Showing posts with label Daniel Graf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daniel Graf. Show all posts

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Online Video Platform Summit - Kyte to Showcase Online and Mobile Video Platform

Kyte is the online and mobile video platform for live and on-demand content. The Kyte Platform combines the real-time, interactive and community building capabilities of the social web, with the analytics, control, and monetization features of professional video platforms, enabling companies to engage online and mobile audiences, build community and monetize. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with European offices in Berlin, London and Zurich. The company was founded by Daniel Graf and Erik Abair in 2006 and has been recognized with numerous awards including a 2009 OnHollywood Top 100 company and a 2008 OnMedia 100 by AlwaysOn for innovation, market potential, commercialization, industry "buzz" and game-changing strategies in advertising, marketing, and promotion.

Kyte differentiates itself as an enabling technology and other platforms as destinations. Major record labels are using Kyte’s offerings as “a full media platform.” Recording artist 50 Cent was as early Kyte adopter and premiered his new video on Facebook (powered by Kyte) and got 500,000 views in two days. Customers range from TV & film, music, radio, brands & agencies, publishers and enterprises & organizations.

Kyte is a Platinum sponsor of the Online Video Platform Summit and will be on the exhibit floor in Booth 427. Daniel Graf, CEO & Co-founder of Kyte will showcase the Kyte Platform on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:30 AM as part of the Online Video Platform Showcase - Day 1. Come see Kyte and other platforms Kaltura, VMIX, and Delve Networks in action and learn about their features and capabilities, and get answers to your questions from the platform providers themselves.




About Kyte
Kyte is a universal digital media platform that provides an end-to-end, online and mobile solution for the production, distribution and monetization of digital content. Through strategic partnerships with the world’s leading media companies, mobile carriers, and mobile device manufacturers, Kyte is building a global digital content distribution platform with massive user engagement and monetization potential. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a European office in Zurich, Switzerland. Investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Telefónica, Nokia Growth Partners, Steamboat Ventures, TeliaSonera, DoCoMo Capital, Holtzbrinck Ventures, Swisscom and others.

Visit Kyte online at http://www.kyte.com/



Daniel Graf
CEO & Co-founder
Kyte

Daniel is an internationally recognized technology pioneer with a rich background in home entertainment, consumer electronics and Internet services. Prior to Kyte, founded in 2006, Daniel worked in the world of converging media consumer products. Daniel has earned several awards, including the “Top 100 Swiss People of the Year 2000” award, a list of Switzerland’s most outstanding achievers, awarded by Sonntagszeitung. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Interstate College of Engineering (NTB), Switzerland, and an MS in Computer and Systems Engineering from RPI, Troy NY.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Daniel Graf on the Difference Between Kyte.TV, Seesmic, Qik and Flixwagon

A few days ago Allen Stern posted this interview from SXSW with Kyte CEO and Co-founder Daniel Graf about the difference between the Kyte and Seesmic, Qik and Flixwagon. It appeared on CenterNetworks as SXSW: Video Interview - Kyte.TV Explains The Difference With Seesmic, Qik and Flixwagon.

Graf defined Kyte as an enabling technology and other platforms as destinations. He explained that all four record labels are using Kyte and the major difference is that Kyte’s offerings are broader than it’s competitor with on demand video, slide shows, polls, Facebook apps and everything is interactive as “a full media platform.”




50 Cent was a early Kyte adopter and premiered his new video on Facebook (powered by Kyte) and got 500,000 views in two days. “It’s massive” said Graf who explained that with the Kyte player branding you can create a “micro website” that’s virally distributed on many platforms.


While other platforms focus on streaming “Kyte wants to be a much fuller experience than other sites doing livestreaming… its sights are set higher than that” said Joseph Weisenthal from MoconetNews in his March 10 th interview with Graf titled, @ SxSW: Interview: Daniel Graff; Kyte Vs. The World; More Than Just Video Streaming. Graf asserted “We do slideshows like Slide, but they don’t do mobile video… we do mobile video streaming like Qik, we do mobile uploads like Shozu. We do mobile chatting like Meebo… What the brands want… they don’t want five widgets they want one super-widget..”

Graf created quite a buzz for Kyte at SXSW with some of the following coverage:
  • Scoble interviewed Graf at SXSW as well and posted these five separate Qik videos of which he said, “Unfortunately the connection kept going down, so we split that video up into five pieces. Here they are: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.”
  • Kyle Monson from AppScout also interviewed Graf in his Mar 12th post,SXSW: Interview with Kyte.tv's Daniel Graf where Graf offered an important tip to video podcasters, “"It's all about the content quality. If you have compelling content, we'll probably give you the easiest way to product, and the easiest way to distribute. But if your content is not compelling, it's not going to work. And it's not easy to do compelling content… I think the sweet spot is between three and four minutes. Don't do a 20-minute show, no one's going to watch that.”






You can check the Kyte blog for more information:

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