Monetization Demo
The Kyte Platform provides a comprehensive set of transactional and ad-based revenue opportunities, enabling our partners to maximize the monetization of their brand assets.
See the channel below for a demonstration:
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Ready to get started with Monetizing your Player?
Ad Network Partners
Google AdSense for Video
Allows you to deliver relevant and contextualized ads and monetize your Kyte channels through Google's large pool of advertisers.
- Can be used stand-alone, or to supplement direct ad sales efforts
- Google AFV can be "daisy chained" to handle unsold ad inventory when used in conjunction with a supported ad server such as DoubleClick DART
- Provides a relevant and non-intrusive advertising experience for end-users
SUPPORTED AD FORMATS
Pre-Roll Video Ad
- Progression bar
- Countdown Timer
- Automatically resumes content video
- Currently U.S. only - international support coming
Graphic Overlay
- Automatically minimizes after the ad completes
- Does not interrupt content unless user initiated
- User-click launches in-stream video ad
- Currently U.S. only - international support coming
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Endcap Text
- Shown after the video completes
- Does not interrupt content
- Text ads are contextually targeted to the video
- International support
Ready to get started with Google AdSense for Video?
Branded Mobile Web
Delivers the full Kyte experience to any web-enabled mobile device, including the ability to watch, rate and comment on shows, and chat with other viewers.
Key Benefits
- Provides a highly interactive branded mobile experience, available "out of the box" for all partner channels, featuring brand-specific content and advertising optimized for a mobile audience
- Allows publishers to engage more often and in multiple ways with an on-the-go audience
- Enables mobile contests and promotions that leverage user generated content
- Builds community, brand affiliation and loyalty through mobile audience participation
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Bloggers & Publishers
Corporate Communications
Reach and engage employees, customers and investors
For organizations of any size, Kyte provides a powerful solution for mobile and webcam video communications. Organizations can broadcast live or pre-recorded video to their website or intranet with a minimum of effort. Integration can be accomplished in minutes through the use of simple embed code - or, using the Kyte Developer API, partners can rapidly harness and customize the full power of the Kyte social communications platform.
Multimedia chat, RSS and SMS notification services keep employees, partners - or any type of internal or external audience - up-to-date with the latest content and channel activity.
- Reach and engage employees, customers and investors
- Easily bring video and other multimedia to a corporate blog
- Provide live online and mobile customer support
Contact us to learn more about Kyte for corporate communications.
Kyte Branded Social Network Applications
Bloggers & Publishers
Giving content creators and publishers a dynamic, multimedia platform
For blogs and websites of any size, Kyte provides an easy-to-use digital media solution. With Kyte and a mobile phone or webcam, you can publish live streaming or recorded video with a minimum of effort. Kyte also enables publishers to upload pre-recorded video, allowing them to combine both authentic and professional video content and maximizing the frequency of user engagement.
Blogs aren’t just about one-way communications – they’re about starting a conversation. Kyte provides a way to take this conversation to the next level through real-time video, audio and text chat. Readers can stay up to date through RSS feeds and Kytefeed notifications.
- Easily broadcast live streaming or recorded video to any blog or website
- Monetize with sponsored advertising that stays with your channel wherever it’s embedded
- Multimedia interactive features including chat, RSS and SMS notifications keep audiences engaged and up-to-date
Kyte Mobile Producer for Nokia S60
Live Stream or Record and Upload Video on Nokia S60 Phones
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Use your compatible Nokia camera phone to produce and distribute video and pictures to multiple online and mobile destinations simultaneously.
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Key Features
Live Streaming Video – With one-click, produce high quality live streaming video from anywhere. Connect with viewers live and view chat messages in real-time.
Record & Upload Video and Pictures – Produce video or pictures from your phone and instantly send them to your Channel. This is a great way to capture video in non-optimal network conditions and keep editorial control over your content.
Upload video and pictures from the gallery – Select video and pictures from your phone’s gallery and broadcast them to your Kyte Channel.
For more details see our Kyte Mobile Producer Guide.
Media Kit
Quick Links
- Kyte Fact Sheet
- Kyte Corporate One Sheet
- Kyte Platform One Sheet
- Management Team
- Investors
- Awards
- Platform Overview Video
- Partner Highlights
Executive Photos
Kyte Logo
Kyte News
Monetization Demo
The Kyte Platform provides a comprehensive set of transactional and ad-based revenue opportunities, enabling our partners to maximize the monetization of their brand assets.
See the channel below for a demonstration:
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Ready to get started with Monetizing your Player?
Kyte Mobile Producer Compatible Phones
Kyte Mobile Producer for S60 is currently compatible with the following Nokia Symbian S60 3rd Edition camera phones:
Make |
Phone |
| Nokia | 5320 |
| Nokia | 5700 |
| Nokia | 6110 |
| Nokia | 6120 |
| Nokia | 6210 |
| Nokia | 6220 |
| Nokia | E50 |
| Nokia | E51 |
| Nokia | E61i |
| Nokia | E65 |
| Nokia | E66 |
| Nokia | E70 |
| Nokia | E71 |
| Nokia | E90 |
| Nokia | N71 |
| Nokia | N73 |
| Nokia | N75 |
| Nokia | N76 |
| Nokia | N77 |
| Nokia | N78 |
| Nokia | N80 |
| Nokia | N81 |
| Nokia | N81 8GB |
| Nokia | N82 |
| Nokia | N91 |
| Nokia | N92 |
| Nokia | N93i |
| Nokia | N95 |
| Nokia | N95 8GB |
| Nokia | N96 |
Ad Server Integration
The Kyte Platform provides built-in ad serving capabilities, as well as integration with leading 3rd-party ad solutions, including DoubleClick DART.
