The Weather Channel’s blue box

Weather videos with ads for you! From Lost Remote: “The Weather Channel’s weather.com launched a new video player today they’re calling “Blue Box.” (No, I didn’t get the name at first either, until I looked at their logo.) In a press release, the player is described as being powered by Brightcove and DoubleClick. The player […]

Continue reading →

Fox picks Brightcove

Fox has partnered with Brightcove to provide its network with ad supported internet video channels. From Paidcontent: “The pact will also give Fox the ability to target its broadband video directly to specific demos. Fox will able to use Brightcove’s social net functions, including the ability to solicit fan-submitted videos and add them to its […]

Continue reading →

Hearst partners with Brightcove

A big day for Brightcove. From the press release: “Video is a crucial piece to an online news and information presence today,” said Lincoln Millstein, senior vice president & director of Digital Media for Hearst Newspapers. “We are excited to roll out Internet video channels and vlogs using Brightcove on our newspapers’ Web sites and […]

Continue reading →

Brightcove: For pro users

Brightcove could be the Cold Fusion of video;) From NewTeeVee: “The content management features are quite robust, allowing for lots of control over media assets, meta information, broadcast and display mechanics such as home site linking and embedding, and a templating system that makes it relatively simple to pull together backgrounds, logos, multiple episodes and […]

Continue reading →

Barack Obama + Brightcove = Obamavision

Andy Plesser at Beet.tv reveals that Barack Obama and Brightcove have partnered to create a channel for Barack’s presidential campaign. From Beet.tv: “Beet.TV has learned that Brightcove’s arrangement with Obama will be multifaceted. It will include ongoing publication of campaign videos, the creation of a Obama “channel” on Brightcove and a syndication function which will […]

Continue reading →

Video Search: CastTV, Dabble, Pixsy and Nexidia

Bambi Francisco has a nice article on Always On about video search companies. From the article: “CastTV doesn’t search inside the video, but does a good job identifying files associated with Flash, Javascript and media plug-ins, such as the video players from Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Media Player, Apple’s Quicktime and RealNetworks'(RNWK) media player as well […]

Continue reading →

Brightcove for Independant Producers

Brightcove released information about a new offering to help independent producers make money from their work. Brightcove press release:“In the last six months we’ve seen explosive growth in the online video market, especially in consumer sharing, but this is only the beginning of the Internet TV era,” said Jeremy Allaire, chairman and chief executive officer […]

Continue reading →

Brightcove Marching Forward

On the heals of the recent Code.tv release, today Sony and Brightcove annouce the launch of Musicbox Video. From the press release: “The broadband video initiative, currently named “Musicbox Video,” will show content from across the entire SONY BMG library. The “Musicbox Video” players have been customized with specialized video content for individual label and […]

Continue reading →

Brightcove and Limelight Networks Partnership

Brightcove is on fire this week! From the press release: “Internet TV pioneer Brightcove and Limelight Networks, the world’s leading Internet content delivery network for digital media, today announced a strategic partnership to bring advanced services and next-generation business models to the growing Internet TV industry. Brightcove will use Limelight’s massively scalable, high-performance digital media […]

Continue reading →

About.com Launches Brightcove Channel

I have another post about Brightcove on the way, but first, About.com launches a Brightcove channel. From the press release: “About.com today announced the launch of a new streaming video player that will support expansion of the amount of high-quality broadband video content offered and enhance the viewing experience on the site. The new player […]

Continue reading →