Meta Cafe

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History and usage

Metacafe Inc. was founded in July 2003 by Eyal Herzog (CTO), Arik Czerniak (CEO), and Ofer Adler (Board Member) after raising $4 million from Benchmark Capital and private investors.

In 2006, the website's traffic increased rapidly, and by June 2006 it was ranked 128th by Alexa Traffic Ratings. Metacafe provides over 450,000,000 videos every month, to almost two million registered visitors and 120 million visitors monthly, with 17 million unique users each month.

In July 2006, a second financing round took place, and the company raised $15 million from Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners.

Services

Metacafe users upload to the website's servers and share their videos. The videos are then distributed to a community of volunteer reviewers, checked by the company's reviewers to filter-out explicit images and mark some items with "adult" flags, and then distributed to all users by two main methods:

• Website Distribution - Showing the new videos and top videos and updating constantly. It is also possible to embed the clips into blogs and private pages.
• Client for Windows - A free downloadable application that enables the users to build and manage their own video library by optimizing their bandwidth to download and upload only when the computer is idle.

A viewer can call up a video, watch it, rate it and send it to his friends by email or Messenger. All ratings are stored and the site shows statistics for videos by the Highest Rank, Most Viewed, Most Discussed, and Most Recent. Additionally, the site shows a list of top submitters and top producers.

Metacafe's system is such that the content on the website is first reviewed by special reviewers, and only then posted to the site. Using this system, non-quality videos don't make it on to the site. Also, Metacafe has a special anti-duplication algorithm, which eliminates any possibility of duplicated videos on the site. As such, every video is posted only once, which eases finding videos

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