| 词条 | Vidyard |
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|name = Vidyard |industry = Internet |location = Canada |url = {{URL|http://www.vidyard.com/|Vidyard.com}} |website_type = Video hosting |launch_date = {{Start date|2011|07}} |current_status = Active }} Vidyard is a software company headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, that creates software to host and analyze video performance. Founded in May 2010, Vidyard aims to provide customers with the analytics and tools they need to drive business growth through video. BeginningsOriginally starting as a fourth-year design project at the University of Waterloo, cofounders Michael Litt, Devon Galloway, and Edward Wu launched the company in August 2011. On November 17, 2011, Vidyard announced $1.65 million in seed funding from investors including Softech VC, YouTube Co-founder Jawed Karim, Y Combinator (company), and GMail creator Paul Buchheit.[1] Among the graduating class of Y Combinator, Vidyard was listed as second among five startups to keep an eye on,[2] as well as fifth among the top 15 startups in Canada.[3] HistoryMichael Litt was going into his last year of school while he was creating short explanation videos for companies along with co-founder Devon Galloway. A majority of their clients were putting their videos online with YouTube and Vimeo, but were complaining about both products. While brainstorming ideas for his end-of-curriculum design project, Michael Litt decided to build Vidyard, to address the video hosting issues that his clients were having.[4] After graduating, he applied to Y Combinator and began raising funds to launch the company. Major featuresA/B split testingMultiple thumbnails/splashscreens can be uploaded for each video. Percentages of how often each thumbnail will appear can be specified in a dashboard, and the playthrough clicks are counted and analyzed for each thumbnail. SyndicationContent can be scheduled to push to multiple social platforms including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. When a video is uploaded to Vidyard, it simultaneously gets uploaded to other services, along with the metadata and tags. In addition, videos from YouTube can be pulled into the Vidyard player, meaning videos do not have to be hosted on the service itself. Call to actionsVidyard offers two different kinds of call to actions. A popout call to action is a customizable frame that slides out from the player at a specified duration of the video. Video marketers generally use this feature to "place a contact form, a buy button, a landing page, and more at the end of videos."[5] The second kind is a final call to action, which redirects the player or the entire page that the video is embedded on to a different location. Player customizationThe Vidyard player can be customized by the user through a dashboard. The player skin (style of the controlbars, and other on-video elements), the colors, as well as animations can be specified by the user. Vidyard also offers watermarking on all uploaded videos. Players can be embedded via a script code, iframe, or lightbox. IntegrationsVidyard's platform integrates with robust tools and other marketing technologies used by most marketers daily. Some of these integrations include connectivity into various Marketing Automation Platforms such as Marketo and Eloqua, into CRM systems such as Salesforce.com, and into email campaign software like ExactTarget and Mailchimp. Recently, Vidyard has built API connectivity with Adobe CMS, Gmail and Outlook. These integrations compose the core advantages of Vidyard compared to others in the advertising video technology space. References1. ^{{cite web|title=Vidyard raises $1.65M to get enterprise videos online|url=http://gigaom.com/video/vidyard/}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=5 startups to watch from Y-Combinator’s Summer 2011 class|url=http://gigaom.com/2011/08/23/5-startups-to-watch-y-combinator-summer-2011-class/}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Announcing this years 15 Top Startups from across Canada |url=http://www.metabridge.ca/annual-retreat/june-2012/2012-emerging-companies/ |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706003128/http://www.metabridge.ca/annual-retreat/june-2012/2012-emerging-companies/ |archivedate=July 6, 2012 }} 4. ^{{cite web|title=The Incurable Entrepreneur: Vidyard's Michael Litt|url=https://www.communitech.ca/vidyard-michael-litt/3/}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=The Best Video Hosting Solutions|url=http://planetnutshell.com/nutshell-news/the-best-video-hosting-solutions/}} External links
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