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# Veokami Turns Fans Into Live Music Camera Crews
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/veokami-turns-fans-into-your-bands-live-camera-crew/
- Published: 2011-09-29T11:12:29.000Z
- Updated: 2011-09-29T11:12:29.000Z
- Description: Veokami was the winner of this year's HackLolla challenge for a project that takes multiple live videos of concert events from YouTube, syncs them up and offers each video as. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/09/veokami-turns-fans-into-your-bands-live-camera-crew.html]
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- Tags: Startups & Funding, YouTube & Video, veokami, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:55

[![Veokami-logo](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2015435c581ac970c-200wi "Veokami-logo")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2015435c581ac970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

**Veokami** was the winner of this year's **HackLolla** challenge for a project that takes multiple live videos of concert events from YouTube, syncs them up and offers each video as an alternate camera angle. It's not a perfect viewing experience but it's pretty darn cool and worth following as an example of what one can do with **YouTube** beyond embeds and viewing rooms.

[Veokami](http://www.veokami.com/?ref=hypebot.com) was my favorite entrant to [HackLolla](https://www.hypebot.com/hacklolla-apps-leverage-lollapalooza-api/) and they had some pretty solid competition. At this stage, it's a rough, "good enough" product that is impressive because it does something new with the assets of YouTube while pointing the way to future possiblities. It helps that it's a nice looking site that's easy to navigate.

Rather than a free-for-all, Veokami is targetting specific gatherings, like SXSW and Lollapalooza, and featuring performances from those events which they "[unlock](http://veokami.com/browse/?ref=hypebot.com)" and then make available for public viewing and interaction.

In the [HackLolla incarnation](http://hacklolla.com/submissions/3491-veokami-for-lollapalooza?ref=hypebot.com), Veokami users could participate by tagging "moments" (possibly inspired by SoundCloud tags in songs). Since then they've added the ability to submit videos to be added to the mix for a particular performance. They're also offering embeddable widgets but those seem not quite ready for primetime. I tried embedding one in this post and it wreaked havoc on everything on the page after that.

They're now rolling out additional viewing features offering a wider range of choices and gradually building on the core product.

Despite the obvious limitations of live fan-made videos and a few rough edges, I still think Veokami is a really cool service that hasn't lost it's appeal since its initial launch. I think it also offers a great opportunity for bands who have lots of fan-made videos online to leverage that love in a productive manner. I haven't discussed this idea with Veokami but I bet if you got your fans to sign up and make some noise on your behalf, it would speed up the possiblity of having a presence on this unique platform.

*Hypebot contributor Clyde Smith is a freelance writer and blogger. He blogs about web business models at [Flux Research](http://www.fluxresearch.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and the world of dance at [All World Dance](http://www.allworlddance.com/?ref=hypebot.com). To suggest music services and related topics for review at Hypebot, please contact:*

clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com

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