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, ...
HTML 5 Won't Kill Adobe Flash Video Player
Let's face it, people, for some unknown reason, want HTML 5 to crush Flash. But as far as I'm concerned, it just won't happen and here's why.
End Your Video Encoding Blues With Encoding.com
Encoding.com offers, get this, web-based, on-demand, video encoding. Nope, no joke. They will grab your video encode it and then send it back to you. Sign up is free and you can even do a test run but after that, you'll have to pay
What To Consider When Shopping for An Online Video Platform
These days the pickins are abundant in the online video platform space, with over 60 pure-play, on-demand online video platform providers (OVPs) offering businesses top-to-bottom video solutions including content ingestion of any format, encoding to multiple formats, storage, content management, monetization, analytics, and playback in customized video players that match and perpetuate your brand via ...
Create Animated Video Gifs for YouTube Videos
If you have ever wanted to include a YouTube video in an email (not Gmail - as it supports YouTube videos), you know that at this point in time, videos are next to impossible to email. That being said, there is a neat tool available to create animated gifs from YouTube videos which might suffice ...
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 ...
Microsoft Wants You To Use Their Stuff To Stream HD
We all know that Flash rules the roost when it comes to online video. We also know that HTML 5 could put a serious dent in that dominance. Now Microsoft is trying to do the same but in the HD streaming category with their upcoming IIS and Silverlight.
Understanding FLV and SWF - The Basics of Flash Video
If there are any non-technical folks out there that have been wondering what the heck the difference is between FLV (Flash Video) and SWF (Shockwave Flash) file formats, you are in luck. In this short video from Sorenson Media, Technical Support Specialist Jeff Udall provides a quick overview and helps to explain how FLV and ...
Video Ads Are THE Most Effective Ad Format
In the past, I've written about how video ads perform when compared to traditional banner ads. Now, Google confirms the strong effectiveness of video advertising with a recently released a study via DoubleClick which states Rich media ad formats with video outperform all other types of ads by an overwhelming margin. According to the research ...
Is Ogg Theora The Savior of Online Video?
Ogg Theora, the magical, mystical, savior of the online video movement? Tapped to be part of the Open Video Standards and set to take its position at center stage in the push for widespread online video acceptance, but is it all it can be and is it all that we need?
Open Video - What Is Open Source Video All About?
http://www.reelseo.com/open-source-video/10929/ What is Open Video and an introduction to the Open Video Conference - a two-day gathering of global leaders in technology, business, public policy, art, and activism to explore the future of open video on the web.
YuMe Launches New 'InSynch' Video Takover Ad Unit
No it's not a virtual boy band that is going to take over the web (man it had better not be!). No, really YuMe has launched an ultra-cool ad thing that might make you go Hmmm, but will definitely make you go Cool! The InSynch Video takeover ad unit can actually synch up a banner ...
OmniVideo - The Future of Online Video Monetization and Discovery - Interview With James McQuivey of Forrester - Part 2
The following is Part 2 of our interview with James McQuivey(Ph.D.), Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. In Part 1 of our interview, we covered some background on James as well as some of his thoughts regarding the future of video consumption. In Part 2 (below), James discusses the future of online video monetization, video discovery ...
IAB Releases New Video Player-Ad Interface Definitions Guidelines - VPAID
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the release for public comment of Video Player-Ad Interface Definitions Guidelines (VPAID). Today’s announcement represents another important step in the IAB’s infrastructure initiative that seeks to build a common language for buying, selling, creating and delivering digital video advertising. The series of definitions in the VPAID Guidelines help the interactive ...
JW Player and Long Tail Video Platform Overview - The #1 Open Source Video Player
http://www.reelseo.com/long-tail-video/ - Long Tail Video Ad Solutions - An overview of longtailvideo.com and the JW Players - JW FLV Player and JW Media Players.
