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.
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 ...
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.
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, ...
Kaltura Grows A Longtail
Everyone remembers that Kaltura makes the first open source online video platform right? The Kaltura Community Edition. Well now they're beginning to expand that with new deals, this time around it's with LongTail video, the open source video player.
Free Interactive Video for All - Veeple Launches Interplay
Back in June, I wrote about some survey results published by Marketing Sherpa where 73% of video marketers indicated that interactive video functionality has a positive effect on the effectiveness of a video ad message (again, I wonder about the other 27% but...). At ReelSEO, we know that incorporating interactivity within video is one of the ...
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.
