London, UK. March 5th, 2013 – With the world’s largest Medical Sciences video library, Dr. Najeeb Lectures is a thriving multi-million dollar e-learning business offering hundreds of hours of video content on topics spanning basic medical sciences.

Dr. Najeeb Lectures make its premium medical videos available to paying subscribers on-demand – across smartphones, desktops and tablets via vzaar, the video hosting platform.

Video security has been critical to the success of Dr. Najeeb Lectures. When Dr. Najeeb first started to experiment with online video the company’s CEO Zeeshan Najeeb quickly realized that to grow a profitable e-learning business they would need premium security features to restrict access to premium video content.  According to Zeeshan, “our revenues have doubled since we decided to use vzaar as our video hosting platform.”

Since partnering with vzaar, Dr. Najeeb Lectures has seen explosive subscriber growth – growing members from 5,000 to 30,000 in less than a year. “We are able to provide reliable streaming and this has played a great role in spreading word of mouth recommendations about our product. More and more people are signing up from all over the world,” Zeeshan reports.

“vzaar has seen an increasing demand for video hosting coming from the e-learning industry. Around a third of all our subscribers are in the e-learning and education fields,” reports vzaar Chairman Gareth Cadwallader.

According to Jim Henry, VP of Sales at vzaar, “Dr. Najeeb’s requirements are a classic example of the needs of many organizations from the e-learning sector.  Security and control are big factors for companies delivering content to paying customers. Many of our clients are choosing enhanced security features such as Domain Control and RTMPe streaming to retain control of where their videos are viewed. A lot of our clients also appreciate the subtitling feature which allows them to unlock their content for an international audience.”

“We need our videos to load quickly and retain their quality. Reliable streaming is a must for companies like ours with students all over the world. Previously many of our customers were experiencing problems trying to view our videos. What has improved since using vzaar is that we now have barely any complaints about video streaming issues,” Zeeshan concludes.

About vzaar

vzaar provides video hosting for businesses that need their videos to do more than just play. Created and designed for those who recognize the power of online video, vzaar’s easy to use, intuitive interface formats video content for audiences across the globe to ensure your videos are playable on every device on the planet.

Founded in 2007, vzaar has offices in London, UK and Boston, MA. With nearly 1900 users across six different continents, vzaar is a proven business solution and counts film director Oliver Stone among its investors.

For more information and to register for a 30 day free trial of the vzaar video hosting platform visit http://vzaar.com/. For inquiries call 1-877-831-7110 (US) or 020 7820 6280 (UK).

Arena partners with vzaar to provide high quality customized web videos to customers and their loved ones

London, UK. June 22, 2012 – Arena Flowers, the United Kingdom’s top florist, has partnered with the video hosting platform for business, vzaar, to showcase online video on their eCommerce web site as well as to support a very unique personalized gift offering. After selecting their floral gift, during the check-out phase, Arena customers can then opt to upload a special video message to be delivered along with the flowers.

When the flowers are delivered, they are accompanied by a card with the URL where the video message can be viewed on the Arena Flowers site. “Understandably, those that use it, love it,” reports Arena Flowers’ CEO Will Wynne.

“We’re really pleased to have integrated with a forward-thinking company like Arena Flowers to provide such a thoughtful and personalized gift experience to their customers,” said Stephen McCluskey, CEO of vzaar.

Arena is the first florist in the world to provide video messaging and they rely on vzaar’s API to bring this truly unique offering to their customers.  Arena’s Will Wynne conceived of video messaging as a perfect addition to Arena’s offerings, “This is just one weapon in our armory of personalization and is a great way to highlight how different and innovative we are.”

Arena Flowers was not interested in investing a lot of time or money into building support for video uploads, hosting, and delivery, so they turned to vzaar. “vzaar are video experts with an impressive technical team and support for a product that does everything we need,” Wynne explains. “Why rebuild the wheel?” Once they realized how easy the process would be with vzaar, the decision to move forward was obvious, and the video messaging was up and available to customers in no time.

“The API integration process went very smoothly. We went from deciding to implement it to having the feature live in a couple of days,” Arena CTO Sam Barton recalls. “The integration steps are very well documented and vzaar provides libraries for most popular programming languages which really sped up the process.”

Arena Flowers’ marketing strategy leverages the advantages of both a professional video hosting service like vzaar and a free service like YouTube.  Arena uses vzaar to power the videos on their homepage, while simultaneously uploading to YouTube to take advantage of the built-in audience there. “YouTube has its uses; the reach is unparalleled and we are testing that.” Wynne explains. “However, there is no way we’d put a YouTube video on our homepage. It simply wouldn’t look professional enough.”

About Arena Flowers

Arena Flowers was founded by Will Wynne and Steve France in 2006 when they realized the flower delivery sector in the UK was still stuck in the past. Unlike more old-fashioned competitors, Arena buys all its own flowers from growers and the Dutch flower auctions, then makes up and delivers bouquets direct to recipients. By controlling the supply chain, Arena can guarantee quality, freshness and experience (e.g. customers can upload a photograph to be sent with flowers). The company currently runs 6 own brand websites providing a full end-to-end experience and high quality products in the UK, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Ireland, Austria and Denmark. The international flower delivery service (outside of Arena’s own distribution zone) is offered on every site and fulfilled by a highly qualified third-party partner. The Arena family so far includes: ArenaFlowers.com, ArenaFleurs.fr, ArenaBlumen.de, ArenaBloemen.nl, ArenaFleurs.be and ArenaBloemen.be with further websites to come.

About vzaar

vzaar, is the online video hosting and distribution solution for small and medium businesses. 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 businesses with a service or product to promote, vzaar comes preloaded with all the customization, security and analytical tools needed to get the job done. Founded in 2007, vzaar has offices in the UK and US. Over 50% of vzaar’s business clients are based in the US and it counts film director, Oliver Stone, amongst its investors.

For more information visit http://vzaar.com

For sales inquiries call 1-877-831-7110 (US) or 020 7820 6280 (UK)