Profiles
Bugdojo is a Quality Assurance testing marketplace for smaller development teams
Through an online platform, Bugdojo connects the coding work of small to medium teams to QA professionals for quick, high-quality testing.
Profiles
Perth startup Zora Tech gives viewers cash for tagging products in social media videos
Zora Tech’s MYN allows content creators and viewers to “tag” products in social media videos to a brand’s website, gaining cash for each click.
Profiles
[VIDEO] Audible’s Matthew Gain on the company’s journey and rise of the audiobook industry in Australia
Audible is a streaming platform allowing users to purchase and listen to audiobooks narrated by a book’s author or a voice professional.
Profiles
Real Estate Tube helps people get a feel for potential housemates through video profiles
Real Estate Tube aims to help people better choices when it comes to their living situation by helping them a feel for their potential housemates through video.
Other
Paddock Chat with Di Somerville, founder of Regional Pitchfest
In this episode of Paddock Chat we sit down with Di Somerville, founder of Regional Pitchfest and former member of the Australian navy.
News & Analysis
New Zealand VR startup 8i raises US$27 million Series B to develop AR content creation app
NZ-founded VR startup 8i has announced a US$27 million Series B round which will support the development of a new AR content creation app, Holo.
Profiles
Bonjoro allows businesses to send personalised video messages to customers upon sign up
Bonjoro is a mobile app allowing businesses to send quick, personal video messages directly to their customers in order to boost engagement.
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Brisbane app Folktale puts a film director in the user’s pocket to help create meaningful video
Perhaps most easily described as a kind of Canva for video, Brisbane’s Folktale is an app that “puts the power of a film director in your pocket”.
Profiles
Melbourne startup VidCorp helps businesses communicate with staff and stakeholders through video
VidCorp is an online video communication platform allowing businesses to target their videos to a particular market, whether it be staff, customers, or stakeholders, and measure engagement.
Profiles
Sydney’s Shootsta helps brands produce professional video by combining in house filming with outsourced editing
Sydney startup Shootsta is essentially a production company that works by distributing easy to use camera kits to clients, providing some training, and then letting them shoot.
Other
New Zealand startup EditMate helps brands mold user-generated video into marketing material
The rise of smartphones has seen social media platforms and sites like YouTube flooded with amateur footage of everything from concerts and sporting events through to random events on the street. These videos are becoming increasingly valuable to brands looking to cash in on the next viral video or build a buzz around events but, let’s be honest, social media is full of shaky videos shot in portrait.
Profiles
Wipster makes video production for companies as easy as editing content on Google Docs
A lot of time is taken up in the video-editing process. From experience, I can say that sometimes a 90-second promo video can mean weeks of back and forth emails, uploading, downloading and uploading again before all stakeholders within a company are happy with the final result. However, New Zealand-based startup Wipster is seeking to make this part of the process more efficient and seamless with its video approval platform – in fact, it makes it as easy as editing a document in Google Docs.
Profiles
Video recruitment startup myInterview is making inroads in the hospitality industry
Job hunting can be frustrating, particularly for people without much experience or higher qualifications. What do you write in a cover letter when there isn’t much you can use to talk yourself up? Sydney startup myInterview saw the problem and is trying to fix it.
Profiles
That Startup Show may be a key ingredient in the media industry thirst for entrepreneurial content
The hunger for ‘entrepreneurial’ based subject matter has heightened in recent months as a number of networks prepare to launch new content to the market.
Other
Video Cha Cha secures investment from Perth’s Atomic Sky. But what are they really investing in?
Video Cha Cha is a video production service that focuses on the small business and startup market. Although a company with the same name, can be found doing the same thing can also be found in Hong Kong, the Australian business cofounded and managed by Nanda Duijndam and based in Perth is a separate company in all respects sharing only the name and IP / technology.