Kyte integrates seamlessly with leading ad servers, providing your ad sales team with new, high-CPM video and rich media ad inventory, while allowing you to leverage your existing ad operations infrastructure and resources.
The Kyte Platform also provides built-in ad serving capabilities for house ads, sponsorships, and transactional e-commerce advertising.
CURRENTLY SUPPORTED AD SERVERS
- DoubleClick DART
- AdTech Helios IQ
- Lightningcast
- Kyte Ad Manager
SUPPORTED AD FORMATS
Pre-Roll Video Ad
Pre-roll video enables brands to offer video advertising to a channel audience. The Pre-Roll Video automatically plays in advance of a show. Shows on your channel must be at least 30 seconds in length to prompt Pre-Roll video.
In-Show Overlay Ad
An In-Show Overlay Ad provides sponsors with a unique opportunity to reach audiences while they watch video content. The ad is displayed in the bottom third of the player. The user can minimize the ad at any time during display by clicking the Advertisement tab at the top right of the ad.
Post-Roll Display Ad
Post-Roll Display Ads present additional advertising opportunities for sponsors and brand advertisers.
Flash App Ad
Encourage audiences to engage more deeply with your Kyte Channel using Flash applications and branded games. Add a layer of experience and enhance online advertising for sponsors and brand advertisers. Or, achieve sophisticated E-commerce capabilities by integrating custom Flash application e-commerce modules such as: merchandise, music sales, and ringtones.
Show Production Ad
The show production ad is an effective way to display ads while the user is waiting for content uploads to be completed.
Player Splash Ad
The Player Splash Ad is a great way to capture the attention of the user upon initial load of the player.
Player Companion Ad
Player Companion Ads wrap around the Kyte Player offering the sponsor or brand advertiser sustained visibility throughout the users experience.
Ready to get started with Rich Media Advertising?
E-commerce
The Kyte Platform goes beyond ad revenue opportunities by providing integrated e-commerce capabilities.
Custom Links
The Kyte Player's custom linking capabilities means brands can easily drive sales by linking to affiliate e-commerce destinations.
Clickable Channel Logo
The clickable channel logo creates additional monetization opportunities by enabling you to guide users to a specific online destination including e-commerce sites to affiliate e-commerce destinations.
Custom Flash Apps
More sophisticated, in-player transactions can be achieved through the integration of custom Flash applications, including e-commerce modules such as ringtones, merchandise, ticket sales and digital tracks.
Ready to get started with E-commerce?
Kyte Mobile Producer for iPhone
Share life as it happens with Kyte Mobile Producer.
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Use your iPhone to share photos on Myspace, Facebook, or any website, blog or mobile phone. Instantly broadcast pictures as you take them, or create slideshows from your iPhone's picture gallery. You can even chat with your audience real-time!
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Kyte Production via Email
Send content from any mobile phone to a unique channel email address to instantly publish a show – meaning almost any mobile phone can be used for show production.
Every Kyte Channel has a unique channel e-mail address. You can e-mail pictures and videos to your Kyte Channel and they are instantly published. Video files should not be larger then 100MB. You can send these e-mails from your computer or from any camera phone.
Here's a quick helper:
- Open channels: channelname@kyte.tv
- Channels with access code: channelname.1234@kyte.tv
(1234: access code) - E-mail subject: creates Kyte show title
- Attached pictures: turns into Kyte slide show
- Attached video file: turns into Kyte video show
All fields are optional, except the channel name (i.e. e-mail address).
Kyte Dashboard AIR
The Kyte Dashboard AIR application makes it possible to run the Kyte Dashboard as a desktop application on your Mac or PC. Follow these simple steps to start using the Kyte Dashboard AIR application.
Step 1. Get Adobe AIR |
Step 2. Download Kyte Dashboard AIR Application |
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Kyte Inquiry
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Kyte Professional Player
Marketing Director
San Francisco
Working with our CMO and marketing team (US and EU based), you’ll help manage day-to-day marketing activities, including presentation development, messaging, brand management, corporate communications, website, brand advertising and demand generation.
Funded by world leaders in mobile and convergent communications including Nokia, NTT DoCoMo and Telefonica, to name just a few— this is a rare opportunity to get involved at an early stage and help shape the future of media and entertainment.
The position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our offices overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.
Responsibilities Include:
- Events management
- PR and corporate communications
- Management of PR agency
- Management of Creative agency
- Management of “Kytestars” online promotional team
- Develop blog strategy and editorial calendar
- Develop presentations and other support materials for Business Development
- Manage website content and metrics reporting
- Brand and messaging management
- Competitive analysis and market research
- Lead nurturing strategy and execution
- Copywriting
Requirements:
- 5+ years relevant experience, ideally in both consumer internet and media / entertainment
- Ability to think creatively, provide direction and planning
- Experience in all facets of technology marketing, including:
- PR (traditional and social media)
- Messaging/Positioning
- Events
- Branding
- Web/SEO/SEM
- Viral
- Collateral, Presentations
- Online advertising
- Proven experience managing complex projects to successful completion
- Thorough understanding and aptitude for complex technologies
- Excellent writing skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications
Interested parties please email resume to .
