List of Online Video Platform APIs
As most of you know, an online video platform provides companies with video hosting and delivery services among various other features and functionality that can vary (analytics, ad networks, HD support, etc...). Many of these online video platforms (and there are just too many right now in my opinion but that is another post entirely) offer ...
YouTube Gives Users New Insight Into Video Discovery
YouTube is giving us all some more insight into what's going on with our videos. They just boosted their analytics tools (YouTube Insight) with three new features including stats on mobile users, subscribers and my favorite - discovery over time.
Livestream APIs and Brightcove Integration
Livestream, formerly Mogulus, have released a set of open APIs for the service expanding the ability to integrate it into your online video strategy. Plus the service is also now able to integrate its live streaming with the Brightcove video player.
Adobe Gets Serious With Open Source – Opens Up That MF
Adobe has started to take open source video serious and now has the open source media framework (osmf, strobe). Read about Adobe opens up flash media player framework
Microsoft Silverlight 3 Offers H.264, Full HD, Dev Tools
Version 3 of Microsoft's video player is out and included a host of new functionality including H.264 and High-Definition video. The multimedia software is available for Mac OS X (Intel-based Macs), Linux and of course, Windows.
IE8 To Implement Some HTML 5 Features
HTML 5 just gained another ally in its adoption...Microsoft. Sure it might still be some time before HTML 5 is totally ready for the masses but with such early adopters like IE, Firefox and Safari now, it should start getting a heavy push to become solid.
Surf for Videos Using Twitter - Video Search Twitter Bot
VideoSurf, and innovative video search engine that utilizes computer vision technology (facial recognition) to assist with video indexing , has developed a quick and effective way to search for videos directly within Twitter. By combining the Twitter API, bit.ly API, and VideoSurf API, they have created a mashup that makes it simple to search for videos without ever ...
Watch A Video, Save The Planet
Every once in awhile something crosses my desk (which is currently in Dubrovnik, Croatia) that doesn't deal with metrics, controversy or anything heavy. This, is one of those times. I got an email from Heidi at Ripple Effect Communication on something she thought I might be interested. She was right, I'm interested.
TwitVid Enables Easy Video Sharing for Twitter
First there was Twitmatic, which let you track and find videos being shared on Twitter. Now there's TwitVid which actually lets you share videos on Twitter. Convenient no? TwitVid helps you to actually share your videos on Twitter which is quite useful really. It utilizes the Twitter API so you can login with your Twitter ...
Videosurf Announces Search and Video Lookup APIs
VideoSurf recently announced some new APIs are ready for everyone to tinker with. Videosurf is a video search engine that covers some of the largest video site like Hulu, ESPN, YouTube and more. The two new APIs they've announced are Video Search and Video Lookup. Here's a quick rundown of each: Video Search API - ...
IAB VPaid Guidelines - Video Player–Ad Interface Definition Guidelines
Recently the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has been working hard to set some guidelines for all sorts of online advertising, including now, video advertising and players. Last week they released their Video Player–Ad Interface Definition Guidelines (VPAID) which looks at simplifying the buying and selling of digital video media by building a strong foundational infrastructure. ...
Bits On The Run Updates Video CMS Services and Site
Bits on the Run has been doing some work to update their service. After about a year it seems like they've got over 10,000 users now and a goodly amount of video to serve up. In order to serve that video up around the planet without problems they've teamed up with BitGravity CDN (content delivery ...
TheFeedRoom Enterprise Video Platform 4.0 Released
On the heels of the recent relaunch of NYTimes.com video with Brightcove, The FeedRoom has announced its new FeedRoom 4.0 Enterprise video platform (EVP). Below is the announcement from the FeedRoom. The FeedRoom, a leading provider of online video solutions for media companies, corporations and government agencies, today announced the release of FeedRoom 4.0 Enterprise ...
Interview With Ooyala's Lead Video Analytics Engineer
Just today, Ooyala announced a complete overhaul and new release of their online video analytics platform, Backlot Analytics. Christophor Rick, one of ReelSEO’s talented columnists, had some time to discuss this exciting new functionality with Ooyala’s Lead Analytics Engineer, Venkat Jonnadula. ReelSEO: What advantage or marketing edge does this new package give Ooyala and the ...
Ooyala Launches New Online Video Analytics Suite for Backlot
As most of you know, ReelSEO.com proudly utilizes Ooyala for the majority of videos that we have released on our site (with many more to come in the future I hope). Since the launch of Backlot, Ooyala's video platform (March 2008), they have reportedly had more than 10,000 installs with publishers in over 25 different ...
