“This week we announced the full commercial availability of our new native video players for iOS and Android and the discontinuation of our App Cloud HTML5 hybrid app solution. We are increasing our investments in deeper and broader native frameworks and developer tools for premium video apps.”
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“Coming into 2012, with rumors and theories running wild, we all hoped for a new Apple TV in time for Christmas. While we did get spades of new tablets from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung and others, all Apple had for us was an upgraded iPhone and a handful of new iPad updates and sizes. The contents of our pockets may have changed, but Apple has left our living rooms largely untouched.”
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“Beginning in 2012, however, connected TVs and gaming consoles have seen tremendous growth and consumer adoption. Unlike smart phones and tablets, these devices give consumers the best of both worlds: the vast set of options made available via IP-based video catalogs in addition to the traditional lean-back experience of watching video on the big screen. As a result, consumers are watching more and more video through these devices than ever before.”
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“We might be slightly late to the 2013 “predictions party;” as they say, though, better late than never! Our friends at ReelSEO reached out to us late last week soliciting Brightcove chief marketing officer Jeff Whatcott’s thoughts on what to expect from the online video industry in 2013.”
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“As 2012 comes to a close, we are excited to celebrate another tremendous year of change and innovation for our Video Cloud online video platform. With the continued acceleration of fragmentation across devices, platforms and operating systems, we have doubled down on our efforts to make sure our customers can deliver high quality video experiences to audiences on every screen.”
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“For the second year in a row, Brightcove has received the Global Market Share Leadership Award for online video platforms by global market research firm Frost & Sullivan. Brightcove was recognized for our Video Cloud online video platform’s leadership position in the market and technology excellence compared to more than 80 other online video platforms, as well as for our focus on innovation and growth on a global scale.”
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“Brightcove is ensuring Video Cloud customers have the tools to comply with the FCC’s new closed captioning rules for online video.
…we’re moving to treat closed captioning as a core function in our upload and transcoding process, much like generating thumbnails. As such, Video Cloud will include new closed captioning features functionality in time for the first FCC deadline of September 30. The key enhancements include:
A dedicated metadata field within the Video Cloud Studio for a closed captioning file for each video that can accept an upload of an SMPTE-TT file, which will be hosted by Brightcove. Alternatively, users can specify a remote URL for the caption file to host the file themselves.
Significant updates to the closed captioning module within the Flash and HTML5 Smart Players to render and display the captions for the end user.
The ability to customize how captions are displayed, ensuring they’re on par with the quality of TV captions and also have the same user tools as TV.”
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“We recently announced the acquisition of Zencoder, a leading cloud-based video encoding service provider. We’re very excited about what this acquisition means for the future of both companies, but more importantly how it will help content publishers deliver video content more effectively on every screen.”
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“The Brightcove Innovation Awards recognize some of the most innovative, cutting edge online video and mobile app initiatives and campaigns across a number of industries and use cases. This is one of the most popular sessions at PLAY and certainly an exciting one for us, as it gives us a chance to showcase some of our Video Cloud and App Cloud customers that are doing amazing things and achieving success with their video and mobile initiatives.”
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“Some developers have asked me how to change the layout of a view depending on the device’s orientation. The simplest way—and this is really very simple—is to use CSS3 Media Queries.”
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