This week, after 2 years in beta, video startup nimbb.com is now finally a full production-ready service.
Nimbb is D2Soft Technologies product, the brainchild of entrepreneur Benjamin Bérubé, a Montrealer with San Francisco connections.
Nimbb allows a web application to record video comments and interventions from visitors, a popular feature for contests, video profiles, job interviews etc. Paying customers include McGraw-Hill, BBC, Cirque du Soleil and Webs.com. It’s a plug-and-play service, with a white-labelling option. Since video streaming and encoding is not a trivial operation, and even more so webcam recording, Nimbb makes it easy for all those media companies to offer this exotic feature on their sites. There’s of course a simplified free option, but Nimbb quickly encourages corporations to pay a monthly fee to use the service, up to $799 per month for a complete white-labelled and custom logo option. Benjamin Bérubé tells me that with that newly introduced plan, he’s hoping to increase revenues by 500% this year!
In a space where live streaming services like Justin.tv or seesmic make headlines, it’s nice to see a service not looking to gather millions of users, but instead focus on users who’d pay for the service to get more attractive and feature-full sites. Watch out for nimbb, it might be Montreal fastest growing startup this year
