Topic - Online Video & players
FeedRoom and Clearspring Video Sharing for Social Networks
It seems that this is Video on Social Networking Month and no one told us. Today The FeedRoom and Clearspring announced a partnership to create expanded video content distribution and bookmarking on their 4.0 Enterprise Video Platform.
How Websites Around the Globe Leverage Online Video
Back in March, we published some research which we believe helps to provide some unique insight into how various companies and vertical markets leverage website video content.
Today, we offer up the following research, which takes a look at website video usage for the top 10 web sites in 10 geographic regions across the globe. The top 10 web sites were identified according to Alexa rankings.
IAB VPaid Guidelines – Video Player–Ad Interface Definition Guidelines
Recently the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has been working hard to set some guidelines for all sorts of online advertising, including now, video advertising and players.
How Companies & Sectors Use Website Video
VideoBloom, a video advertising and distribution solutions platform, has created something they call the Video-Enabled Web Index, or VIEW Index. Essentially, this index provides detailed insight into the ways and extent to which various vertical markets and high-profile companies are utilizing online video on their websites.
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.
Remove Video Title & Ratings Info in YouTube’s Embedded Player
Today, Youtube introduced another small change to the Youtube emdedded player. Youtube videos that are embedded within pages will now display a prominent title of the video along with the video ratings information at the top of the embedded player.
JW Player & Long Tail Video Platform Overview – The #1 Open Source Video Player
Longtail Video was co-founded by Jeroen “JW” Wijering and started with his incredibly popular open-source JWplayer embeddable media player that has been downloaded more than 7 million times since 2005. In fact, the JWPlayer was the first player used by online video powerhouse YouTube, purchased from Jeroen for $20 Euros. Over the years the JW player has grown, expanded and increased in versatility and usability. It’s even fully skinnable now so you can make it look exactly how you need it to and has a plug-in and modular architecture.
Evenhere Video Overlays Put the Product in Your Hand
So you’re watching some show or video and see something really cool. Your mind begins to wander and you can’t help but think ‘how and where do I get one of those?’ Well that’s exactly where Evenhere.com comes in. Their service allows you to bookmark and buy products that you see on TV, in magazines, on the web or in a video clip immediately.
TubeMogul InPlay – Flash Player Interaction Metrics & Analytics
Illumenix is an in-depth online video metrics and analytics service. They offer a wide range of services including syndication tracking, player tracking and Flash Video Analytics via their StreamLighter service which integrates into Flash video players. StreamLighter tracks viewing habits as well as video interactions and demographics.
Youtube Embed Tip – Remove Embedded Player Search
As you know, many video content producers are utilizing free hosting platforms and video sharing websites like Youtube to power online video on their own websites. There are clearly many benefits to utilizing these services, primarily the fact that video hosting is free and reliable.
Youtube Gets Bigger – Goes All 16:9 Aspect Ratio Widescreen
As somewhat of a surprise to users, video sharing giant Youtube announced yesterday on their blog that they decided to upgrade the previous player to a new wide-aspect 16:9 ratio video player as the default player on Youtube. Finally Youtube is joining the ranks of those that have had wide aspect ratio players for some time like Hulu, Blip, Vimeo, and countless others.
According to the announcement, Youtube released this new player in order to users with a “…cleaner, more powerful viewing experience.”
EveryZing Introduces Revolutionary Online Video Player – MetaPlayer
EveryZing, a company that we have covered many times in the past, has released a ground-breaking new player to the industry, dubbed, “MetaPlayer.” With this new player, partners of Everyzing can include video content from multiple video platforms into one seamless player. So, if a company wants to showcase their own videos hosted via Brightcove, along with content, for example from Youtube, they can now do so. In addition, viewers have access to features which really make for a much more interactive experience. For example, viewers can search within the video player, comment on any point w/in the video, create playlists, and can even choose to embed the entire video or just a chosen portion.
