Mail.ru launches a clone of YouTube
Webplanet.ru
The
Mail.ru portal has launched a videohosting service called
Video.mail.ru. The company’s General Director Dmitry Grishin hopes that a million users will visit the project in the first month. Videos are shown using Flash Player and many formats are supported: Windows Media Video, QuickTime, MPEG1/2/4, DV and mobile 3GP. For now the business model involves the user being able to send an SMS-text (0.99 USD) and thus announcing their video clip on the home page. And those that always wish to be at the top of the list have to send texts over and over.
