Wednesday, 15 December 2010

We're live on Samsung bada!


We are constantly extending our list of supported devices and platforms.

Anyone with Samsung's first bada device, the Samsung Wave, can now use Bambuser to share experiences from their mobile phone in real time. Bambuser for bada lets you broadcast using the front or back camera, geo-tag your broadcasts and share them with your friends and favourite social networks.

Bambuser for bada is available for download in Samsung Apps and the application can be installed either directly on your phone or through Samsung Kies.

This first version of the application officially supports the Samsung Wave (S8500). Future versions will bring support for more models and features, as Samsung adds more models to the platform. The application participated in Samsung's global bada developer challenge with over 2000 other contestants and was, after a long wait, announced a device phase winner!


Feel free to share your feedback with us so we can keep on improving the Bambuser experience.

Monday, 6 December 2010

Bambuser technology awarded Social Innovation Award.


You cannot do everything yourself, you cannot be everywhere at once. That is why we always tried hard to open up for external innovation on the Bambuser platform. Our friends over at LiveResponse and their dutch partner RESPOND just got awarded based on their fantastic service built on our API´s.

The LiveResponse partner RESPOND in the Netherlands was yesterday the winner of a Social Innovation Award.

The award was given to Respond for the innovative work of using mobile live-video solutions to improve communication between safety authorities and citizens. Key enabling technologies in the concept called SafeCity are provided by LiveResponse and Bambuser.

We are very happy on behalf of Respond and deeply honored that LiveResponse is seen as fundamental technology for social innovation.

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Helping citizen journalism evolve

As many of you have probably read in the news, the recent election in Egypt has been marred with claims of violence, vote rigging and general unrest. Alongside a voice on Twitter and Facebook, users flocked in their thousands to stream their live footage on Bambuser, enabling everyone to share their side of the story, with journalists barred from covering the event on the ground. Over 10,000 live videos have been streamed over the past few days on Bambuser, capturing events in the lead up, during and post-election, a tenfold increase in daily broadcasts, with videos continuing to come in even now. One of the key visions from our founders in creating Bambuser was to support citizen journalism and the freedom of all to report, and we are proud to be enabling people all over the world with their own voice.

We very much look forward to hearing what you have to say on the issue of ‘citizen journalism’ and encourage you to debate, share your thoughts and experiences here with us.



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Tuesday, 30 November 2010

We are hiring

The person we're looking for is an experienced marketer, with an outstanding track record of creating and executing strategies to build user base, usage and brand. Someone who can be a strategic contributor as a hand-on doer. This person should be driven and excited by huge user growth while being as cost effectively as possible, with the creative ability to do a lot with minimum budget. She/He will be responsible for all initiated marketing activities and associated budget.

The right person will also have:
- A vast knowledge in both on-line and mobile marketing and has previously been successful in building user base in on-line and mobile services

- Very good understanding of how social media works and what drives virality

- Good experience from closing international partnerships

- Experience in user communication accross all communication channels including PR, email, blog, SEO and more.

- Good knowledge of SEO

- Extensive and documented global network within the on-line media/entertainment and/or mobile sector, especially in Europe and US

- B2B and multi-territory marketing experience will be a plus

- A great sense of details and will be metrics and results driven


Responsibilities will include:

- Creating and executing the marketing and communication strategy

- Settings acquisition, conversion and retention targets and being responsible for their successful achievement

- Leveraging the Bambuser brand

- Working with product to deliver a compelling and effective customer experience

- Driving offline and online marketing activities: PR, SEO, PPC, email, affiliates, blogging and social media, partnerships, referral schemes and campaigns

- Internationalising the proposition

- Managing the marketing team and external agency relationships including PR

- Managing the marketing budget 


We believe the person we're looking for matches the following: :


- Understands how an entrepreneurial company works 

- Full of energy and can share that energy with external and internal parties

- Looking for a long-term engagement with colleagues and the brand

A great sense of humour


Someone who will breathe, eat and sleep Bambuser
This person will work closely with the company's CEO on strategic and PR activities as well as close with the product and sales teams to ensure opportunities are captured and that communication, marketing and PR are consistent.

This is a person who lives either in Stockholm, London or San Francisco today. Travel will be extensive and working hours will be long but it will be great fun and a true opportunity to make a big impact.

Friday, 5 November 2010


So once more it is time to announce Europes hottest start-ups through the european techcrunch awards called "The Europas". Last year we finished on a strong top5 position in the "Best Mobile Startup" category. This year we are nominated in the "Best Video Startup" category. Please help us to be ranked higly this year as well, vote for Bambuser here