It seems like every cable company is building apps to help deliver content to multiple screens. But up until this point, most had to build not just their own apps, but their own backend for hooking into their billing and operating systems and delivering the right content to the right customers. Tvinci seeks to simplify that process with a platform for quickly turning up over-the-top video services without having to build their own platform to do so.
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“Alphabird announced that it has agreed to acquire Castfire ( www.castfire.com ), a leading content management and publishing platform. Castfire’s team will be joining Alphabird, delivering audio and video content solutions that provide best of breed uptime and support to its roster of customers that includes Fortune 500 publishers, international brands, and niche content creators.”
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Streaming Media West took place in San Jose in November of 2009. The meeting had many of the typical sessions on the growth of online video publishing since many Online Video Platform (OVP) companies and related online providers spawned from the extraordinary success of YouTube, which launched in 2005.
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“So, as I previously mentioned, I chatted with Adobe about their Project Primetime and its new features which they’ve just unveiled.”
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“In this short video, Wes Cruver, CEO of KZO Innovations, explains video codecs, file containers, and the difference between the two.”
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“Tier 2 and 3 video service providers will have one less set-top box option now that EchoStar has revealed it no longer plans to offer its Aria solution in the U.S. Aria, which was launched just under a year ago, was designed specifically to meet the needs of smaller cable operators. The cloud-based offering eliminates the need for a head-end upgrade and works with set-top boxes developed by EchoStar.”
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“An interview with CEO & founder of MyPod Studios, Jay Miletsky, on how they have rapidly built a large audience in a short time through careful curation.”
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“As Ashley Still, Adobe’s director of product management, video solutions, explained to me last week, Primetime’s key goal is to enable premium video providers to deliver the highest-quality ‘TV-like’ experiences with seamless, dynamic ad insertion into linear/live/on-demand streams on any connected device. Adobe believes that today’s content and ad delivery model, which often requires multiple workflows and products to interoperate, will not allow premium online and mobile video to effectively scale and monetize.”
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“Here at Modifly, we really value our partnerships. Without them, our job wouldn’t be half as fun. That’s why we are pumped about our partnership with Ooyala. These guys are an up and coming player in the own your own content video platform world. They offer a modular, full – featured video solution that makes uploading, managing, and publishing videos easy.”
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“Spreecast, a social video platform that lets people broadcast together, is adding the ability to embed ‘spreecasts’ on their blogs, free of charge.
The brainchild of StubHub co-founder and investor Jeff Fluhr, Spreecast can be used publicly or privately to create interactive, social online video broadcasts. Up to 4 people at a time can be face-to-face, streaming their conversation live while hundreds of others can watch, chat, and participate by submitting comments and questions to those on-screen.”
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