Thanks to social media platforms and search engine optimization, a tremendous opportunity exists in building new audiences and driving views via outside channels. At the Streaming Media West show in LA in two weeks, we've got Mark Robertson of ReelSEO.com moderating a session on "Driving Video Views and Engagement with SEO and Social Media". For […]
The speaker lineup for the Streaming Media West show (#smwest) in LA next month is now finalized and we've got an awesome lineup of confirmed executives. Content owners, syndicators, over-the-top platform providers, CE manufacturers, enterprise organizations and more will all be on hand including: Facebook, Netflix, Hulu, Starz, Miramax, Amazon, Disney, NBCUniversal, CBS Interactive, PBS, […]
Over the 4th of July weekend I've learned that Ooyala has closed an agreement with Facebook that will have the social networking site using Ooyala's online video platform. I don't have all the details of the deal, but Facebook has been testing Ooyala's platform for some time now and both companies are expected to announce […]
Updated June 8th: After getting some feedback from vendors and carriers in the market about this post, I have updated it with additional thoughts. My intention with the post was to help educate the market on how the architectures work and I was not trying to say one architecture is better than another since I […]
Not surprisingly, Netflix continues to climb all of the Nielsen charts for viewing time per subscriber and total streams viewed with Nielsen saying the company streamed over 200M videos in March. With all of that traffic, it’s no wonder that U.S. based ISPs continue to worry about the impact Netflix video is having on their […]
I wasn’t able to attend the NAB Show last week and was also offline dealing with a family member in the hospital, so I’m just now catching up on all of the news from NAB. Here’s a list of all the releases I read about over the weekend, some of which I am working on […]
By my count, there are more than 1,000 vendors in the online video industry. Some of them are quite large and get a lot of publicity in the media but most of them are smaller, don't have as much visibility in the market and are not as well known. Starting with this post, every few […]