People love sharing videos of their accomplishments, and one of the companies that has worked to enable that for mobile gaming is growing fast.
Kamcord, a video platform that enables developers to add video-recording and sharing capabilities to their apps, has surpassed 40 million videos shared. It is already in huge releases like publisher DeNA’s Transformers: Battle Tactics and developer Proletariat’s World Zombination.
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In December, Kamcord raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo Online Entertainment. The company has since used that money to help it focus on landing deals with new and bigger developers.
“We’ve passed the 500 games mark,” said Rathnam. “That’s been very exciting for us.”
Kamcord has also continued expanding into Asia. The company opened an office in Japan last year, and it has since brought on additional team members to help work with studios based in that country.
Now, Kamcord is looking to further spread out in Asia. That includes opening an office in Korea under the leadership of Kwan Yong Kim, Angry Birds developer Rovio’s former Korean country manager.
“He’s a really experienced in a running a mobile-game team in Korea,” said Rathnam. “We’re happy to have him on board.”
Outside of making deals and working to establish a presence in Asia, Kamcord is also working on ways of bolstering its community. The biggest push on this front recently is in the company’s new Creators Program. While Kamcord typically enables people to capture and share very raw footage from a game, the Creators Program offers certain YouTube video makers the chance to upload edited clips that look more professional.
Clash of Clans isn’t a Kamcord-enabled game, but Rathnam says they want top creators to have the option to share their videos from other apps. For Kamcord, this is the best way to create a video-loving community.