“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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“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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“Re-Transcode Assets in the Media Module:
We’ve introduced a re-transcoding option that lets publishers send an asset through our transcoding engine after it has been uploaded.
Drive Engagement With the Overlay Player API:
Additionally, a new overlay player API lets you add any content as a player overlay to further engage viewers.
Provide Streaming Quality Details to Viewers via APIs:
Finally, we’ve built APIs that allow publishers to obtain the available bandwidth, current bitrate, and current framerate for a video stream in real time and surface this information to viewers either in the player or elsewhere on the page.”
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“The Television Academy is using Video Cloud to let voting members view Emmy nominated content on any device.”
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“Brightcove has added PaperThin to our growing list of content management system (CMS) technology partners, enabling seamless online video publishing and management for joint customers using the Brightcove Video Cloud online video platform and PaperThin CommonSpot Web CMS.”
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“Cloud content services provider Brightcove has announced that Universal Sports Network has rolled out the Brightcove Video Cloud online video platform to deliver live and on-demand sports coverage to its website UniversalSports.com.
Universal Sports Network, which is a partnership between NBC Sports and InterMedia Partners, is using Video Cloud to deliver more than 2,000 hours of original, Olympic, adventure and endurance sports programming to both Adobe Flash and HTML5 desktops and devices.”
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“We’re pleased to announce that Video Cloud is now integrated with the Atex Polopoly Web Content Management System (CMS) interface. The integration and Brightcove’s partnership with Atex will enable joint customers to easily deliver high-quality video experiences powered by Video Cloud across their website properties through the Polopoly Web CMS interface.”
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“Alticast is partnering with Brightcove to fully integrate Alticast’s Windmill(TM) ecosystem with Brightcove’s Video Cloud online video platform.
Windmill allows operators to add advanced interactivity to existing systems while providing new revenue models and future-friendly expandability. Based on a set of modular technologies, Windmill enables TV operators to bring their content to any device in the home easily and cost-effectively.
This end-to-end system is built on the company’s longstanding expertise in open, standards-based software and supports a variety of systems including cable, satellite, DTT, hybrid and IPTV.”
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