Brightcove's Advertising APIs include a method named requestAd(). When you call that method, the player instantly makes an ad call the same way as it would with any other ad cue point. However, having control over precisely when to call the ad server can be very beneficial.
Brightcove supports delivering live video in a Brightcove player without any custom development or complex integration.
Brightcove is so packed full of features that sometimes it's hard to keep track of them all. Of course, they're documented at http://support.brightcove.com, and whenever we add new features, we post them on the Product Updates page. Still, it seemed like a good idea to bring some of them into the spotlight on a regular rotation.
Making a good-looking screencast can be a challenge. When the main of the point of a video depends on the viewer being able to read what's on the screen you're showing, you need to account for whether your viewers will be watching full-screen or in a smaller embedded player.
Brightcove's external ad feature opens up a wide world of possible ad formats. John Huebner's new article in the Developer Center gives one example: banner ads that appear to fly out from behind the player when they're displayed.
Brightcove 3 players offer optional cross-promotion of related, newest and most viewed videos within the information screen. This screen can be displayed as an end-cap when a video completes. Now, you can dynamically and programmatically control what videos are surfaced in these lists.
Matt Congrove has updated the JavaScript code for his sample iPhone web app so that it now supports our new Universal Delivery Service feature, which lets streaming accounts also deliver video by HTTP where appropriate. This means that the sample app will work with streaming accounts as well as progressive download accounts.