| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | September 2007 |
| Headquarters | New York, NY, United States |
| Key people | Gary Culliss, CEO Thomas Mango, CTO |
| Industry | Online video entertainment |
| Slogan | Collect and Share Videos with Friends |
| Website | Gawkk.com |
| Registration | Optional (required to save, share, comment and vote on videos) |
| Available in | English |
| Current status | Active |
Gawkk.com is a community-based social video sharing website that specializes in allowing people to collect and share videos with their friends. Gawkk does not host videos directly like YouTube and Metacafe but instead lists embedded videos from any hosting site on the web in public channels created by the community. The site gets its videos from user-submission of the video URL or embed code, RSS feeds and some web crawling.
Gawkk organizes videos around channels, and members can subscribe to public channels that group videos in chronological order relative to a particular topic, such as a TV show, movie, celebrity, musical artist, comedian, etc. Members can save videos to their own personal video channel, follow other members' channels and share their saved videos with friends that follow them back, similar to the web service Twitter.[1]
The privately-held company was founded by Gary Culliss[2] and Thomas Mango in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.