And Five is already being creative – using Brightcove technology, it has embedded its programmes in Five-branded players on its own websites as well as on sites such as YouTube and Yahoo!.
And Five is already being creative – using Brightcove technology, it has embedded its programmes in Five-branded players on its own websites as well as on sites such as YouTube and Yahoo!.
Brightcove and Qik are announcing a partnership this morning that further fuses the broadband and mobile video worlds. Under the partnership Qik users will be able to distribute their mobile-recorded video through Brightcove players if they have a Brightcove account. For Brightcove customers the deal will enables mobile recording as a new source of video into their catalogs.
Qik, the mobile video platform, is being integrated into Brightcove, the big video services company. Initially mobile users will be able upload files, soon they will be able to stream live to Brightcove-powered sites. This could be an important development in so called "citizen journalism," allowing users to upload directly from mobile devices to newspapers sites including The New York Times and the Washington Post, both which are powered by Brightcove.
Qik, the mobile streaming video company, announced it has joined the Brightcove Alliance, bringing mobile video upload capability and ad support to Brightcove customers. Qik users who have Brightcove accounts can now publish mobile video content with integrated ads through Brightcove players and push their Qik video content out to the Brightcove partner network, according to a blog post by Qik co-founder Bhaskar Roy. As a result of the partnership, Brightcove customers now can upload mobile videos from more than 130 different mobile devices into their Brightcove players.
Ahead of the government's Digital Britain report, Five has signed a deal with Brightcove, an online video platform, which will allow its TV content to be easily embedded within people's social networks and via big entertainment portals, such as AOL and Yahoo. It is the first UK broadcaster to syndicate full-length episodes of popular programmes like Home and Away and Neighbours, for catch-up viewing across third-party websites. It is also the first broadcaster in Britain to use an externally developed player to host its full-length content.
Five, the UK broadcast company, has taken the plunge into online ad-supported video for embedding on other websites. They are the first broadcaster in the country to do so and look to lead the way for catch-up viewing on the web. Five has signed up Brightcove’s video platform to take on the task of getting their full-length, ad-supported content out and embeddable on third-party websites. Viewers will even be able to share the video to ‘their favourite places on the web’ but further specifics weren’t readily available on what sort of restrictions that would include.
Five is letting its viewers use its TV programmes on their own websites, social networks and blogs. Five said it is the first UK broadcaster to syndicate full episodes of popular programmes for catch-up viewing on third-party websites. YouTube is also attempting to syndicate content from broadcasters including Five to be able to boost its ad revenues around professional content. Five expects the initiative, which utilises the Brightcove platform, to generate additional advertising income.
As for Five, it is using Brightcove’s media player to syndicate entire programmes such as the Gadget Show and Neighbours (though not hit US imports such as CSI) to other sites, complete with ads. Five hopes that by putting its content on portals such as Yahoo, AOL or TV.com, or even on individual viewers’ pages, it can double monthly views by the end of the year to over 5m.
U.K. broadcaster Five is introducing a new syndication initiative, powered by Brightcove Inc., that will allow viewers to distribute full-length programming with embed codes on third-party Websites. Five will become the first major broadcaster in the U.K. to offer embeddable full-length content online, according to Brightcove.
Five has inked a syndication deal with the online video platform Brightcove, which will allow viewers to embed full episodes of its programmes on third-party websites.