ViKi, an international video site for world TV series and movies translated in 100+ languages by its community, is announcing some major syndication deals and traffic numbers.
For background, ViKi is an open-source-like solution for video, and acquires the rights to TV shows and movies. The site then puts it on one of its channels and within the first 24 hours an organized, volunteer community subtitles the content using ViKi’s software.
The site has gained considerable traction in the past year. Currently, ViKi is seeing 8.5 million unique visitors and 36 million tota visits in the past month, which is four times the traffic that ViKi has seen from last year.
To date, 150 million words have been subtitled in 160 languages by the ViKi community, and the site features 5,000-plus hours of content. And in terms of content, ViKi is working on adding more premium content, including a new licensing deal with BBC Worldwide. ViKi also just launched and international TV series on�Netflix� with subtitles, and is expanding content on Hulu.
What’s interesting about ViKi is that the model allows content owners to open up to new international markets. Investors have bet on ViKi’s model too�the company recently raised $4.3 million in funding from some pretty impressive investors including Saar Gur of Charles River Ventures, Reid Hoffman of Greylock, Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz, Joi Ito of Singapore’s Neoteny Labs, Rajesh Sawhney, President of Reliance Entertainment in India and Alex Zubillaga, former global head of digital entertainment for Warner Music.
The next stop for ViKi is mobile, and the company is planning to expand to the mobile platform soon.
ViKi, a play on video and wiki, is an international video site for the best of world TV series and movies, translated in 100+ languages by a community of avid fans. With over 1 billion streams and 100 million words translated into over 146 languages, ViKi uniquely brings entertainment to new audiences and unlocks markets for content owners. The company has raised $4.3 million in Series A funding from Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures and others.
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