News video clip site 1Cast formally launched today, adding content deals with E! Entertainment and Style along with distribution on Boxee and Clearwire. 1Cast users can search, set up personal queues, and share short videos from sources including BBC World News, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business News, Reuters, Dow Jones, AFP and Al Jazeera. The service already has apps for the iPhone and Android.
Though its beta was open to the public, Kirkland, Wash.-based 1Cast is not disclosing how many people are already using the service. However, it said it now has 3.2 million monthly video views, with traffic increasing at a compound monthly growth rate of 130 percent over the last six months and users staying for significant portions of time, especially on mobile phones. 1Cast competes with a variety of companies such as RedLasso (which just relaunched last week after surviving lawsuits from content owners it didn’t have deals with at the time), Veveo, ClipSyndicate and Grab Networks (formerly Voxant) and Mochila. It is backed by Clearwire founder Craig McCaw’s Eagle River Holdings. We started tracking the company when it was in stealth last summer.
{"source":"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/21\/1cast-launches-news-clipping-service\/wijax\/49e8740702c6da9341d50357217fb629","varname":"wijax_1ed5017d272c3a9926f1a6f631b31de8","title_element":"header","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Cheader%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fheader%3E"}