Brightcove Supports Adobe's FMS 3.5
Mon, 2009-09-21  |  Ryan Lawler, Contentinople

By teaming up with content delivery network (CDN) Limelight Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW), online video platform provider Brightcove Inc. will offer broad support for Adobe Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBE)'s Flash Media Server (FMS) 3.5, giving customers access to new quality and security features. Among other things, the move will boost the quality of videos that Brightcove manages, by enabling customers to encode and deliver adaptive bit-rate versions of their videos. Using Adobe's adaptive bit-rate technology, the quality of customer video streams will seamlessly adjust to match an end user's available bandwidth.

Limelight And Brightcove Continue To Pull Closer Together
Mon, 2009-09-21  |  Dan Rayburn, Streaming Media

Today's announcement gives Brightcove customers some new functionality within FMS 3.5 including RTMPE support which prevents playback in unauthorized players, DVR like controls and multibitrate support. For customers who want to take advantage of multibitrate support, they can do so immediately and in most cases, don't need to re-encode their content.

Cover Story: Who's There?
Mon, 2009-09-21  |  Todd Spangler, Multichannel News

Approached with Comcast’s plan, other media companies including Time Warner Inc. objected, wanting to preserve their own Web sites as direct-to-viewer promotional outlets. “It’s so important that the programmers build [TV Everywhere] into their own sites, because they don’t want to lose that branded experience with consumers in the long run,” said Jeremy Allaire, chairman and CEO of Brightcove, a provider of Web video-management services.

Brightcove Expands Beyond Media Customers with U.S. Army, Harvard, others
Thu, 2009-09-17  |  Andy Plesser, Beet TV

Brightcove, the big video services company which powers the online video technology for a number of news organizations including The New York Times,  the Washington Post and TIME.com, sees growing opportunities in non-media customers. Our Daisy Whitney caught up last week with Brightcove founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire at his company's networking event. He told Daisy that the company is profitable and growing quickly.  The U.S. Army and Harvard are two examples of customers outside of media. 

Brightcove, thePlatform Look to Partner Programs for Growth and Expansion
Tue, 2009-09-15  |  Daisy Whitney, Beet TV

Partnerships are all the rage in the new media business. Online video technology companies, in fact, are betting on alliances with other like-minded firms to help grow business and win new customers. This week's episode of the New Media Minute looks in depth at the new partners that both Brightcove and thePlatform have brought on board and what these deals signify for the future of online video.

CIOs Executive Video Strategy
Tue, 2009-09-15  |  Quentin Hardy, Forbes

In this video interview, Forbes' Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, Quentin Hardy, sits down with Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire to talk about CIO strategy and online video in the enterprise.

Brightcove, thePlatform Announce New Partners
Fri, 2009-09-11  |  Ryan Lawler, Contentinople

Brightcove announced today that its partner ecosystem has expanded to more than 200 companies, doubling in size since the program began late last year. New partners include Ektron, Movable Type, Drupal, Wordpress, Encoding.com, mPOINT, Goodmail Systems, ScreenPlay Inc., Sunday Sky, LiveStream, and Qik. In addition to announcing new partners, the company has expanded the number of technology partner categories in the program to 12. Brightcove has added five new categories to the mix: content management systems, transcoding, email, content, and live video offerings.

The Visual Experience
Thu, 2009-09-10  |  Mark Say, Government Computing

Jeff Whatcott, senior vice president of marketing at video platform provider Brightcove, says politicians and public bodies now appreciate how it can be used for a number of purposes. One, favoured by the prime minister, is to get a message across. Another is in providing a commentary on the news of the day. "Video can be effective in providing timely messages in a very personal way," Whatcott says. "Press offices can make sure they are quickly prepared for the web so they can get ahead of the news cycle." He points out that making videos easily downloadable can do a lot to ensure they are picked up by TV news.

Brightcove Feeds Into Boxee
Tue, 2009-09-08  |  Ryan Lawler, Contentinople

Video management firm Brightcove Inc. is expanding its distribution capabilities to the TV, with a new partnership that will give customers an easy way to syndicate their content onto Boxee's media center platform. Up until now, Brightcove has focused primarily on managing video that content producers published online. But integration with Boxee will give Brightcove customers a way to be viewed on consumer televisions.

Brightcove signs distribution deal with Boxee
Tue, 2009-09-08  |  Chris Albrecht, NewTeeVee

Online video publisher Brightcove is extending its reach to the television through a new partnership with open-source media center Boxee. The deal announced today will allow Brightove customers to create their own branded content channel within Boxee, which creates a 10-foot media browsing experience for laptop or PC-connected TVs.