Senior Marketing Manager
Kyte is a game changing social communications platform combining user generated content, social networking and mobile services. We’re seeking an experienced marketing pro to help drive global strategy and execution.
Working with our CMO and marketing team (US and EU based), you’ll help manage day-to-day marketing activities, including presentation development, messaging, brand management, corporate communications, website, brand advertising and demand generation.
Funded by the founders of Skype and the VCs behind Hotmail, Overture, and Skype, to name just a few, this is a rare opportunity to get involved at an early stage and help shape the future of social communications.
The position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our offices overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.
Requirements:
- 5+ years relevant experience, ideally in both consumer internet and b2b
- Ability to think creatively, provide direction, and planning
- Experience in all facets of technology marketing, including:
- PR (traditional and social media)
- Messaging/Positioning
- Events
- Branding
- Web/SEO/SEM
- Viral
- Collateral, Presentations
- Online advertising
- Proven experience managing complex projects to successful completion.
- Thorough understanding and aptitude for complex technologies
- Excellent writing skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications
Interested parties please email resume to .
Overview Video
Senior Mobile Software Engineer
Are you passionate about mobile devices and applications? Has your mobile phone turned out to be one of the most important gadgets of your professional and private life? You are an enthusiastic person interested in user-generated content and social networking? Become part of Kyte!
We are looking for a Senior Mobile Software Engineer who will play a key role in developing mobile client software including the next generation of our client application 'Kyte Mobile' for several platforms. Our engineers continue to create new ways for people create media, share, and connect with others. Our mobile software team is comprised of talented engineers who work on problems unique to mobile devices.
This position is full-time and you will be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience with mobile client development on constrained resource devices such as mobile phones and PDAs in Java/C++
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP-based network protocols such as HTTP
- Good understanding of XML, binary, and text-based protocol design
- Strong experience with J2ME including MIDP 2.0 and MMAPI
- Experience with J2ME UI frameworks such as j2mepolish
- Experience optimizing J2ME applications for size, performance, and cross-handset compatibility
- Basic knowledge of SMS capabilities and limitations
- Proven ability to deliver complex projects on time
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Ability to work directly with QA, PM, and marketing
- Skill in managing technology vendor and partner relationships
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Willingness to learn and to teach
- BS, MS or PhD in computer science or equivalent.
Highly desired experience:
- Experience with multiple mobile carriers both domestic and foreign
- Symbian/Series 60 C++ application development experience
- Familiarity with ffmpeg and other tools for transcoding between various media formats for mobile such as h264, wmv, 3gpp
- Some experience with J2EE server development
- Knowledge of BREW, Windows Mobile, Palm, or embedded Linux platforms Experience with JVP, TrueBREW, UTI, Symbian Signed, other mobile app. certification programs
Junior Web Developer
We are seeking a bright, talented, and proactive developer who loves working on web service products, is adaptable when dealing with cross-browser issues, and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
This position is full-time and you will be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.
Main responsibilities include:
- Maintain and upgrade the product website
- Leverage existing technology to develop consumer-facing web pages using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
- Coordinate with team leads/architects during technical design
- Perform unit testing and provide guidance/support during QA/system testing
- Resolve defects during QA testing and in-post patch releases
Requirements:
- Expert HTML, JavaScript and CSS skills with strong cross-browser knowledge
- Experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript
- Strong communication skills and willingness to learn and share knowledge.
Bonus:
- Development experience with AS3 or AJAX
- Development experience in Java, C#, or C++
- Experience with JSP server-side web framework
- Experience working closely with Design teams
- Personal interest in user-generated content and media
- Experience working on community web services
Team & Project Assistant
General Summary
We are seeking a passionate person with strong communication skills and interest in the Web 2.0 business to support our marketing and business development team in Zurich.
Responsibilities
- Self-dependent and motivated support of the marketing and business development team (6 persons) focusing on administrative and organizational activities
- Back-office coordination (mail, expenses, book-keeping, coordination of meetings, …)
- Business travel preparations and accounting of expenses
- Preparation and translation of powerpoint slides (English, German)
- Database maintenance and creation statistics
- Experience/Skills
- Strong interest in the Internet and Web 2.0 business
- Proven experience in a similar job
- Expert in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Experience with photo and video editing tools beneficial
- Excellent communicator and organization skills
- Language skills (German, English)
- Highly motivated, self-dependent worker with strong attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure
- Strong project management and operational skills
Applying
Send your resume and letter of motivation to Walter Zai (). Extra points for creating a channel and telling us a bit about yourself on Kyte.
International Project Engineer
General Summary
You’re passionate about Web 2.0, familiar with technologies and at home in all the social networks? This is exactly what the International Project Engineer will be responsible for: Kyte integrations into our partners’ platforms. We are seeking a creative and self-dependent sales engineer with great communication skills. The position is located in the European headquarter in Zurich.
Experience/Skills
- Experience with Web 2.0 projects, including homepage design, API integrations and conception
- Proven experience with HTML, XHTML, PHP, Java, Flash
- Entrepreneurial self-starter who enjoys a fast-paced environment and seeks the challenge of rapidly changing marketplaces
- Results-oriented, self-motivated team player and a professional presence
- Strong communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral (German and English)
- Deep technical understanding of consumer technologies, including audio/video, mobile and Internet media
- Outstanding quantitative/analytical skills and attention to detail
- Strong project management and operational skills
- Proven ability to meet goals and consistently meet deadlines
- Willingness to travel
- Respective experience in a similar position in the Internet business
Applying
Send your resume and letter of motivation to Walter Zai (). Extra points for creating a channel and telling us a bit about yourself on Kyte.
