A Tale of Two Freemium Online Video Platforms: Longtail and Playwire
Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail's Bits on the Run has announced they're going freemium (YA!) with a Free video hosting and streaming service option. While they're not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire's freemium service which ...
Who is JW? A Documentary of an Online Video Superhero
Jeroen "JW" Wijering is an online video pioneer, Chief Digital Architect of LongTail Video and the creator of the Internet's most popular and ubiquitous media players, the JW Players, which have generated millions of downloads since their launch in 2005.
JW Video Player 5.3 - Combines Flash, HTML5, Plus New Javascript API for Consistent Experience
LongTailVideo is set to fully release an updated version of the popular JW Player which includes some all new features as well as some updated features. The major features include auto-detect Flash and HTML5 in one, a Javascript API and new HTML5 playback features.
Dive Into HTML5 Video With The Masters - HTML5 Webinar Replay Video
Last week, we held our second ReelSEO webinar event titled, "Dive Into HTML5 Video - Learn From The Masters." The webinar was a great success and we had more than 1100 attendees join us for the first hour with more than 500 remaining online past the hour as we extended the Q&A session an additional ...
Google's VP8 WebM and HTML5 - What It Means for You
Several months ago, Google bought ON2, the company behind the successful video codecs VP6 (used in Flash) and VP7 (used in Skype). Ever since the first rumors of this acquisition emerged, the online video community has speculated what this would mean for HTML5 video and its current issues around codec support. Last Wednesday, Google finally made the announcement ...
LongTailVideo Releases The First Flexible Open-Source HTML5 Video Player
Last week, LongTailVideo announced that they have created and released the open source JW Player in a new HTML 5 version (Beta) that features PNG skinning, Javascript API, fallback to flash and more. Perhaps this could become the new standard for sites looking to implement an open source HTML 5 video player solution.
Bits On The Run Gets A Long Tail
LongTail Video, who made the JW Player, have acquired Bits on the Run. They can now begin offering a full range of video tools and management as well as an easily embeddable player.
Online Video Platform Solutions Focus On Video SEO Goodness
Validation feels good ;-) What do I mean by this? Well, over the past year, many of the online video platforms that we write about, have begun to focus a bit on helping their customers deploy videos that are more search engine friendly. I imagine that the focus on video SEO comes from the platform's ...
JW Player 5.0 Launches With Some Huge Upgrades
At Streaming Media West a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeroen Wijering, one of my "heroes" in the online video space. I know, I know - hero? Seriously Mark? Yes! Jeroen is the creator of the most popular open source video player around, the JW Player. If it weren't for the JW Player, ...
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 ...
Bits On The Run Restructures OVP Pricing
Stating in August the online video management service will implement a new pay-as-you-go form of pricing. This is the first overhaul of their pricing since their inception. Find out all the details within (it's a bit confusing).
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 ...
