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CLIPSYNC LAUNCHES NEW VIEWING PARTIES APPLICATION FOR FACEBOOK

  

WATCH NEW SEASON OF BIG BROTHER 11 ON FACEBOOK

 

Viewing Parties App Leverages Social Networks to Let You Chat and Watch Favorite TV Shows Live With Your Friends

 

San Francisco, CA—July 13, 2009--ClipSync, the leading Social TV platform, announced today the launch of ClipSync Viewing Parties for Facebook, the first Facebook application to combine social networking with Social TV allowing friends and others to host, invite and gather on Facebook to watch their favorite TV shows, such as Big Brother 11,  together in a live viewing party.

ClipSync’s Viewing Parties will launch initially with Big Brother 11 and top daytime drama The Young and the Restless, with more shows added weekly. Latest episodes will be available in the Viewing Parties app a few hours after broadcast airing. The Viewing Parties application lets Facebook users schedule a group event, or Viewing Party, for their favorite show,  then send invitations to their Facebook friends to watch these episodes together on the Viewing Parties application.  Those joining Viewing Parties see their favorite show episodes in synchronized video and can interact with each other and the show through pop up comment bubbles, trigger avatar gestures, and by throwing interactable objects at one another and the screen. The experience is powered by ClipSync Social TV, a highly-scalable interaction service and games engine.

“As we’ve done with CBS.com, TV.com, MTV.com and recently MySpace’s Married On MySpace, ClipSync’s Viewing Parties application for Facebook is changing the way people watch TV,” said ClipSync CEO Itzik Cohen. “Facebook provides the perfect setting to launch this application. By combining our Social TV with Facebook’s social network, the Viewing Parties app bridges the gap between TV viewing and the way we socialize.”

The Viewing Parties app also lets users create and join public viewing parties open to like-minded fans. The ability to create public viewing parties enables super-fans and shows’ blog “experts” to further engage their audiences by hosting their own parties.

The ClipSync Viewing Parties app is available at The Viewing Parties landing page and soon from the Facebook application directory.

ABOUT CLIPSYNC

Leading the Social TV revolution, ClipSync provides a patented platform for synchronous group viewing applications of live or recorded content from multiple sources, with cutting-edge modalities for real-time group interaction. ClipSync enables creators of TV content to further engage and interact with their audiences online. Additionally, ClipSync has built a unique advertising platform to connect the needs of brands with viewer passion and interests. We have come together from industry leaders, including WebEx, to share a common goal of developing unique and transformational software that allows people to share their lives in new and more interesting ways. ClipSync was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, CA. http://clipsync.com/news1.html

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ClipSync reviewed by PC Mag's Kyle Monson


PC Mag's Kyle Monson took some time to sit down with ClipSync CEO Itzik Cohen and Director of Product Development, Sam Baron to discuss the newly launched online video / chat site. You can see the interview HERE

ClipSync.com syncs you with your friends and your favorite online video content (no matter what site it's on--YouTube, Google, MetaCafe, etc.). So it's essentially like watching tv together with your friends in your living room--except the
concept, of course, is for video online.

ClipSync spent all of 2006 in beta developing the site features under the name Abazab.com. They worked with Director Dan Myrick (Blair Witch) to hold online auditions and to cast his upcoming film The Objective and sponsored the 4th Annual Latin Rap Conference in NYC this Fall along with others such as Billboard Magazine, Fuerte Group, etc. A few short weeks ago, ClipSync.com came out of beta and officially launched.

ClipSync has already been named one of the top disruptors of media by the AlwaysOn Network and ClipSync CEO Itzik Cohen spoke at the OnMedia Conference in New York January 30th. Itzik, a former pro baller and one of the original WebEx guys, started the company after watching his son IM YouTube links to and from friends. He wanted to give him a way to watch the
clips together with his friends at the same time, while having the ability to chat about it while they were watching. Check out ClipSync HERE

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