Veeker Media Center
Company Overview
Consumer DescriptionVeeker is Dedicated to Making Mobile Video Communication Fun and Easy Our free service lets you and your friends communicate instantly using the video cameras in your mobile phones. We call these instant video communications “video peeks,” or VEEKS. When you send VEEKS from your phone to Veeker, your friends can view them within seconds at Veeker.com, and (using the embedded VEEKaster) on other websites that accept embed codes, such as MySpace, Xanga, and Blogger. If you don’t have a camera in your mobile phone, you still may view VEEKS from your friends that do, and communicate with them via computer-to-phone text messaging. Veeker also accepts mobile photos. We invite you to explore Veeker and the exciting new world of mobile video communication. Getting Started with Veeker in 5 Easy Steps 1) Shoot a VEEK using the video camera in your mobile phone* 2) Send the VEEK from your phone to v@veeker.com 3) Visit www.veeker.com and enter your phone number on the homepage 4) Create a Veeker account and retrieve your Veek 5) Invite your friends to begin Veeking with you! *Veeker accepts photos from mobile phones too. About the Company Veeker was founded in September 2005 to lead the evolution of mobile communication from audio and text to video. According to IDC, during the period between 2005 and 2009, 2.4 billion mobile phones equipped with video cameras will enter the global marketplace. Veeker believes that mobile video communication will become pervasive, and intends to help the Veeker Generation discover and define this exciting new form of communication. Veeker is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and operates a wholly owned subsidiary in Beijing, China. The company’s team includes executives, technologists, and artists from the entertainment, internet, mobile, and advertising industries. Business Development DescriptionVeeker is Dedicated to Making Mobile Video Communication Fun and Easy Our free service enables members of online and real-life communities to communicate instantly with one another using the video cameras in their mobile phones. We call these instant video communications “video peeks,” or VEEKS. VEEKS sent from mobile phones to Veeker are viewable within seconds at Veeker.com, and (using the embedded VEEKaster) on all other websites that accept embed codes, such as MySpace, Xanga, Blogger, or your own branded site. People who don’t have video cameras in their mobile phones may view VEEKS from their friends that do, and communicate with them by sending text messages from Veeker to their phones. Veeker also accepts mobile photos. We invite you to explore Veeker and the exciting new world of mobile video communication. Partnering with Veeker Providing Veeker functionality to your audience and contributors increases their affinity to your service or site. By simply allowing your members to create a Veeker profile, we provide them with the ability to use Veeker as a management console and portray their “life as it happens” on your website. Our initial partnering approach is perfect for social networking, consumer review, vertical entertainment, and citizen journalism sites. Please contact Marcus Yoder, SVP Operations, for more information: Email: myoder@veeker-corp.com Phone: 415.710.1381 About the Company Veeker was founded in September 2005 to lead the evolution of mobile communication from audio and text to video. According to IDC, during the period between 2005 and 2009, 2.4 billion mobile phones equiped with video cameras will enter the global marketplace. Veeker believes that mobile video communication will become pervasive, and intends to help the Veeker Generation discover and define this exciting new form of communication. Veeker is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and operates a wholly owned subsidiary in Beijing, China. The company’s team includes executives, technologists, and artists from the entertainment, internet, mobile, and advertising industries.
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Recent Coverage
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CoolBusinessIdeas.com, December 29, 2006
ONLINE & SOCIAL NETWORKS
Veeker Video Peeks
You may soon hear people saying "VM me" rather than "IM me". Veeker is a free video messaging service that enables a camera phone owner to shoot video and instantly share it with friends.
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Hellen Vanstrander, December 18, 2006
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DV Format - Veeks sent to VEEKER are viewable within seconds at VEEKER.com, and (using the embedded VEEKERplayer) on any website that accepts embedded codes, such as MySpace, Xanga, and Blogger. Veeks are sent from mobile phones as MMS messages, using the MMS -
Mobile Communities help user-generated content achieve a key position in new-media sector
Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2006
Similar technologies can be used to share opinions. In the U.S., mobile video site Veeker, which allows users to share "video peeks" or "veeks", last month teamed up with Youth Noise, a Web based social network. Together they launched a free service designed to allow young people to use video-enabled phones to contribute opinions and impressions during the US mid term elections on November 7th.The service, called Veek the Vote 2006, invited users to capture and share happenings at polling stations, rallies, protests, parties and any other election-related activities or events.
Election coverage not so long ago was pure television," says Rodger Raderman, Veekers Chief Marketing & Product Officer in San Francisco." Very recently, it became more decentralized by the blogsphere.Veek the Vote 2006 carries this trend a step further, giving young Americans the ability to instantly communicate their election day experiences with video, using nothing more that the mobile phones in their pockets. Over 750 mobile videos were uploaded to veek the Vote from around the US in just seven days.
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More than 750 videos uploaded to VeektheVote during election day
Reiter's Camera Phone Report, December 1, 2006
More than 750 consumer videos were uploaded to Veek the Vote 2006 during Election Day, according to the Veeker.com press release (no direct link, unfortunately).
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Geekery abounds for ambitious Young Dems
Young Democrats of Atlanta, December 1, 2006
Enter Veeker, a tweaky-named new website that quickly takes any video clip you send from your registered cellphone and slaps it up on your Veeker feed, player, and page -- and it sure has the folks over at Personal Democracy Forum all worked up. Partnering with YouthNoise, Veeker put together a large collection of cellphone videos documenting young people's impression of election day. The PDF folks talked it up quite a bit -- "Veekers "Veek The Vote" received over 750 mobile video messages from Americans using the video camera in a mobile phone to show the world where they stood on Election Day (thats a lot compared to Rock the Votes 24 submissions and Video the Votes 96)." -- so I signed up and got me one o'them Veeker thingies. To the right there you can see the one I've stuck on my personal website to give it a test drive. Once I was a member and started watching the Veek the Vote campaign, I was underimpressed; judging by the voice behind the camera, they only hit such an impressive number of submissions through the energy-drink-fueled video message compulsion of a few extremely motivated kids (interns, perhaps?). And while I like the flash player widget -- it does look like exactly the kind of blingy crap the yout's of today are happy to paste up on their MySpace page -- after playing with it for a while and comparing it to the alternatives, I'm not so sure how useful it can be to a group like a YD chapter. Your Veeker player shows on the first row the video clips ("veeks" for video peeks) you have, and in rows below that, the latest veeks from your friends. As you can see, I have no friends, but in my and Veeker's defense, this is still a new service with what appears to be very few users (and finding them is less than friendly; while you can search for people by name -- first OR last, searchign for my full name actually doesn't find me, sadly -- or email, the Veeker site currently lacks the social components of other sites, like browsing by interest or public Groups that can be used to aggregate veeks by content). There's also no way, as yet, to create an account (and thus a customized Veeker feed) based solely on an email address (say, for a group like YDAtl that doesn't have a particular cellphone number), so each new webmaster would have to build a selective group of friends whose feeds will appear in our player. Update: I was wrong: you needn't register a cellphone to view Veeks and make connections, so YDAtl now has its own account. You try keeping up with the rules of all these different websites while modeling 3D shear crack deflection. VeekerPlayers might start popping up all over MySpace pages any day now (what the hell do I know, I thought a YDAtl MySpace page was a terrible idea a year and a half ago because "that site is going nowhere"), but without further development for groups, I consider that experiment a write-off of a few precious dissertation hours. and we'll be ready for it. [Now that I've woken up to the fact that we might be able to form a group of Veekers for mobile media campaigns, I'm much more favorable to Veeker compared to the YouTube/BlipTV blog options below because there are less intermediate steps and fewer security issues.]