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  • Press Resources

    Posted on July 14th, 2009 Comments Off

    Press Releases

    Looking for Press Resources? Visit our Press Pack page.

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  • Microsoft Startup of the Day

    Posted on July 14th, 2009 Comments Off

    Buzz Latest News

    Quick.tv have been named as The Microsoft Startup of the Day. The news comes only a few weeks before Quick.tv unveil a top secret Silverlight 3.0 project which has been in development in conjunction with Microsoft for several months.
    Quick.tv co-founder Nick Bell said “it is a real honour and a testament to the hard work [...]

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  • Quick.tv presents Europa award

    Posted on July 10th, 2009 Comments Off

    Events Photo credit: Mike Butcher

    The Europas, the TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009 for European and EMEA tech companies, was held last night (July 9) in London.
    Quick.tv sponsored the The Europas Shortlist: Best Investor (VC or Angel fund, EMEA)
    The shortlisted nominees in alphabetical order:
    Atlas Venture
    Eden Ventures
    European Founders Fund
    Index Ventures
    TAG – The Accelerator Group
    …….and the winner was TAG – The Accelerator Group [...]

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  • Nick Bell speaks at ‘What Happens to TV?’ event

    Posted on July 6th, 2009 Comments Off

    Events

    Quick.tv co-founder is a panelist at ‘What Happens to TV?’, part of NMK’s Future of Media series. The event takes place on July 7th, 2009 18:30 to 20:30.
    Nick will be joined on the panel by:
    James Baker, General Manager, Current TV
    Dan’l Hewitt, Director, Digital Content, Bebo
    Thomas Dvorak, Chief Marketing Officer, APRICO
    Further information about the event [...]

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  • Quick.tv sponsor Techcrunch Europas

    Posted on July 6th, 2009 Comments Off

    Events Techcrunch Europas Logo

    Quick.tv are delighted to be an official sponsor of “The Europas” – The TechCrunch Europe Awards.
    These awards will recognise and celebrate the most compelling technology startups, Internet and mobile innovations of the past year (Summer 08 – Summer 09), with the tech community invited to have a say in which finalists should be recognised. [...]

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  • Quick.tv’s Nick Bell speaks to Intruders.tv

    Posted on April 29th, 2009 (1)

    Latest News

    Following the official Quick.tv BETA launch at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam on 17 April 2009, Quick.tv co-founder Nick Bell spoke to Intruders.tv.

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  • Quick.tv co-founder to speak at UPGRADE Masterclass

    Posted on April 29th, 2009 (3)

    Latest News UPGRADE Masterclass

    Quick.tv co-founder Nick Bell will be speaking at the UPGRADE May Masterclass in London on May 22nd 2009.
    The event which is been organized by Sun Startup Essentials and Everycity will be held at Sun Microsystems.
    The days schedule includes:
    Avoiding Social suicide on Twitter – Nick Halstead – Tweetmeme.com
    How to start the right conversations on Twitter and [...]

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  • Do You Know the BBC iPlayer?

    Posted on April 29th, 2009 Comments Off

    Commentary iPlayer traffic increases

    Video on the web is on the uptake. You may have used the iPlayer, but do you know about the iPlayer? Within the UK, traffic to video websites has risen 40.7%. The BBC iPlayer being a major part of that increase, second to only YouTube. The iPlayer’s threefold growth comes from a major marketing campaign, [...]

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  • Quick.tv Will Take the Stage at The Next Web

    Posted on April 17th, 2009 (1)

    Commentary Uncategorized The Next Web

    Today at The Next Web is the ‘Rising Sun Start-up Presentations’ sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Starting at 11:40 and ending at 12:35pm (GMT/BST + 1; That’s 10:40am to 11:35pm for those in the United Kingdom), Quick.tv will take the stage for the first round of the event alongside four other startups (Yunoo, Huddle, Prezi, Klompteck).

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  • Interactive Web Videos Show Higher CPMs

    Posted on April 14th, 2009 (5)

    Commentary

    The ‘AAAA’ (American Association of Advertising Agencies) published an article, written by Paul Burton, providing a compare and contrast analysis of Digital and traditional media advertising. In affect, the majority of agencies have misunderstandings when grappling the cost-effectiveness of their budgets.

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  • The Next Web Conference

    Posted on April 9th, 2009 (2)

    Commentary Uncategorized 1 of 200!

    The Next Web 2009 conference is in its fourth installation since its founding year in 2006. For three days, 900-plus Internet professionals will enjoy Amsterdam; the Next Web conference is known as one of the best networking events in Europe for professional web industry.

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  • Quick.tv is a Red Herring 100 Winner

    Posted on April 9th, 2009 (2)

    Commentary Uncategorized We

    Berlin, April 3rd, 2009 – Red Herring today announced that Quick.tv was named a WINNER of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.

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  • A Quick History of Web Video

    Posted on April 7th, 2009 (3)

    Commentary History of Video

    Can you recall the online video market before YouTube hit the front pages of New York Times? Most can’t even fathom what it was like before the days of YouTube, but it did exist. The problem of course was online video was simply too bleeding edge for the mainstream market before YouTube’s limelight showed consumers what was possible.

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  • A Quick Analysis of Online Video

    Posted on April 6th, 2009 (2)

    Commentary Uncategorized User Generated Content

    The paradigm shift is beginning to take shape for online video as more people gain access to faster connection speeds. Now in both time spent and number of viewers, online video is growing a rate twice that of television, according to a Neilson study.

    The dominant player in this online video market is of course YouTube. In fact, YouTube is now the second largest search engine, even though it’s just for videos. YouTube’s first to market advantage is creating a major market for online video.

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