Virool is a fast growing video promotion network.
Virool is rapidly growing its publisher network that contains almost 15,000 sites, apps and games promoting Virool videos.
We are looking for exceptional person to oversee and lead this growth
Publisher growth person will be in charge of:
-Developing new relations with publishers
-Publisher happiness: working with existing accounts- support, integration, help, billing
-Collaborating w tech and marketing teams
Skills and requirements:
-(Required) Strong communication and negotiation skills
-(At least!) basic tech skills - html, databases (sql) scripting languages like ruby or python, os shells
-(Desired) At least 2 years experience in ads / publisher relations.
Offer:
Competitive salary and stock options Opportunity to work in a small, but fast-growing startup and become key factor if its success. Nice loft/office in SF,SOMA with lots of free food and other startup perks.
to apply: jobs (at) virool.com subject: 'publisher growth - HN'
as someone who dealt with L1/L2 visas for myself and my wife and someone who knows OP, his wife and his story in person, i can assure you that this story is absolutely TRUE. period.
getting visa in US embassies abroad after having it approved in US is a complete MESS. This is well known fact for almost anyone who dealt with it. There are tens of scary stories that international founders (including YC founders) could share about that.
Also stating that someone is lying without clarifying details does not make one look smarter (although might bring some quick carma here)
So when you talk to journalists you never know what part of whole conversation they will highlight:) I am not a fan of this example too, i dont think it represents well what are we doing as a company, but a lot of them catch this since it corresponds with our catchy name.
the idea of our service is simply to get relevant videos in front the right audiences. as someone below correctly commented its essentially AdSense for Videos. since we dont have fixed ad units but rather offer API to developers its up to them how obtrusive/native they want to place it. so far we have seen both very abusive and very nice implementations when video was nicely integrated in some games natively.
Its truly amazing to see how far few hundred bucks can get you this days, but can we please stop calling these stratosphere launches 'sending to space'? Is it just me or 'sending balloon to space' sounds like joke?
Seems launching another one(or even few) could be cheaper than searching for this one...
Be careful with your targeting and keywords - since many publishers use our real-time API they can deliver your campaigns very quickly. Shoot me email and I can look into your account and give you some tips and $10 credit.
Exactly. Pre-rolls and banners suck (since they are coming from traditional newspapers/web page/TV era), so we are building video ad network for developers so they can plug to our APIs and grab our videos to place them in their APPs(streams etc), facebook apps, mobile etc the way they want it.
This is the most useful service i discovered i recent months. period. I seriously recommend this to anyone in SF. I dont remember the last time i went shopping for groceries. It already saved me tons of hours and money. no-brainer.
disclaimer: my company is in the same YC batch and I know Apoorva personally and was happy to get early access to service.
so what? as i mentioned i know 9gag founders since they are from the same yc batch. they are extremely smart and talented guys, that already archived a lot and set very ambitious goals for their company future. i honestly wish them luck and excited to see them succeeding.
actually they manage to build their own community around it. there was even 'war' 9gag vs 4chan sometime ago and surprisingly their members were able to defend against 4chan spam and even counter attack.
saying that something is easy is easy. fyi these guys are already profitable and killing it money-wise. also take look at their page structure - they are not even optimizing for pageviews- you can scroll and see tons on pics on one page. 9gag is killing it by all metrics, and have some great products to intro in upcoming months.
disclaimer: I obviously dont work for 9gag, but I know the founders, since they are from the same yc batch.
There are a lot of cases even on bigger SW projects when for some roles(designers, tech writers) just basic git skills would save a lot of nerves to developers.
Designers can fix small things, like images, tweak html a bit etc. They dont need to know how to create/merge new branches etc..
I dont see that Git is trying to pretend that its simple but i can see how that interactive tutorial can be incredible useful to a lot of people.
Even worse thing they are doing is lying to all my friends.
Use case(happend to me on May 4th):
1) I watched some video on YouTube.com. Yes, just on youtube, not even on their site or app, althoug SC had access to my fb at by that time.
2) I liked that video and shared it on my FB stream from YouTube page
3) Since socialcam had access to my stream and they somehow monitored it and within a minutes posted another update to my wall:
Vladimir Gurgov watched a video on Socialcam
Video recorded with Socialcam on April 19, 2012
Release Date: Friday, May 4, 2012 at 12:53pm
This video was NOT watched on Socialcam and was NOT recorded with Socialcam. Its YT video that i watched on YouTube.com. To me its clear lying or misleading all of my fb friends.
With all the respect to fellows at Socialcam I am questioning such marketing tactics etiquette.
I am wondering what HN community think of it?
disclosure: I am one of my projects is videolla.com - its one of the biggest online video marketplaces. We can share some interesting stats on this. Yes, most of smart sellers sell for under 5 bucks. Its doesnts make much difference in you charge $3-4, anything that under 5 is about same conv. rate. if you are more greedy results will be lower.
and yes paypal is killing it! Its our default payment method and most of buyers prefer it, since they know that its safe.
Virool is a fast growing video promotion network. Virool is rapidly growing its publisher network that contains almost 15,000 sites, apps and games promoting Virool videos.
We are looking for exceptional person to oversee and lead this growth
Publisher growth person will be in charge of:
-Developing new relations with publishers
-Publisher happiness: working with existing accounts- support, integration, help, billing
-Collaborating w tech and marketing teams
Skills and requirements:
-(Required) Strong communication and negotiation skills
-(At least!) basic tech skills - html, databases (sql) scripting languages like ruby or python, os shells
-(Desired) At least 2 years experience in ads / publisher relations.
Offer:
Competitive salary and stock options Opportunity to work in a small, but fast-growing startup and become key factor if its success. Nice loft/office in SF,SOMA with lots of free food and other startup perks.
to apply: jobs (at) virool.com subject: 'publisher growth - HN'
Also we are hiring for number of sales, RnD and design position: https://www.virool.com/about/work-at-virool