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VideoEgg, Inc.

Product Name

VideoEgg Publisher

Market Segment

Consumer

Funding

Series A: First Round Capital, Jack Rivkin and private investors

Competitors

No direct competitors. Secondary competitors are Macromedia/Adobe, Microsoft, Apple.

Product Description

The VideoEgg Publisher is a small Web site plug-in that makes it simple for end users to capture, edit, encode and post digital video online. A “universal adapter” that captures directly from hundreds of devices and reads dozens of formats, the VideoEgg Publisher allows users to painlessly post videos that anyone can watch without worrying about player compatibilities, encoding settings or extra software.

Market Opportunity

VideoEgg targets companies in market segments with significant demand for media posting, including online auctions, Internet classifieds, online dating and blogs/albums. According to metrics compiled from Forrester, Jupiter and IDC, these segments currently aggregate more than 3 billion annual transactions with projected annual growth rates of 20% to 40% through 2007.

Demo Says

The next frontier in the consumer conquest of rich media is video. We’re creating it by the disc full, yet file size, video formats and player compatibility issues remain big challenges for the typical person. VideoEgg’s tremendously simple, elegant solution for publishing and playing digital video will fuel the proliferation of consumer video online. It’s already sparking innovative applications, such as short video “infomercials” that early tests show significantly boost the average selling price on eBay.