Comments on: Metacafe gets a new CEO http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/ The Business of Technology Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: proxieslist.net http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87018 proxieslist.net Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:00:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87018 <p>[...] 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) [...]</p> [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87016 JOseph Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:56:12 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87016 <p>I think all those video sites out there need a niche. look at 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.</p> I think all those video sites out there need a niche. look at (link) . 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87014 Cambrian House Blog Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:30:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87014 <p><strong>5 signs it may be time to step aside as CEO of a startup…</strong></p> <p>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…</p> 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87012 dave Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:44:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87012 <p>anyone else notice how OM is neglecting his site - it's very obvious to me. Starting to suck…</p> anyone else notice how OM is neglecting his site - it’s very obvious to me. Starting to suck…

]]> By: Iri http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87010 Iri Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:52:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87010 <p>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?”</p> 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87000 Julianna Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:25:48 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87000 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>And Ran - how about some support for your fellow Israelis? Great Hasbara you have going there.</p> 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87006 China Internet Market Blog Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:48:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87006 <p>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..</p> 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87004 Michael Stone Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:22:17 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87004 <p>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 <em>not</em> companies to be proud of and certainly not worthy of emulation.</p> <p>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!</p> 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87008 VanillaChin Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:01:17 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87008 <p>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.</p> <p>Thanks to the Metacafe person giving real numbers. Let's stop the comScore madness.</p> 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.

]]> By: Dan F. http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87002 Dan F. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:19:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-87002 <p>Thank you for the posting. It is very interesting and informative.</p> <p>I recently discovered this blog. It is great. I will spread the word to all my friends.</p> Thank you for the posting. It is very interesting and informative.

I recently discovered this blog. It is great. I will spread the word to all my friends.

]]> By: Ran telem http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86998 Ran telem Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:05:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86998 <p>Metacafe is at the beginning of it's drop down. I believe that in two years Metacafe will be a nice name for a new coffee shop down on 3rd and 8st. The thing about companies like Metacafe and its founders is that from the very start, they initiate this concept of: how we will get Yahoo,eBay,Google, and other giants to buy a product out of us. They build a company with no income, no nothing. But down to the bottom line, I think that Metacafe is just not good enough in compare to YouTube, and with Google acquisition, we, I think that nuff said…</p> Metacafe is at the beginning of it’s drop down. I believe that in two years Metacafe will be a nice name for a new coffee shop down on 3rd and 8st. The thing about companies like Metacafe and its founders is that from the very start, they initiate this concept of: how we will get Yahoo,eBay,Google, and other giants to buy a product out of us. They build a company with no income, no nothing. But down to the bottom line, I think that Metacafe is just not good enough in compare to YouTube, and with Google acquisition, we, I think that nuff said…

]]> By: Todd Mitchell's Personal Blog http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86991 Todd Mitchell's Personal Blog Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:29:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86991 <p><strong>Metacafe also doing a switcheroo…</strong></p> <p>A new year, a new start on life at various companies?  Om Malik is reporting that Metacafe, an online video startup, is shaking up the CEO position.  LinkedIn did the same thing late last week/early this week.  I wonder who’s next? …</p> Metacafe also doing a switcheroo…

A new year, a new start on life at various companies?  Om Malik is reporting that Metacafe, an online video startup, is shaking up the CEO position.  LinkedIn did the same thing late last week/early this week.  I wonder who’s next?
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]]> By: Allyson Campa http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86996 Allyson Campa Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:10:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86996 <p>If you look at the global numbers from comScore you will see that Metacafe’s traffic has grown from 16 million unique visitors in November to 17 million unique visitors in December. We can’t explain why comScore shows a dip in US numbers because internally we are seeing consistent growth in our US traffic. </p> <p>Allyson Campa, VP Marketing, Metacafe</p> If you look at the global numbers from comScore you will see that Metacafe’s traffic has grown from 16 million unique visitors in November to 17 million unique visitors in December. We can’t explain why comScore shows a dip in US numbers because internally we are seeing consistent growth in our US traffic.

Allyson Campa, VP Marketing, Metacafe

]]> By: Katie Fehrenbacher http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86993 Katie Fehrenbacher Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:56:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86993 <p>you right - sloppy word choice. changed it - KF</p> you right - sloppy word choice. changed it - KF

]]> By: nono http://gigaom.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86994 nono Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:50:04 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/metacafe-new-ceo/#comment-86994 <p>You don't look for "ways to revive a traffic decline" ;)</p> You don’t look for “ways to revive a traffic decline” ;)

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