Ooyala Video Solutions

Ooyala is a video technology company committed to providing publishers, advertisers, and content owners with syndication and monetization solutions for high quality video. Founded in early 2007 by Sean Knapp, Belsasar Lepe and Bismarck Lepe - all former Google employees. While at Google, they worked on the development and launch of various monetization and content distribution products such as AdSense, AdWords and Google Web Search. After four years of engineering and product development at the biggest Internet company in the world, the three left Google to start Ooyala. Ooyala has raised over 10 million dollars in funding and has in excess of 5000 publishers using its syndication platform - Backlot. Ooyala’s goal is to build a successful technology company that focuses on delivering the best video experience to video content providers, advertisers and most importantly consumers.

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Cheap And Easy Video Power

Less than twenty years ago, you would have never had a chance at creating something that over a million people would see or hear unless you were signed with a big music label, or you were going to have a movie made with a major movie studio.

We are living in a whole new world now, where somebody with a borrowed video camera on a borrowed computer spending maybe $50 could literally make a video that could be seen by millions of people at video sharing sites, and what’s more there are people online who are doing it all the time. Such is the power of online video. Read the story »

Video Submission For Dummies

New to online video, not yet uploaded any videos to video sharing sites, not quite sure what to do, then read on.

So you have one or more videos already shot and you want to take advantage of the free online video sharing sites so your videos will drive traffic to your website. If you have not yet subscribed to any sites then this is your first step. All the major video sharing sites, YouTube, Google Video, Break, DailyMotion and others do things similarly. So here’s what you should expect at each site:

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