Topic - Online Video & mobile
Google Developing More Dynamic Video Ads with Rockabox
Rummaging around the old Internet I found out that Google is teaming up with Tangozebra founder James booth to boost viewer engagement with video ads. His new company is called Rockabox and it’s helping Google’s DoubleClick to create what’s called Rockabox Shutters format.
2009 Online Video Backlash? I Doubt it!
Some sites have been predicting that 2009 may be the bubble busting time for online video. Like the dot com era that came crashing to a halt they believe that online video too will burst and collapse in upon itself. Personally, I call bullshit.
Akamai Delivers Optimizied Video to iPhone
The new iPhone 3GS means you’ve got a whole new slew of options in regards to video. Without Flash capabilities on the iPhone our options were extremely limited, but now Akamai is working to fix that problem.
SanDisk Wants You to Make Mobile Video
Proving that their storage cards can stand up to the pressure of performing when dealing with video, Sandisk has unveiled their “60-second Mobile Phone Video Summer Contest”.
Kyte Introduces Video Publishing App for iPhone 3GS
With the iPhone 3GS out in the wild now it’s time for us all to get down to the business of iPhone video creation. Thanks to Kyte’s Mobile Producer you’ve now got a way to upload videos quickly right from the iPhone 3GS and they are the first to release a 3rd Party video publishing application in the App Store.
YouTube Mobile Uploads Increase Exponentially
YouTube has recently stated that mobile uploads have been soaring over the last six month with over a 1700% increase. Since the iPhone 3GS was released daily uploads increased 400%. I’m curious what people are uploading that they think is so fascinating.
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 leaving the twitter stream.
Brightcove Dives into Mobile Video with Qik
Brightcove, has decided to test the waters of mobile video and determined that it’s warm enough to dive into. So they recently announced, via their blog, that Qik has signed on as a partner service.
Mobile Video IP Traffic to Surge 500% through 2013
So it seems that mobile video is becoming a driving force behind IP traffic. What does that mean exactly? Well it means that a lot of people are watching video on their mobiles through the data networks and Internet.
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.
Mobile Video & Mobile TV to Soar Over the Next 5 Years
According to research recently released in a new report from Pyramid Research, titled “Mobile Video Services: A Five-Year Global Market Forecast,” mobile video usage will rise at a compound annual growth rate of 28% over the next 5 years. By 2014, more than 500 million users worldwide will subscribe to mobile video services, equal to 8.5% of all mobile subscription services.
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 account which is handy.
