Video Platforms - Interview With Sorenson 360 (Part 1)
I recently interviewed Eric Quanstrom, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Sorenson Media, about their video publishing and delivery platform, Sorenson 360. Eric explains what their company believes are the essentials for any business to have in selecting a video publishing and delivery solutions provider, and why he believes “Video Delivery Network” is a more appropriate term for his industry than “Online Delivery Platform” (OVP).
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 ...
stream5 Rakes In New Capital To Push Forward
Online video is proving itself a strong place to invest it seems. European online video tech company stream5 recently secured a new round of investment capital. Two new investors have joined on and have brought with them a 'seven-figure sum' we're told to keep the company creating new technologies.
Social Media: Sharing, Theft and The Fine Line
I've recently had problems with some of my content being republished without any request for permission, links back to the site or editing of the content. As far as I'm concerned that constitutes plagiarism as they are taking credit for the content, copyright infringement as they are republishing without a license to do so and ...
Kaltura Launches Free Open Source Online Video Platform
Kaltura has been rambling around the net for some time now but just only recently announced the launch of their full Community Edition which is a free, open source and self-hosted online video platform. This is a big day for all of those that want a do-it-yourself solution for video hosting.
Delve Delves Into Your Pocket for Self-Service Video
Delve Networks has opened a new self-service, pay-via-credit-card billing option for their video platform aimed at business users. Now you can go from zero to online video hero in a matter of minutes.
Web Video Marketing - 10 Common Web Video Marketing Mistakes
This week there was a good post by Michael Kolowich of ChannelOne Marketing titled, "Ten Ways Marketers Drop the Ball in Video Marketing." Michael offers some advice as far as what not to do upon deploying a web video marketing project. I thought it would be a good idea to summarize and elaborate a bit. You've either ...
Slimming Down In A Fat Market - Ooyala Steps Up With New Video Player
Last week, Ooyala, an online video platform that we’ve covered many times in the past, released a completely overhauled, "Slim" new version of their video player. The new player has been aptly named, "Swift" because it is designed to offer improved playback with a faster loading, reduced size player. This, in addition to several other ...
How To Produce "Business-Quality" Online Video On A Small Business Budget
Can businesses today really create sustainable revenue and long-term profit around regularly publishing professional-quality online video, and keep their production costs well below the standards of broadcast-quality? Yes, if they're willing to be what I call "videoratis" - a video professional and publicist skilled at more than one job that relates to their business and ...
Major Google Video Changes Meet With Mixed Reviews
On April 14th Google announced, via their blog, that they would no longer support video uploads to Google Video but that it would continue to be a place for people to find videos (Google Blog), Changes have since been implemented at the video search page and have met with mixed reviews from the userbase. The ...
Service Providers for Real Estate Videos and Slide Shows
A while back ReelSEO interviewed the CEO and Co-Founder of Wellcomemat. We know that using online videos and slideshows for marketing real estate online can be incredibly effective. In fact, in September of last year, we covered some research which showed that the use of an online video tour in marketing real estate property can ...
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 ...
eCommerce Video Comes Alive With Ooyala's Backlot Platform
As we've posted many times in the past, online video has emerged as an exciting and effective new method of marketing ecommerce products and services online. Just a few weeks back, we covered some research recently released from comScore which details the benefits of utilizing online video for products in ecommerce. According to the research, the number ...
Kaltura.com The Do-It-Yourself Video Solution?
Some of us are the do-it-yourself types or don't have a huge budget to implement a solution from some of the major providers of online video delivery systems. Some of us just need to get our hands dirty and some of us are proponents of Open Source and all that it has to offer. In ...
All In One Video Plugin for WordPress - Upload, Host, Edit, and More
Kaltura has recently released version 2.1 of its WordPress plugin, the All in one Video Pack. This plugin for WordPress 2.5 or higher allows you to do a great deal of things with WordPress and rich media including the ability to upload or import a video into your post. You can even record it straight ...