Designer
This position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco. This position is ideal for someone who is a big picture thinker, understands future trends, and at the same time, is not afraid to roll up their sleeves to get the job done.
Requirements:
- Experience designing outstanding, award-winning solutions for Internet services or product interfaces.
- Excellent typography, visual design and illustration skills applied to user interface design. Advocacy for simplicity and consistency.
- Proven ability to propose usable interaction flows applying the User Centered Design Process from concept to implementation.
- Ability to think on your feet and “get it done.” Readiness to apply common sense and skip all those complicated time-consuming academic process steps mentioned above when necessary.
- Talent to quickly create convincing sketches and UE prototypes as well as precise graphical assets.
- Proven experience collaborating closely with Designers, Engineers, Business Owners and QA experts. Ability to take constructive feedback from anybody in the team regardless of rank and background.
- Solid technical understanding, ability to make proposals that are both implement-able and delightful to the end user.
- Solid Experience in all common design tools like Illustrator, Photoshop and especially Flash.
- BA or BFA degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Interaction Design or related field
Desirable:
- Previous experience in the development of online communities, social networks, widget-based applications, or mobile games/applications.
- Ability to map interface behavior consistently between cell phones, handhelds, browsers, televisions and kiosks.
- Experience developing with HTML, DHTML, Java, Flash, and/or AJAX formats.
Senior Backend Software Engineer
You are not just fluent in English but also in Java/C++? Spring isn’t just a season for you? Beside that, you know what’s going on in the world of user-generated content and social networking. We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a sound understanding of new technologies and enthusiasm in building highly-scalable system infrastructures. This position is full-time and you will be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco, close to MUNI and BART.
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience writing high-performance, web-related software with Java/C++
- Expert with object-oriented framework and design
- Expert with client/server networked applications
- In-depth knowledge of Unix, Windows, web servers, and application servers
- Experience building highly scalable enterprise systems
- Ability to write clean, coherent code
- Ability to understand and master new technologies quickly
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Willingness to learn and to teach
Highly desired experience:
- AJAX and other "rich web" techniques
- Mobile web/WAP development
- Spring (or other IoC containers)
- Hibernate (or other ORM tools)
- Build systems such as Ant
- Performance testing tools such as Grinder
- Familiarity with Perforce
- Already being a kyter doesn’t hurt
If this sounds interesting to you, please reply by email to , paste a cover letter and resume into the body of the message, and write "Backend-Your Name" (i.e. Backend-Jane Smith) in the subject line. Please note that no attachments will be opened.
Integration Engineer
Kyte is a game changing social communications platform combining user generated content, social networking and mobile services. We’re seeking a passionate software engineer to play a key role in helping 3rd party companies to integrate Kyte into their systems.
Reporting to our Senior Vice President of Engineering and working closely with our server development team, you’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining showcase websites as well as acting as a first line of support for 3rd party integrators.
Funded by the founders of Skype and the VCs behind Hotmail and Overture, to name just a few, this is a rare opportunity to get involved at an early stage and help shape the future of social communications.
The position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our offices overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.
Responsibilities Include:
- Acting as the first line of support and point of contact for 3rd party implementers of our APIs
- Working with the guidance of our design team to implement and update our Kyte.tv showcase website
- Working with our server team to document and clarify our backend APIs
Requirements:
- 3+ years of programming experience including experience integrating Web 2.0-style APIs
- Recent programming experience in HTML, XHTML, and Javascript, as well as experience in PHP, Java, Flash (Actionscript), Ruby (Rails), and/or .NET languages
- Thorough understanding of XML and JSON encoding
- Experience working with REST and/or XMLRPC style RPC API’s
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with 3rd party integration partners as a representative of the company
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities
- Excellent verbal and written communications (English primarily, fluency in German, French, Italian, Czech, or Spanish is a bonus)
Kyte Mobile Compatible Phones
Please note that this list applies to the Kyte Mobile J2ME Application. Kyte Mobile Web works on any phone with a mobile web browser.
