Brightcove News & Articles

Brightcove provides the Web muscle for thousands of video content sites and recently launched its own app builder. With these two boom areas under its belt, what better time to go to the stock market?

Publishers that wish to take advantage of Kaltura's (news, site) open-source video platform to push their own services can now sign up with Kaltura's recently-launched Partner Program. Targeted at resellers, system integrators OEMs, media consultants and marketing agencies, the Partner Program provides a white-label edition of Kaltura's commercial offering.

Mobile applications are the future of content deployment, as evident with the hundreds of thousands of apps for the different mobile platforms. With this, Brightcove (news, site) has evolved from its earlier focus on online video to a fresh product line focused on making content and applications for web and mobile.

Continuing its expansion in the Asia Pacific region, Brightcove (news, site) has recently announced the launch of its Australia headquarters in Sydney, citing a fast-growing market for on-demand video in the country. Brightcove also announced partnerships with clients in various industries, such as real estate, media and fashion.

Brightcove (news, site) has recently announced the launch of its country office in Seoul, South Korea, capitalizing on the existing infrastructure and the potential market for video-on-demand services. The company has also announced the addition of several key clients from different industries that include online advertising, design and pharmaceuticals.

Ektron (news, site) announced a new Enterprise Technology Partner Program at this week's Synergy Worldwide Customer Conference. The initiative aligns participating companies in their efforts to provide comprehensive products for protecting enterprise technology investments.

Brightcove (news, site) is the latest company looking across the Atlantic as it secures further investment for expansion of its online video management service.

Everyone has an opinion on who we all should be paying close attention to this year. IDC has their lists, Gartner and Forrester point our theirs in research reports. Even CIO Magazine has their top 20 and there are more than a few you might find interesting.

Brightcove (news, site) is backed by a team bent on proving that their online video platform isn’t just another YouTube.

Their most recent efforts include the release of Brightcove 4, which offers support for native iPhone video application development, better live streaming capabilities, analytics, and some resources for video distribution, monetization and custom online video applications.
 

Admittedly, we haven’t thought much about the video distribution platform Brightcove (news, site) since sometime last year, so imagine our surprise when they burst from the woodwork this week with a ton of updates.

The new developments come directly from Brightcove Alliance, the company's global partner ecosystem, which has not only doubled in size, but added new partner categories and training and certification programs as well.

For his presentation at the eZ Conference, Victor Sanchez of Hachette Media presented a quick overview of his company's implementation of eZ Flow and eZ Find for Woman's Day Magazine.

Woman's Day got its start in the 1930's, but the venerable magazine is taking on the digital age with an on-line portal. 90% of the site's content is original, and Sanchez reports that the editorial staff at the magazine are pleased with the flexibilty of eZ Flow.

Using dynamic blocks and by tracking clicks on the main page, the editorial staff can move around their content on the fly taking into account what is, and isn't working on the layout. This, in turn, has freed up Sanchez and his department to work on new projects (such as an upcoming recipe finder iPhone app) rather than tweaking templates for the site.

As for searching, Woman's Day uses eZ Find, and has worked out a way to tag and search content in order to run a promotional campaign against certain types of content.

The site integrates Brightcove for video, DART, Moniture, WordPress, Silver Pop and some Typepad for blog content.

Sanchez and his team are gearing up for a site redesign. With the platform already in place, the redesign is a simple matter of gathering together the development requirements.

Brightcove, a video distribution platform, has undergone major changes that will help make this platform an impressive solution for customers looking to produce and distribute video content on the Web.

From tiered pricing to API enhancements, this might be the most impressive release from Brightcove yet.