Qlipso Integrates Pioneering Social Features into Veoh.com; More Than Doubles Average Video Viewing Duration
Millions of Veoh users can now share online content with live
interactive webcams, 3D animated avatars, voice chat and other social
features
LOS ANGELES/PRNewswire/ -- Innovative content sharing
company Qlipso today announced that following the acquisition of
substantially all of the assets of the Web's 10th largest video portal,
Veoh.com in Spring 2010, it has successfully integrated its multiuser
content-sharing platform into Veoh.com. Veoh continues to draw strong
usage among core and new users, with more than 12 million unique monthly
visitors in June 2010.
User engagement on Veoh.com continues to surge. The average duration
of videos watched on the site exceeded 10 minutes per video in June,
more than double the industry average of 4 minutes per video, as
measured by comScore. Furthermore, within the Qlipso social content
sharing environment, user consumption has reached an unprecedented 20
minutes.
Qlipso added its signature social feature, the "Share Live With
Friends" tab, in the top-left corner of the Veoh video player. This
takes users to a special social content room where they can share media
and interact socially -- in real time -- with others, represent
themselves as 3D animated avatars as well as chat live via instant
messaging, voice chat and live webcams.
"We've made tremendous progress by implementing Qlipso's innovative
social features onto the global Veoh portal within 100 days from the
acquisition," said Jon Goldman, CEO of Qlipso. "With a strong team in
locations around the world, we are working to overhaul the user
experience to bring multi-user interaction to the world of mainstream
content like videos and music."
The Qlipso platform has already produced exciting results.
Since its asset purchase of Veoh.com, and subsequent integration of
social-viewing features within both sites, more than 2,000 new users per
day are registering for multi-user video viewing with Qlipso. Over
10,000 daily visitors are sampling the Qlipso experience, where 20% of
registrants have never visited Veoh before. Qlipso is effectively
expanding the audience on top of lengthening the average viewing
session.
In the coming weeks and months, Qlipso will be integrating other
socially-focused services into the Veoh portal, such as content-themed
viewing rooms, a virtual goods marketplace for Veoh's animated 3D
avatars and socially-interactive content-viewing parties during specific
holidays, concerts, sporting events and other entertainment.
"The future of online video is a fun, socially interactive
environment for people to share and enjoy all types of media, much in
the way people interact and socialize with each other in real life --
and we're excited to be leading this evolution," said Goldman.
About Qlipso
Qlipso, a Jerusalem Venture Partners (www.jvpvc.com) portfolio
company, is the first completely portable Web-based experience allowing
users to share any type of Flash-based media live and synchronized with
their friends and family in a relaxed and secure online social setting.
Personalization options include avatar creation and webcam support,
thereby enabling users to interact with each other while viewing the
media simultaneously. As a business partner, Qlipso integrates with
websites to allow their audience to invite friends to share content, as
well as to open up new revenue streams, like virtual item sales. The
company has offices in Los Angeles and in the JVP Media Quarter in
Jerusalem. For more information, please visit www.qlipso.com .
About Veoh
Now powered by Qlipso, the multiuser content-sharing platform,
Veoh.com features a library of more than one million videos, TV shows,
online games and other interactive content, and a user base of more than
12 million active monthly viewers. The acquisition of substantially all
of the assets of Veoh.com by Qlipso in March 2010 enhanced Veoh's
online video platform by incorporating many of Qlipso's
socially-interactive viewing and content-sharing features. For more
information, please visit http://www.veoh.com/.
MEDIA CONTACT on behalf of Qlipso
Josh Sternberg
Sternberg Strategic Communications
P: 347.715.7347
E: josh@sternbergcommunications.com
Source: Qlipso
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