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Type of site | Video sharing |
|---|---|
| Available in | Bulgarian language |
| Country of origin | Bulgaria |
| Owner | Netinfo |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 30 June 2006; 19 years ago (2006-06-30) |
| Current status | Active |
VBox7 (pronounced "vi box sedem" inBulgarian and "vi box seven" inEnglish, stylized variously as VBOX7 or vbox7) is a Bulgarianvideo platform. As of April 2017, it was the 22nd most popular website inBulgaria.[1] The website has been owned by the Netinfo company since October 2007.[2]
The site was launched on 30 July 2006 and in the beginning it regularly had only a few visitors. The site's slogan wasThe Bulgarian video sharing website. In March 2008, VBox7 was regularly visited by around 200,000 people while there were more than 9,000 registered users. On 6 February 2012 the mobile version of the site was launched. Two years later, a mobile app forAndroid andiOS was created.[3]
In early June 2014, the site launched a partnership program becauseuser-generated content was not seen as profitable anymore. VBox7 started to transition to self-produced content and partners network. In 2015, famous Bulgarianvloggers (Emil Conrad and Boryana Stefanova, for example) migrated toYouTube. Videos of users, who didn't have a contract with VBox7, were made inaccessible from outside Bulgaria. A lot of previously uploaded videos were deleted. VBox7 changed itsdesign to a more mobile-friendly one, merging the mobile and desktop versions. The transition was considered complete by the end of 2016.[4]
Previously, watching videos on VBox7 required theAdobe Flash Playerplug-in to be installed because the site made use of theflv video format.[citation needed]
Now, VBox7 uses anHTML5 video player andH.264/MPEG-4 AVC is its default video compression format. The site also supportsHD videos up to2160p.[citation needed]
VBox7 published its mobile app in March 2014. As of April 2016 it had around 1 million downloads inGoogle Play[5] andiTunes.[6]
