vgurgov

Publisher Growth at Virool (YC S12) San Francisco

Virool is a fast growing video promotion network. Virool is rapidly growing its publisher network that contains almost 15,000 sites, apps and games promoting Virool videos.

We are looking for exceptional person to oversee and lead this growth

Publisher growth person will be in charge of:

-Developing new relations with publishers

-Publisher happiness: working with existing accounts- support, integration, help, billing

-Collaborating w tech and marketing teams

Skills and requirements:

-(Required) Strong communication and negotiation skills

-(At least!) basic tech skills - html, databases (sql) scripting languages like ruby or python, os shells

-(Desired) At least 2 years experience in ads / publisher relations.

Offer:

Competitive salary and stock options Opportunity to work in a small, but fast-growing startup and become key factor if its success. Nice loft/office in SF,SOMA with lots of free food and other startup perks.

to apply: jobs (at) virool.com subject: 'publisher growth - HN'

Also we are hiring for number of sales, RnD and design position: https://www.virool.com/about/work-at-virool

as someone who dealt with L1/L2 visas for myself and my wife and someone who knows OP, his wife and his story in person, i can assure you that this story is absolutely TRUE. period.

getting visa in US embassies abroad after having it approved in US is a complete MESS. This is well known fact for almost anyone who dealt with it. There are tens of scary stories that international founders (including YC founders) could share about that.

Also stating that someone is lying without clarifying details does not make one look smarter (although might bring some quick carma here)

my contact info is in profile. Vlad Gurgov

youtube v3 api is down as well (502)

disclosure: I am cofounder of virool.

So when you talk to journalists you never know what part of whole conversation they will highlight:) I am not a fan of this example too, i dont think it represents well what are we doing as a company, but a lot of them catch this since it corresponds with our catchy name.

the idea of our service is simply to get relevant videos in front the right audiences. as someone below correctly commented its essentially AdSense for Videos. since we dont have fixed ad units but rather offer API to developers its up to them how obtrusive/native they want to place it. so far we have seen both very abusive and very nice implementations when video was nicely integrated in some games natively.

Its truly amazing to see how far few hundred bucks can get you this days, but can we please stop calling these stratosphere launches 'sending to space'? Is it just me or 'sending balloon to space' sounds like joke?

Seems launching another one(or even few) could be cheaper than searching for this one...

Be careful with your targeting and keywords - since many publishers use our real-time API they can deliver your campaigns very quickly. Shoot me email and I can look into your account and give you some tips and $10 credit.

Exactly. Pre-rolls and banners suck (since they are coming from traditional newspapers/web page/TV era), so we are building video ad network for developers so they can plug to our APIs and grab our videos to place them in their APPs(streams etc), facebook apps, mobile etc the way they want it.

You can check our API here: http://www.virool.com/blog/index.php/developers/

Thanks for upvotes! Here is HN special - use coupon code 'pando2012' for $50 credit. Good for the first 50 claims.

This is the most useful service i discovered i recent months. period. I seriously recommend this to anyone in SF. I dont remember the last time i went shopping for groceries. It already saved me tons of hours and money. no-brainer.

disclaimer: my company is in the same YC batch and I know Apoorva personally and was happy to get early access to service.

so what? as i mentioned i know 9gag founders since they are from the same yc batch. they are extremely smart and talented guys, that already archived a lot and set very ambitious goals for their company future. i honestly wish them luck and excited to see them succeeding.

haters gona hate, who cares?

actually they manage to build their own community around it. there was even 'war' 9gag vs 4chan sometime ago and surprisingly their members were able to defend against 4chan spam and even counter attack.

saying that something is easy is easy. fyi these guys are already profitable and killing it money-wise. also take look at their page structure - they are not even optimizing for pageviews- you can scroll and see tons on pics on one page. 9gag is killing it by all metrics, and have some great products to intro in upcoming months.

disclaimer: I obviously dont work for 9gag, but I know the founders, since they are from the same yc batch.

Congrats to Seth and team!

