Mobile Video News & Articles

 It’s not a surprise that we remain fascinated by the behaviors of employees. What they do, don’t do or want to do at work not only helps us maximize their productivity, innovate the workforce or better understand their motivation. Previously we’ve examined how employees engage, collaborate and share information. Today, however, we learn more about how they use mobile devices in ways, that, well, engage more than just their workplace.

As smartphones take over, getting video to them will be a big money maker. Enter Thwapr's sharing a cloud service service that helps get content from anywhere, to anywhere.

In a world where mobile phones are finding inroads into many different facets of our lives, a new study suggests a new usage pattern is about to emerge. According to Ovum, a telecom analyst firm, mobile video usage will soon gain traction.

Two main factors for this include: advancing the prospect of widely-used video usage including rollout of next generation wireless networks and a new carrier attitude of openness with regards to which applications can appear on mobile handsets.

Advertising within streaming media is now as easy as one, two, three — 3ple Media, that is.

Mobile Multimedia specialist, 3ple-Media, has enhanced its Mercury mobile multimedia platform to include embedded advertising into mobile video clips and video streams.

Using “pioneering functionality”, pre-roll, post-roll and in-stream advertising can be inserted into mobile video through a customizable and interactive platform. By linking within advertisements, users can continue to experience mobile multimedia, via mobisites, new video streams or an SMS/MMS push.

comScore, an established authority in online trend tracking, has released a report stating that 6.5 million Americans watched online video on their mobile phones in the month of August 2008.

Even though the figure isn’t that alarming, it shows continued year-over-year growth of mobile video consumption. comScore also reports that the mobile video audience mostly consists of a highly-valuable demographic range: males between the ages of 18 to 34.

Mobile video fanatics rejoice! Qik, a video streaming platform that allows users to broadcast from mobile devices, has announced support for more mobile devices that will allow users to be visually connected to the world.

Users of Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices will be pleased with the latest news — we can only hope that those users will avoid being charged an arm and a leg for bandwidth usage.