The UK's Channel 4 (a Brightcove powered publisher) did an amazing, BAFTA nominated, documentary called Tsunami: Caught on Camera - a provocative and powerful edit of personal video clips compiled around the devastating 2004 Boxing Day tragedy.
Today we're kicking of our Summer Video event with the IAB UK. A series of 3 events over the summer months to look at issues that will fundamentally change the way online video advertising will effect your business. Today we're starting with a dissection and dissemination of the VAST/VPAID standards. At 3pm BST (G...
Long time Brightcove customer, The Guardian, re-launched their homepage today - looks pretty slick. In an interview given to Business Insider, Janine Gibson reasons it's "all about using it as a better window for the vast variety of what we're producing around our network." The key here is the use of the word network - it's...
Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive of the world's largest, best known, search engine Google, has a new rule: Mobile First. Borrowing heavily from his position I'm all about extending that to be more accurate: Mobile Video First. Mobile devices are here to stay, video is here to stay, mobile video is here to stay. For content pro...
Tonight is London's BDG - Brightcove for Interactive Video. Come back at 7pm GMT for the live stream (player below) - ask questions via Twitter! #LBDG
Using video in an eCommerce solution can increase your conversion rates by a whopping 40%. To do this you need to follow some simple guidelines. Mark Harpur, our Regional Sales Engineering Director, has been on the front lines gathering the following thoughts to help you succeed. Mark writes: As we see more and more retailers u...
At our recent UK Monetisation Summit I caught up with Patrick Napier, owner of Brightcove powered music site Rock Sound. Patrick and his team have had to work through the same challenges facing all print publishers: how to transition into an online digital media company. He outlines below how SEO and Social Media h...