After months in development, we’re excited to announce that Metacafe users in the US can now see official music videos from Warner Music Group. We’ve added over 6,000 new music videos to the site, doubling the number of official music videos on Metacafe. Here’s a sampling of the artists you’ll now find:
You can find official music videos for these artists and more all in the Metacafe Music Hub.
Rock on!
The Metacafe Team
We’ve got great contest celebrating the upcoming Toy Story and Toy Story 2 3D Double Feature Event. Your job is to create the ultimate Toy Story trailer using a mix of clips, soundtracks, and effects that we provide to you. If your trailer is picked, you could be one of the first people in the world to see Toy Story 3! Here’s what to do:
Submit your mash-up by October 18th for a chance to win a trip to the premiere Toy Story 3! Good luck to everyone!
In celebration of our newly launched Video Games Hub, we are holding a contest this week where you can win free copies of Need for Speed: Shift, Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Guitar Hero 5! The contest starts today, September 22 and ends on Friday, September 25. US residents only.
The contest is super simple to enter – just follow these simple steps:
A big shout out to the folks at Namco Bandai for hooking us up with free copies of Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny.
If you’re an avid user of Metacafe, you may have already noticed that the Facebook logo has been appearing in all sorts of places on the site. Yes, that’s right, we have added support for Facebook Connect! Adding Facebook Connect brings many convenient features to the Metacafe community:
Today, we’re happy to announce the launch of the new Metacafe Video Games hub!
We’ve Got Game
The Video Games hub is the place to catch the latest trailers, reviews, news, and original shows of your favorite games for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and more. Joining us in this launch are IGN and GamePro, two of the top gaming sites in the world, and helping us kick things off is EA’s upcoming racing game, Need for Speed: Shift. Be sure to check out their channels on Metacafe!
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In the hub, you’ll be able to browse videos by gaming platform, currently popular games, and also by game title. We also have specific pages for games that are in stores now, coming soon, audience favorites, and much more.
Recommend a Video
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Did you come across a great video game video? Let us know about it! Email us at videogames@metacafe.com. We’ll be posting your best recommendations on a regular basis. |
Are you a funny person? Metacafe is hosting an online video contest – we’re seeking original comedy videos… stand-up comedy video or other comedic performance by a person, such as a joke, anecdote or comedy sketch. Here’s a brief rundown of the contest details:
Once you upload your video, be sure to embed the following widget on your website to promote your entry:
Good luck!
Last night, we opened our new homepage features to our users in the UK. If you’re viewing Metacafe from the UK, you now can see the same rotating billboard and options for setting your Metacafe homepage that have been available in the US. In addition, we have new movie trailers, music videos, and sports highlights hubs that are specifically tailored for the UK, and a new team in the UK that will be bringing the best videos from the UK to Metacafe. Here’s a quick overview of the hubs:
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Movie Trailers, featuring theatrical and home video releases from every major Hollywood studio including HD videos. |
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Music Videos, featuring top artists and up-and-coming acts in Pop, Rock, Metal, Electronic, R&B and Hip Hop |
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Sports Highlights, featuring a raft of videos from Omnisport.tv, which includes leading European club and International football, ATP tennis, PGA Tour golf and much more. |
To read more about the redesign, please see this previous blog post.
Enjoy!
The Metacafe Team
A couple months ago, we made a big revamp to Metacafe with a new homepage and hubs for movie trailers, music videos, and sports highlights. Building on the very positive response we’ve received for these hubs, we are excited to announce the launch of our latest hub for TV clips!
Check out the TV Clips hub to find the latest and most popular clips, interviews, and promos for your favorite and upcoming TV shows. We’ve also included easy navigation to browse by show, and of course, it’s easy to search for your favorite shows at the top of the channel as well. Here’s just a taste of what the hub will offer:
Let us know what you think in the comments below!
Update: Tickets are sold out.
Metacafe is co-sponsoring a Techcrunch screening of the new Star Trek movie in Tel Aviv, Israel. If you happen to be in the city, please join in on the fun at the Blogus Movie Theater in the Azrieli Center this Thursday, the 21st at 7pm. There are 320 seats available – come see this terrific movie with us!
Tickets are $2 to minimize no-shows. You can reserve your ticket online here. Thanks to Techcrunch for organizing!
With this posting, Metacafe is today announcing the termination of the Metacafe Producer Rewards® program effective June 30, 2009.
Metacafe was among the first in the industry to reward independent producers for their online video successes, and we are proud of the fact that we subsidized the program in an effort to help lead the development of the online video industry. While we have worked to maintain the Producer Rewards® program during the past year, we are now faced with a market environment that requires us to focus on profitability in the near term and are not in the position to continue to subsidize the program.
This has been a difficult decision. We value our independent producers and your work. We sincerely hope you’ll continue to be part of the Metacafe community, and we will continue to work with independent producers to create new opportunities and to realize financial success.
We will provide more details on how the program wind-up will work in the upcoming days and weeks, but here is an overview:
– Videos that are currently part of the Producer Rewards® program will continue to accrue earnings through June 30, 2009. Payments will be made following the end of each month, consistent with our past payment practices. If the amount of money owed to you as of June 30, 2000 is less than $100, we will nonetheless make payment to you.
– Videos that are currently a part of the Producer Rewards® program will be removed from the site on July 1, 2009 unless you affirmatively elect to maintain your video(s) on the site on an uncompensated basis and not as part of the Producer Rewards® program.
– If you are a producer who has had videos previously accepted into the program and wish to keep those videos on Metacafe, you must send an e-mail to PRTermination@metacafe.com no later than June 30, 2009. The e-mail should state that you want your videos to remain on Metacafe and needs to include your full name, your Metacafe user name and a link to your Metacafe channel. Your videos will then be transitioned into the Metacafe Producer™ program, which provides recognition that you are the creator of and rights holder to this original work, but they will no longer be eligible for payment.
– However, if you wish to remove your Producer Rewards® videos from the program immediately, please send an email to PRTermination@metacafe.com from the email registered to your Metacafe account stating your user name and that you would like to remove your Producer Rewards® videos from the website. We will honor these requests within three business days.
– We will no longer be accepting new videos into the Producer Rewards® program, effective immediately.
– If you have submitted a video to be considered for acceptance into the Producer Rewards® program but have not received an acceptance notification, then your videos will remain on the site but will not become a part of the Producer Rewards® program. You may remove any video that has not been accepted into the Producer Rewards® program yourself at any time by logging into your account.
Many of you will certainly have questions about this process. Please email us your questions at PRTermination@metacafe.com. While we won’t be able to answer them all individually, we will compile them and will take them into account in our future communications about the process. You can also visit our Producer forums as well.
Thank you again for your participation in the program.
The Metacafe Team
