| Website | qik.com |
| Blog | qik.com/blog |
| @qik | |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Employees | 38 |
| Description | Live video casting from cell phones |
| Total | $4M |
| Series B, 4/08 Marc Benioff Arjun Gupta George Garrick | $3M |
| Unattributed | $1M |
| Unattributed, 8/08 Marc Andreessen Ben Horowitz |
Qik enables live video casting from a cell phone via any 3G/GPRS/Wi-fi Internet connection. Currently based in Foster City, Qik has been in testing since November 2007. Unlike sites where you have to wait for the video to be uploaded, Qik streams the video straight into the site with a delay of as little as half a second to two seconds.
To use it you download and install the client software onto one of the ~40 supported handsets (including Nokia S60 series, some Windows Mobile devices, or a jailbroken 2G iPhone). Click on the icon on the phone and then start streaming video with one more click. Once finished, the live stream turns into a recorded video, which can be embedded on any website or blog by copying and pasting a YouTube-like embed code. You can also send notifications to your Twitter followers that you are streaming live, configure Qik so that your videos upload directly to YouTube after you have finished streaming, and upload directly to Mogulus, Justin.tv, Seesmic and other sites.
Competitors include Kyte and Flixwagon.
This video was originally published on Beet.TV
Added: 8/5/08| Website | qik.com |
| Blog | qik.com/blog |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | January, 2008 |
| Tags | video |
