YouTube's founders have thrown their hat into the video-making app ring, according to CBS News on Aug. 8. The founders, Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, introduced MixBit on Thursday, which will now be set to go against other popular video apps such as Vine and Instagram video.
Mixbit is already available in Apple's App Store for free and an Android version is expected near the end of September. The app is pretty significantly different than the other two offerings out in terms of the length of video a user is able to produce. According to CNET , the mobile app allows you to publish videos as short as a second or you can go long-form and publish videos that are up to an hour long. The hour-long videos can be made of 256 16-second clips.
And here's an even more interesting bit: users can borrow clips from other Mixbit users to create your own videos. Presumably, this would allow a user to not ever upload their own material, but simply recreate different mixes of others videos. Of his audience, Hurley posted that "MixBit is a community of creators, as well as filmmakers, citizen journalism and everyone in between.”
PCMag notes that this is the first major product to emerge from Avos, the startup created by Hurley and Chen in 2011.
As video services and video blogging platforms continue to open up, it will be interesting to see which large company will start to feel the pressure to have their own. Who do you think is more likely to buy out MixBit first, Google, Apple or Microsoft?
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