Video Platforms & Solutions

Information about online video hosting platforms and video streaming platforms (OVP) and online video companies. Coverage of the business of online video, video platform startups, and other internet video platforms. Ongoing industry coverage of the video hosing providers, video CMS platforms, video advertising platforms, internet sharing platforms and other video platforms dedicated to publishing and monetizing web video.

Vimeo To Launch Support for 1080p Full HD Video

The pipes that form the backbone of the information superhighway are about to get a bit less empty.  After a lively forum post on Vimeo about 1080p support, Vimeo has decided that they will begin accepting and hosting 1080p video. What's that mean for you?

Brightcove Reaches Home Audience Via Internet-connected TV

Brightcove is expanding their reach to the couch thanks to newly announced tools that will enable customers to create immersive, branded video experiences for Internet-connected television sets and other Internet-connected consumer electronics powered by the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

Maximize ECommerce ROI With “Smart” Product Video Banners

Featuring videos on product pages is becoming an important and popular tool to enhance shoppers' experience and increase sales. There's a new breed of "smart" video banners that take this technique to the next level by ensuring that e-commerce retailers showcase the top-performing product videos.

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 ...

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?

Vzaar - Making Commercial Web Video Hosting Simple

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Vzaar.com is a lot of things. First off, they're a sponsor here at ReelSEO. That  affects me not since I'm just a freelance contributor but because Mark wanted to make sure it was mentioned. Second, probably first to them, it's an online service that lets ...

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 ...

Video As An Effective Sales Tool - Interview With Sorenson

At the Streaming Media West show a few weeks back, we interviewed Eric Quanstrom, VP of Marketing and Strategy for Sorenson Media.  Eric talks with Grant Crowell about a common theme that a lot of discussion was centered around at Streaming Media, namely, monetization of ...

Internet Video Publishing Advice, Best Practices and Tips

Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking on several panels at PubCon 2009, an industry trade show put on by WebMasterWorld that is programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. My favorite, was a session titled, "Best Practices for Video Creation, Integration and ...

Benjamin Wayne of Fliqz On The Importance of Video SEO

Online video solutions provider Fliqz has just launched a new search engine optimization service for its customers along with a whitepaper all about hosted video SEO.  We caught up with Benjamin Wayne, the CEO of Fliqz, at the Online Video Platform Summit and asked him ...

HTML 5 Won't Kill Adobe Flash Video Player

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Let's face it, people, for some unknown reason, want HTML 5 to crush Flash. But as far as I'm concerned, it just won't happen and here's why.

Kaltura Grows A Longtail

Everyone remembers that Kaltura makes the first open source online video platform right? The Kaltura Community Edition. Well now they're beginning to expand that with new deals, this time around it's with LongTail video, the open source video player.

Streaming Media West and Online Video Platform Summit Podcast Coverage!

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell and Mark Robertson give a podcast preview the 2009 Streaming Media West Conference – The Business & Technology of Online Video, Tuesday November 17 – Thursday November 19, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California.

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