Comments on: Metacafe gets a new CEO

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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:40:25 +0000

[...] facing pressure from YouTube, but I’m more optimistic about Metacafe than the others. (via Om) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Putfile Acquired, Bebo Safety, Zooof, MyWaves, Webshots, Smart [...]

By: proxieslist.net

proxieslist.net — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:00:50 +0000

[...] Metacafe CEO - Metacafe has a new CEO: Erick Hachenburg from Electronic Arts is taking over. All the video sharing sites (Revver, Guba) are facing pressure from YouTube, but I’m more optimistic about Metacafe than the others. (via Om) [...]

By: JOseph

JOseph — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:56:12 +0000

I think all those video sites out there need a niche. look at http://www.wewin.com. its a 4 months old video sites and its getting 1MM uniques/months. its simple, clean and easy to user and u can win prizes when watching videos.

By: Cambrian House Blog

Cambrian House Blog — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:30:51 +0000

5 signs it may be time to step aside as CEO of a startup…

GigaOM notes that the current CEOs are stepping down at two booming Internet startups. Both Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, the business networking phenomenon, and Arik Czerniak of Metacafe, an online video sharing site, recently announced that they had chos…

By: dave

dave — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:44:43 +0000

anyone else notice how OM is neglecting his site - it's very obvious to me. Starting to suck…

By: Iri

Iri — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:52:02 +0000

Indeed an interesting post by Katie fehrenbacher and many arguable comments. Who’s right and who’s wrong? Time will tell… All I know is that I joined Metacafe in Nov 2005 to establish and manage their marketing department. I think we all did a great job and we have a few dozen millions of entertained users to “vouch” for it. I personally witnessed Arik, Eyal and many others build a top notch entertainment destination. This was done with tremendous passion, creativity and dedication. I think that people on this blog (more than other people!) should appreciate and support young and talented entrepreneurs. Metacafe, Youtube and others have changed the way we experience video online. I think we should all give a little more credit to each other. Today, I moved on and started my own online healthcare company, but it doesn’t sound right to me to bad mouth the same people that pave the way with ingenuity and hard work for all of us. Before you comment next time ask yourselves? “Have I built a large scale web service from scratch lately?”

By: Julianna

Julianna — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:25:48 +0000

Actually, Metacafe - as opposed to YouTube - DOES have a business model. They've been paying video makers for a few months now and they are also branching out. They actually HAVE a plan.

Everyone is all excited about YouTube's announcement that they will be paying people, but no one knows what the plan is: how much to whom under what conditions.

Ran, I think you are wrong in your prediction of Metacafe's demise. Metacafe doesn't try to be YouTube - they don't like the whole "your daughter's 5th birthday party" thing - they want to good stuff. People go to Metacafe because they know they will quickly find good videos, as opposed to YouTube where you need to be featured to do well, and your videos get lost in a sea of millions of other videos.

And Ran - how about some support for your fellow Israelis? Great Hasbara you have going there.

By: China Internet Market Blog

China Internet Market Blog — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:48:09 +0000

As sites like facebook show, the only you can really know traffic the company has is from official company stats. And the only way to know if that's try is to browse around, and see what people say. By browese I mean - browse the forums, internet, not make phone calls..

By: Michael Stone

Michael Stone — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:22:17 +0000

I agree with Todd. We've seen this movie before. Companies with no clear business model gain a little traffic and hope (pray) for the major company bailout ala Geocities and Broadcast.com. To be clear, although these companies we're ultimately successful for their shareholders, they were not companies to be proud of and certainly not worthy of emulation.

Start a REAL company and slog it out like the rest of the thousands of Internet companies that try like hell to build something real!

By: VanillaChin

VanillaChin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:01:17 +0000

comScore numbers are a joke. They assume you believe that a random panel assembled by random phone digit dialing is the way to establish user data from which you can extrapolate the takeoff rate of a new service.

Thanks to the Metacafe person giving real numbers. Let's stop the comScore madness.