Sevenload
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Sevenload is an online video and Web-2.0 media platform used for managing video and multimedia contents. Since its founding in April 2006, the platform emerged on international markets to become a Social Media
Network for photos, videos and web TV content. sevenload shows licensed content channels and allows users to upload their video and photo contents onto the site and then tag them, put them in albums and share them with other users, and is considered by some to be a counterpart to hulu in the US. Premium content and user generated videos at sevenload.com create an entertainment portal of editorial and professional web TV shows online. Selected content of sevenload's entire program airs on next generation TVs, set-top-box technology and games consoles with partners such as Sony, Philips Net TV, T-Home Entertain, Medion and Nintendo Wii
. sevenload is currently available in twelve languages and offers localized country portals in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Turkey, UK, USA, Netherlands, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, India, China, Colombia and Mexico.
The Company was founded in April 2006 by Ibrahim Evsan, Thomas Bachem, Axel Schmiegelow's Venture firm dw capital gmbh, and K2 Interactive GmbH of Akgün and Tamer Kulmac. The Video Player technology the company was founded with had been developed since Fall 2005 by Ibrahim Evsan and Thomas Bachem. dw capital invested the first seed funds of 250.000,- € at foundation of the company. K2 ceased having any active role in the company in August 2006. Axel Schmiegelow developed the Licensing and Business Model as a Co-Founder and became CEO in August / September 2006. Andreas Heyden, in-house founder of sevenload competitor Clipfish at RTL Group, joined the company as COO in 2007.
Company executives at the time were Axel Schmiegelow (CEO) and Andreas Heyden (COO). Company investors are T-Online Venture Fund, DLD Ventures (Burda), Media Ventures, Martin Varsavsky
and dw capital GmbH. The Co-founders Ibrahim Evsan (former CTO) and Thomas Bachem (former Director Technology) left the company in September 2009 to start a new venture.
On Dezember 15th, 2010 the German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that DLD Ventures, as part of Burda Digital, had taken over the shareholding of T-Venture Funds, effective December 17, 2010 and thereby gained a majority stake in the company. As a result of this transaction, the company’s management structure and supervisory board changed: Andreas Heyden assumed the position of CEO in the company’s management team from Axel Schmiegelow, who took on a new role in sevenload’s supervisory board. In addition, Dr. Jörg Lübcke, Managing Director of Burda Digital, joined the supervisory board along with Dr. Marcel Reichart and Axel Schmiegelow.
According to the reports, the former investors Media Ventures and Martin Varsavsky made their exit and only DLD Ventures as well as dw capital are the remaining company investors. In summary, the exact share holder structure of sevenload and involvement of other investors remains unclear.
On July 6th 2011, Manfred Ruff became CEO of Sevenload
http://corporate.sevenload.com/free-hd-for-everyone/ but also include UGC video content similar to the typical YouTube
channels. Depending on the geo-location of the client, not every content is displayed in every country.
sevenload keeps partnerships with renowned partners. Universal Music has its own Branded Channel for distributing music clips, MTV
Networks shows selected formats like A Shot at Love and the MTV Crispy News and many other partners, among them National Geographic, Saturday Night Live
and FOX, show their contents in the sevenload channels.
As a new media company, sevenload positions itself as a provider of cross-media marketing and advertising solutions as well as modern video technology. Part of sevenload's core business comes from the conceptualization, development and production of IPTV based internet platforms, software solutions for Web 2.0 applications as well as technology development for third party companies looking for video player, video uploading, video linking and distribution technologies. sevenload has already worked with internationally renowned companies such as BMW, Nokia, Sony and Universal Music, and offers companies individual white label solutions.
Since February 2009, videos can be uploaded in High Definition quality. The upload limit has been increased from 200 Megabytes up to 1.5 Gigabytes.
Such content has been uploaded in the past. This content was displayed publicly until either sevenload saw the content or was notified of it.
Since 2011 Poland is Banned on Sevenload. In May 2011, Sevenload announced that they will no longer offer its service in Turkey. India service is also not available.
Social media
The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...
Network for photos, videos and web TV content. sevenload shows licensed content channels and allows users to upload their video and photo contents onto the site and then tag them, put them in albums and share them with other users, and is considered by some to be a counterpart to hulu in the US. Premium content and user generated videos at sevenload.com create an entertainment portal of editorial and professional web TV shows online. Selected content of sevenload's entire program airs on next generation TVs, set-top-box technology and games consoles with partners such as Sony, Philips Net TV, T-Home Entertain, Medion and Nintendo Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
. sevenload is currently available in twelve languages and offers localized country portals in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Turkey, UK, USA, Netherlands, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, India, China, Colombia and Mexico.
The Company was founded in April 2006 by Ibrahim Evsan, Thomas Bachem, Axel Schmiegelow's Venture firm dw capital gmbh, and K2 Interactive GmbH of Akgün and Tamer Kulmac. The Video Player technology the company was founded with had been developed since Fall 2005 by Ibrahim Evsan and Thomas Bachem. dw capital invested the first seed funds of 250.000,- € at foundation of the company. K2 ceased having any active role in the company in August 2006. Axel Schmiegelow developed the Licensing and Business Model as a Co-Founder and became CEO in August / September 2006. Andreas Heyden, in-house founder of sevenload competitor Clipfish at RTL Group, joined the company as COO in 2007.
