Its been reported that Evernote the popular note taking service has raised another $10 million in Series B funding. This series B funding comes after already raising $6 million.
Already Evernote has a solid business model with a great number of premium subscribers who already pay for the service. Thus, Evernote has nearly two million users, some paying in the premium model, so why the new funding? Is Evernote looking to purchase any other startups or push their service into default applications on mobile phones?
Andrew Sinkov, VP of Marketing, tells us, “All of that money is going into the product. That’s always been Evernote’s approach. Our product is our marketing, so we’re using the funds to make Evernote better, more functional, and more accessible to new users. We’re also adding new platforms, new language support, and lots of other good stuff.”
There are so many place out there these day that want to help you make money from your online videos. Here is a list of top video ad networks in the marketplace at the moment.
Auditude is a new video and advertising platform that has just received more funding. Auditude is an end-to-end solution for premium video. For websites we’ve built an ad platform for managing complex video monetization rights, for content owners we empower widely syndicated video while maintaining control over your assets and advertising, and for advertisers or networks we provide scale in premium video.
Brightroll is the first premium video ad network, and the most comprehensive. With this widely distributed platform we’re able to maximize the value of your available inventory. We have aggregated the largest portfolio of highly branded and large volume video advertising on the Internet. With this widely distributed platform we’re enabled to leverage content, demo, context, behavior, and traffic volume for the benefit of our advertiser and publisher partners.
Videoegg serves ads, you get paid every time a user engages with one of our rich media ad units on your site. Everyday Videoegg delivers millions of impressions to users across leading social networking environments, video sites and gaming applications. We develop rich user profiles that enable advertisers to start with the right audience. Our unique video advertising formats and targeting approach deliver higher engagement rates for brands and more relevant ad experiences for consumers.
Roo Media is now KIT Digital. KIT Digital is a pioneer provider of video distribution solutions in online, mobile and set top box environments. We provide strategic, technology and content services that connect our clients brands with their target markets, in an ROI positive manner.
Brightcove is an on-demand online video platform. Designed for use with professional websites, Brightcove provides everything you need to publish and distribute online video. Working with professional video has never been easier. Harness the full potential of your content through innovative and flexible online video advertising options. By integrating with leading ad servers and custom 3rd-party ad solutions, you can stay focused on your ad strategy while we handle the technology.
Adap.tv empowers online publishers to efficiently monetize and grow their online video business. The Adap.tv OneSource video ad management platform provides a simple, transparent way to manage and serve ads from multiple sources, in many formats, to capture the full revenue potential of online video content. Fine-grained control and detailed reporting help publishers maximize their online video performance. All through a single, highly efficient platform.
YuMe is a large video advertising network, representing over 400 premium video sites with over 500 million monthly streams. We are unique in that we are both an ad management platform for publishers plus a video advertising network that provides advertisers with the audience scale and premium reach they desire.
Tremor Media is a leading global online video advertising network, providing Fortune 1000 brand advertisers with the reach and scale of more than 1,400 top-tier publishers. Tremor Media can work with you to monetize your site’s traffic with higher CPMs than any other ad network. In addition to our revenue solutions, Tremor Media provides cutting-edge technology for Web publishers that are ready to grow their business through online video advertising. Our Acudeo video monetization platform enables publishers to leverage their video assets and effectively manage their in-stream ad delivery, creating new, high value inventory.
Husky Media allows publishers to generate revenues by placing videos into its own new overlap window and then sells the backgrounds as advertising. Husky works with any video player and doesnt require the videos to be your own, you can make money from any video played on your website.
Adotube is a publisher-centric online video advertising platform that enables you to generate revenue by showing brand-name ads in your video content. Monetize your video content with unobtrusive targeted advertizing. You are in control of the presentation styles and video advertizing types.
Have you been looking for some great design inspiration for your next project? Well look no further than The Design Inspiration. The Design Inspiration has been created by a group of designers who have been looking for quality design ideas from all over the internet. The Design Inspiration features some of the best logo designs, illustration art, website and more. The site is updated every day and only seems to have the premium quality ideas on the site.
Freemium Theme is a free premium theme for wordpress, it was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki and made free by freebiesdock.com.
You can see the demo here.
Some of the features of freemium theme are:
- XHTML compliant
- flickr RSS support
- jQuery menu
- 2 widget ready sidebars
- completely free
Download: freebiesdock.com/freemium-wordpress-theme/
NewsGator has announced today that they have launched a new product called AdBurner. AdBurner is a program that provides a turnkey advertising based solution for premium publishers, which helps them to optimise ad revenues around key web 2.0 technologies with no incremental effort.
AdBurner is aimed at optimizing the CPM for, and process of, inserting and managing advertising into NewsGator’s publisher products suite, including services as diverse as widgets, related content, and iPhone applications. The initiative is built around best of breed advertising partners Technorati, Admeld, Gigya, Medialets, and Tremor Media.
This is a very interesting moving from NewsGator and Im very keen to test the product for them. Currently, the new product doesnt seem available via their website, so would be great to hear from the NewsGator team.