Make |
Phone |
| Nokia | 5200 |
| Nokia | 5300 |
| Nokia | 5500 |
| Nokia | 6111 |
| Nokia | 6120 |
| Nokia | 6126 |
| Nokia | 6131 |
| Nokia | 6233 |
| Nokia | 6234 |
| Nokia | 6280 |
| Nokia | 6288 |
| Nokia | 6300 |
| Nokia | 6630 |
| Nokia | 6681 |
| Nokia | 6682 |
| Nokia | 7373 |
| Nokia | 7390 |
| Nokia | 7370 |
| Nokia | 8600 Luna |
| Nokia | 8800 Sirocco |
| Nokia | E60 |
| Nokia | E65 |
| Nokia | E70 |
| Nokia | N70 |
| Nokia | N72 |
| Nokia | N73 |
| Nokia | N75 |
| Nokia | N76 |
| Nokia | N80 |
| Nokia | N91 |
| Nokia | N93 |
| Nokia | N95 |
| SonyEricsson | D750i |
| SonyEricsson | K510i |
| SonyEricsson | K550i |
| SonyEricsson | K600i |
| SonyEricsson | K608i |
| SonyEricsson | K610i |
| SonyEricsson | K750i |
| SonyEricsson | K790i |
| SonyEricsson | K800i |
| SonyEricsson | K810i |
| SonyEricsson | V600i Vodafone |
| SonyEricsson | V630i |
| SonyEricsson | W550i |
| SonyEricsson | W600i |
| SonyEricsson | W610i |
| SonyEricsson | W660 |
| SonyEricsson | W700i |
| SonyEricsson | W700c |
| SonyEricsson | W710i |
| SonyEricsson | W800i |
| SonyEricsson | W810i |
| SonyEricsson | W830i |
| SonyEricsson | W850i |
| SonyEricsson | W880i |
| SonyEricsson | Z610i |
Contact Us
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For other requests please contact us at one of the email addresses below:
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- Kyte
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- San Francisco, CA 94102
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- Kyte GmbH
- Baechtoldstrasse 5
- 8044 Zurich, Switzerland
- Phone: +41 43 344 93 07
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Product Management Director
San Francisco
Kyte is a game changing social communications platform combining user generated content, social networking and mobile services. We’re seeking an experienced software product management professional to drive product lifecycle management, with a focus on partner integrations, API development, and implementing ad-based revenue models.
Reporting to our Chief Marketing Officer and working closely with user experience and product engineering, you’ll manage product lifecycle activities, including platform and API roadmap prioritization and execution. You’ll also work closely with business development, managing partner integrations, requests and feedback.
Funded by world leaders in mobile and convergent communications including Nokia, NTT DoCoMo and Telefonica, to name just a few— this is a rare opportunity to get involved at an early stage and help shape the future of social communications.
The position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our offices overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.
Responsibilities Include:
- Managing product lifecycle activities, including platform and API roadmap prioritization and execution
- Managing the release cycle of partner integrations and platform releases
- Integration of revenue models, including ad serving
- Acting as primary point of contact / liaison between Kyte and partner integration teams
- Producing / collating new ideas and product requirements from users, partners, usability studies, and the executive team
- Planning, managing and reporting day-to-day product development
- Monitoring industry and competitive trends
- Creating Product Requirements Documents with detailed feature/functionality specifications
- Managing communication with the engineering, marketing, and business development teams
- Developing business-level API documentation and partner marketing materials
- Managing and expanding the developer website
Requirements:
- Relevant software industry experience, ideally in consumer internet and b2b or enterprise software (mobile and carrier experience a big plus)
- Ability to pragmatically evaluate technical issues, commercial concerns and partner needs
- Ability to appreciate the higher-level business and strategic goals of the organization, and translate them into product features
- Ability to communicate effectively with individuals, teams, customers and prospects
- Ability to manage the life cycle of the product
- Excellent problem-solving abilities
- Ability to self-manage, and accurately prioritize your responsibilities
- Proven experience managing complex projects to successful completion
- Thorough understanding and aptitude for complex technologies
- Excellent verbal and written communications
Director of User Experience and Design
San Francisco Bay Area
General Summary
Are you passionate about creating first-rate user experiences? Do you have a gift for building and inspiring a team of design & development professionals to engage and delight users? Venture-backed, international mobile and web media company seeks a qualified candidate to lead user experience and design (UED) team. The company’s products are focused on interactive multi-media shows that can be created and shared on the web or via mobile devices. The Director of UED position will report to the chief product officer as part of the Product Engineering team.
Responsibilities
You will be primarily responsible for managing a team of creative professionals who are in charge of the overall user experience on multiple mobile clients, embeddable flash widgets, and websites. This includes information architecture, usability engineering, visual design, and overall user experience. In order to do this effectively, you will need to lead the team in developing a strategy and process for UI architecture & design, including wireframes, prototypes, usability testing and production of necessary assets for product development. Knowledge of PC, Internet, and mobile applications, interaction models and consumer behavior patterns is mandatory. Experience with media, user generated content, and social applications is a major plus.
You will work with product management, engineering, QA, marketing, business development, and the overall executive team on product features and creative elements for marketing communication. A key part of your job will be as an internal evangelist for user experience design and helping to prioritize product development tasks accordingly.
Experience/Skills
- Savvy designer with 7+ years in a UED capacity for consumer oriented technology products and services
- 3-5 years management experience
- Entrepreneurial self-starter who enjoys a fast-paced environment and seeks the challenge of rapidly changing marketplaces
- Proven ability to meet goals and consistently meet deadlines
- Results-oriented, self-motivated team player and a professional presence
- Strong communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral, balanced by a flexible demeanor and ability to sometimes put aside personal preference
- Outstanding quantitative/analytical skills and attention to detail
- Deep technical understanding of consumer technologies, including audio/video, mobile and Internet media
- Strong business, communications, project management and operational skills
Education
Required: BA/BS in Industrial Design, Human Factors, Interaction Design, Graphic Design and/or similar experience. Advanced degrees highly desirable.
Engage
Watch
Branded channels and content provides unlimited promotional opportunities for pushing content to a desired audience.
Subscribe
Email, RSS and SMS notification services keep subscribers up-to-date with the latest content and channel activity. Even keep Twitter friends up-to-date with our Twitter integration.
Community
Unlike typical video embeds, Kyte Channels grow and retain a community of like minded individuals wherever the channel is embedded
Monetize
Rich Media Advertising
The Kyte Platform provides built-in ad serving capabilities, as well as integration with leading 3rd-party ad solutions, including DoubleClick DART and Google AdSense for Video.
