KickApps Integrates ClipBlast! Video Search and Embedding

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com), the premier Web-wide video navigation and distribution platform, today announced that it has partnered with KickApps (www.kickapps.com), the industry’s leading on-demand social media, video player and widget platform, to integrate ClipBlast!’s video search into the KickApps Platform.

Using ClipBlast!, members of a KickApps powered website can easily search and embed online videos from premium video publishers, YouTube and other video sharing websites onto KickApps powered blogs, message board posts, member-to-member messages, comments on other member profiles, and the "About Me" section of their profile.

“Video has become a staple of online self-expression and embedding video into posts and messages provides people with an added dimension,” said Alex Blum, CEO, KickApps. “The breadth of the ClipBlast! index makes it extremely easy for members of KickApps websites to find the perfect video or videos that help to complete their stories. Our integration of ClipBlast! is yet another example of KickApps’ ability to extend the KickApps Platform by integrating best-of-breed functionality from third party applications.”

ClipBlast! has created an Intelligent Index™ of some 50 million videos, growing by up to one million videos daily. The ClipBlast! index identifies and sources video from more content providers than anyone on the web, and uses its intelligence or “knowledge” of each video to enable it to be discovered, experienced and shared.

To enable ClipBlast! search and embed, KickApps Affiliates must activate the 3rd Party Video Embeds option from the KickApps Affiliate Center. Their website members will then be able to perform searches using ClipBlast! through the KickApps rich-text editor, and can simply embed videos into blogs and posts with a single click.

“Video sharing is an important contributor to the success of online communities and social media sites,” said Gary Baker, CEO, ClipBlast!. “With KickApps incorporating our video search capability, users can now preview video and embed it from thousands of content providers, accessed entirely from within the KickApps platform.”

About KickApps

Selected by BusinessWeek readers as Best of the Web 2008, KickApps provides on-demand social media, online video and widget applications that enable web publishers and marketers to drive deeper customer relationships, and grow, engage and monetize online audiences. Its SaaS platform includes social networking, user-generated content, programmable video players, drag-and-drop widget building, WidgeADs™ and other applications that are tightly integrated with robust media moderation, member management and reporting. Customers include: SOAPnet, CW Television, Guinness World Records, Scripps Network Interactive, HBO, Cinemax, Cox Television, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers and thousands of other sites For more information, visit www.kickapps.com and www.kickdeveloper.com.

About ClipBlast!

Founded in 2004, ClipBlast! provides pioneering Web-wide video search that uses patent-pending technology to continuously update the largest index of video content across the Internet. ClipBlast!'s fast, easy interface gives users instant access to millions of quality, highly relevant, targeted video clips from the world’s major media brands, independent producers and individuals – video that informs, enlightens, inspires and entertains. ClipBlast!’s patent-pending Playbox technology gives viewers a universal way to search, discover, watch and interact with video, while offering video content providers new audiences and new revenue opportunities. The company is based in Agoura Hills, Calif. To learn more, visit http://www.clipblast.com.