Online Video News & Articles

Bringing the live experience even closer to home, MediaPlatform today further broadens its WebCaster software to facilitate for the streaming of live or pre-recorded webcasts on Facebook Fan Pages and SharePoint collaboration sites. For corporations, brands and maybe even random YouTube sensations, the possibilities are endless.

 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.

Since we last reported on the state of video in e-Commerce, there have been quite a few developments that have influenced video use in the enterprise. In its quarterly report, SundaySky focused on the state of video in e-commerce websites in Q1 2011 and revealed that more retailers are embracing video as more customers are subscribing to online retailers’ YouTube channels.

In August we profiled the ways that online e-commerce video can engage users. To further study the impact and benefits of online video in e-commerce, SundaySky recently published the second in a series of research reports focused on the State of Video in e-commerce. The report covers the state of video in e-commerce websites, disclosing facts about the usage of video by top U.S. online retailers, including mobile and social strategies.

Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Web Engagement Management (WEM) are interlinked. Online video can be one of the most powerful tools (if used wisely), and online retailers have no good reason not to incorporate online video to help engage and persuade customers.

In September, we told you about ClipTraining (news, site), who specialize in computer-based training. This week, they have announced release of its Windows 7 video-on-tap training services.

For the individual or the enterprise,  ClipTraining adapts education to match the way most people learn how to do anything nowadays -- through online video -- by developing a web-based on-demand Learning Management System (LMS) that is user-friendly and economical. 

New York-based FeedRoom (news, site) has just launched a ‘lite’ version of its SaaS Enterprise Video Platform v4.0(EVP) demonstrating the competition that exists in the market to provide enterprises with video as a marketing tool.

The new product -- Enterprise Communication Channel Package -- is based on the FeedRoom 4.0 EVP, and gives user’s access to a number of different a lightweight, user-customizable video players.

The announcement by The FeedRoom (news, site) that it has teamed up with 3Play Media is the most recent step by the provider of Web video and digital media solutions to broaden the appeal of its Enterprise Video Platform (EVP).

This new partnership will give The FeedRoom another edge by providing its EVP with the ability to produce high-quality video captions in compliance with Section 508 of the  American Rehabilitation Act. This regulation obliges organizations, particularly in the public sector, to make information available to people with special needs or disabilities.

The announcement that The FeedRoom (news, site), New York-based provider of Web video and digital media solutions, has released a SaaS version of its v4.0 Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) is not really surprising.

Given the popularity of video at the moment, and the costs involved in developing live video streaming, it was only a matter of time before the company went down that road as companies like Kaltura lead the race to the (price) bottom by making its open source video solution free.

However, The FeedRoom is targeting companies that have large public relations or press departments and argue that public organizations will have to take to video in a market where transparency appears to be the buzz word.

The latest version of MindTouch (news, site), an enterprise open source collaboration platform, has just been released. Dubbed MindTouch Minneopa, this release adds three new features to MindTouch 2009 including collaborative video, application packaging and content staging.

All three new features build upon the concept of MindTouch as a collaborative network offering capabilities beyond what we are seeing today in many other social computing solutions.

Last October, The FeedRoom (news, site), a New York-based provider of Web video and digital media solutions, released v4.0 of its Enterprise Video Platform (EVP), which allows users distribute, upload and manage video across the Web.

Now, with the phenomenal growth in the use of video in social networks, the company has just announced that it has entered into a partnership with Clearspring Technologies that will allow users to bookmark and share video content on social networks and blogs -- with point-and-click tools.

Web publishers have a new and exciting tool at their disposal. Vyoo, an online video and publishing and management application, allows users to create, manage and monetize high-quality online video.

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.

With the multitude of video file formats, sizes and ways to distribute them, one can get lost quite quickly and easily. Flash has been a long-standing way of using video on Web sites; but, generally, requires a Flash developer to handle it. That’s not to say that there aren’t programs out there that can’t assist with converting video to flash, but many of them have limited capabilities or cost large amounts of money.

DVDVideoSoft recently released an updated version of their Video to Flash Converter as a free download.

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.