YouTube with a Heart

South San Francisco, CA Flixya.com has launched the beta version of
their new video sharing community website. The free video sharing
community isn't just
another YouTube. "We're building an online community and offering an
incentive to share videos from the growing list of video web sites,"
explains co-founder Adam Oliver, a former Director at Stubhub.com. "We
didn't want to build another YouTube." Rather, the two man start-up is
building a network of niche specific sites and meeting the challenges
of monetizing online video. "While working on a number of video
related concepts, we started to see very specific niche communities
emerge with less than a handful of sites offering any type of
incentive to it's participating members. "Flixya is delivering a
necessary method of monetizing videos for content producers and a
rewards program for contributing members. "Flixya.com is the first
community driven video web site that offers a 50/50 revenue share,
rewards program and a voluntary charity component for contributing to
those in need."

SHARE EVERYTHING

"Flixya is proud to be fundamentally built on the foundation that
encourages it's members to share everything," says co-founder Ivan
Wong "Online video is an engaging platform and an untapped audience
for advocating awareness of charitable causes." The Flixya charity
program features an opt-in contribution of 50% of member-generated ad
revenue. "We are excited about our growing list of charities that we
support and look forward to contributing to local, national and
international causes."

REVENUE SHARE

The Flixya revenue share program monetizes video by offering a 50/50
ad revenue split utilizing Google Adsense and an in-house ad
publishing system. Members can earn 50% of ad revenue from content
they submit or contribute the 50% to a charitable cause.

"It is has been rewarding to develop a community for connecting people
with engaging and entertaining videos." And like YouTube, the next
phase of Flixya includes the ability to upload videos in addition to
sharing videos from around the Internet. "By the time we are out of
Beta, we'll have a targeted user base that can upload video just like
YouTube. However, our focus at this point in time, is to aggregate
content from the 200 existing video sites and build our core
audience." says Adam Oliver.

REWARDS PROGRAM

The Flixya multi-tiered rewards program features $5000 worth of
merchandise. Members can earn points for sharing videos, friend
referrals and posting comments. 30,000 points will get you a $100 gift
card to Abercrombie and Fitch, 110,000 a T-Mobile Sidekick 3. At the
top of the list, 600,000 Flixya points will get you an Apple Macbook
Pro.

About Flixya:
Flixya is an online video community with rewards.
http://www.flixya.com

Resources:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com
Google Adsense http://www.google.com/adsense
Stubhub http://www.stubhub.com