Viddler
 | This article contains promotional content. (December 2019) |
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| Interactive online video service | |
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| Founded | 2005 (private) |
| Headquarters | Bethlehem, PA |
| Website | www |
Viddler is an online sales training platform with integrated tools for practice and evaluation. The Viddler service offers video-based instruction and optional coaching and allows customers to engage with course content through guided assignments and self-recorded practice sessions.
History
The company, headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was founded in November 2005, by Robert Sandie, Greg Gurevich, Joshua Mann, and Donna DeMarco.
Viddler no longer provides a free service for non-commercial users.[1] In 2010, Viddler began focusing less on video enthusiasts and self-generated content hosting, and more on business verticals, including corporate communication and training, education, and publishing.[2] Following a 2011 decision to discontinue new personal accounts, Viddler announced in 2014 that it was going to close those legacy accounts, giving users the option of opening a paid account or downloading their existing videos.[3][4]Additionally, On February 5th of 2014, Viddler sent this email to its users:
Hi Viddlers,
In 2006, Viddler’s founding business model was based on the creation of a community site for video enthusiasts and personal sharing. At the time, our business revenue model was driven through advertising. As a Viddler community user, you were a part of this model. As time has passed Viddler is no longer able to support this offering and business model.
Therefore we’ve made the decision to close our free site and community effective March 11th, 2014.
Team Viddler now dedicates 100% of our collective effort on the delivery of secure, interactive video solutions. We back our offering with a passionate, personal professional services and client support team and every day we strive to be the best in the industry.
We invite you to upgrade to a paid account.
We have created an affordable basic account expressly for our long-time Viddler users.
If you chose not to subscribe to Viddler's service, please be sure to download a copy of your videos on a personal drive so that you don't lose access to them. While we are sad to see you go, we would be even sadder if you lost your videos.
To Download your videos from Viddler:
1. Log into your Viddler Account.
2. Click Videos.
3. On the video you would like to download, click edit.
4. Click Manage.
5. Choose your download file format.
The future is an exciting place for online video. We're extremely grateful to you for being a part of Viddler's success. We hope that you'll join us as we continue to change the face of enterprise solutions.
Sincerely,
Team Viddler.
As this email says, they invited all users that had an account (with email registered) to pay for a subscription, as it was not possible to have the website free.
References
- ^ "Viddler's New Tag-Based Advertising System". 2007-11-19. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ Verdelli, Jason. "Interview: How Viddler Went from You Tube Competitor to Enterprise Video Hosting Authority". Social HubSite. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ Roettgers, Janko (2014-02-07). "Viddler gets ready to delete personal videos". Gigaom. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Viddler gets ready to delete personal videos". CNN Money.
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