I know, I know, you’re probably bored with my rants about the online video platform space growth but to see two enterprise level platform publishers duking it out, announcing new hires the same day is exciting. Yesterday Ooyala announced that they’ve hired three high level sales executives, two of whom came from direct competitors; Move Networks and the Feedroom and the third came from high profile content delivery network, Akamai. These are Director level positions from well established companies and therefore must cost Ooyala a pretty penny which is interesting considering they’re actively seeking another round of funding. The same day, currently profitable Brightcove annouced that they’re hiring 30 new employees in varying positions. A few lower-level sales folks according to Jeff Whatcott’s, Sr. VP of Marketing at BC, recent Tweet and several others.
This is great, we love to see the competitive spirit and growth in the space despite recent news about fallen platform Maven Networks which was recently shuttered by Yahoo!.
Long live OV!
