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Brightcove Presenting at BDigital Apps in Barcelona

Kristin Cronin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:20:05 +0000

Tomorrow, our regional sales director for Spain, Portugal and Latin America, Nicolas Amado, will be presenting two sessions at the BDigital Apps event in Barcelona. BDigital Apps is a national congress focused on applications for mobile devices. It is organized by the Barcelona Digital Technology Centre.

Nicolas will be presenting a 15-minute session on "The Rise of the Content Apps" where he will discuss the fragmentation media companies and marketers are dealing with when it comes to publishing their content across mobile apps, touch websites, smart TVs, and other platforms. He will highlight the emergence of the content app platform, a new type of solution that supports the full lifecycle of cross platform apps.

Nicolas will also present a 50-minute workshop on "Content Apps with ROI: killer apps, open standards, no compromises" that takes a more in depth look at the process behind creating cross platform apps that generate user engagement and ROI. He will demonstrate the Brightcove App Cloud content app platform and show how beta users around the world are using App Cloud to create interactive mobile apps.

If you are planning to attend the event, please make sure to check out these two sessions!

HubSales wins Site of The Month, December 2009 with Societe Generale

Mark Baker — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:05:15 +0000

This month's Site of The Month (SOTM) goes to the Société Générale Careers video portal built by our French partners Hub Sales. The WebTV team at Hub Sales was presented the challenge of making the recruitment process for the world renowned bank and financial institution more engaging and informative for the prospective candidates. With the added challenge of presenting the content in both English and French. Behind the scenes added complexity was given by the need to integrate the Brightcove platform with the Drupal CMS system. The team of Hub Sales was up to the challenge and pulled together an engaging, intuitive and scalable solution from the user interface and design right down to the foundations seamlessly bringing together enterprise architecture vendors like Brightcove and Drupal. Add in some funky classed widgets like the video wall and you get a very deserved winner for the SOTM prize.

So congratulations to Hub Sales for winning this month's SOTM and we hope they enjoy the Flip HD Video Camera we are sending them for the efforts.

If you are a Brightcove Partner with a site you'd like to enter into the Site of the Month Competition send an email to sotm@brightcove.com

The conditions to entry are:

Site must be based on Brightcove Video Technology
Brightcove Partner must have contributed to the delivery of the site
Site must be live and visible via public internet

E-Commerce & Video

Raghav Gupta — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:44:20 +0000

Here's a great article on results on the use of video by Zappos and the results they're seeing - 6% - 30% uplift in sales. The ROI is such that they're investing in 10 full time video studios with the goal of having 50,000 videos next year (up from 8,000 today). Wow! This is very much a trend that we're seeing with e-commerce retailers investing in online video, Marks & Spencer and Rakuten (large ecommerce retailer in Japan) being two recent examples. Stay tuned, more to come on this topic...

InVideo Breakfast Briefing - Hamburg December 8th

Mark Baker — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:08:43 +0000

Join Brightcove and Cavi for breakfast and find out how companies such as Stern Magazine, Marks and Spencer and Thomas Pink are using next generation video technologies to deliver new services and revenue streams. Video is a vital component of all companies online strategy as it creates a powerful way to engage an audience in a way that captures their attention. Brightcove, the leading Online Video Platform and Cavi, a leading provider of invideo ecommerce solutions will show you:

Why you should consider the use of video to promote your product, goods, services and brand.
How using engaging content will attract and retain visitors to your site
How Invideo ecommerce can create new routes to market and increase sales
How video based advertising is continuing to grow at over 40% whilst other online ad formats are struggling.

The briefing will consist of 2 short presentations over breakfast and will allow plenty of time for discussion with presenters and other attendees.

When: December 8th, 09:00am

Where: EAST Hotel & Restaurant GmbH, Private Cinema, Simon- von- Utrecht- Straße 31, 20359 Hamburg

To register please contact Michaela Schirrmann <michaela.schirrmann@cavi.tv> or call +49 (40) 328.9052.301

Thomaspink.tv and Adjust Your Set win Site of the Month!

Mark Baker — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:23:15 +0000

In October we kicked off a Site of the Month competition for Brightcove partners. Brightcove partners across EMEA were invited to submit sites to sotm@brightcove.com that showed innovative use of video technology, had sophisticated technology integration or were just plain cool looking.

At the very last minute UK Partner Adjust Your Set submitted Pink TV, the Video site of their latest client, UK based Shirtmaker Thomas Pink. What a fantastic site it is. Not only does the site offer great looking high quality video but the team at Adjust Your Set worked hard to ensure the player carried the same look and feel of the overall site to ensure that visitors got a consistent user experience.

The player was built using BEML with custom .swfs for the majority of the other controls. The player uses custom cuepoints, which fire down the right hand side of the player as the video progresses (all linked from external XML files), which help to drive sales. The player also includes full screen functionality and links into Twitter and Facebook to facilitate the viral spreading of links back to the video content.

Overall this is a great looking site that uses a clean, branded player that has been carefully customised to deliver a fantastic user experience. The client requirements of using video to help drive online sales, increase traffic to the site and to better engage visitors are being met.

So well done to the team at Adjust Your Set for producing the first Site of the Month and we hope they like the FlipHD Video Camera that we are sending them as a prize.

If you are a Brightcove Partner with a site you'd like to enter into the Site of the Month Competition send an email to sotm@brightcove.com

The conditions to entry are:

Site must be based on Brightcove Video Technology
Brightcove Partner must have contributed to the delivery of the site
Site must be live and visible via public internet

Not a Brightcove Partner yet? Contact mbaker@brightcove.com to find out if you can become one!

Next London Meetup With Jeremy & Bob

Raghav Gupta — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:39:35 +0000

Our next Meetup in London will be held on Thursday June 11th from 6 pm at the Pitcher & Piano, Trafalgar Square. Jeremy and Bob (our CTO) will be the special guests so don't miss this opportunity to meet them and ask them your questions on roadmap, etc! RSVP here.

Brightcove Partners With Sevenload

Raghav Gupta — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:05:06 +0000

Yesterday during their panel at the Next09 show, Jeremy and Axel Schmiegelow, the CEO of Sevenload, announced a partnership between the two companies. We are very excited to be working with Sevenload who operate one of the largest video portals in Germany and several other territories. Brightcove customers will now be able to easily have their content syndicated into a channel on Sevenload and, as always, the commercials will be for them to work out with Sevenload (ie we do not get directly involved in any negotiations). You can see our other distribution partners here, and we are always in search for other partners that can offer significant distribution and monetisation opportunities to our customers so please get in touch if you fit the bill.

Online Video Generating Substantial Revenue For Newspapers

Raghav Gupta — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:32:52 +0000

Editor & Publisher writes of a newspaper industry report from Borrell (hat tip to Beet.tv). Of particular note was the stat that: "Those newspapers investing in online video -- though only a small percent -- are reaping ad dollars. On average 27.7% of their total online revenue comes from video. One site reported it pulled in $550,000 from online video advertising."

Top UK Newspaper Sites

Raghav Gupta — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:08:36 +0000

The latest ABCe results show telegraph.co.uk back at the top with guardian.co.uk second followed by MailOnline and then TimesOnline. Great to see Brightcove customers also succeeding in their general websites!

E-Commerce Sites Using Video

Raghav Gupta — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:28:27 +0000

Good article in the WSJ highlighting the use of online video by ecommerce sites to improve conversion rates, including featuring Brightcove customer Simon & Schuster.