Mobile video news and information about video for mobile phones and devices. Mobie video usage has taken off with 3G networks and other mobile broadband networks. Combined with access to mobile devices like the iPhone, Palm, and other mobile devices capable of video playback, mobile video proliferation has grown to new heights and continues to grow. Learn about the newest technologies and news related to mobile video at ReelSEO.
I know, you’re asking what the hell an exabyte (EB) is aren’t you? Well it’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes – a quintillion, 1018, a billion gigabytes, a…well you get the picture. Yes, quintillion is a word (the US/UK version not the other one). When? Delve into the sea of zeroes with me and find out.
At the SES San Jose Conference, I spoke at the session titled “the next wave for online video.” In that session, both Gregory Markel (of infusecreative) and I spoke about the importance of mobile when it comes to the future of video. Later that day, I had a chance to speak with Michael Boland who is the Program Director of Mobile Local Media for The Kelsey Group. Naturally he has something to say about mobile, and specifically mobile video.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
In the past, we covered mobile video apps for the iPhone 3G and we’ve talked about the iPhone’s built-in support for HD video. For those of you that are unaware, Apple is working on new software for the iPhone (version 3.0) which is expected to be released this summer. According to many articles we’ve been reading and screenshots that we’ve seen, the new iPhone 3.0 promises several enhancements specifically with regard to mobile video.
Hulu is perhaps one of the coolest and rapidly rising stars in the online video world. Let’s face it, the combination of FOX and NBC is a win.
Now we look at the latest piece of tech that’s taken the world by storm…oh would that be the iPhone? Yeah I think it would be.
So is it a big surprise that someone might want to combine the two into the most awesome iPhone app ever, is it? Well there’s a rumor that it’s going to happen. There are already some video streaming apps available so we know it’s feasible and we also know that iPhone OS 3.0 is going to have a whole lot more video capabilities built in. So would anyone be surprised if an iHulu app is in the pipeline?
ViewCast today announced support of H.264 streaming with Adobe Flash Media Server software. ViewCast’s Niagara 7500 streaming appliance and Niagara SCX software will now stream in H.264 using the Real Time Message Protocol (RTMP) – a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe, designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies, allowing the Niagara SCX software to work seamlessly with the Adobe Flash Media Server software.
