Jay Samit, the founder of video chat service Oovoo was in India for FICCI Frames, meeting video content providers, and looking to understand the India opportunity, given the country's growing smartphone sales. MediaNama spoke with him about Oovoo, how it monetizes, how a video chat service works in low bandwidth, OTT versus telecom operators, advertising on video chat, among other serveral things. You can listen to our podcast (and subscribe at soundcloud.com/medianama), or read the transcript of the interview below. [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/85186229" params="" width=" 100%" height="120" iframe="true" /] MediaNama: What does Oovoo do? Jay Samit: Oovoo is video chat. We're at the intersection of social and communications. We allow people across platforms - PC, Mac, Tablet, iPhone, Android, to have up to 12 friends see each other and share life in real time.Facebook are great for seeing what your friends did. Oovoo lets you live life with your friends. MediaNama: So it's like Google Hangout... Jay Samit: It's like that. We seem to have captured the imagination of the worlds youth. We have 70 million users doing a billion and a half minutes of talking and video chat a month. We're among the top 100 apps in 120 countries, and as low cost Androids start hitting India, you'll see voice go away, and the telcos move towards being dumb pipes and people will use text and video. We also have text. We're among the top 5 text apps in the world. MediaNama: Video has never been a key medium for…
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