Congrats Jon! Zencoder is killing it! Plz keep the service up! Both videolla and Virool are proud customers!

btw, we have a special deal for YC companies(search for virool on deals site).

And we love all startups, not just YC so if you want to give us a try - email support at virool.com and we will give you a special deal

This is going to be big! Great work guys!

There are a lot of cases even on bigger SW projects when for some roles(designers, tech writers) just basic git skills would save a lot of nerves to developers.

Designers can fix small things, like images, tweak html a bit etc. They dont need to know how to create/merge new branches etc..

I dont see that Git is trying to pretend that its simple but i can see how that interactive tutorial can be incredible useful to a lot of people.

Even worse thing they are doing is lying to all my friends.

Use case(happend to me on May 4th):

1) I watched some video on YouTube.com. Yes, just on youtube, not even on their site or app, althoug SC had access to my fb at by that time. 2) I liked that video and shared it on my FB stream from YouTube page 3) Since socialcam had access to my stream and they somehow monitored it and within a minutes posted another update to my wall:

Vladimir Gurgov watched a video on Socialcam Video recorded with Socialcam on April 19, 2012 Release Date: Friday, May 4, 2012 at 12:53pm

This video was NOT watched on Socialcam and was NOT recorded with Socialcam. Its YT video that i watched on YouTube.com. To me its clear lying or misleading all of my fb friends. With all the respect to fellows at Socialcam I am questioning such marketing tactics etiquette. I am wondering what HN community think of it?

Am I only one having this question: what is 500k states for? Is it 500k/month /year or total revenue? If its not montly, how can they hire 10 ppl?

disclosure: I am one of my projects is videolla.com - its one of the biggest online video marketplaces. We can share some interesting stats on this. Yes, most of smart sellers sell for under 5 bucks. Its doesnts make much difference in you charge $3-4, anything that under 5 is about same conv. rate. if you are more greedy results will be lower.

and yes paypal is killing it! Its our default payment method and most of buyers prefer it, since they know that its safe.

also you should check out my friend's service ResumUp.com

congrats, great service! if you are considering video promotion, i'd suggest to compare google tv with my service virool.com We are better and cheaper. ping me and i will make you discount and give you some free credits. i can also recommend few production companies in case you want to create nice and inexpensive clip about your service.

I am wondering if this water circulates within their datacenter going through some cooling system or they have constant stream connected to community water pipe? Can someone explain? e.g. how big might be daily consumption of this facility? is there serious "green" difference of its mostly PR trick?

I believe its common for great thinkers/writers. If someone is able to speak something valuable faster without the need to feel pauses it means that he either super-fast thinker or he memorized/polished his speech, which is something, i guess, PG dont have time for.

i am so happy someone finally said this about Hipmunk! i can sign for every word in this.

about me: i travel across the globe 1-4 times a month. see absolutely no reason to prefer it to kayak

i found that some YC-hardcore fans of hipmunk that love-love-love it travel few times/year at most.

+1 i'd be interested to know more about your sales plan

My service relies on Zencoder. before we ended up with them we tested most of these services and build own stuff. result? we are very happy with zencoder as we found similar results. its really fast(you will notice difference once you switch from their competitors) and works all the time.

disc: I am not affiliated with zencoder in any way.

Thanks for all the feedback. I guess i posted op in a hurry and my points were not clear. 1) Know for sure that they are misleading their clients. We know how this industry works very well and we collected all evidence. 2) Scam is like this. They are saying to clients that they will get bananas and charge charge them for bananas. Market price for bananas in this industry is 20-30 cents. In fact they are shipping them peanuts with price of 7 cents at most. In fact they are selling them very bad peanuts that cost even less and noone really wants them.

Yes. I do run business that significantly depends on ads.

The reasons are 1) because many ppl use it and - i need to test their experience with our products. 2) I just dont like ads, and dont care about "is it ethical?" stuff that has no significant direct impact on my business.

This is awesome tip for smart web entrepreneurs looking for new startup ideas.