Cleeng: Winner Startup Rally @TNW!

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Donald Res in News with no comments

Winner: TNW start up rallyProudly we announce that our hard work is recognized by the jury of the Next Web: Cleeng is the winner of the Startup Rally 2011 in the category Best B2B! On April 27 and 28, the 18 finalists got the opportunity to present themselves in front of the 1200 visitors of the conference and the challenging jury. The jury included respected industry leaders like Zee Kant, editor in chief of TNW, Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer), Mike Butcher from TechCrunch Europe and Werner Vogels, CTO from Amazon.
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The Next Web Startup Rally: 5 Minutes to Impress

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Benedicte Guichard in News with no comments

What we have been dreaming about for the last couple of weeks, months even, is now a reality. We at Cleeng are very pround and excited to announce that we are among the 18 finalists of TNW Start up Rally powered by Microsoft Bizpark! Accessible at: http://thenextweb.com/conference/startups/

Having successfully passed the various selection steps, and ousted more than 200 competitors, we have reached the final. Today is the moment of truth, consisting of a 5 minute pitch on stage to convince the jury (and it is a hell of a jury featuring Zee Kane, Mike Butcher, Wolfang Schuster, and Werner Vogels to name just a few…) that the idea behind Cleeng is a killer.

Undoubtedly The Next Web conference is the opportune moment to increase awareness around the solution we launched last February,  but more importantly, to also announce of the release of Cleeng’s Enterprise Solution.

So far we have focused on independent site publishers mostly using WordPress like bloggers, photographers, musicians, and small app developers. Now, with our Enterprise Solution, we go one step further to address large publishing houses and mainstream consumer apps.

Cleeng’s Enterprise Solution, unveiled at TNW, includes three modules:

1- Brightcove.

We have partnered with Brightcove, a leading online video platform, in order to offer a high-quality, straightforward in-video monetization solution. Leveraging the extreme ease of use and versatility of the Cleeng solution, Brightcove customers can now set monetization conditions for video content (price, period, etc.) directly from the Brightcove Studio.
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The Next Web Startup Rally: we are finalist!

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Benedicte Guichard in News with no comments

We are so proud and excited that we could not resist spreading the good news: Cleeng has been selected for The Next Web start up rally powered by Microsoft Bizpark.

We made it up to the final 18, ahead of more than 200 competitors. Check this out: http://thenextweb.com/conference/startups/.

As a finalist we are granted a 5mn pitch on stage, next Thursday, in front of the 1200 enthusiastic web aficionados to make some big announcements.

So we keep our fingers crossed, hope for the best (the results will be announced on Friday afternoon) and we will keep you posted on Facebook and Twitter.

The Cleeng team.

 

 

 

Paypal for Digital Goods, powered by Cleeng now ready !

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Donald Res in Product news with no comments

paypal We are very pleased to announce our new WordPress plugin: Paypal for Digital Goods, powered by Cleeng.
As we always believed, making things easy is one of the most complex thing. And this applies very well to setting up a simple payment mechanism like PayPal digital goods on a given website. The problem is not creating the PayPal account (even though we were surprised by the time it took us). The challenge is more how to easily setup the elements you want to sell on your website, and make it straightforward for you and the 95 million PayPal account owners to best experience the content sold. To see how it works, just browse below.

What are the typical hidden costs when setting up a payment solution on your site?

  • Payment processing fees (in the case of Paypal, 5cts + 5% of the transaction, so 10% on a $1 transaction)
  • Implementing it on your site: basic installation is easy, but more advanced features – specify activation time, adjust easily pricing, security, user ratings… -are more complex
  • Deal with consumer claims & support
  • Maintain the systems up-to-date with the latest releases of WordPress and the most common plugins you use.

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Cleeng maintenant disponible en français!

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Benedicte Guichard in News with no comments

Quelques semaines après le lancement en Béta, nous avons la joie de vous annoncer le lancement de Cleeng en français! OK d’accord, c’était prévisible puisque 3 des fondateurs sont français :) mais voilà c’est fait: les fonctionalités tant appréciées par nos utilisateurs sont maintenant comprehensibles par tous ceux qui ne sont pas très à l’aise avec la langue de Shakespeare.

