Yowie Adds Group Video Chat to Popular Online Celebrity Platform
Known for Connecting Celebrities Like Colin Farrell and Amy Poehler With Fans, Yowie to Also Compete Head to Head in Hot Consumer Video Chat Space
(firmenpresse) - SANTA MONICA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/15/11 -- , the monster of video chat, today announced it is now offering enhanced group video chatting for consumers, competing against the likes of Skype, Google Hangouts and Tiny Chat. Yowie, known for connecting fans with celebrity chat hosts such as , , and , now makes it simple and safe for friends, family, co-workers or even total strangers to connect via video chat.
"By working with some of the biggest names in entertainment over the past year, we've learned that people with similar offline interests are looking to authentically connect online," said Yowie founder and president Jamie Snider. "With the new Yowie, we're making it simple and safe to not just video chat with a celebrity, but with anyone around almost any topic."
Yowie is the first online destination to combine powerful social interaction and a controlled environment for video chat. What makes Yowie different?
Yowie's proprietary reputation scoring tracks on-site user behavior, including how and why users are being kicked, banned or reported for abusive behavior. Yowie surfaces all of that information on each user's profile so that Yowie users can make informed decisions about whom they engage with online.
Have a cool new video that you want to chat about? Anyone can play YouTube or Vimeo media during their Yowie group chats, and new video and audio content partners -- both live and recorded -- are being added.
Group chat organizers are asked to tag a conversation so Yowie can aggregate chat rooms by topic. Popular chats will be showcased to users based on their personal preferences, or users can proactively search for specific topics.
Users will be rated by experience points and earn badges as they use new site features (like playing media, or sharing the room with friends on social networks), encouraging people to use Yowie as a visual and social way to connect around common interests.
Group chat organizers will be able to designate whether a conversation can be made public or private. This means no worrying about eavesdropping on your private conversation.
Yowie is a browser-based video chat service, so you have nothing to download. You can quickly start your own free chat room as long as you have a webcam and an Internet connection.
Other new features with Yowie group video chat include:
Embed the full group chat experience on any Internet destination.
A Facebook application for group video chatting that mirrors the vast majority of Yowie's on-site functionality.
Send a recorded video invite to your Facebook friends to join you in a chat room.
Custom room skinning for chat room sponsors such as fan clubs or meet up groups.
Since launching its celebrity video chat service in late 2010, Yowie has hosted more than a thousand chats with actors, athletes, comedians, musicians and politicians. In addition to its new group video chats, Yowie will continue to offer its celebrity chats that includes premium features like archived clips, live question queues with participant voting and escalation, and more.
Yowie allows people to video chat with their friends, favorite celebrities or perfect strangers in an online group chat environment. Its premium video chat feature is specifically designed for artists, entertainers, influencers, and anyone with a large audience they want to reach. The premium chat controls allow hosts to conduct moderated or unmoderated, town hall-style broadcasts, and take live video questions from audiences all over the world. The company's executives and advisors have served in leadership roles in both entertainment and technology organizations like DreamWorks Studios, MySpace, the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers and Universal Studios. Yowie's platform presents a brand new medium in interactive streaming. To learn more, visit .
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Jamie Snider
Yowie
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Andrew Goss
VOXUS PR for Yowie
+(253) 444-5446
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