About the company

Location: 2006 Montana Ave. , Santa Monica, California 90403, United States flags/United States.gif
Founded in: 2008
Stage: Beta (public testing)
Number of employees: 1-5
Profitable year: 2010
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/1222
Profile creation: October 15, 2009
Last updated: February 25, 2010

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VOKLE

Live video q&a platform for the world's biggest movers and shakers.
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flags/United States.gif California, United States
http://vokle.com

VOKLE is an embeddable microsite platform where the world’s most powerful and innovative thinkers, doers, movers, and shakers can easily broadcast their live video to a virtual auditorium of viewers, and, most uniquely, take video calls from the audience with unprecedented ease.

 

It's a global hub for the world’s foremost entertainers, artists, politicians, professors, Pulitzer-Prize winners, Nobel Laureates, and self-realization gurus to engage in insightful, many-to-many video dialogue with viewers on-demand, and from the convenience of their homes.
 

 

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Robert Kiraz (Founder, CEO)
it's down tot he wire! we're currently in 5th place. let's keep it going! on January 27
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Last day to give us a vote for the Vator Splash Competition! We appreciate all the support as every vote counts! If you haven't voted, you can vote here! http://bit.ly/2Jmgdq on January 27

Business model

Free Events (free to create and free to attend)

-Video Ad Supported

 

Premium Events (per event cost for publisher; free to attend)

-Video Ad Supported

-Pay $ to unlock direct marketing tools

 

Vokle will also be offering Ticketed Events (free to create and set ticket price for attendees)

-Revenue sharing model between publisher and Vokle

 

 

 

Competitive advantage

 "The Mount Olympus of Online Events"

Multiple Video Streams:
Multiple, co-hosts can broadcast remotely to virtual room.  Hosts can take live, video calls from audience, and have a back-and-forth dialogue with fans!

 

Built in Screening System:

Allows host to assign remote screener to privately meet and greet all video callers behind the scenes in order to assure broadcaster that each caller is ready to

 

Crowdsource staff to help manage event:

Virtually assign producers, co-hosts, screeners, and editors!

 

User Experience:

By keeping a clean, minimalist style VOKLE remains not only an enticing and powerful platform, but makes competitors look tawdry in comparison.


Embeddable Platform:
When someone embeds a Vokle player on a site or blog post, they are embedding the entire platform.  Users are never bounced upon entry, which means users never have to leave the sites they love to traffic most


Strategic Alliances:

Vokle's versatile platform is allowing us to work closely with organizations ranging from Huffington Post, to Top Spin Media and CauseCast

 

Other Advantages:

Social media integration; Twitter and Text chat.

Zero software installation. 100% web-based social site.

Direct promotion avenue for tribes/tribe leaders.

 

Management Bio

 

Robert Kiraz, President & Chief Executive Officer
A graduate of the University of Southern California and founder of Vokle Inc., Robert brings a trademark blend of style, substance, and web innovation that will herald the site a vanguard for next-gen mainstream communications. His ability to empathize with the end-user experience stems from a background in cinema-business administration where he worked in script development on the Universal backlot and was instrumental in bringing about hit television shows such as The Office and Ugly Betty. Notoriously meticulous and future-oriented, Vokle is the vision and brainchild of a man who fundamentally understands a business from the most important perspective: the customers.

 

Edward Dekeratry, Marketing & PR

Hailing a diversified experience from various fields; after assisting in strategic planning/business consultation sessions for some of Mexico’s largest corporations include sole fuel provider PEMEX. Edward headed marketing for Multidimensional Group in Mexico, organizing public events for companies and organizations such as Coca-Cola. He segued his marketing experience into film by raising over $5 million dollars for the 2006 film, Sea of Dreams, and overseeing its burn-rate period and independent distribution across Mexico and the USA.

 

With valuable contributions by

 

Ian Serlin, Chief Technology Officer
Ian Serlin has more than 8 years of software development and project management experience, leading geographically distributed teams of 10+ employees at a time. Ian received a Presidential Scholarship from the University of Southern California for his Bachelors in Computer Science and completed his Masters in Computer Science with a 4.0 GPA. Ian’s recent endeavors include two management internships with Microsoft, a multi-touch soundtrack composition device using custom technology similar to Microsoft Surface, and an active vehicle defense system for the U.S. Navy. Ian has declined job opportunities at Microsoft and Samsung to join Vokle.


Cory O’Daniel, Chief Software Architect
Cory O'Daniel has a networking and software development background of about 11 years. Cory completed a Masters in Business Administration with a focus in IT Law and went on to become one of the youngest full-time professors in Florida history. Cory's last two major projects included building the news aggregation and search engine for the profitable social network, Suicide Girls, and designing the architecture for Ripple Networks, a leader in home digital signage. Cory is an active contributor to many open source projects including Ruby On Rails, Merb and DataMapper

 

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US traffic of vokle.com
 
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Worldwide traffic of VOKLE

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Looking for employees

Employee description

Actionscript Developer Position Available

 

Requirements:

  * BS in Computer Science
  * developed production quality products using ActionScript 3, Flex 3/4
  * good grasp of design patterns including MVC, REST, OOP
  * also must know your way around Javascript, HTML, CSS
Bonuses:

  * experience working with any streaming media technology, live
streaming in particular
  * experience with Wowza Media Server
  * experience with Flash Media Server
  * experience with jQuery, SASS, HAML
  * experience with merb/RoR
  * experience developing for mobile platforms

Benefits:

  * ability to work on cutting edge product that's the first to market
  * flexible working hours and location
  * opportunity to have a lot of creative input and opportunities to
grow professionally
  * changing the world

 

Feedback and testimonials


  • John Morales January 24, 2010
    Been watching Jon and Ash with Phil and Imogen Heap on here...love the lag-free, and the communication the hosts have with the audience... VOTE FOR VOKLE 100%
  • Liza Kiraz January 22, 2010
    Great website...it is great to see someone like Imogen Heap engaging with her fans directly via video and text!
  • Cpl.Dwayne Hicks January 21, 2010
    Watching Milla Jovovich live was pretty cool! So yeah good site.
  • Marika Meos January 15, 2010
    this is way too cool site!! many thanks to the creators!!
  • Oni Moschta January 12, 2010
    I watched a live chat with Jordan Rudess and it was very cool and smooth. A technically well done platform with very much economical potential. Vote for this site people!
  • R Mk January 12, 2010
    Great site for talking with multiple people. And great from the hosting side.
  • Jesse Kramer January 11, 2010
    No brainer guys, vote for Vokle
  • Giusseppe gonzales January 11, 2010
    great site. A friend of mine has used this to do a live show and when I came to the site, I saw the show running very smoothly, no problems at all. The idea of having people answering questions via text or video is really great.

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