Content providers to profit from vzaar’s partnership with MPP Global Solutions.

April 10, 2012. Top video hosting platform vzaar is pleased to announce a new partnership with MPP Global Solutions, the media industry’s leading payment services and eCommerce solution.  The partnership will make it easier for online video producers and distributors to gate and profit from original content.

Content producers can use MPP’s eSuite to create a paywall on their site, requiring viewers to pay a fee before receiving access to high-quality videos hosted by vzaar.  Both MPP’s eSuite and vzaar’s player were designed to blend into any web environment, ensuring a seamless customer experience with every transaction.

vzaar offers secure quality video hosting and streaming, totally customizable video players, and video marketing tools to a variety of online businesses with very different requirements.  The demand for an easy and elegant paywall solution has been increasing steadily amongst content producing clients.

“This partnership allows us to provide a solution to the growing number of vzaar customers eager to monetize their content,” says vzaar CEO Stephen McCluskey.  “MPP Global Solutions is the leader in online payment technology, and they were the obvious first choice for easy and secure checkouts for our clients.  We’re thrilled to partner with MPP and help our members profit from their original content.”

Paul Johnson, CEO of MPP Global Solutions said: “Partnering with vzaar to help video producers to monetize their content online is another fantastic announcement which demonstrates MPP’s commitment to providing the most advanced and broadly integrated media payment services.”

“Having spent the last decade continually advancing our eSuite payment products specifically for the media and entertainment sectors, we are perfectly positioned to help vzaar’s customers to drive revenues for their content and we are very excited about this announcement.”

About vzaar

vzaar is the go-to video hosting and distribution platform for businesses large and small. vzaar’s refreshingly easy to use interface intuitively formats video content for audiences across the globe, ensuring it’s playable on every device on the planet. Built expressly for professionals with a service or product to promote, vzaar comes preloaded with all the customization, security and analytical tools needed to get the job done – with no distracting bells and whistles. Founded in 2007, vzaar is based out of London, UK, although you’d never guess it by the variety of accents found in the office. Over 50% of vzaar’s business clients are based in the US.

About MPP Global Solutions

MPP Global Solutions are the provider of Payment Services and eCommerce Solutions to the Media and Entertainment Industries.

With well over a decade’s experience providing advanced universal and secure eCommerce Payment Solutions MPP offers a breadth of payment functionality which has helped to attract such high profile clients as BSkyB, News International, Philips and Universal Music Group.

Together with being fully compliant with PCI-DSS and regulated to process, store or transmit payment details means MPP Global Solutions are a name to trust.

Makes it easy to create unique branded video players that reinforces company look & feel

April 10, 2012. vzaar, (htttp://vzaar.com) a leading video hosting service for business, today announced a new feature that makes it easier than ever before to create a unique, branded video player page for eCommerce and online businesses.

It is very important for online businesses to use a video hosting service that maintains brand consistency across all its online channels, whether hosted at the site or at customer and affiliate sites. In contrast to YouTube and other online video hosts that only offer a narrow range of configurable design attributes and controls, vzaar offers full control over the environment in which a video appears.  The design patterns, colors, text, titles, logos, links, special offers, etc., around the vzaar video player are all totally customizable.  In addition to building upon any of the three customizable templates currently offered by vzaar, creatives can also instantaneously import a color scheme, background and logo straight from a Twitter account.

“Branded Video Pages serve as a home base for your video content.  Every video receives a totally customizable webpage available immediately upon upload that is designed with one purpose: to showcase your work,” says Dan Rees-Jones, Head of Customer Support at vzaar. “This is extremely valuable to any business with video to share – they do not need to build an entirely new page on their own site to deliver cuts to clients for approval, share content on Twitter and Facebook, or circulate company training videos internally.”

In addition to customizing the portfolio page, vzaar gives businesses control over how the video player itself looks – its quality, colors, borders, dimensions, etc. The online business can also add and superimpose subtitles, embed calls to action, logos, images, and social network sharing tools, as well as to control how online customers interact with the video.

