AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Mashable
As with most video networks, Metacafe has brought on a seasoned industry veteran to help monetize content being distributed through the site. Metacafe has appointed Michael Strambi as its new Chief Financial Officer, with one major goal in mind–advance Metacafe’s focus on short-form video within a user-generated online community.
Strambi has over 20 years of corporate [...]

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Watch Mojo
Hearing about Metacafe’s founders leaving and Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt admitting that it does not know how to make money off YouTube, I realized how random success is, in business in general and online video in particular.
I like to think that as a content producer, we have a business model that makes sense, and [...]

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Tech Crunch
The co-founders of once-hot video startup Metacafe, Arik Czerniak (pictured with his son) and Ofer Adler, have left the company and cashed out their shares for $5 million, according to an article in the Israeli paper The Marker (in Hebrew). Czerniak stepped down as CEO in February, 2007, when he was replaced by former [...]

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