Why indexing the long tail doomed video sites

Founder and CEO Roman Arzhintar on how video evolved from indexing to curatingA number of video search engines emerged in 2005-2006, only to find themselves struggling to survive, or consolidated away. You can refer to these video startups as part of the YouTube era of video. But one startup, SideReel, which raised $1.5 million in angel funding since it launched in 2007, continues to deliver impressinve growth on its own. In this interview with Roman Arzhintar, founder and CEO of SideReel, talks about the evolution of the video search engines and why some failed and others survived, and where SideReel differed. Starting five years ago, a number of sites helping to organize or index video emerged - from Guba, Grouper, Veoh, MetaCafa, Daily Motion, ClipBlast, Pixsy, Blinkx and Truveo, just to name ... [http://vator.tv/n/1117 read more]

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• Roman Arzhintar
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• Internet Social Media
• Internet Video
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