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Flixwagon Launches Live Video Broadcasting Solutions From Mobile Phones -Serving Mobile Carriers and Media Organizations

Posted on: Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 09:00 CDT

Flixwagon, leading provider of high-quality live video broadcasting from mobile phones to the Web and TV, today announced the launch of its telco-grade platform targeting mobile carriers and media organizations. The field proven, scalable and flexible platform provides an end-to-end solution to rapidly deploy customized live video broadcasting services to any Web-connected device and to TV.

Mobile carriers can now offer their subscribers the power of broadcasting live video from their mobile phones to the Web. This capability allows carriers to create new revenue streams and substantially increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. With Flixwagon, subscribers can stream high quality live video from mobile devices to their family, friends, and business associates instantly--all within one click on their phone. Users can broadcast directly to blogs, social networks, widgets, and leading video sites, and interact with their viewers via the mobile application.

With the Flixwagon platform, media and news organizations can provide journalists and entertainers with the power and immediacy of live high-quality video broadcasting capabilities from mobile phones to TV broadcasts, Websites, or blogs from any location around the world. Flixwagon can easily combine live video feeds from hundreds of thousands of contributors, enabling these organizations to also capitalize on citizen journalism and user-generated content. The user experience can be fully customized to fit the customers' existing Web, TV, or mobile properties via the Flixwagon API.

"Flixwagon's ability to deploy high-quality video broadcasting capabilities with scale, flexibility, and very short time-to-market are among the key success factors to the projects we work on together," said Michael Scogin, vice-president wireless, MTV. "With Flixwagon, MTV has been able to take blogging and real-time video reporting to a whole new level in events such as the 'Choose or Lose' campaigns and 'Jonas Brothers: Live & Mobile.'"

"Flixwagon's customers enjoy tremendous opportunities in harnessing live mobile video broadcasting. Whether in allowing carriers to offer new products or media companies to create brand new types of cost-effective content offerings - Flixwagon is changing how customers utilize video," said Eran Hess, CEO, Flixwagon. "Mobile video is growing rapidly around the globe and Flixwagon is excited to provide a user-friendly and business-ready mobile broadcasting platform."

For more information about Flixwagon solutions for mobile carriers and media organizations please visit: http://www.flixwagon.com/solutions

Images of the mobile and Web screens available via our Flickr account here: http://flickr.com/photos/27816411@N02/

About Flixwagon

Flixwagon is changing how people capture and share video on the Web. It provides an application to easily stream live, high-quality video from a mobile phone directly to the Web and TV. With Flixwagon, you can broadcast your world to individuals and groups, your blog, social networks and leading video sites. Flixwagon is privately held with offices in Boston, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit www.flixwagon.com, http://blog.flixwagon.com, and http://twitter.com/flixwagon.

Source: Business Wire

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