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vSocial Debuts Flat Rate Pricing, Allowing Organizations Of Any Size or Budget To Deploy Online Video Services

Posted on: Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 09:01 CDT

vSocial, a leading provider of hosted social networking for video services, today announced the debut of a new flat-rate pricing plan for its online video services. The new option allows companies of all sizes to incorporate feature-rich, branded, enterprise scale online video capabilities into any Web site, community or online strategy, opening a wide range of new possibilities for consumer/business networking, marketing campaigns or content sharing applications.

"Online video is already changing the face of the Internet, but a lot of companies lack the know-how to work through the disparate technology, hosting, content distribution, monetization, administration and analytics required to compete successfully in this vibrant market. Plus the cost considerations have been daunting to all but the biggest corporations," said Mark Sigal, CEO of vSocial. "With the introduction of our flat-rate pricing option, customers can access one integrated bundle, and push the cost and complexity hurdles to the sidelines."

vSocial's new flat-rate pricing greatly simplifies the equation for any company looking for an easy-to-adopt way to dip its toe into the so-called "You Tube Economy." In the past, such services easily ran into the tens of thousands of dollars in monthly development costs, and untold bandwidth and content delivery expenditures, with lengthy time-to-market and significant execution risk. No more. With the new vSocial bundled offering, custom branded services can be launched in a matter of weeks based on clear user experience, metrics and workflow outcome goals--all for a fixed, transparent budget.

Built atop Akamai's world-class content delivery network and Global Crossing's scaleable network service, and leveraging best-of-breed partnerships with supporting technology firms including vSocial's sister company, Me,com, the end-to-end offering can drive a huge array of video networking/community concepts. Current vSocial customers range from the U.S. Army, UPS, Fosters, Chevy and Disney's BVHE unit to AmateurGolf.com, an amateur golf tournament organizer, and MotorWeb, an aftermarket auto parts e-commerce company.

In the business-to-business arena, Chicago-based Ragan Communications, a specialized information publisher focused on the internal communications and public relations space and serving over 80,000 customers, has harnessed vSocial's platform to launch MyRaganTV (www.myragantv.com), an enterprise-class video service which augments and extends it MyRagan.com online community, dubbed by many as the "MySpace for professional communicators."

About vSocial:

Founded by a team of experienced entrepreneurs that have collectively built 11 different companies, vSocial is a pioneer in the online video space, having launched the initial version of its service way back in 2002. vSocial delivers a hosted social networking for video platform that enables content owners, portal operators and online marketing organizations to custom brand, target, virally distribute and monetize their message via video. Customers can see-touch-feel the solution by visiting the company's popular showcase site, vSocial.com, which generates 200,000 unique daily visitors and serves up over 1.5M videos a day. vSocial is headquartered in Arizona. For more information about vSocial and its new flat rate pricing option, visit www.vsocial.com.

Source: Business Wire

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