“We have happily relied on vzaar to power the video content on our site for some time now, so we jumped at the chance to adopt the new Branded Video Pages,” says Shaun Sinnott, Director of Online Marketing at TopGolf.  “It is great to have an instant video page up and ready to share the second a video upload completes.  It took no time to reskin the pages to be perfectly in line with the TopGolf brand, and we expect to get a lot use from them, particularly when sharing videos on social media.”

Many other vzaar customers including Arena Flowers and Harmony Park are already using the new branded video page feature.

Click here to see more details on how Branded Pages work and how easy it is to implement.

About vzaar

vzaar is the go-to video hosting and distribution platform for businesses large and small. vzaar’s refreshingly easy to use interface intuitively formats video content for audiences across the globe, ensuring it’s playable on every device on the planet. Built expressly for professionals with a service or product to promote, vzaar comes preloaded with all the customization, security and analytical tools needed to get the job done – with no distracting bells and whistles. Founded in 2007, vzaar is based out of London, UK, although you’d never guess it by the variety of accents found in the office. Over 50% of vzaar’s business clients are based in the US.

Getty Images picks the vzaar video platform for the 2012 Mishmash Music/Video/Remix competition

Jan 25, 2012 – vzaar, one of the world’s most respected professional online video platforms, today announced they have been selected to power the 2012 Getty Images Mishmash music video remix competition. The Mishmash competition offers film and music creatives from around the world complete creative freedom to produce their own short video using a wealth of Getty Images’ content from across its entire portfolio, including video, music and imagery. Participants are encouraged to weave their own original content into the mix and create some truly compelling content.

Using vzaar’s quick and easy video uploader, film makers will post their video to the Mishmash site in real time, where it will be open to critique from both the public and a panel of industry pros.  vzaar encoders ensure that videos in virtually every codec, format, frame size, and rate will be accepted.

In previous years, Getty Images self-hosted video entries to the Mishmash competition.  This year they decided to seek out a professional video hosting platform in an effort to enhance user experience.  The Mishmash team considered a number of video platforms, but with exceptional performance and stellar client support as top priorities, vzaar was the obvious choice.  vzaar and Getty Images joined forces to  build easy to use custom features and a unique design that keeps contestants and viewers alike fully engaged with the Mishmash microsite.

“Our goal is to offer a video platform that allows creatives total control and is above all easy to integrate with their video projects.” says Ian Snead, VP Sales & Marketing for vzaar.  “This partnership with Getty Images demonstrates how vzaar successfully makes the web video process as simple as possible.  We handle the behind the scene technology challenges of compression format conversions, as well as facilitating distribution, and sharing, enabling the creative professional do what they do best – tell an engaging story that tugs at our heats, stimulates our minds, and amazes our eyes.”

“We have enlisted vzaar to do all the heavy lifting for our Mishmash contest and minisite,” says Gillesz Schippers, Marketing Manager, Getty Images.  “vzaar provides an easy to use submission platform for Mishmash participants, enabling them to upload videos in almost any format, image size and frame shape, with  vzaar technology transforming the files so they appear in the right format on our microsite.  An additional benefit is that once the video entry is posted, it is easy for site visitors to find and watch the various video entries, as well as share them through social media.”

About vzaar

vzaar is the go-to video hosting and distribution platform for businesses large and small. vzaar’s refreshingly easy to use interface intuitively formats video content for audiences across the globe, ensuring it’s playable on every device on the planet. Built expressly for professionals with a service or product to promote, vzaar comes preloaded with all the customization, security, and analytical tools needed to get the job done – with no distracting bells and whistles. Founded in 2007, vzaar is based out of London, UK, although you’d never guess it by the variety of accents found in the office.

About Getty Images

Getty Images is one of the world’s leading creators and distributors of still imagery, video and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music.  Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover purchase and manage images and other digital content.  Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites.  Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.co.uk to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.

