Despite Losses, Brightcove Going Public On Strength Of Major Patent Win
Revenues at Brightcove have been on the rise from $24.5 million in 2008 to $43.7 million in 2010. Now, they're ready to take the whole company public as they have filed for an IPO, though also posted a loss during the first half of the year on $28.4 million in revenue. You can view the ...
Google-Motorola Deal Means More Video Streaming to Android Devices?
Google yesterday announced plans to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion, which instantly brings them into the mobile hardware market. Now the mobile platform is pretty interesting in and of itself, but that's not the only reason this deal is being made. As part of the purchase, Google will gain ownership of Motorola's 17,000 patents and ...
Nielsen and comScore Row Over Patents
Nielsen, who was previously sued by and then paid $15 million to Jupiter Media Metrix for patents regarding the collection, analysis and reporting of information concerning computer activity is now suing comScore for pretty much the same thing. Uh oh, someone is angry over someone else's success... or are they? There was obviously something to ...
The Online Video Weekly News Reel - Brno Edition
On the road again... I'm traveling to visit some friends in Brno (the second largest city in the Czech Republic) and if you think that's hard to say try "strč prst skrz krk" which is a Czech idiom. But as always I am tasked with bringing you your Sunday reading of what was hot here ...
Reel Cord Cutting News Clips - Snip, Snip: Hulu, Boxee, TiVo
Some news has been rolling around on the good old Interwebs and so I thought I would again accumulate it all into one tidy little bite-sized package for you to consume with your morning coffee. It involves our favorites: Hulu, Boxee, TiVo and more. So click the remote and get ready to roll.
HTML5 Video Codec War Explodes as MPEG-LA Openly Calls for VP8 Patent Claims
The HTML5 video codec war just exploded! MPEG-LA, who you will remember holds the H.264 patent pool, just invaded Googlonia with a call for patent claims on the VP8 video codec. You will remember that Apple is a member of the H.264 owners, along with Microsoft. You might also recall that there have been some ...
The Sunday News Reel – Week of 11-17 October, 2010
Hey hey! Another week in the books as we wind down summer in the Northern Hemisphere and rapidly hurtle toward lower temps and the holiday season. Here in my part of the world the leaves are falling along with the temps. So it's time once again for your to warm up with a cup of ...
H.264 Codec Is Now FREE - for Free Video - MPEG LA Announces Royalty-Free License
I just ran across this most interesting of items. MPEG LA has announced that they will not charge royalties on Internet Video using the AVC/H.264 codec, when that video is free to end-users, for the lifetime of that license. This goes beyond the previous December 31, 2015 announcement.
E-Commerce Video Strategies With The Home Shopping Network
ReelSEO.com's Grant Crowell interview HSN.com’s (Home Shopping Network’s) Director of Digital Content Emery Skolfied, following his presentation at the Video Commerce Summit in Seattle titled, “How HSN advances its video commerce leadership.” Emery talks about HSN’s own patented technology for online video in retail e-commerce, tips based on their own experiences using video with customers, and challenges they ha overcome with better understanding customer behavior.
Blip.tv Pre-Roll Video Ads Offer Downloads On Xbox 360
Blip.tv have taken interactive pre-roll ads to a whole new level in their bid to help Wieden & Kennedy get NCAA Football 11 in the public gamer consciousness. They created a click-to-download pre-roll mechanism that set the demo to download on the Xbox 360 console.
In-Depth Look At YouTube Closed Captions - YouTube SEO and More
A few weeks back, I mentioned that YouTube and Google were indexing YouTube's closed captions and subtitles. In fact, YES - both Google and YouTube ARE indexing videos for text that is contained within closed captions and subtitles. In this post, I would like show you why you should be taking advantage of YouTube's closed ...
YouTube's 6 Reasons Why HTML5 Won't Replace Flash, Yet
YouTube agreed with us on several points lately. We're not sure if they knew they were doing it or not but they have. The main point is that while HTML 5 is cool and has a lot of potential, it's not going to replace Flash very soon.
Intel Ponders WebM Hardware Acceleration for Atom Processors
I've mentioned this a couple times now and even tried to start a pool about when Intel would announce WebM support and if they'd do it before Apple. We all knew they would as Apple probably will just try to ignore it all or perhaps start a patent pool to 'go after' WebM and VP8.
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 ...
The WebM VP8 BandWagon Rolls On - Who's In and Who's Not
Google announced the would open VP8 up as WebM, an open source video codec in a Matroska package with Ogg Vorbis as the audio encoder. So I thought it would be good to have a news round up of who's in, who's out and what Apple thinks (we all know that without a 500-page letter ...
