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Talking Points Memo
Talking Points Memo is a leading political website. They use a VodSpot to power the video section of their site. powered by their Vodpod collection.
They’ve created a custom template, with top categories on the right based on tags.
Videos are from YouTube, MSNBC, Comedy Central and dozens of other sites.
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TechCrunch
VideoCrunch is a VodSpot-powered video section for the enormously popular and influential TechCrunch blog.
TechCrunch uses the Vodpod blog importer to automatically bookmark videos posted to the TechCrunch, MobileCrunch and CrunchGear blogs sites. Their VodSpot includes over a thousand videos, from over 100 different video sites, all browsable by tag and area of coverage.
Headers, footers, and overall look and feel have been adjusted to conform with TechCrunch's overall design and navigation structure, and ads are pulled in from TechCrunch's ad servers.
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Gawker Screening Room
Gawker Media has used a VodSpot to power some of its video-based advertising campaigns. For one cable channel, they've aggregated promotional clips which play in a VodSpot pop-up player window. Gawker Media uses a corresponding Vodpod widget to drive traffic to their Vodspot-powered Screening Room site.
With the VodSpot platform, Gawker is able to customize the Screening Room site quickly, with accompanying background graphics and logos, for each advertiser. The Screening Room is domain-mapped so that it appears under a Gawker URL, and the header and footer for the site is automatically updated to maintain consistent navigation.
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TechStars.tv
TechStars is an innovative program based in Boulder and Boston for budding tech entrepreneurs. With VodSpot, they've created TechStars.tv, and made it an integral part of their TechStars.com site. Their VodSpot features videos they make and produce themselves and host on YouTube and Vimeo, as well as other relevant videos from a variety of sites on the Web.
With Vodpod, TechStars.tv is also able to make their collection of videos available on Boxee for playback on your television.
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Necole Bitchie
Necolebitchie.com is one of the most popular urban celebrity blogs. The video section of Necolebitchie.com is powered by VodSpot, with three hundred videos from dozens of websites Necole has aggregated using Vodpod.com.
Necole's VodSpot is seamlessly integrated with her blog; her very creative and funny header for her blog is maintained on her VodSpot, along with a common navigation bar.
