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Say Media (formerly VideoEgg) is a technology and advertising firm. The company provides a publishing platform (Tempest) to professional publishers and sells advertising across that platform and extended network of sites. Say Media has offices in San Francisco, Portland, NY, London, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, and Detroit and is privately held.
Lerman, Sanchez and Sladek created tools to manage web video made with the wide range of available devices, editors, encoders, and players.
As their business matured they began to focus on monetization, they found an opportunity in video advertising in online video and online social networking services. In May, 2008 the company officially discontinued video hosting services to focus entirely on its online advertising network. VideoEgg Gets Rid of hosting, To Focus on Ad Network, March 3, 2008
In June 2008, VideoEgg and one of its partner websites, hi5, were sued in the United States by EMI recording labels and music publishers. The plaintiffs alleged that the services were liable for copyright infringement due to videos uploaded by hi5 users through the VideoEgg application, and sought against the allegedly infringing activity. Complaint for Direct, Contributory, and Vicarious Copyright Infringement, Misappropriation, and Unfair Competition, Capitol Records, LLC v. VideoEgg, Inc., 611 F. Supp. 2d 349 (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 2009) (No. 08 CV 5831).
VideoEgg acquired Six Apart in 2010, and renamed itself Say Media. VideoEgg Will Acquire Six Apart And Rename Itself SAY Media It sold Movable Type and the Six Apart name to Infocom, a Japanese information technology company; Say Media retained TypePad. As a result of this transaction, the headquarters of Six Apart is now Tokyo, Japan.
Say Media acquired the websites Dogster, ReadWriteWeb, POPcast Communications, and Remodelista over the past several years. Say Media Acquires Dogster (And Has More Acquisitions In The Works) SAY Media Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys Home Design Website Remodelista It also launched xoJane, with editor Jane Pratt, xoVain, its beauty-centric counterpart, and Gardenista, a sister site of Remodelista. In 2013, the company divested these assets to focus on the Tempest platform and advertising operations. Say Media subsequently sold Dogster & Catster, ReadWriteWeb, Remodelista and Gardenista, which as of early 2015 all operate independently or under new ownership.
In July 2008, VideoEgg announced several new capabilities to their ad network. These include offering advertisers increased ad features and functionalities, such as:
Publishers are able to integrate VideoEgg's AdPlatform. VideoEgg then serves the ads, which are designed to fit in any space and publishers receive payment every time a user engages with one of the VideoEgg ad units on the publisher's site.
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