Product Highlight

Mobile Live Video Sharing for Everyone, Everywhere!

With Qik, you can share with anyone and everyone what's going on anywhere and everywhere you go:

Stay better connected to family and friends.

Share your travels live with friends back home. Show your baby's first steps as they happen. Have Grandma “attend” the birthday party, even though she's on the other side of the planet. Qik also works with MySpace, Orkut and other websites, enabling you to share these moments with the social networks you already use.

Broadcast events and news spontaneously.

Add a new dimension to your online presence with streaming video. Become a reporter—get the scoop with backstage interviews with celebrities and experts Even better, Qik lets you share the results live on any website. Qik also gives you the power to broadcast to partner sites like Mogulus, Justin.tv, Twitter and Pownce.

Enhance your business.

Add to your news/media business with high impact, low resource live breaking news. Give medical consultations anytime, anywhere. Record incidents for legal and insurance purposes. Provide live customer support that's the next best thing to being there.

These are just some of the ways that tens of thousands of Qikkers in more than 100 countries around the world are using Qik. Got a favorite use of Qik that we haven't mentioned? Let us

Technology Overview

Qik's focus is on developing the perfect mobile video platform, providing the highest quality of live video experience across all devices and networks. We are in constant pursuit of innovation and work on the basis that the limitations of existing models are there to be surpassed.

Right from start, we recognized that providing the fastest, best quality, most reliable video from cell phones requires an approach that can efficiently adapt to various device, network and environmental conditions.

The key attributes of our patent-pending platform are:

Fast: It's all making the video truly live in order to enable real-time interaction through chat. We tag the stream at every path it takes, from the instant a person clicks the Stream button to the video appearing on the web. The entire path is then analyzed, weighed against various parameters and optimized to ensure speed of delivery. This has led to us achieving latency as low as half a second to three seconds for our live video streams.

Best Possible Quality: Our developers are obsessed with quality. We are developing the best possible video quality from mobile devices using several techniques for which we have filed patents (#60/989,711). These techniques concern examining and assigning importance to the resources available on the device and network, making multiple passes at the stream to ensure good quality. This is focused not only on the live stream, but also on progressively improving quality for viewers who start viewing mid-stream and for playback after the stream is completed.

Most Reliable: We understand that every moment is important and being able to capture that reliably is of paramount importance to our users. So, whether your phone battery dies mid-stream or you are in a place where there is no network—Qik has you covered. We have innovated on multiple techniques to enable this capability and reliability, and we have filed patents for them (#61/082,457).

Simple and Secure: From getting started with Qik to streaming, sharing and interacting with viewers, we keep analyzing each step so that every action is quick and simple, yet ensures the security and privacy of the user. We have filed patents for the techniques we have pioneered in this area (#60/989,716)