Founded by a team of experienced entrepreneurs that have collectively built 16 different companies, vSocial is a pioneer in the online video space, having launched the initial version of its service way back in 2002. vConnect is a social networking for video platform that enables content owners, portal operators and online marketing organizations to custom brand, target, virally distribute and monetize their message via video. Customers can see-touch-feel the vConnect solution by visiting the company's popular showcase site, vSocial.com.

What Is vCONNECT?

Delivered as a hosted service, vConnect is a turnkey software package that integrates uploading, encoding, hosting, publishing and advertising with video channel, micro-site and community-building tools. vConnect services can be self-administered through an ordinary web browser.

vConnect provides a fully integrated social networking for video platform. It is browser-based, platform-independent, and ready for you to set-up, customize and launch your video community in as little as an hour.

Complete and Turnkey

vConnect stands alone in the marketplace in terms of its marriage of functional richness, seamless integration and simplicity to set up and manage.

Blog It!: post videos directly to TypePad and Blogger
Distribution: RSS-based subscription/syndication, clip mails, email alerts, iPod integration
Context: tag, rate, review and user comment functions
MyBrand™: customizable players by logo, contact forms, links to data sheets, web site etc.
Ad Marketplace Interface: self-service pre-roll, post-roll or interstitial ad integration
Video Roll: tell short stories using an amalgam of clips
User badges: enables friends to dynamically view latest uploads, favorites, etc.
Folksonomy: automatically recognize relationships between users and content
Transparency: see what's new, popular, recently viewed and/or talked about in a click
Video Search: find videos by tag, text, user and/or category
Stats Tracking: monitor users and usage patterns based on multiple parameters
Rich Profile: express interests and plug into interfaces to popular online services
Account management: automated user registration; easily feature, filter or suspend users
Templates: customize hot pages, play pages, channel definitions, etc.
Scaleable hosted service: industrial strength, proven reliable architecture

Three Different Products Make Up the vConnect Solution:

	vCONNECT|myBRAND Designed for individual videos, such as mastered content, infomercials, or video brochures; videos retain your defined brand and interactive functions, even when virally distributed; set up in minutes. CASE STUDY//BROADZILLA One of 100K bands leveraging MySpace to connect with fan base. Broadzilla created their vSocial profile, uploaded a music video and garnered ~850K plays of video in 90 days and developed a relationship with new fans all over the world!

	vCONNECT|proPUBLISHER Whether you are a small/mid sized business, ad agency, or Publisher, you can launch a new video channel or a word of mouth campaign "micro-site" in as little as a few hours; with instant monetization; custom branding, search optimization and easy syndication in one affordable offering. CASE STUDY//CHEVROLET Amazingly created in just a few days for a recent Chevrolet ad campaign to get people to upload videos praising their efficient gas mileage and flex fuel vehicles. Users can upload videos directly from their camera phones