| Website | qik.com |
| Blog | qik.com/blog |
| @qik | |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Employees | 38 |
| Description | Live video casting from cell phones |
| Total | $8.5M |
| Series B, 4/08 Marc Benioff Arjun Gupta George Garrick | $3M |
| Series C, 7/09 Quest Venture Partners CampVentures | $5.5M |
| Unattributed, 8/08 Marc Andreessen Ben Horowitz |
Qik enables live video casting over any cell network or wifi connection. Currently based in Redwood City, Qik went into private alpha in December 2007 and launched into public beta on July 21, 2008. 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 Qik, you download and install the client software onto one of the 130+ supported handsets (including Android, iPhones (original, 3G, and 3GS - jailbroken), BlackBerry, Nokia Symbian, many Windows Mobile devices, and J2ME devices. You can sign up via Qik.com or directly from your device by visiting d.qik.com from your phone’s browser. Click on the icon on the phone and then start streaming video with one more click. Once finished, the live stream turns into an archived video, which can be embedded on any website or blog by copying and pasting a YouTube-like embed code. You can also stream directly to Facebook, MySpace, Brightcove, Tumblr, Ning, and other social networks; send notifications via email, SMS, or 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 Livestream, Justin.tv, Seesmic and other sites.
Competitors include Kyte and Flixwagon.
| Website | qik.com |
| Blog | qik.com/blog |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | January, 2008 |
| Tags | video |