Vous pouvez surfer sur le site, accèder à votre compte et à tout l’environnement privatif comme la bibliothèque par exemple, ou devenir éditeur en quelques clics et surtout installer les outils de monétisation (tel que le plug-in WordPress) dans la langue de Molière.

 

Et très bientôt, c’est promis, les vidéos seront sous-titrées sur le site (elles le sont déjà sur YouTube, alors vous n’avez plus d’excuses pour ne pas les regarder).

Bon week end de Pâques.
L’équipe Cleeng.

Cleeng maintenant disponible en français!

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Benedicte Guichard in actualités with no comments

Quelques semaines après le lancement en Béta, nous avons la joie de vous annoncer le lancement de Cleeng en français! OK d’accord, c’était prévisible puisque 3 des fondateurs sont français :) mais voilà c’est fait: les fonctionalités tant appréciées par nos utilisateurs sont maintenant comprehensibles par tous ceux qui ne sont pas très à l’aise avec la langue de Shakespeare.

Vous pouvez surfer sur le site, accèder à votre compte et à tout l’environnement privatif comme la bibliothèque par exemple, ou devenir éditeur en quelques clics et surtout installer les outils de monétisation (tel que le plug-in WordPress) dans la langue de Molière.

 

Et très bientôt, c’est promis, les vidéos seront sous-titrées sur le site (elles le sont déjà sur YouTube, alors vous n’avez plus d’excuses pour ne pas les regarder).

Bon week end de Pâques.
L’équipe Cleeng.

Freedom & ease of use, a story about Cleeng

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Nicolas Le Gall in About Us with no comments

A few weeks ago, Cleeng launched its public beta through a WordPress plugin, which is now being used by a growing number of publishers.
As we try to make it one of the leading solution for content monetization, I wanted to share with you the reasons why I joined Cleeng.
Prior to Cleeng, I worked for a European publishing powerhouse for many years; and one of our main challenge was the difficult balance between content quality and advertising.

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Common monetization mistakes: Turning “Free” into “Fee”

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Gilles Domartini in Industry thoughts, News with no comments

Now that we’ve been spending the past months working  more closely with publishers, from small bloggers to large publishing powerhouses, the most frequent mistake we have heard is that a paywall should be implemented in order to turn a “free model” into a “paying” one.

Well, in reality, turning a “free model” into a paying one can be very difficult, and it won’t happen overnight. Why?

We forget that what triggers paying content is consumer acceptance. For instance, to gauge typical consumer reactions,see, Twitter comments about the NYT paywall in the last 2h:

We have covered the issues behind the NYT implementation and freemium models, and Stacey Kramer has further analyzed all root causes and options last week,

  1. Length of time it took to implement the solution, and many differences between what was first said, and what is finally executed
  2. Confusion over the way is supposed to work
  3. Complications regarding access through smart phones and different devices that have different pricing, creating very complex logistics

Overall, poor listening to consumers expectations, and trying to cope with corporate mantras like: (more…)

Translated Post to Dutch

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Benedicte Guichard in Nieuws @nl with no comments

Cleeng nominated for the Dutch Start up of the year!

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Benedicte Guichard in News with no comments

The atmosphere was relaxed yesterday at Jimmy Woo, down town Amsterdam, for the presentation of the  Dutch start-up awards and we had much to celebrate since Cleeng was nominated in the category Dutch Start up of the Year!

And the winner is:22tracks, congratulations to the start up created in November 2009 promoting, for free, trendy music selected by specialized DJ’s from Amsterdam !

It was incredible to be among the five finalists just two months after our launch in beta, and Gilles, our dear French CEO has another year to practise his Dutch and fine tune his speech :)

Anyway, thanks to everyone for your support and votes.

See you next year!

Oh and by the way, we are still in the running for the competition organized in Amsterdam on April 27th – 29th by The Next Web: the Start-up Rally ! so maybe the celebration time has just begun!