Subtitles add extra merchandising muscle to online video

October 18, 2011 – London, UK

London, UK – October 18, 2011- vzaar (http://www.vzaar.com) has rolled out a new and easy to use web video subtitling feature for their industry leading business web video hosting services. By providing subtitles for all of the world’s leading languages, vzaar enables eCommerce and online marketers to target their videos to customers worldwide without having to re-record audio or reshoot the video.

Subtitles are a very effective way to broaden your web audience by conveying the business’s marketing message in multiple languages,” says Stephen McCluskey, CEO of vzaar . “Subtitles are a must-have for online businesses looking to reach audiences across the globe.  Our new subtitle feature supports multiple files in various languages, giving your viewers the ability to select their preferred language from the options you provide.

Subtitles are a powerful way to add extra merchandising muscle to business and eCommerce videos. Often customers need to read the information rather than listen as customers might be shopping and viewing the videos in a location where audio may not be appropriate, at work, on an airplane, in a crowded subway. Maybe they are shopping for a last minute gift for their significant other and don’t want them to overhear what they are doing. Turn the computer’s or mobile device’s audio off, and they can then confidentially read the video’s info in the appropriate language.
The subtitle upload process is easy and quick. vzaar business clients simply upload subtitle files by clicking on the subtitles icon in their video management area.  After the file has been uploaded and saved, they can select whichever languages they prefer. Upon playback using the customizable vzaar business video player, their web site visitors will be able pick whichever language they prefer.

About vzaar

vzaar is the leading online video hosting platform for eCommerce sites of all sizes and market segments. The vzaar service provides a cost effective and highly scalable video hosting service to thousands of companies worldwide. The easy to use online video management dashboard and a highly experienced sales support team allow businesses to publish video online fast. Founded in 2007, vzaar has its Headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

For more information visit http://vzaar.com

Press Contact
Mark Shapiro
SRS Tech PR
mshapiro@srs-techpr.com
1 619 249 7742

August 17, 2011, London, UK – vzaar, (http://www.vzaar.com) a leading video hosting platform for business, today announced that they have partnered with Volusion, the leading provider of shopping cart software and ecommerce services for online merchants.

vzaar provides professional web hosting and distribution services to a wide gamut of businesses – from small online mom & pop eRetailers to large, international companies with both online and brick & mortar divisions.

“Web video and eCommerce are powerful partners for generating online sales and profits,” says Stephen McCluskey, CEO of vzaar. “Companies like vzaar and Volusion do the heavy lifting of web infrastructure and let the online retailer do what they do best: develop and market products and services.”

Volusion helps online businesses succeed by providing the most innovative, user-friendly ecommerce software available. Volusion’s partners provide assistance, software and guidance for businesses of all sizes and types, located anywhere in the world.

“This partnership makes a lot of sense for our customers,”James Booker, Business Development Manager at Volusion says.

“Video is quickly becoming one of the most important and effective ways for online retailers to sell and market their products and services. By incorporating vzaar’s industry-leading video hosting and distribution technology within our ecommerce solution, we are adding yet another important tool to help our customers succeed in the extremely competitive online marketing space.”

About Volusion
Volusion is the leader in ecommerce solutions for online businesses. For more than a decade, tens of thousands of companies have used Volusion to succeed online, including market leaders such as 3M, Nalgene, Oregon Ducks and Motorola. For more information about Volusion, please visit http://www.volusion.com.

About vzaar
vzaar is the leading online video hosting platform for eCommerce sites of all sizes and market segments. The vzaar service provides a cost effective and highly scalable video hosting service to thousands of companies worldwide. The easy to use online video management dashboard and a highly experienced sales support team allow businesses to publish video online fast. Founded in 2007, vzaar has its Headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

For more information visit http://vzaar.com

Press Contact
Mark Shapiro
SRS Tech PR
mshapiro@srs-techpr.com
1 619 249 7742