December 17th, 2012

VideoGenie Launches Self-Serve Option For Brands To Build Ads From Fan Videos

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Over the last few years, VideoGenie has changed the way brands do advertising by allowing their fans to become a product’s biggest advocates. With a platform for capturing and distributing user-submitted videos, VideoGenie allows brands to let fans promote products for them. It’s been used by some of the largest brand advertisers out there, but now it wants to open up to allow practically anyone… → Read More

June 9th, 2011

VideoGenie Scores $2M From Eric Schmidt, Others For Video Testimonials Platform

Back in May 2010, VideoGenie launched at our Disrupt conference as a platform for consumers to connect with their favorite brands through user-generated testimonial videos. A couple of months later, VideoGenie reported back to us with an excellent progress status update.

Today, the startup is announcing that it has raised a $2 million Series A round of venture financing led by Blumberg Capital→ Read More

September 7th, 2010

TC Disrupt Graduate VideoGenie Is Seeing Early Success With Its Video Platform

Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NY a couple of months ago, VideoGenie is on a roll, says founder and CEO Justin Nassiri.

VideoGenie essentially aims to transform the way consumers and brands connect through video by making it super easy for marketers to collect, review and deploy unscripted video customer testimonials. → Read More

May 24th, 2010

VideoGenie Aims To Help Brands And Consumers Connect Through Video

Launching at TechCrunch Disrupt this afternoon, VideoGenie aims to transform the way consumers and brands connect with each other using video.

Text-based interaction between brands and consumers is inadequate, the startup claims, because a palette of 94 ASCII characters doesn’t provide people with enough flexibility to express the full spectrum of human emotion. A better way, they say, is videos. → Read More