Tomorrow at 2pm ET I’ll be moderating another StreamingMedia.com webinar, sponsored by Grab Networks, on the topic of Video SEO and how to get your videos discovered. Attendees will learn best practices for optimizing videos for search, including: Automating metadata extraction and analysis for SEO Creating search-worthy URLs, titles, tags, captions and MRSS feeds Exposing […]
It's been two and a half years now since I started this blog and in that time, amazingly the blog has done over 2M page views. Traffic to the blog continues to climb and is on track to do 1.5M page views this year alone. None of this would have been possible without the continued […]
Back in May, Sorenson Media, best known for their Squeeze encoding software and the Spark video codec, launched a new video platform called Sorenson 360. After being hands on with the offering for the past three months, I've come to the conclusion that it's one of the most well thought out platforms on the market […]
Over the holiday weekend I started going through all of the speaking submissions for the Streaming Media West show and after looking at a few hundred submissions, it's clear that many companies in this space can't describe in one sentence what they do. I've always been one to believe that it's crucial that every person […]
About two weeks ago I got a bunch of e-mails from MLB.TV users who came across my recent post on MLB.TV's video offering telling me that they and others like them are still experiencing major problems getting MLB's HD stream to work. A quick check of the MLB support boards shows that a limited number […]
While I still think Twitter is one of the biggest wastes of time, starting today, I am going to use Twitter to send out real-time updates about the online video industry. One of the things I realized last week at the Streaming Media East show is that I have a lot of really great conversations […]
Over the past week, and in particular today, various news outlets are talking about the problems that some MLB.TV subscribers are having with MLB video. While many are quick to want to say it's an Adobe Flash problem, or an issue specifically related to HD video quality, many don't understand all the different technology pieces […]