"There is a whole bunch of information or communication that I rely on from the Internet," says Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Web video company Brightcove. "And I want those to be available from a remote while sitting in front of a big screen."
"There is a whole bunch of information or communication that I rely on from the Internet," says Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Web video company Brightcove. "And I want those to be available from a remote while sitting in front of a big screen."
Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire on the company's growth from online video platforms.
Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove’s CEO, and I wrote an open letter in January 2008 to the consumer electronics industry that argued for a strategy to get Internet video to TV sets. We made the case that the best approach would be a set of open industry standards similar to the web, but geared to the unique experience of traditional TV. Apparently the letter was lost in the mail.
As part of our series of investigations into interesting programming languages Computerworld talks to one of the creators of web development tool, ColdFusion – Jeremy Allaire.
TV Everywhere," the emerging strategy of cable giants Comcast and Time Warner to allow web users to log onto cable offerings online, has broad implications for the content industry. During the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, co-moderator Rafat Ali posed the question about the prospects of "TV Everywhere." Answering the question was Bob Mason, CTO and co-founder of Brightcove. He explains how the technology and its system of rights management will establish a syndication scheme for online video publishers.
In a posting on its corporate blog, Wednesday, broadband video publishing solutions provider, Brightcove, announced that it is powering Liv, a recently launched online TV channel from Virgin Media Television's Living TV brand which offers free, exclusive, original short-form content that is refreshed on a daily basis.
In a deal that was a little more down to earth, Sky Deutschland is also beefing up its online video efforts by agreeing to roll out the Brightcove platform across its Sky.de web properties. Programming from Germany's top professional sports leagues, including the Bundesliga, UEFA Champions league and Formula 1, is being distributed to paying subscribers via the platform.
Sky Deutschland has rolled out the Brightcove platform across its Sky.de Web properties to support the organisation’s growing online video initiative. It will offer sporting event and entertainment-focused content to an audience of online viewers and subscribers in and around Germany.
While many video publishers seek the widest possible distribution of their videos through an embeddable player and Media RSS, some, like HealthiNation and Virgin Media, are using a syndicated player which is placed on specific sites. Last week in New York, after the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, I sat down with Bob Mason, co-founder and CTO of Brightcove. We spoke about this emerging syndication strategy.
Brightcove's CEO, Jeremy Allaire, offers his view on the world of free ad-funded online content and how this poses a major threat and opportunity to pay-tv operators. As it currently stands, the likes of Hulu and Zillion TV are not making money but Jeremy believes this model will work and he points out that CPM's and viewing figures are raising dramatically while service providers are getting more creative and interactive with advertising which is appealing to advertisers.