Sponsored Channels
Sell channel sponsorships to brand advertisers to create additional revenue streams for premium content
E-commerce
The Kyte Platform goes beyond ad revenue opportunities by providing integrated e-commerce capabilities.
Distribute
Websites & Blogs
Distribute live streaming or recorded video directly to any blog or website via the embedded Kyte Player.
Social Networks
Embed any channel in any social network, including Facebook and MySpace profiles, using simple one-click viral embed tools.
IPTV
Shows can even be broadcast to TV set-top boxes, making Kyte the only “three screen” or “triple play” platform of its kind.
Produce
Web
Produce live streaming or uploaded shows from the embedded Kyte Player using simple point-and-click tools; or media mash-ups combining photos, video, webcam, and more through the advanced Kyte Producer using simple drag-and-drop.
Mobile
Effortlessly produce live streaming or recorded video and pictures from any compatible camera phone using Kyte Mobile.
Email content from a mobile phone or computer to a unique channel email address to instantly publish a show – meaning almost any mobile phone can be used for show production.
API
New and pre-existing content can be automated into shows programmatically via the Kyte Developer API.
Mobile Carriers
Increasing ARPU through social networking, user generated and premium content
Kyte is an enabling social communications platform providing mobile networks with a highly interactive user-generated content solution that allows subscribers to share life as it happens through mobile video, pictures, and multimedia chat.
Kyte brings the world of social networking to mobile operators, seamlessly bridging the web and mobile experience and driving mobile users to the operator’s online web presence.
Through media and entertainment partners, Kyte delivers premium content to mobile networks while providing additional revenue-generating opportunities through premium accounts, increasing the carrier’s average revenue per user.
Kyte Mobile brings the full Kyte experience to a wide range of devices, from Symbian and J2ME-capable phones to any internet-enabled mobile device. Learn more about Kyte Mobile
- Generates new revenue through premium accounts, increasing ARPU.
- Provides the only platform that ties live video streaming, multimedia creation, and consumption together in real-time.
- Offers new and compelling way to leverage existing content licenses through premium content subscriptions.
- Turns portals into online destinations for subscribers
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Social Networks
Ushering in the next level of communications for social networks
Dynamic video, photo, interactive and exclusive content delivered through profiles and shared among members provides a rich media experience that engages users and encourages creative self-expression.
By offering users a new level of rich media social communications, Social Networks can attract new users and retain their existing user-base in the highly competitive world of social networking and community sites.
The Kyte platform provides social networks new revenue opportunities through premium account services, premium content and channel sponsorships.
- Enables social networks to seamlessly go mobile
- Increases engagement and encourages creative self expression among members
- Custom branded embeddable Players extends the brand of the social network to the rest of the web
- Live video streaming and multimedia features including chat, RSS and SMS notifications creates real-time communication among users, extending the value of the social network
- Attracts and retains millenials looking for ways to integrate video easily into their social network
Ready to learn more about taking your social network to the next level with Kyte?
Kyte Artists
For both new and established recording artists, Kyte delivers a game changing social communications platform and branded experience, expanding audience reach, building fan communities and increasing sales.
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Media & Entertainment
Taking media and entertainment to new heights with digital entertainment promotion and monetization.
In today’s world of reality-based media, camera phones and interactive social networking, it’s more important than ever for artists to establish an authentic bond with their audience. Posting music videos to video sharing sites just doesn’t cut it. Fans want to truly connect with the artists they love in more meaningful and intimate ways.
The Kyte Player provides custom player branding, viral distribution and ecommerce integration with unmatched revenue and promotional potential. With Kyte, media and entertainment professionals can easily deliver exclusive, behind-the-scenes content across websites, blogs, social networks and mobile phones – creating a lasting connection with fans and consumers while monetizing their entertainment and media properties.
- Generate new revenues through e-commerce integration, sponsored advertising and premium content subscriptions.
- Increase visibility across multiple sites and platforms with dynamic and exclusive content
- Connect with fans in real time through multimedia features such as video, audio and text chat, SMS, and Twitter integration to strengthen brand and build community
- Encourage viral adoption through one-click embeds to anywhere on the web including MySpace, Facebook, artist and media company sites - even web-enabled mobile phones.
- Centralized content management maintains copyright and licensing rights.
- Channel moderation tools safeguard against inappropriate content.
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Kyte Solutions Overview
Learn how a diverse set of partners - from leading entertainment brands to online and mobile communities - achieve broad content distribution and deep user engagement through a single unified platform.
Sponsored Channels
Kyte offers new promotional possibilities for brand advertisers to reach highly targeted communities. This means media companies, popular video bloggers, entertainers – or anyone with an audience - can monetize content by selling channel or show sponsorships to brand marketers.
Ready to get started with sponsored channels?Premium Content Subscriptions
Kyte provides an unparalleled platform for the viral distribution of revenue generating digital content.
The ability to combine and deliver various types of digital content – including live streaming video and images – provides new monetization opportunities for a broad variety of premium content, including:
- Live streaming online events
- Music and music videos
- Exclusive behind the scenes footage
- News and celebrity gossip
- Serial online programming
- Multiple billing and deliver options.
