Revver
Summary
Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos can be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format. In addition, Revver is a Video Publishing Platform that can enable any third-party to build their own "Revverized" site. The site is actually built on top of Revver's own API, and third-parties can build identical functionality into their own sites. Revver allows developers to create a complete white label of the Revver platform.Revver was founded by Steven Starr, Ian Clarke, and Oliver Luckett in 2004, and is currently based in Los Angeles.
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Video files keep growing like kudzu
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