Metacafe was founded in July 2003 by entrepreneurs Eyal Herzog, Arik Czerniak, and Ofer Adler. Since its founding, the company has earned about USD 20 million, mainly from venture capital funds Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners.
Metacafe's site uses unique ranking system (VideoRank) that allows users to rank each video, prevents videos from being put up more than once, and blocks low quality videos.
Metacafe is one of the largest video-sharing sites on the Web. Every month about 17 million users enter the site and watch more the 450 million video clips uploaded by the users themselves. The Tel Aviv-based company is considered a direct competitor of YouTube, which was sold to Google for USD 1.65 billion.
My viewpoint
This deal is so fucking funny, they try to compete the youtube.com site and it almost does, but the difference in the sell prices shows how much youtube.com are ahead in the race with metacafe. Maybe this is because the deal was with Google who are full with money or maybe because youtube's just better. I also prefer youtube it's the better site for me ...
These days I've checked on the most searched key word in google. I was suprised that the first few places in top10 were headed by the few world's famest video exchange sites. In future I will make a post for every one of them trying to view they +s and -s. I'll also exect your opinion about that question. I'll put a video as usually so u can see somethin' i really like from the metacafe's colleciton.