- Monthly / annual subscriptions
- Premium SMS/MMS
- Mobile operator service subscription bundles
- Pay-per-view micropayments
- Mobile data usage charges
Kyte Premium Player
Monetization
Kyte Developer API
The Kyte Developer API is a standards-compliant programming interface that exposes the full set of Kyte services to independent developers and Kyte integration partners.
The Kyte Developer API enables partners – including brands and communities – to rapidly harness and customize the full power of the Kyte Platform, providing end users with an engaging and easy to use social media experience, including online and mobile video streaming, slideshows, friend activity mini-feeds and video chat.
Kyte provides a seamless experience across online and mobile, making it possible for online communities to easily go mobile, and mobile operators to add rich social media capabilities to their online portals, bridging the mobile and online experience and extracting more value from customers.
Kyte API Integration Examples – Learn how others are harnessing the full power of the Kyte universal digital media platform.
Kyte Developer Wiki – Get started now and register for an API key and access to documentation.
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Kyte Mobile
Kyte provides powerful mobile production and distribution capabilities, enabling you to engage more often and in multiple ways with your audience, even when they’re on the go.
With Kyte’s mobile capabilities you can produce authentic, live or on-demand content, delivered in real-time to both Internet and mobile audiences, allowing you to build community, brand affiliation and loyalty through interactive, online and mobile audience participation.
Branded Mobile Web
Provides a highly interactive branded mobile experience, available "out of the box" for all partner Kyte channels, featuring brand-specific content and advertising optimized for a mobile audience.
Kyte Mobile Producer for Nokia S60
Produce live streaming video, recorded video and pictures from any compatible Nokia camera phone.
Kyte Mobile Producer for iPhone
Use your iPhone to instantly share photos with your audience on Myspace, Facebook, or any website, blog or mobile phone.
Kyte Mobile Production via Email
Users without a Kyte Mobile Producer supported phone can still produce shows on the go. Simply emailing video or pictures to your special Kyte Channel email address instantly produces a show.
Kyte Mobile Application for J2ME
Kyte Mobile Application on a Java-capable phone provides the ability to instantly broadcast pictures, browse and view Kyte Shows, stay up-to-date with recent activity through the Kytefeed, and connect with an audience through multimedia chat. View compatible Phones.
My Kyte
Account management and advanced show production tools.
My Kyte (www.kyte.tv) is where Producers create and customize their channels or produce media mash-ups combining photos, video, webcam and more using simple drag-and-drop widgets. My Kyte also provides users with a single convenient location to view and interact with the Kyte Channels they subscribe to or search and browse for new content.
Administrative Features
Channel Creation – Users create Kyte Channels and customize their look-and-feel.
Channel Moderation & Access – Kyte’s channel management tools provide safeguards against unwanted or nefarious content. The channel owner decides if anyone can produce to the channel; whether shows produced by others should be moderated and approved before going live; if chat should be closed, open or moderated; and whether or not to filter out profanity.
Channel Visibility – Users can set whether or not their Channel is visible in the public areas of My Kyte and Kyte Mobile Web.
Channel Embedding – Several advanced embed functions not available in the Kyte Player are accessible from My Kyte, including “wide” and “tall” players.
Twitter Integration – Twitter users can configure Kyte to sent a Twit each time they produce a show.
Advanced Show Production Features
Pictures & Slideshows – Create slideshows with custom transitions; reorder, delete or add slides; even set the ideal speed.
Video & Webcam – Add video or webcam with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Music Player – Add high quality licensed music to any show.
Text & Links – Create links or add text.
Polls – Add interactivity by creating polls.
Social Network Distribution
Kyte enables you to distribute your branded content and engage with an audience wherever they are, including popular social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Ning.
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Kyte channels are delivered as stand-alone applications that brands install on their official Facebook Pages, and consumers add to their profile pages and share with friends. |
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Branded Kyte channels are available as Ning OpenSocial applications that users add to their profile pages from the OpenSocial application directory available on over 500,000 Ning social networks. |
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Recording artists embed their Kyte channel on their official MySpace pages and encourage Fans to add them to their personal profile pages through the Kyte Player's viral "Get & Share" feature. |
More than a simple widget, Kyte's branded social network applications provide video streaming, multimedia chat, viral distribution capabilities and monetization opportunities.
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The Kyte Player
Much more than a simple widget.
The Kyte Player delivers the Kyte experience to both the producers who create the content, and the consumers who view and interact with it. Users browse and watch shows, communicate through text, audio and video chat, subscribe to channels - even produce live and recorded shows – all from the embedded Kyte Player.
Delivering a high level of visual and functional enhancements, including custom player branding and rich media advertising, the Kyte Player’s premium & professional features provide unmatched revenue and promotional possibilities for media & entertainment brands.
Visit our Partner Highlights to see Kyte in action.
The Kyte Universal Digital Media Platform
Events
February 9-10, 2009 : San Jose, CA
Kyte CMO, Gannon Hall, will be speaking on the "All Mashed Up: New Web As a Platform" panel on February 10th.
January 17-21, 2009 : Cannes, France
2009 will mark Kyte’s first year at MIDEM in Cannes, France. Whether you are new to Kyte or are already working with us, be sure to stop by our stand #R35.20 in the Riviera. Kyte’s Founder & CEO, Daniel Graf, will also be speaking on the "Connecting Artists & Fans: A Showcase of Services" panel at MidemNet on Saturday, January 17th from 4:45pm – 5:30pm.
August 14-15, 2008 : San Francisco, CA
Kyte’s Gannon Hall will be speaking on the "Mobile Music" panel on August 14, 2008.
