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Video Hack Day 2 Intro by Susan Danziger

As Fair As Possible

How does Ziggeo account for video recording, playback and storage usage? Here’s what we DON’T DO. We DON’T round up to the nearest minute.We DON’T round up to the nearest second.We DON’T round up to the nearest millisecond.We DON’T even round up to the nearest nanosecond. Here’s what we DO do.You pay for what you […]

The Mickey Model: A New API Business Model

The founder of Ziggeo, Susan Danziger, couldn’t find an existing API business model that suited both her company as well as her customers. So stemming from her own experience negotiating agreements with such media companies as LucasFilm and Disney, she developed and launched a brand new API business model that she deems “The Mickey Model”. […]

Video Hack Day 2

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Turning Competitors into Customers

Ziggeo has managed to turn its competitors into customers. How has it done that? In the early days, Ziggeo was actually conceived as a recruitment platform. The main idea was for candidates to record videos so employers could hear first hand from a large number candidates — and employers could record videos so candidates could […]

Video Intros Build Trust in Real Estate and Home Sharing Market

Video intros in one way to build trust and transparency in the real estate market. Ziggeo founder, Susan Danziger, explains (on video, of course). https://youtube.com/watch?v=scm0PiqJMmo

Stamplay Integrates Ziggeo

We are delighted to announce that Stamplay has integrated Ziggeo to offer video recording/playback capabilities to its current offerings.For those of you not familiar with Stamplay, it’s a low-code platform to create APIs or new services by combining existing ones, often without much code.  It has modules that abstract APIs and provides a simple UI […]

Video In Your App: Is Transcoding Necessary?

Do videos within apps need to be transcoded? Answer: it depends. If videos are recorded and played only within your app then probably not. But if you’re looking to record or play certain videos elsewhere (i.e. across all browsers and devices) — yes, they do need to be transcoded. They’ll need to be transcoded into […]

Asynchronous Video Used For Market Research

Capture videos from your customer base to get reactions to your new product or service. Keep them private or launch publicly as video testimonials. So explains Ziggeo founder Susan Danziger. https://youtube.com/watch?v=SUMn_yqPRFY

Transcoding: Another Fine Mess

Video transcoding is a complicated business.  Here’s why: Videos can be recorded in one of 20+ formats. To name a few, you can find them in: mov, fov, avi, mpg, wmv and mkv formats. Each format needs to be transcoded into an an mp4, webm and ogv format so they can be played across all […]