Filemobile:

Templates that file mobile builds build.

TEMPLATES:
http://www.filemobile.com/mediafactory

White labels solutions: Skin their apps. Very Quickly
http://community.projects.fm

Application Protocall Interface API's: Cusomized takes longer.

Widget Solutions:

How much does it cost.
He suggested to use WIDGETS:
Start up cost: ?
Implentation cost: They do it or YOU do it.

Monthly FEES: Widgets:  $1500 per month
Using Media Factory. Includes Video and Photos, Unlimited widgets.
Weather Widget:
Birthday Widget:
Sports Widget:
Pets Widget:
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 Hello Victor,
 
 Thanks for taking the time to speak with me about Filemobile and what we offer in the citizen journalism.  As I mentioned over the phone, there are a wide variety of ways we have of helping our clients ingest, curate and publish user generate content from the audience.
 
 The widget tool makes a lot of sense for you.  For $1500/month, you can use as many widgets as you want anywhere on your site.  You can build them using our widget publisher and then embed them as iFrames anywhere in your site.  They allow your audience to upload pictures and/or videos into specific categories or channels.  This price also includes access to Media Factory, our back end web based tool for moderation where you can ensure that the content you collect is content you want to publish.
 
 Here are some examples of Filemobile widgets in the wild:
 
Upload widget only:  http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/onlyincanada/index.html 
Gallery (display) only:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/01/29/montreal-downtown-flood-update.html 
Example of CMS in Story Gallery with Uploader:  http://cbscommunity.projects.fm/news#mid=&offset=&page=&s= 

The important points are that you can create the features of the widget yourself, organize the content that you collect based on your own criteria and you retain all rights.  Filemobile makes no claims to either your audience or their content.

If you wanted to do something more like what Fox News did with uReport, a single site that collects all of your UGC into one location, we could certainly help you do that as well.  A site like http://yournews.cbc.ca/ uses our white label and starts at $1500 per month with a $5000 start up fee, depending on how much you want your finished product to vary from our templates.

I hope that helps.  Please do your due diligence and let me know what you think.  In terms of our competition:  Gannett did a thorough vetting of the UGC vendors out there and decided that our platform was the industry's best.  We're also working with the Wall Street Journal and just about all of Canada.  We are a good partner to work with.

Warm regards,

-- 
 Joel Melamed
 Business Development
 www.Filemobile.com <http://www.Filemobile.com> 
 Direct: (416) 479-0484
 Toll free: (866) 779-9215 x216
 joel@filemobile.com
 18 Mowat Ave, 2nd Floor
 Toronto, Ontario