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Wizzard Media Joins Forces with TubeMogulAugust 15th, 2008 at 7:30 amSource:Mashable! Two companies I’ve long been fans of have hooked up their platforms to work together: Wizzard and TubeMogul. Wizzard Media is the media giant in the podcasting space, and TubeMogul is a video distribution service with one of the most adept, savvy and aware crews I’ve run into in their space. In case you haven’t seen our coverage of TubeMogul in the past, their service is one that allows you to upload a video once and distribute it automatically to just about every embedded video site out there. TubeMogul has been furiously striking partnerships with a number of different sites where original video is created, including our video platform of choice Episodic. For us, after a video is uploaded and tagged on Episodic’s server, it’s simply a one click process to blast the video out to YouTube, Revver, Yahoo’s Video, Google Video, and many others. This is the same functionality that Wizzard seems to now have implimented with the added bonus of integrating the analytics TubeMogul gathers from all these video repository into the stats package on their service. Record Revenues at Wizzard This news comes hot on the heels of more good financial news for Wizzard in their second quarter 2008 financial results. Their revenues for Q208 were just shy of $1.5 million, up 3% from Q207, and shaved $868,000 off their quarterly losses year over year, putting them a lot closer to operating in the black. All the other key indicators for the business grew significantly as well, with total downloaded shows from Wizzard servers topping out at nearly a quarter of a billion downloads for just this quarter. All in all, Wizzard continues to prove that there is money in podcasting, be it audio or video. Wizzard has always had a reputation for excelling in audio, but with podcasting itself making a comeback in trendiness, and Wizzard making a significant effort in the video side of their business, they should have a bright rest of the year ahead of them, particularly with the increased interest in video from the mainstream advertising community. [Disclosure: Wizzard Media/LibSyn hosts the audio version of Mashable Conversations] —Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Wizzard Media Publicly Traded on AMEXWizzard Media Joins the NavyTubeMogul Launches Cross-Network Video Tracking ToolTubeMogul Asks: Will Online Video Sell?Wizzard Releases Video Using Adobe Media PlayerWizzard Sees First Quarter Revenue Grow 130%TubeMogul Raises $1.5 Million from Lindzon and Knight’s Bridge
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