The time Animoto almost brought AWS to its knees
Today, Amazon Web Services is a mainstay in the cloud infrastructure services market, a $60 billion juggernaut of a business. But in 2008, it was still new, working to keep its head above water and...
View ArticleAnimoto Gives Procrastinators A Last-Minute Mother's Day Gift
Mother's Day is just around the corner and those of you who are on top of your game have probably already sent a card and arranged to give your mom a thoughtful gift of flowers, candy, or a gift...
View ArticleAnimoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11
In a world where most startups choose gaining users over making money, Animoto is an odd exception: It's doing both. Since launching in August 2007, the company has signed up some 750,000 users, and...
View ArticleThe Naked Truth 2009 Slides: Show Me The Money
Taking place tonight in Seattle is The Naked Truth 2009, a Redfin-hosted conference to give entrepreneurs advice. Michael is there participating as an expert to discuss industry trends. This year's...
View ArticleGet Ready For Animoto Video…And Animoto 3D
Animoto is turning into a cult favorite web app - upload a few pictures to the service, pick some music, add some text and get a really cool video slide show back. They made my annual "can't live...
View ArticleI Like The Way You Move: Animoto's Custom Movie Montages Can Now Include Video
Animoto, the startup that lets you automatically build custom music videos starring your own media, just got even more awesome. Tonight the site is launching support for video, which means you'll be...
View ArticleAnimoto Gets Groovy For The Holidays
It's no surprise that Animoto's new video product is a hit. Upload a few short videos and images, add a song, click a button and bam, you've got a very high quality souvenir of your recent holiday or...
View ArticleAnimoto Sends Some Holiday Cheer With Festive Custom Videos
Animoto, the startup that allows you to take your images, video and your music and mash them together to create cool videos, is launching a holiday themed platform that lets you send fun and personal...
View ArticleFotolia Lets You Animate Photos With Flixtime
Microstock photography giant Fotolia is launching a new site, called Flixtime, that allows users to create simple video slideshows. Similar to the simplicity of Animoto, Flixtime allows you to produce...
View ArticleAn Ecosystem Is Born: Animoto Opens Up API
We're big fans of Animoto, a website that lets you easily create photo and video slideshows matched to music. The site is constantly innovating its nifty product, most recently adding an iPhone app...
View ArticleAnnouncing Last Call For Crunchies Tix, Last Chance To Vote, And A Pre-Party...
We're getting down to the wire ... only four days to go until we reveal the 2010 Crunchies Award winners! Will you be there to see your favorite startups and founders take home the triumphant monkey?...
View ArticleAnimoto Gets 10x Faster, Doubles Video Resolution, And Just Generally Rocks
Longtime TechCrunch-favorite Animoto, which lets people easily create really impressive videos from photos and video clips, continues to improve. This is one of those "must use" apps for people who...
View ArticleAnimoto's Partner Platform Embeds Video Slideshow Creation Tool On Any Site
It's no secret that we're big fans of Animoto, a website that lets you easily create photo and video slideshows matched to music. The startup basically allows you to take your images, video and your...
View ArticleAnimoto In It To Win It, Takes $25 Million In Third Venture Round
Well, apparently Animoto is going for it. This jewel of a startup, which lets people easily create professional-looking videos from audio and video clips and pictures, has raised a third round of...
View ArticleThe New Animoto Makes Creating And Editing Video Slideshows A Breeze
Animoto, a website that lets you easily create photo and video slideshows matched to music, is debuting a brand new, smarter, easier video creation flow that makes using service even simpler. For...
View ArticleNow At 4M Users, Video Startup Animoto Adds Former Aol/Yahoo Exec Brad...
Back in July of last year, Animoto, the startup that lets people easily create good-looking videos from user-uploaded audio, video and images, raised $25 million in venture funding, led by Spectrum...
View ArticleAnimoto Hooks Deeper Into Facebook, Lets You Create A Video Montage Of Your...
I'm a big fan of Animoto and its automatic video-creation service. But even if you get a service to automatically create videos from photos that you've chosen and uploaded, you still have to choose...
View ArticleAnimoto Updates iPhone App To Simplify Its Automatic Video Creation Workflow
Animoto has made a big update to its iPhone app, which reduces the number of steps it takes to create videos on the mobile app. With the simplified workflow, Animoto hopes even more users will start...
View ArticleAs It Pivots To Enterprise, Animoto Lets Businesses Add Logos To Their...
For the last several years, Animoto has offered web and mobile apps that take photos and videos that its users have shot and pieces them together into beautiful video assets. Now it's making that an...
View ArticleAnimoto gives businesses an easy way to create social videos
Animoto is launching a new product for businesses that want to post their own marketing videos for Facebook and other social networks — but don’t necessarily have the team or the skills needed to...
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