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Coub (YC S16) makes it easy to create short, looped videos

17 points by stvnchn 10y ago

thekevinsu 10y ago
How much did your final product change from your initial vision?
- igorglad 10y ago
  The core idea of the short looped videos did not changed at all. But the way people used it changed a lot. We provided the simple creative tool and our users created a lot of new formats using it: video mashups, diy music videos, quotes in news sites.
  - thekevinsu 10y ago
    Thanks for the insight!
igorglad 10y ago
Hi all! I am one of the founders of Coub. We are very excited to be in YC S16 batch. We will be happy to answer your questions about Coub.
- thekevinsu 10y ago
  Did your team have a technical co-founder when you guys applied to YC?
  - igorglad 10y ago
    Of course. When we started making projects together, Anton was a designer and I was a programmer.
fillipvt 10y ago
What is your road plan for the next year? How do you plan on growing?
- igorglad 10y ago
  We have a great creative community that produces a lot of great content, our goal is to show this content to everyone. We will improve our creation tools and work with our core users to understand their needs. And we also will improve the ways it could be shared in social networks, messengers, media sites etc to help our content spread everywhere.
citricsquid 10y ago
The monthly viewership figures (50m viewers, 500m views) are interesting, I've never heard of Coub before. Are there places we might have seen a Coub and not realised it, do you have integrations with other services, or are all your views driven through your website (from social media?)? Thanks!
- igorglad 10y ago
  Coub is very popular in Eastern Europe, but it is not well known in US yet. We are not locking content on our platform, our goal is to deliver our content in every social network, messengers, media. We already work great in FB, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Telegram, Kik and lot more. A lot of media and news sites use coubs as a quote or animated illustrations. And we are heavily focused on more integrations to make coubs work everywhere.
S4M 10y ago
How do you guys plan to monetize Coub? If it's through ads I can see a problem since the videos are very short.
- igorglad 10y ago
  Our users produce tons of great viral content. And while it is short, it is much easier to consume and become viral. So it could be a perfect marketing tool for brands. We have already made some experiments with monetization. We've made special projects with brands to involve our users to create viral coubs from their content, like this one we've made with Disney and Star Wars: http://coub.com/theforceawakens http://coub.com/theforceawakens
mlvljr 10y ago
Yay! Russians are coming... to YC :D
benbenolson 10y ago
...So, webms?

17 points by stvnchn 10y ago

thekevinsu 10y ago

How much did your final product change from your initial vision?

igorglad 10y ago
The core idea of the short looped videos did not changed at all. But the way people used it changed a lot. We provided the simple creative tool and our users created a lot of new formats using it: video mashups, diy music videos, quotes in news sites.
- thekevinsu 10y ago
  Thanks for the insight!

igorglad 10y ago

Hi all! I am one of the founders of Coub. We are very excited to be in YC S16 batch. We will be happy to answer your questions about Coub.

thekevinsu 10y ago
Did your team have a technical co-founder when you guys applied to YC?
- igorglad 10y ago
  Of course. When we started making projects together, Anton was a designer and I was a programmer.

fillipvt 10y ago

What is your road plan for the next year? How do you plan on growing?

igorglad 10y ago
We have a great creative community that produces a lot of great content, our goal is to show this content to everyone. We will improve our creation tools and work with our core users to understand their needs. And we also will improve the ways it could be shared in social networks, messengers, media sites etc to help our content spread everywhere.

citricsquid 10y ago

The monthly viewership figures (50m viewers, 500m views) are interesting, I've never heard of Coub before. Are there places we might have seen a Coub and not realised it, do you have integrations with other services, or are all your views driven through your website (from social media?)? Thanks!

igorglad 10y ago
Coub is very popular in Eastern Europe, but it is not well known in US yet. We are not locking content on our platform, our goal is to deliver our content in every social network, messengers, media. We already work great in FB, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Telegram, Kik and lot more. A lot of media and news sites use coubs as a quote or animated illustrations. And we are heavily focused on more integrations to make coubs work everywhere.

S4M 10y ago

How do you guys plan to monetize Coub? If it's through ads I can see a problem since the videos are very short.

igorglad 10y ago
Our users produce tons of great viral content. And while it is short, it is much easier to consume and become viral. So it could be a perfect marketing tool for brands. We have already made some experiments with monetization. We've made special projects with brands to involve our users to create viral coubs from their content, like this one we've made with Disney and Star Wars: http://coub.com/theforceawakens http://coub.com/theforceawakens

mlvljr 10y ago

Yay! Russians are coming... to YC :D

benbenolson 10y ago

...So, webms?