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Players is an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1997-1998. Created by Law & Order creator Dick Wolf and cult favorite Invasion creator Shaun Cassidy, the series starred Ice-T, Costas Mandylor, Frank John Hughes, and Mia Korf.
The series follows three young ex-cons who, as a part of a new FBI program, are commissioned to track down criminals. Players was cancelled after 18 episodes.
In 2008, the series began airing on the Sleuth network.

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What To Consider When Shopping for An Online Video Platform

These days the pickins are abundant in the online video platform space, with over 60 pure-play, on-demand online video platform providers (OVPs) offering businesses top-to-bottom video solutions including content ingestion of any format, encoding to multiple formats, storage, content management, monetization, analytics, and playback in ...

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 ...

Video Marketing Strategy: Hosted Versus Posted Video

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When implementing video online, at any point in time, marketers face a decision: to host or post video? Short for: should we host video on our own servers (or use a propietary video platform) or post the content to video sharing sites? Although such a ...

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 ...

Simultaneous IPhone, Web and TV Live Video? Wowza!

Telestream and Wowza have shined light on a deal between them that will offer live video production and universal streaming to the iPhone, Web and TV. That is something to say Wowza! about!

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.

Livestream APIs and Brightcove Integration

Livestream, formerly Mogulus, have released a set of open APIs for the service expanding the ability to integrate it into your online video strategy. Plus the service is also now able to integrate its live streaming with the Brightcove video player.

Adobe Gets Serious With Open Source – Opens Up That MF

Adobe has started to take open source video serious and now has the open source media framework (osmf, strobe). Read about Adobe opens up flash media player framework

How To Fix Aspect Ratio On Youtube Videos - Remove Black Bars

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Long, long ago, YouTube was 4:3 only. Then the age of widescreen came and so they changed everything to 16:9. This left many videos in a square peg oblong hole situation (as in the video just doesn't fit the player window properly). So here are ...

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 ...

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. The FeedRoom will pull Clearspring's technology into their ...

How Websites Around The Globe Leverage Online Video

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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 ...

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. Last week they released their Video Player–Ad Interface Definition Guidelines (VPAID) which looks at simplifying the buying and selling ...

How Companies and 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 ...

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. The ...

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