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Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. Its verb form, “to stream”, refers to the process of delivering media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.
A client media player can begin playing the data (such as a movie) before the entire file has been transmitted. Distinguishing delivery method from the media distributed applies spec...

ReelSEO's Online Video Happenings - Fall 2010 Podcast

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell and Mark Robertson spliff in our podcast shue about our amazing video coverage, including: YouTube's Promoted Videos improvements, speaking on Video SEO at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago, our upcoming coverage of the Streaming Media West conference, Facebook video marketing ...

Streaming Media West 2010 - The Business and Technology of Online Video

Streaming Media West returns with hopes of topping the 2,500 attendees at last year's show in San Jose.  This year, Los Angeles will play host to the show 2-3 November, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza.  For those not familiar this is one of ...

The Online Video Platform Summit Returns To Streaming Media West

This 2010 Streaming Media West conference is fast approaching and the Online Video Plaform Summit will make a return this year as well. Events for the show feature a Google TV keynote from Rishi Chandra, a Keynote from Jennifer Taylor, Adobe Rich Media Solutions and ...

Howcast Knows How To Build A Next-Generation Media Company

Learning how to do things can be challenging and complicated, but with the rise of online and mobile video, it's become easier to learn by watching instructional video content. The old adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words," holds true for videos, which can ...

Presenting The 2010 Streaming Media All Stars! ReelSEO’s Mark Robertson, Nalts, Steve Garfield, Jan Ozer, Andy Plesser Among This Year’s Team

Streaming Media magazine and Streamingmedia.com has announced the third annual Streaming Media All-Star team, a list made up of some of the most innovative, influential, and important players in the online video arena. The Streaming Media All-Stars are people who do their part to advance, evangelize, and ...

Google Buys Episodic - You Down With O.V.P.? Yeah You Know Me!

It was big news yesterday for Noam Lovinsky, CEO and Co-founder of Episodic, with the announcement that his company has been acquired by Google. Following a day of April Fool's Day jokes, that included Brightcove had acquired Ooyala – this deal is no joke, and was actually ...

Streaming Production and Flash Delivery Workshop - March 23rd

Are you producing streaming video and wondering if your procedures and work flow maximize quality and efficiency? Perhaps you're on the distribution side and need to learn how to produce a Flash Player, or install or manage the Flash Media Server? If any of these ...

YouTube Seeks Users Help In Creating A Better Experience

Spring Cleaning was a really big deal growing up in my house.  I'm talking about a full day of planning in advance of the actual cleaning, to plot out the tasks and who would get each job.  I never had quite the level of involvement ...

Web Video Hosting Is A Maturing Market - Episodic Interview

At Streaming Media West 2009, I spoke with Noam Lovinsky, CEO and Founder of Episodic, which recently launched as an online video platform in a crowded market for both live and on-demand content. The San Francisco, California-based company has been around for two years but has kept ...

The Future of In-Stream Video Advertising for Yu and Me

Last month, we spoke with Jayant Kadambi, Co-Founder and President of YuMe, about their platform for video advertising and monetization, how best to measure the performance of video advertising, and the future of in-stream video advertising as it pertains to small and medium sized business ...

Video Monetization Via Pay Per View - Ooyala Interview

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell conducts a video interview with Bismark Lepe, Founder and President of Products for the online video platform Ooyala, about how their solution also allows content providers to make money from their “premium” video content via their subscription models and pay-per-stream models – aka, “video for sale.”

Is An Open Source Online Video Platform Right for You?

I Interview with Ron Yekutiel, Chair, Co-Founder & CEO of Kaltura, and he gave his best sales pitch on why he says you should do an open-source online video platform (particularly theirs, of course.;-) But is an open-source video platform solution what you need, or ...

Cloudy With A 100% Chance of Amazon Streaming Video

Amazon has servers around the world and they offer no-contract, hassle-free static content delivery, or rather they did. Now they also offer streaming server technology which means you don't have to. Is this a big deal?

Video Search Engine Optimization Tips From Truveo

Here's another one of our interviews from the Streaming Media West 2009 show.  In this interview, I spoke with Dr. Pete Kocks, President of Truveo and VP at AOL Video.  I asked Pete if he could provide some tips for our audience with regard to ...

Jeremy Allaire of BrightCove - Video Will Be Ubiquitous

Grant Crowell, our podcast talent here at ReelSEO, interviewed Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Brightcove at the Streaming Media West 2009 show and talked with the online video industry thought leader about his company's vision that "video would become as ubiquitous and pervasive as text on ...