Vladimir Dubinsky
Sunnyvale, CA (USA)
Role(s):
C-Level Executive (CEO, CFO, etc.)
Clipta Inc.
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Location:
Sunnyvale
Industry:
Internet
Year Founded:
2008
Number Employees:
10-50 people
Description:
Clipta is a new media company focused on delivering the ultimate video search experience and bringing innovation to video consumption worldwide.
Clipta is one of the largest video indexes on the web, and a destination for Internet users to find, discover, share, and interact with videos. Clipta is an intelligent video search engine that improves the online search experience by helping users find the most relevant videos from any source worldwide. With a combination of new technologies including deep crawling and video search algorithms, Clipta quickly collects content and delivers targeted and tailored video search results.
Clipta collected and made available over 300 million videos to its users worldwide. Clipta will collect an unprecedented 1 billion videos by 2011. Clipta Video Informer, a video content promotion service has already received over 1 billion impressions.
With no advertisement spending to date, traffic has been rapidly growing and now Clipta attracts over 3 million unique monthly users.
Clipta’s team of engineers developed software which makes Clipta video search smarter and more efficient. One of the highly regarded achievements is the successful implementation of self-learning deep-crawler technology that enables faster, more immediate collection of any video content of the web, providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date index of videos. Clipta can prove and demonstrate the capability of its deep-crawlers to index over 2 million videos per day, and make this video content searchable and available on demand. Based on extensive research and analysis, none of the currently available video crawling technologies can achieve these speeds and volume.
Our video search algorithm combines all available video content in one place: static, live, news, premium, paid and offline video content. Clipta will provide videos based on information collected from many aspects of user behavior, to deliver the most relevant results to the viewer. Clipta developed a custom ranking system with multiple relevance parameters including semantic and real-time search. Our database is scalable; enables it to grow to a significant size while supporting an ever-increasing rate of video searches per second.
Clipta created numerous tools and applications to connect consumers with video content from around the world. These tools and applications include: video and search toolbar, custom video player, multiple mobile applications (iPhone), video news platform, music video and video informer platform, and integrated social network sharing tools.
Clipta created software that allows people to search, watch and interact with online video content along with subscription based services, domestic and international television channels. With this solution users have the freedom to select between hundreds of millions of free online videos and also enjoy premium paid content through one single platform.