Brightcove Blog - More Eyeballs

Apple's not going to kill cable any time soon

Eric Elia — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:54:19 +0000

I really enjoyed this article over on Silicon Alley Insider, the commentary and Henry's sweet double-negative quote which pretty much says it all. "I see almost no chance that this is NOT the future of the TV business." Similar to something our founder Jeremy Allaire said to me in late 2004 when he convinced me to leave Comcast for what would become Brightcove. TV of the near-future, which is already here for some, will look a whole lot more like the rest of the Internet than TV of today.

Stunning HD video on Brightcove

Eric Elia — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:39:58 +0000

Our friends at STV have taken full advantage of Brightcove's ability to handle high quality, dare I say, HD video with the new four-parter, Scotland Revealed. I'm a big fan of what STV has done with their video library as a whole and I'm really happy to see the team take full advantage of Brightcove's capabilities. The videos are in 720p and there will be several additional episodes coming over the next two weeks. The videos are available for 90 days, so watch them now.

Cool UI, silly short shorts on Atom.com

Eric Elia — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:28:04 +0000

Our friends at MTV's Atom.com have launched Dutch West Short Shorts, a fun new "video wall" featuring over 60 super short comedy clips. Some are borderline NSFW. Happy clicking.

The overall user experience is kind of neat. Years ago when my colleagues and I were playing around with crazy circular players on Comcast.net, we learned that usually - the more thumbnails the better in a video UI.

STV's new catch-up TV service - behind the scenes

Eric Elia — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:08:17 +0000

Scottish Media Group's STV was one of our first launch partners in Europe. I'm delighted to see them enhance their successful year-old experience with a new "catch-up TV" site. We had the good fortune to work with Alistair Brown, David Low and team last year in building the main site. It was one of the first SEO-focused video experiences we built, driven off of Brightcove Media APIs. That site is different from a "traditional" monolithic Flash player or video ghetto, in which all of the videos play on one page.

Facebook more popular than email sharing

Eric Elia — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:14:50 +0000

Mashable has some nice stats today on the popularity of various viral sharing services and email. Here in Professional Services land at Brightcove we've integrated with Clearspring's AddThis widget quite a bit, which is a nice one-click way to post a link to just about every viral/social/bookmarky service out there.

Brightcove player templates, with built-in Comments by JS-Kit

Eric Elia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:56:57 +0000

Our friends at JS-Kit have a very exciting announcement today. They used the Brightcove 3 player framework to integrate comments into a standard Brightcove player template. Brightcove video publishers can deploy comments in their players without writing a line of code.

Brightcove - Endeca Custom Adapter now available from Brightcove PS

Jeff Kushmerek — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:08:32 +0000

When we had a few free moments, a couple of us on the Proserv team cooked up a pipeline adapter to integrate with some of our mutual customers. There have been several requests over the last couple of months from customers that want their video indexed alongside other content types. The adapter is now a Packaged Application in the same vein as SEO, iPhone, and Closed Captioning.

Late night hacking

Eric Elia — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:10:58 +0000

1am, a case of red bull and no deadline. I'm beyond lucky to get to work with this team.

Q&A with Sun: The ROI for User-Generated Video

Eric Elia — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:48:01 +0000

Brightcove Professional Services does a lot of work with Sun in support of the superb ChannelSun offering.

SEO, iPhone and Closed Captioning - now available from Brightcove Pro Services

Eric Elia — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:42:32 +0000

In a previous post about building mature online video businesses, I wrote that SEO usually becomes important to a video business after the "hey kids lets put on a show" phase of getting some clips up on a website. This used to take 18 months or so, but is now happening right at the start of a new engagement.