Hi Everyone,

After nearly a year, 1CAST has successfully emerged from beta, bringing with it a completely re-designed user interface, new content and distribution partnerships, a bit of relief from our extremely talented development team, and heightened sense of purpose towards driving the most engaging video news experience across the three screen environment to our viewers.

Since our launch yesterday we’ve seen all of our metrics – from visits to unique viewers to streams per visit increase; but most important of all is the time spent viewing content, which continues to grow.  Already 1CAST has one of the most engaged audiences across the web and mobile spaces.  This trend continues and demonstrates the value of our micro-casting environment as a means for viewers to control what, how, when and where they get their video news.

Rest assured we are by no means finished.  Our team is already working on the next platform update, integrating our next set of content partners and a host of other initiatives that are sure to bring more value to our viewers and business partners alike.

So stay tuned!

On behalf of the 1CAST team, I want to extend a big THANK YOU to our content partners, distribution partners, advertisers, investors and most importantly our viewers.  Each of you has contributed to 1CAST’s ongoing success for which we are very grateful.

Now time to get back to work.

Anthony

1Cast is pleased to announce today that we have launched a private beta version of the world’s first on-demand personalized broadcast delivery news service!  Today’s launch marks the culmination of nearly two years of behind the scenes work with the goal of building an online platform that brings multiple news broadcasters together into one complete user experience. Anyone can now access professional broadcast news whenever and wherever they want, only minutes after original broadcast.  

1Cast and our personalized news service, which we call Micro-Casting, allows users to discover a wealth of atomized video news content by keyword or phrase, then sit back and watch or engage with the news that matters to them.

Users of 1Cast can also share this content across the Web, finally giving social networking and blogging sites a legitimate source of embeddable, professionally produced video content from national and international news sources.

 
We’ll be extending only a limited number of invitations to the private beta, and access is provided on a first come, first serve basis.  Anyone can sign-up now for beta access at www.1cast.com.

Anthony Bontrager