March 7-16, 2008 : Austin, TX
Kyte is pleased to announce that we’ll be at SXSW in full force in Austin, March 7-16, 2008, with some exciting announcements! Join us as we capture the spirit of SXSW directly through the eyes and mobile devices of musicians, artists and filmmakers.
Kyte Awards
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Kyte was awarded the Popkomm IMEA 2008 award, which recognizes the best new business ideas, the brightest entrepreneurs and the hottest companies in the worldwide music, media and entertainment technology sectors. |
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Kyte recognized for game-changing strategies in advertising, marketing, and promotion. The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community platform, mobile advertising, marketing, and Web analytic sectors from around the world. |
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Kyte was presented with the prestigious Red Herring 100 Award in Spring 2007. This award is given each year to the top 100 private technology companies based in North America. |
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Kyte was named finalist for the Mobile category of the Webware 100 award in Spring 2007. |
Kyte Investors
Global & Strategic Investors
Atomico Investments
Co-founded by Niklas Zennström
Draper Fisher Jurveston
Investors in Hotmail, Overture, and Skype
Draper Richards
Founding investors in Skype
DoCoMo Capital, Inc.
VC arm of Japan’s leading mobile communications company
Holtzbrinck Ventures
VC arm of Germany’s leading media company Holtzbrinck
Nokia Growth Partners
Global private equity and VC management arm of Nokia
Steamboat Ventures
Global venture capital fund affiliated with The Walt Disney Company
Swisscom
Switzerland’s leading telecommunications provider
Telefónica
The world’s fourth largest global telecommunications firm
TeliaSonera
Leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic region, as well as Eurasia
Ron Conway (one of the early investors in Google), and leading European private investors including Klaus Hommels, Oliver Jung and Peter Schuepbach
Kyte Management
Daniel Graf - Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Daniel is an internationally recognized technology pioneer with a rich background in home entertainment, consumer electronics and Internet services.
Prior to Kyte, founded in 2006, Daniel worked in the world of converging media consumer products. In 1999 and 2000 he was instrumental in the build-up of ReQuest Multimedia, an award-winning Consumer Electronics Startup Company, based in New York. There he created the world’s first MP3 Hard Disk Jukebox, the predecessor to Apple’s “iPod”. It took the team 11 months from product idea to market. ReQuest Multimedia is running a successful business up to this day.
In 2001, Daniel joined Philips Consumer Electronics where he developed several world premieres in the field of consumer electronics converging with Internet services, such as the world’s first Internet Audio stereo system and the first wireless Home Entertainment System with Internet video services. In addition to creating these awards winning new media products and bringing them to market, Daniel, together with his team, explored new businesses in the Connected Planet domain which included the development of new value propositions for TV. These propositions included domains such as IPTV, peer to peer community TV, Internet content service overlays (e.g. RSS and weather information “on top” of a TV signal), mobile TV and others.
Before ReQuest Multimedia, Daniel worked at several other companies in the field of software and electronics. Daniel has earned several awards, including the “Top 100 Swiss People of the Year 2000” award, a list of Switzerland’s most outstanding achievers, awarded by Sonntagszeitung. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Interstate College of Engineering (NTB), Switzerland, and an MS in Computer and Systems Engineering from RPI, Troy NY.
Erik Abair - SVP Engineering & Co-Founder
Erik is in charge of the top level software architecture and leads the Kyte engineering team. He has spent more than a decade in the field of software development and has been managing engineering teams (both in-house and distributed) for over six years.
Prior to co-founding Kyte, Erik served as Software Architect and engineering team lead for several Royal Philips Electronics projects from 2001 to 2005.
In addition to his professional work at Philips, Erik founded and managed a distributed team of designers and engineers as part of the open source MAMEoX project.
Erik began his professional career as a software developer for ReQuest Multimedia in 1999 where he met Kyte co-founder Daniel Graf.
Gannon Hall - Chief Marketing Officer
Gannon leads product and marketing for Kyte, including market strategy, product road map, user experience, corporate communications, messaging and branding.
Gannon is an award winning technology and marketing professional, bringing to the company 15 years experience in both emerging and established consumer internet and enterprise software. Prior to joining Kyte, Gannon was Principal at Horn Group, Inc., a premier digital marketing and public relations agency with offices in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Washington DC. As head of the agency’s New York office, Gannon was responsible for client strategy, business development and operations. Under his leadership the New York office won several prestigious branding, digital marketing and public relations awards.
Prior to Horn Group, Gannon led Hall Consulting, an award winning San Francisco interactive design, development and marketing consultancy that he founded in 1994. Clients included a diverse set of emerging and established enterprise software companies including Vitria, AvantGo (Sybase), Commerce One, and PlaceWare (Microsoft).
Gannon began his career as a web developer and consultant for companies including Pacific Telesis Group and US Web San Francisco, where he helped design and build websites for clients including Rolling Stone Magazine, Proxim and Flextronics.
Joe Elliott - Chief Technology Officer
An experienced technologist with rich experience in the wireless and Internet application markets. Prior to joining Kyte, Joe was the co-founder and software architect for ThumbJive, Inc., a leading San Francisco-based company that managed and initiated projects for clients including: Amp’d Mobile, Digital Chocolate, Airplay, Hands-On Mobile, In-Fusio, Moderati and FunMail.
Joe led the technology team that created: a mobile platform for advertisement content management, user management, high score