Video Content Management News & Articles

Is video a viable part of both your enterprise content and search strategies? If you’re like most companies, video is getting more attention in the enterprise. According to a recent Forrester study, the pervasiveness of video has become a significant consumer and corporate trend.

Although the recent acquisition of Accordent (news, site) by Polycom is not throwing up the kinds of figures we have become used to in deals such as Oracle and Sun, Xerox and ACS or IBM and OpenLogix, the price tag of US$ 50 million still gets Polycom some potentially serious firepower.

The boom of social media and tablet devices has lent a re-boost in popularity to more traditional forms of content, such as video (see: YouTube). Accordingly, research firm Gartner (news, site) dug around for the best of the best in up and coming video content management and delivery vendors. Videophiles, this one's for you. 

Looks like Google's still on an acquisition streak. This time the Web giant has picked up a video hosting platform called Episodic, which boasts measuring and monetizing capabilities in addition to broadcasting. Smells to us like a YouTube overhaul. 

Amazon (news, site)  has been busy. In addition to a brand new edge location for CloudFront, the company's content delivery Web service now supports private content--which means customers can sell or secure.  

Though Kyte (news, site) originally launched as a consumer-focused video product, the company has been aggressively expanding their services for their Tier 1 clients. Hoping to become an online video platform provider to reckon with, today’s release of Kyte Console 2.0 offers improved content management as well as some nifty new features.  

We’ve got more non YouTube related video content management news for ya. Kontiki, a provider of enterprise video solutions, just opened up the Kontiki VideoCenter enterprise employee video portal. The portal allows companies to gather, schmooze, and ultimately align their organizations around one vision.  

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.
 

Video content has revolutionized the web. It would take over 400 years to watch every single clip that currently exists on YouTube, as there are 13 hours of video content uploaded every minute. In addition, the customer demand for video is getting stronger with over 100 million of YouTube clips viewed per day.

Therefore, it’s no surprise that the business community has woken up to the power of video. With greater competition, more organizations have come under the increasing pressure to facilitate effective use of rich media content.

Looks like a couple of companies are in cahoots to get video delivered straight to your mobile network, among other media.

That is, Akamai Technologies, Inc. and KIT digital, Inc. have combined forces in a strategic agreement. The agreement will allow KIT to package and resell Akamai solutions with its KIT VX Video Management Platform. Moreover, the agreement allows the companies to jointly market the KIT VX Video Management Platform to key Akamai enterprise customers.

Extend Media (site) -- a provider of software for managing digital media and high-volume commercial video services -- is about to take off with a new offering based on their OpenCASE CMS that should make flying much more entertaining.

Video has quickly become one of the fastest growing media formats on the Internet, and that seems like a logical thing to occur. It makes sense that a company would attempt to integrate an interactive video solution into WordPress and Kaltura is the first solution that we’ve seen to address this. It is a decent try, but it is far from perfect.

Ahh, our insatiable need to spend hours viewing online video, whether it be our favorite episode of The Family Guy, or that hilarious commercial on YouTube. Yes we definitely are a world of watchers. And organizations are getting smarter everyday figuring how to use this vice to their advantage.

Online video search engine provider, blinkx, aims to help those organizations by providing the blinkx Advanced Media Platform, a video content management solution that will “unlock the potential of video assets and maximize their monetization”.