Metacafe is a community based video sharing web site, that specializes in short-form original entertainment, where users upload, view and share video clips. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tel Aviv and New York. Metacafe is privately held and its investors include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. Metacafe is similar to other video viewing websites such as YouTube or Dailymotion, but with several differences. Core differentiators include duplication elimination, a different type of Adult content filtering, a community member reviewer panel, VideoRank, and Producer Rewards. Its VideoRank system gauges viewer reactions to videos in order to feature those that prove most popular to its viewers. Additionally, Metacafe pays video creators for original work that has exceeded a certain threshold of both total views and VideoRank score through its Producer Rewards Program. The site features short-form videos in a variety of categories, including Animation, Comedy, Entertainment, How To, News and Events, People and Stories, Sports, Video Games and others. Original content is uploaded to the site by independent video creators, small to mid-sized production groups, and major media companies.
History

Inc. Metacafe was founded on July of 2002 in Tel Aviv by Israeli contractors Eyal Hertzog (CTO) and Arik Czerniak (PRESIDENT) and raised to $3 million the capital of the bench mark. In June of 2006, the company included a financing of series B in round of $12 million. Associated to Accel of investors and including capital of the bench mark. The traffic of the quickly increasing Web site, and for the June of 2006 was 128o had to him by the estimations of the traffic Alexa [1]. That September, the company moved its High Wood central offices, Californian and in October, Metacafe was fixed to the third party – the greater visual site of the world according to comScore [2].

The 5 of February of 2007, Erick Hachenburg, previously of Electronic Arts and Pogo, were successful like the company of the CHAIR. The company included a financing of series C in round of $30 million in August of 2007 with the associates of Accel, the capital of the bench mark, the companies of DAG and the capital associates of mountains. Metacafe stuck a business with the service of telephone of Skype of the Internet to provide vidéos to the users of Skype to help to spiff to the cover of his.
Rewards of the producer

In October of 2006, Metacafe announced its programs of rewards of producer 3] [in whom the visual producers are paid for their original content. By this program, ninguÌ  n video that watches 20,000 times at least, realised an estimation of 3,00 VideoRank of or higher, and does not violate any reserved rights or other standards of the community of Metacafe assign $5 for each 1,000 views. Wages only for the views of the United States. (Except the one of 10% of all the seen)

In the December of 2007, the 10 main producers in Metacafe won more than $20,000 [4], with the producer highest, Kipkay, winning more than $117,000 [5]. , Than 550 creator visual generally more independent won more than $1 million by the program of rewards of the producer.

The program had several examples of the success, something whose they were described in the national TV, as video can sending it in the air, the refrigerator of the beer that sent in David Letterman, and the series of girl of Rum Paul de Liv 6 Films [], that was described in 7 Fox News and Cnn [].

Metacafe also assembled to the remarkable producers of the TV like Steven Bochco (blue of Hill Street, L.A law.) a called series Confidential Coffee, 44 years of component of the adolescence and twenty-somethings of a series of webisode that shared semi-autobiographical histories. The vidéos of cut-form, first to the projectile, were taken interviews from more than 100 people than they spoke on the memorable moments.