VideoPlaza: right place and time for a video ad overlay service
Written on July 13, 2008 – 6:17 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Swedish video advertisement overlay service VideoPlaza has received €420,000 seed investment from Nordic VC Creandum and angels Henrik Torstensson and Magnus Hultman. VideoPlaza has been doing well - partnering up with Sweden’s number-three pay-TV station Kanal 5’s website and two other clients - and operates in a booming market.
CEO Sorosh Tavakoli
The Swedes watch 115% more online videos over the last year, so VideoPlaza has enough content to monetize. The money will be used for international expansion.
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal got two anonymous sources talking about YouTube’s failing advertisement strategy. The video giant generates 10 billion video views a day, but ‘only’ manages to make $200 million a year from advertising. Thus the Google-owned company might introduce pre and post-roll ads, said the sources to WSJ.
This YouTube story symbolizes the need for video sites to monetize their content. VideoPlaza - that offers overlay ads for Flash and Silverlight videos - will be one of many video ad start-ups that receive a financial boost. It’s time for them to fix those crappy business models.
By the way, VideoPlaza has an effective and friendly team page - good inspiration for yours.
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