Interview conducted at the EADP Conference in Barcelona, 2008.

23
Jul

Interview with Lionel Smith – TDS Directory Operations (Pty) Ltd. (South Africa)

by Flavio Garcea
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Lionel Smith gives us the key metrics forTDS’s online directory in South Africa, yellowpages.co.za. He also talks about the impact of Google on local search and their online directory.

Interview conducted at the EADP Conference in Barcelona, 2008.

23
Jul

Interview with Alon Raz – Golden Pages Israel (Israel)

by Flavio Garcea
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Alon Raz gives us key metrics for Golden Pages Israel, a company with a US$90 million turnover. He also gives us an insight into the Israeli market for directories and the need to move customers and revenue from print to online, a common challenge for directories all over the world.

Interview conducted at the EADP Conference in Barcelona, 2008.

9
May

WOW! Videoagency featured on the Kelsey Group Blog

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Kelsey and Videoagency logos

We are proud to announce that Videoagency and our new Local Video Player Solution (LVPS) – which we have developed in partnership with AgendiZe and PLY Media – were featured and reviewed with enthusiasm on the Kelsey Group Blog. Please see the demo of this player here.

The Kelsey Group is the most important analyst in Local Search. In their own words: “The Kelsey Group is the leading provider of strategic research and analysis, data and competitive metrics on Yellow Pages, electronic directories, local search, SMB advertising and local media.”

Thank you Mike Boland for your words!

8
May

Videoagency Partners with AgendiZe to Deliver Interactive, Local Video Ads for SMBs

by Videoagency
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Introducing the first local video player solution featuring Call Tracking, Click-to-Call, Save and Share features with local mapping and subtitling.

Barcelona, Spain—May 8, 2008—Today at the EADP Conference on Managing Directories in Barcelona, Spain, AgendiZe, the premier provider of call-to-action services, and Videoagency, the next generation video production company, announce their partnership to introduce the first local video player solution (LVPS) for small businesses. Now SMBs can present targeted, local video advertisements to their customers with convenient, built-in Call Tracking, Click-to-Call, Save and Share, and local mapping features.

“We decided to partner with AgendiZe because their Call-to-Action suite connects users with the widest array of social services, click-to-call, and local mapping features, and they offer deep experience working with the IYP industry,” said Thomas Owadenko, CEO Videoagency.tv. “By combining our next-generation video production network with their Call-to-Action services, we can present SMBs with a powerful local video player solution where consumers can not only watch local ads, but take immediate action when they see them.”

Videoagency’s local video player solution (LVPS) is powered by Videoagency’s next generation video network. Video content can be created by tapping into Videoagency’s global network of more than 4,000 filmmakers and can then be optimized and distributed across the web, utilizing Videoagency’s video search engine optimization (VSEO) tool to maximize the visibility of video content to search engines. Subtitles are also provided in partnership with Ply Media, and allow SMBs to target a much larger audience affordably.

Videoagency’s LVPS incorporates AgendiZe’s comprehensive Call-to-Action suite, making local video ads actionable for any SMB. Users that view local video ads can click-to-call the business or click-to-save and share business information or maps on Facebook, AIM, SMS, MySpace, del.icio.us, blogs, email and more than 100 services and devices. AgendiZe’s Call-to-Action capabilities make it easy for users to visit or contact local businesses, or spread the word virally to their friends—all while they are watching local ads powered by Videoagency’s LVPS. AgendiZe also provides unified reporting and tracking across all services, so SMBs can easily analyze their customer interaction and calls received.

“The challenge that most SMBs face with online video advertising is getting the customer to physically complete the last mile to visit their location in person or to pick up the phone and call them,” said Alexandre Rambaud, founder and CEO of AgendiZe. “Videoagency’s LVPS is the only local video solution that’s powered by AgendiZe’s Call-to-Action suite, which makes it easy and intuitive for a user to simply click-to-call, send a map to themselves or share the business’s info with their friends.”

The AgendiZe Call-to-Action Platform currently powers over 20 of the world’s leading online classifieds and directories, including Yellow Book USA, Yellow Pages Canada, QDQ Media and Editus, extending the reach and duration of any advertisers’ online content by making it possible for users to extract information from the Web and save it to different devices or share it with friends and colleagues. More than one million local advertisers use AgendiZe call-to-action services worldwide.

About AgendiZe (http://www.agendize.com)
The AgendiZe Call-to-Action Platform enhances any online marketing, advertising and e-commerce effort by engaging the social consumer. AgendiZe offers a complete suite of Call Tracking, Click-to-Call, Click to Chat, Click-to-Save and Click-to-Share solutions that integrates with more than 100 popular chat, mobile messaging, calendar, social bookmarking, email and enterprise communications services on a wide variety of personal communications devices. Founded in 2003 and privately held, AgendiZe has offices in Troyes, France and San Francisco, CA. For more information visit: http://www.agendize.com

About Videoagency (http://www.videoagency.tv)
Videoagency produces quality internet videos in high volumes and at low cost. With the largest filmmaker network in Europe, Videoagency can send a professional to any business easily, and their powerful production workflow tool allows them to manage hundreds of video shoots simultaneously. In 2007, Videoagency produced over 600 hotel videos in ten European cities in under two months, demonstrating the efficiency of their process and network. Videoagency’s production service is now available as a white label product to companies who need to offer video solutions directly to their clients. For more information, please visit http://www.videoagency.tv

For additional information, please contact: press@agendize.com and/or info@videoagency.tv

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5
May

Interview with Bryan Crow – CTO of Wonderhowto.com

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I didn’t know Wonderhowto before coming at Video searh summit but just found the idea very smart strategically. Many players in the ‘how to’ business are investing tons of venture money to create content. howto requests in main search engines represent a few percentages of all the requests so it’s a good place where to be and obviously it’s really long tail…

Wonderhowto knows perfectcly that the value chain to monetize such an investment is not yet ready so they decided to become the aggregating platform and wait to see how and when monetization will come. Time-to-market is just key and these guys know it so they improve their SEO and moreover their VSEO to get free traffic. Moreover they have a stronger value proposition than the one they aggregate because they just have much more content for FREE.

Have a look these guys do a wonderful job in VSEO. Moreover their VC are one of the best VC I’ve met during my roadshow in US : General Catalyst

Their CEO (Stephen Chao) has a long expertise in producing content as he was executive at Fox during a while.
He told me that’s because he knows costs that he decided to not produce :-)

Soon the interview with Mr Chao.

29
Apr

Interview with THE VSEO expert: Marc Robertson from Reelseo

by Videoagency
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I enjoyed to meet our US partner Marc Robertson from reelseo. Marc is defintely the guy to follow about the emerging technicals about video and search. He has over 10 years of experience in SEO and he is following everything about what’s going in Video search. SEO dude is the title he metionned on his business card ;-)

BTW we talked with Marc during this interview about how to index videos on Internet, google universal and others really interesting stuff. Thanks Marc and let’s mve this industry and let’s try to make talk big guys at Google in charge of this… Google swat team are you around ?