Company executives at the time were Axel Schmiegelow (CEO) and Andreas Heyden (COO). Company investors are T-Online Venture Fund, DLD Ventures (Burda), Media Ventures, Martin Varsavsky
Martín Varsavsky
Martín Varsavsky is an Argentine entrepreneur based in Spain.Born to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman-Diamond, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school....
and dw capital GmbH. The Co-founders Ibrahim Evsan (former CTO) and Thomas Bachem (former Director Technology) left the company in September 2009 to start a new venture.
On Dezember 15th, 2010 the German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that DLD Ventures, as part of Burda Digital, had taken over the shareholding of T-Venture Funds, effective December 17, 2010 and thereby gained a majority stake in the company. As a result of this transaction, the company’s management structure and supervisory board changed: Andreas Heyden assumed the position of CEO in the company’s management team from Axel Schmiegelow, who took on a new role in sevenload’s supervisory board. In addition, Dr. Jörg Lübcke, Managing Director of Burda Digital, joined the supervisory board along with Dr. Marcel Reichart and Axel Schmiegelow.
According to the reports, the former investors Media Ventures and Martin Varsavsky made their exit and only DLD Ventures as well as dw capital are the remaining company investors. In summary, the exact share holder structure of sevenload and involvement of other investors remains unclear.
On July 6th 2011, Manfred Ruff became CEO of Sevenload
Contents
Among user generated content, sevenload claims to host over 1,000 web TV shows in their channels. These selected premium channels host various official pages of artists, music labels, musicians and TV shows even in HD-quality,http://corporate.sevenload.com/free-hd-for-everyone/ but also include UGC video content similar to the typical YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
channels. Depending on the geo-location of the client, not every content is displayed in every country.
sevenload keeps partnerships with renowned partners. Universal Music has its own Branded Channel for distributing music clips, MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
Networks shows selected formats like A Shot at Love and the MTV Crispy News and many other partners, among them National Geographic, Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
and FOX, show their contents in the sevenload channels.
As a new media company, sevenload positions itself as a provider of cross-media marketing and advertising solutions as well as modern video technology. Part of sevenload's core business comes from the conceptualization, development and production of IPTV based internet platforms, software solutions for Web 2.0 applications as well as technology development for third party companies looking for video player, video uploading, video linking and distribution technologies. sevenload has already worked with internationally renowned companies such as BMW, Nokia, Sony and Universal Music, and offers companies individual white label solutions.
Technical Notes
All videos on sevenload get saved in the Flash Video and H.264 formats (file extensions: .flv, .mp4). The videos can be replayed online as a stream in any web browser. To watch the videos in a web browser the Adobe Flash plug-ins must be installed. Videos can be uploaded up to a size of 1,5 GB in all current formats, e.g. AVI, MPEG or Quicktime. Before further distributing the videos, they are converted in the Flash Video formats by sevenload. Users can upload pictures up to a size of 10 MB. The following formats are accepted: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, JP2, PSD, WMF and EPS.Since February 2009, videos can be uploaded in High Definition quality. The upload limit has been increased from 200 Megabytes up to 1.5 Gigabytes.
Videos with suspicious content
According to sevenload's Terms of Use,http://en.sevenload.com/termsofuse content is not allowed to be uploaded if it contains material which violates third-party proprietary rights; or is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or is otherwise inappropriate.Such content has been uploaded in the past. This content was displayed publicly until either sevenload saw the content or was notified of it.
Copyright infringements
Even though copyright protected materials are not permitted to be uploaded to sevenload without permission of the copyright holder, such contents are regularly uploaded to the site. sevenload joined an alliance with other major content platforms to protect copyright owners in June 2008.http://corporate.sevenload.com/sevenload-protects-professional-content-partners-and-user-generated-video/ The use of automatic content filters and the reporting of copyright infringements apparently lead to less illegal content on the entire site.Localization
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| http://au.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://cn.sevenload.com/ | Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... |
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| http://fr.sevenload.com/ | French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... |
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| http://de.sevenload.com/ | German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... |
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| http://in.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://id.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://it.sevenload.com/ | Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia... |
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| http://jp.sevenload.com/ | Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an... |
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| http://kr.sevenload.com/ | Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing... |
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| http://my.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://nl.sevenload.com/ | Dutch Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second... |
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| http://ph.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://pl.sevenload.com/ | Polish Polish language Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries... |
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| http://ru.sevenload.com/ | Russian Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics... |
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| http://es.sevenload.com/ | Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... |
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| http://sin.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://se.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://tr.sevenload.com/ | Turkish Turkish language Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,... |
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| http://uk.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://en.sevenload.com/ | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
Since 2011 Poland is Banned on Sevenload. In May 2011, Sevenload announced that they will no longer offer its service in Turkey. India service is also not available.
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