Web 2.0 Video Startups to watch – 2007

Riprendo l’articolo di Business 2.0 con le 25 più promettenti  startup web 2.0 per il 2007. Riporto le news in merito alle Video company. Iniziamo, ovviamente, con:

joost : Funding: Not disclosed

The duo behind peer-to-peer services Kazaa and Skype will officially launch Joost this spring, aiming to merge the best of TV with the best of the Net.

The service provides more of a television-style experience than current online video sites, with channels you can flip through randomly or program yourself. Viewers can also share playlists of their favorite shows with friends or chat with them online while watching the same program.

Dabble: Funding: $750,000 (Hank Barry, Evan Williams, others)

Dabble has designed a tool for organizing videos into playlists of favorites. Users share them across the network, so, say, food lovers can dabble in one another’s video collections.

Metacafe: Funding: $20 million (Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital)

Metacafe’s service ranks uploaded videos by popularity and feedback from a community of 17 million monthly visitors – and pays the creators for the success of their work. The auteurs get $100 after 20,000 viewings and $5 for every 1,000 subsequent views. Since September, Metacafe has paid a total of $250,000 to 200 contributors.

Revision 3: Funding: $1 Million (Adelson, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, others)

Revision 3 is a production studio for geek-oriented online shows. Started by Digg founder Kevin Rose and its CEO, Jay Adelson, Revision3 sells sponsorships to companies like Go Daddy, Microsoft, and Sony for as much as $10,000 per episode.

Blip.tv: Funding: Not disclosed (Ron Conway, Mark Gerson, Ken Lerer, Peter Thiel)

Blip.tv has built a platform for syndicating serialized online shows such as Starring Amanda Congdon and TreeHugger TV. Blip provides producers with software, ads, and distribution to websites and blogs. A deal is already signed with Web TV service Akimbo, which lets producers send their videos to TV sets.