Market7 CEO Seth Kenvin (formerly a Red Herring editor & columnist for those not in the know!), picked up his quill to scribe about better video production collaboration with iMediaConnection’s audience of digital marketers. (btw, Seth is also picking up his old editor’s hatchet to rework this post a bit before publishing — way to get it started Brian!)
In the article, Seth discusses some terrific general purpose online collaboration tools and what’s missing when it comes to working on video from start to finish. Of course, for those of you experiencing the common pain points Seth mentions, we suggest giving Market7 a try for all your video collaboration needs!
A little while back, ReelSEO’s Mark Robertson caught up with Market7 CEO Seth Kenvin for an update on the company, thoughts on how to make video production more efficient and more. The interview serves as a great primer for what can go wrong in any video production, why things go wrong and how Market7 can help address these extremely frequent issues. Check out the video embedded below or with a great text recap over at ReelSEO.
Missed ReelSEO’s review of Market7 back in November? You can check it out here. We’re pleased to say that we’ve already implemented some of the suggestions that reviewer Christopher Rick included in the review!
Back in October, Tim Siglin of StreamingMedia and Braintrust Digital came out to our engineering offices in San Francisco to learn more about video.Market7 in preparation for an upcoming review. When he left to spend some time trying out the service on his own, he did more than just kick the tires – he took us apart and put us back together again! We should have expected no less after the meticulous in-person meeting.
We are pleased that this discriminating shopper seems to have overall liked what he saw. Like many video producers who try video.Market7, Tim seemed especially taken with the annotative player, which he notes, “might be the best thing to come along [last] year.”
A huge thanks to Tim and also to Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen over at StreamingMedia for taking the time to check us out. Check out the review online and in the Dec/Jan issue.
The annual list, which this year was pared down from over a few dozen nominations, recognizes the movers and shakers in the online video space. It also, in the words of editor Jim O’Neill, highlights those companies that “revolve around such cool technology” and “are driving online video forward by providing structure to build on or the muscle to move it.”
Head on over to Fierce Online Video to read the Market7 write-up and keep checking back as Market7’s industry value prop is further explored by Fierce in the new year.
People touting being online from airplanes is about as trite as people pointing out how we increasingly consume the video we want, when we want, where we want & on the device we want. I’m doing both here — is combining those observations even more trite, or kind of insightful? I’m not sure, so I’ll try to keep this brief.
I’ve been taking advantage of the free Dec-Jan WiFi to work online the whole flight (we’re over Utah now), including catching up on a couple of video podcasts.
Through the gap in the seats in front of me to my right a couple has swapped halfway through the flight so that each of them could watch The Hangover on the same in-flight VoD purchase in the seat’s screen.
Through the same gap on my left A guy is playing around with the Red interactive functionality on his screen while he’s got MTV up live in the screen’s corner by PiP.
Both of the guys next to me are using their iPhones to get online by WiFi. I haven’t seen them watch video on them, but they could.
& here I go making with the zeitgeist cliches (but it’s so true): wow we’re progressing from rapidly-extinguishing status quo of everyone being confined to whatever happens to be showing on the tube screens in the ceiling. In fact, my last NYC trip a couple months ago, on a different airline, the only electronic choices were to work on my laptop offline or tilt up my head to consume Mall Cop.
Spidvid founder Jeremy Campbell recently asked Market7 founder Seth Kenvin to participate in brand new podcast series Spidcast. Hop over to the Spidcast site to check out the pretty in depth interview covering the genesis of Market7, Seth’s philosophies on the collaborative video space and what challenges/opportunities are coming down the road. Warning: Seth’s vocal chops get seriously upstaged by those of great interviewer Michael London.
Lastly, Spidvid themselves have some pretty cool thoughts around collaborative video efforts and you should definitely take a look at what they’re up to as well.
PS – Hey, nice to meet you all. I’m M7’s faithful PR guy and you’ll hear from me every now and then with updates like these moving forward!
We are submitting a couple of panels again this year for South by Southwest (SxSW). In the development of our software, we have collected a ton of best practices for video producers and their clients. It seems fitting to try and leverage some of that in the form of an informative and fun panel. Our two proposals are on content ownership rights and creating compelling content.
Please help us get our panels selected by voting us up in the polls. We chose topics that our customers and friends have a great interest in. Please take a moment to vote for us by clicking here.
Market7 started operations July 30, 2007. Celebratory lunch yesterday — we look pretty good for 2. Little blurry I suppose. Robert Scoble was supposed to be in this photo too, but now I’m not seeing him.
2GB! We have doubled our maximum upload size, coincidentally around when YouTube makes the same move (next time it’ll be us out in front). Please note that we recommend using Flash 10 when uploading files above 1GB.
Logo!Our accounts from Line Producer level up have long allowed customers to displace our brand with your own, well now if you’re Producer Pro or higher (so upgrade already!) you can specify this branding at per-project granularity.
On-off switch!The account management page (“My Account” link in upper-right visible only to account holders (versus their admins or invited team members)) — anyhow, that page now includes de-/re-activate buttons and whenever a project’s deactivated its storage does not count towards the account.
Another on-off switch!Free Production Assistant accounts (upgrade already!) are still limited to five team members, but now members are not stuck there permanently but can be removed from projects (& also can be subsequently reinstated).
More acurate than ever!Our script running time estimation had been anchored on speech at 100 words-per-minute which is fine for drama and such when there are non-verbal passages mixed with dialog, but most videos are filled with speakers at a natural language pace so we’ve scaled up and now anchor on 125.
Coolest of all — four out of the six items listed above are based on ideas originally articulated by our users.
