4th of July Celebration for Instagram

   

Analysis made by Flash Networks from its installed customer base of mobile operators (serving 30M smartphone users in North America, during the last week of July) found that "Instagram video viewing exceeded YouTube on the fourth of July, America’s independence day, reaching close to 28% percent of total video hits. .. Surprisingly, in comparison with Instagram’s sharp spike, YouTube video hits slightly decreased that day and Vine’s video hits stayed relatively flat .. Google’s YouTube is still clearly the most popular video service, and continues to maintain its superiority in the total volume of mobile video traffic. However, Facebook’s Instagram has demonstrated that it can generate usage rivaling YouTube by being the application of choice for capturing and sharing holiday celebrations".

See also "Avvasi: 'Instagram videos immediately flooded mobile networks'" - here. 

See "Is Instagram Video Overtaking YouTube?" - here.

Qwilt has 40 Customers and 10 Trials; Raised $16M

Qwilt [here] announced it has ".. closed a $16 million Series C funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with contributions from its current investors, Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Marker LLC. The new funding brings the company’s total capital raised to $40 million [see previous funding here]. 

The new investment will be used to expand its international sales and engineering teams to meet global network operator demand for its flagship product, the Qwilt QB-Series Video Fabric Controller [see"Qwilt Unveils Transparent-video Delivery Solution" - here] ".

  

In an interview to Asaf Gilad, Calcalist [here, Hebrew] Qwilt's CEO, Alon Maor [pictured], said that the "..company serves 40 operators [see "Qwilt Adds 5 Transparent Caching Customers" - here], and conducts trials with 10 large operators in Europe, US, Japan and South Korea [see "Qwilt CEO Expects Full-Scale Deployments in Japan and Korea During 2013" - here]. Qwilt does not handle P2P file sharing traffic or illegal content"

"Qwilt created a new market from scratch, using a cloud based, out-of-the-box solution, available anywhere in the world", adds Alon. 

See "Qwilt Nets $16M in New Funding to Optimize Online Video Delivery" - here.