May 11, 2011

Online Video News

Microsoft Launches Transform Manager

Tie-in to Expression Encoder 4 Pro allows conversion of existing libraries to IIS Smooth Streaming

Online Video Ads Growing Faster Than Other Online Ad Categories

A new survey from BrightRoll finds online video edging out mobile video and social media as the fastest-growing type of online advertising

Limelight Acquires CMS Provider Clickability for $10 Million

Clickability acquisition will help Limelight round out its non-CDN services, following the acquisition of Delve Networks last year

Wolfgang’s Vault Debuts Concert Video Vault Section

Major release shows music lovers thousands of classic and new rock music performances in remastered video.

Featured Articles

Cisco: Federated CDN is the Future of Content Delivery

Cisco's Chris Osika addressed three federated CDN business models in his Content Delivery Summit keynote

Royal Wedding Stream Viewership Bodes Well for Flash Mobile, RTMP

Streaming of the Royal Wedding revealed a resurgence in RTMP traffic, which may be tied to the growth in Flash Mobile on Android devices

More Than 300,000 Viewed Obama's Bin Laden Announcement on MSNBC

President Obama's surprise announcement about the killing of Osama Bin Laden late Sunday night drew huge numbers for a non-work hours event, and pointed at the value of online video even in cable-connected homes

Amazon EC2 and Sony PSN Failures Highlight Need for Education

The recent Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud outage and the breach of Sony's PlayStation Network revealed the weaknesses of the cloud

Industry News

Flixwagon Delivers Live Mobile Video Broadcasting to India’s Number One Telecom Service Provider

Flixwagon, the leading interactive live mobile video broadcast and social networking platform, today announced it has partnered with Cervello Technologies and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), India’s number one telecom service provider.

Jan Ozer releases book: Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5

New book helps streaming producers navigate the confusing waters of live and on-demand delivery to multiple platforms, covering both adaptive and single file delivery.

Hollywood Heavyweights Go Social With GabCast.TV

GabCast.TV Picks Up Where YouTube & Facebook Leave Off: Creates the First Generation of Live Interactive Broadcasting

RealGravity Partners with MetaCafe to Syndicate Original Video Content

RealGravity, a new video platform that integrates syndication, publishing and monetization, announces today growth milestones and its partnership with Metacafe, the leading video entertainment site.

3Crowd Unveils CrowdCache CDN Application

3Crowd Technologies, the technology company defining the future of content delivery, today unveiled CrowdCache, an intelligent content delivery application that gives organizations greater control over how they deliver online content.