ClipSyndicate's Video Search API Released to Social Network, Social News and Video...

ClipSyndicate's Video Search API Released to Social Network, Social News and
Video Search Platform Developers

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- ClipSyndicate, a service of Critical
Media's Media and Publishing Services Group, today announced the release of
its search API to social network, social news and video syndication
application developers. The release falls under its standard revenue-share
terms for web publishers. With the newly-released API, ClipSyndicate, a
rapidly growing, ad-supported video syndication platform for licensed content,
will provide participating developers with a deep level of access and
integration options beginning with an archive of over 200,000 broadcast video
clips delivered immediately as embedded flash files. In partnership with more
broadcast affiliate partners than any other online syndication platform,
applications and widgets developed through ClipSyndicate will have access to
feeds with over 1,000 new video news clips per day.
Interested developers must contact info@clipsyndicate.com to join the
program.
"By distributing our API, we are providing on-demand access to our entire
ClipSyndicate video archive as well as breaking news clips delivered from our
platform in near real-time," said Sean Morgan, CEO of Critical Media. "From a
revenue perspective, this type of distribution allows us to develop new
revenue streams based on delivering banner and video ads tied to keyword
search terms passed through our API. Typically, vertical sites use
ClipSyndicate to syndicate highly relevant, authoritative video news content
where we deliver ads based on the vertical category of the referring web site.
With the API release, we are now able to open up contextual ad delivery
opportunities at horizontal sites. Additionally, the API will no longer
require that videos play at the ClipSyndicate website; instead, our
customizable and embeddable flash player is pulled directly into each new
application to enable easy integration with websites, applications, and social
news and networking platforms."
Lingospot, an in-text content discovery service, has been linking to
ClipSyndicate through RSS integration and local storage on Lingospot servers.
The Lingospot service identifies interesting terms on a publisher's page and
automatically creates Lingospot bubbles linked to these terms. These bubbles
include links that point to, among other content, relevant ClipSyndicate
video. When a user clicks on a ClipSyndicate video link, the video will play
in a small video player within the Lingospot bubble.
With the ClipSyndicate API integration complete, Lingospot is no longer
required to store, archive and integrate thousands of videos per day. Instead,
the API provides instant access to all video in the ClipSyndicate archive on
an on-demand basis, with no effort required by Lingospot to manage clips. More
importantly, the embeddable flash player is now a stand-alone component and
completely independent from clipsyndicate.com. Clips are pulled directly into
the application immediately upon being considered relevant to pages using the
Lingospot application. The reader can watch the relevant ClipSyndicate video
and then continue reading the article.
"I am very excited about integrating the Lingospot Platform with the
ClipSyndicate API and giving our publishers and their readers immediate access
to video licensed from major news producers internationally, including Clear
Channel Television, and the FOX Television Station Group, Fisher
Communications, Bloomberg Television, and Meredith Corporation, among others,"
said Nikos Iatropoulos, CEO of Lingospot. "ClipSyndicate enables us to
deliver the most in-depth, authoritative and continually-replenishing video
news material available to our publishers and their readers and, with the API,
we can now deliver this content within the Lingospot bubble."
Last week, Magnify.net announced it is using the ClipSyndicate API to make
a broadcast news video search application available to thousands of channel
creators who wish to search and publish topical video channels. By using the
API, Magnify users can search any topic and view aggregate results from
ClipSyndicate, then instantly publish the best clips to their personal video
pages.
About ClipSyndicate
ClipSyndicate is an ad-supported platform for aggregating, distributing
and monetizing licensed video and audio assets in near real-time on the Web.
The platform is positioned to become the definitive syndication network for
video news assets, having more license agreements with more authoritative news
outlets than any other online syndication platform. Viral distribution of
highly monetizable Professionally Generated Media ("PGM") clips across
thousands of high-quality registered websites aligns content owners and web
publishers with the interests of long tail advertisers looking for brand-safe
inventory online. For more information please visit ClipSyndicate.com.
About Critical Media
Critical Media Inc. is a company at the forefront of real-time broadcast
media capture, search, syndication and information services. The Company
provides tools and services to content consumers, providers, distributors and
advertisers, leveraging its real-time broadcast capture infrastructure. Every
day, Critical Media digitizes and monetizes over 10,000 hours of keyword
searchable broadcast content from 4 continents. The Company is comprised of
three divisions, The Information Services Group which markets Critical
Mention(SM), the company's dynamic real-time business intelligence platform,
utilized by 25% of the Fortune 100, the Media and Consumer Services Group
which is focused on building ClipSyndicate into the world's largest repository
of fully searchable authoritative video news and information, and the
Broadcaster Services Group focused on providing broadcasters and other content
owners with risk-free, streamlined solutions, such as its clip publishing
platform, Syndicaster(TM), intended to take all complexity out of distributing
and monetizing their video assets online. Critical Media was founded in 2002
under the name Critical Mention by one of the founders of Screaming Media --
one of the largest text syndication companies on the Internet now owned by Dow
Jones, Inc. and is headquartered in New York City. For more information
please visit www.criticalmediainc.com.
About Lingospot
Lingospot, based in Los Angeles, is a search and content aggregation
service that enables publishers to dynamically crosslink their content and
increase their readers' engagement with no extra effort other than the words
they put on their pages.
The company was formed to capitalize on five years of PhD research in
natural language processing and search. Using its patent-pending natural
language search technologies, Lingospot drives online readers' discovery of
new content leading to incremental page views and an increase in time spent.
To date, the company has indexed over 2 Billion pages and has served over 3
Billion Lingospot keywords.
SOURCE ClipSyndicate

Jim Pavoldi, VP of Business Development & Distribution, for ClipSyndicate,
jpavoldi@clipsyndicate.com, +1-212-400-8676