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Metacafe.com is one of the largest communities on the internet providing media and video sharing. Not only this, it also allows surfers to download ring tones, games, sound clips, and pod cast. Video addicts share thousands of video through this site everyday. Metacafe was established way back in July, 2003. The founders are Arik Czeniak (CEO and Co-Founder), Eyal Herzog (CTO and Co-Founder), and Ofer Adler (Board Member). Earlier Arik Czeniak had served the Israeli army until 2003 as a fighter pilot. After that he acquired an MBA and founded Metacafe Inc. with Eyal Herzog after raising $4 million from Benchmark Capital and private investors. In June 2006, another round of financing took place and this time company raised $15 million from Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners. The company, in late 2006, was about to be sold to another company, but the deal broke off due to decline in traffic.
Features and Content
metacafe has huge interesting video content
Desktop Application
Metacafe made a desktop application with the help of which surfers can download funny videos, viral ads, or internet videos and manage them too. These high-quality media are related to almost any subject and occasion and are downloaded to a remote pc while the computer is idle so as to not to consume the resources while someone is using the computer.
Pre-Filtering
According to the Metacafe users are restricted to upload pornographic, illegal, abusive, violent, and hateful videos. Even after the users submit videos a strict control is maintained and precautions are taken to provide people with only real entertaining stuff but not any embarrassing or disturbing material. When a video is posted on Metacafe the “Video Footprint search” is carried out by the Metacafe staff to find any duplicate videos of that and is subsequently deleted if found, after which the video is posted on the site. The reviewers can post their reviews and comments on the. The videos are then ranked, at the end only 10% of the videos survive. Also, a family filter feature is provided on the site to safeguard children from illicit material.
Producer Rewards
This program began in October, 2006, for upgrading the quality of videos being posted on the site. According to this, users receive $5 for every 1,000 views after crossing the 20,000 mark. While in the initial stages of this program, 30 videos owners received $60,000 combined the top video creator received almost $25,000. After this revamping of the site, Metacafe, in October 2003, was ranked the third largest video site and the quality of online video library improved tremendously.
Tags and RSS Feeds
Tags that are added along with the video play a vital role in optimizing search results. The tags are really appropriate and are of great help to the users. One can subscribe to a RSS feed to view latest content on the website. Information is added to the Common Feed List which can be viewed through Internet Explorer. This is a really helpful feature for those who are always on the look out for new quality videos.
Languages
English
Address
- US
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