Posts Tagged ‘OVPS’

Online Video Platform Summit 2 Videos

April 10th, 2011

Back in November I was fortunate enough to moderate a panel on a topic that I am very passionate about, making the right decision when choosing an online video platform provider. We had three interesting and diverse panelists including a master magician, a musician, and a digital marketer;

Austin Brooks began his magic career at the age of 17 when he was accepted to the famed Chavez College of Magic. After two years of intense training, Austin was the youngest person to ever graduate from the college and ranked top in his class. Currently, Austin performs for America’s top corporations and elite parties. He develops products for other magicians and consults for feature films and television shows when they need a magic effect created for their project.

  • Peter Himmelman, Independent Singer/Songwriter, Host of Peter Himmelman’s Furious World

Among rock musicians who matter, no one has check-listed thoseitems more winningly than Peter Himmelman. During his multiprongedcareer as a singer, songwriter and all-around performer, as achildren’s entertainer, TV and film composer and pioneering webcaststar, he has maintained remarkably high standards: Can you point toa song in his vast body of work that feels tossed off, or remember aconcert or club date that didn’t delight and amuse? Is there a popartist of his generation who has demonstrated a greater commitmentto new modes of expression and new methods of connecting with hisdiehard followers?

Leveraging senior-level marketing, strategy and account management expertise, Curt leads his team with the charter to elevate the identity and value of Client Services in the agency experience and runs point on all LEVEL partnerships. Ardent about superior service versus servitude, Curt maintains solid relationships across all LEVEL clients and studios to ensure unequivocal customer satisfaction. Prior to LEVEL, Curt served on the Orb Networks, Inc. executive team where he managed strategic partnerships with brands like Vodafone, Intel and Nokia.

Here’s a look at the panel and if you want to see more head on over to StreamingMedia for the rest here.

Online Video Platform Summit 2010

September 22nd, 2010

This year’s event is shaping up to be even better than last year’s with an all-star lineup of keynotes, and unbeatable program sessions. Headlining this year’s show is Rish Chandra, Product Lead for Google TV on opening day followed by Jennifer Taylor, Senior Director of Adobe Systems, and Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Brightcove on the second day. You can see a full list of the events here and don’t forget to register early, November (2-3) is creeping up on us fast.

Some of us Bay Area folks are going to have to travel to the event this year as it will be held in LA as opposed to San Jose last year. Not a problem though, the show is well worth it as you can see in my wrap-up of the 2009 inaugural event. Last year I was fortunate enough to sit on a panel moderated by StreamingMedia’s editor, Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen entitled Defining Online Video Platforms. This year we’re moving to the next level and I will be moderating a new panel called, How to Choose the Right Online Video Platform for your Business which will include a few OVPs as well as industry insiders.

So much has happened in the online video platform space this year with M&A activity (Kit/Multicast, LimeLight/Delve, Google/Episodic), new OVPs emerging (StreamingVideoProvider, ProVDN, Bubble Cast), and new technologies coming to the forefront (HTML5, TVE). And there’s no better place to catch up on OVP happenings face to face with industry thought leaders, media publishers, and the platforms themselves than at OVPSummit.

Keep a close eye on what’s happening @OVPSummit, #OVPS10.

See you there.

Online Video Platforms, Like Brightcove Grow with Viewership

March 9th, 2010

Online video continues its break-neck growth rate with video views hitting 119% Year over Year growth in 2009 according to comScore. While January 2010 fell a small percentage from the final month of 2009, we still saw massive adoption as B2C behemoth YouTube continued its dominance over the space owning a whopping 39.5% of all US video views of over 32 billion served.

YouTube’s B2B equivalent in online video hosting services is Brightcove. The Cambridge, MA based OVP has seen similar growth in recent months. While not at the same scale, Brightcove continues to dominate the professional Online Video Platform space signing new customers to their video hosting service both domestically and Internationally. In fact, since launching it’s Express product just a few months back, opening offices in Japan, and launching localized versions of their web site in Japanese, French, and Spanish, Brightcove has closed more deals in the past two quarters than in all of 2008.

In Spanish speaking countries Brighcove has signed deals with Tuenti, Grupo Vocento, Sony Music Spain, Condé Nast Digital Spain, Grupo V, GEC, GX Magazine and TQMadrid. In Japan we’ve seen deals done with heavy-hitters such as Nikkei, one of Japan’s largest media corporations and publisher of the country’s top business daily newspaper, as well as Rakuten, Tokyo Metropolitan Television (Tokyo MX), Television Osaka, Shizuoka Asahi Television, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), CHubu-Nippon Broadcasting, PRESENTCAST, Asahi Breweries, Sony Music Networks Japan, Shueisha webUOMO, and orangepage.net.

Other enterprise focused OVPs such as Ooyala, the younger upstart to Brightcove, has also seen tremendous growth Internationally. While Bismarck Lepe, Ooyala’s co-founder and President of products denies that they’re specifically targeting Brightcove customers, they too have experienced massive growth in Japan with it’s localized online video platform, signing companies such as NTT SMARTCONNECT, and Brosta TV as well as in Europe signing Telegraph Media Group, the UK’s leading newspaper chain.

With the growth and International expansion of these US-based OVPs, I wonder how foreign video platforms such as vzaar, Stream UK, Flumotion, Ipercast, and Kewego (to name a few) feel about their turf being trampled upon. I personally have spoken to a few of these International OVPs and at this stage of the game there are no hard feelings. It’s just too early and there are far too many companies out there needing video hosting services to concern themselves with the competition at this point. In fact, I see a lot of camaraderie within the space with OVPs referring prospective customers onto others whom better fit the needs of a customer and OVPs cheering each other on as they grow into new and exciting spaces.

Exciting times are upon us in OV.

Introduction to Monetizing Online Video Free Whitepaper and Video

March 1st, 2010

Online Video Platform (OVP), Delve Networks launched their online video hosting and streaming services in early 2008 with the goal of helping small and large business manage their video content in an easy to use interface. They’ve succeeded over the past few years to further develop their platform services while collecting some high-profile customers along the way. In fact, just recently in November of 2009 Delve landed NFL.com powering their video portal.

I recently had the pleasure of sitting on a panel with Delve CEO, Alex Castro at the Online Video Platform Summit where we discussed the definition of an OVP. Alex is a bright and determined guy who was a pleasure to meet and speak with while at the show. He told me about some new customer wins that would shortly be announced as well as a plethora of new services like mobile video streaming, geographic location and domain control, and new APIs.

A few weeks ago Delve hosted a webinar on the topic of Monetizing Online Video, a high-profile subject matter in our space today with some industry pundits shouting from the rooftops that OV advertising will, is, and has changed the way we monetize the web today while others state that until real standards are in place OV advertising will fail to deliver real revenue.  I personally am of the belief that many positive strides have been made over the past few years with some highly effective ad units and ad models that will surely change the face of online revenue generation for years to come.

With that said, Delve and VidCompare offer you the FREE webinar and video, Introduction to Monetizing Online Video where Reed Terry, head of marketing discusses three compelling solutions including Pay-per-view, Subscriptions, and Advertising. Click the link below to download your free whitepaper and watch the video:

Introduction to Monetizing Online Video

Enjoy and thanks for tuning in…

Video from OVPSummit, Streaming Media West Show

January 25th, 2010

Back in November I attended the first annual Online Video Platform Summit which ran in conjunction with StreamingMedia West down in San Jose. I was fortunate enough to be asked to sit on a panel kicking off the show called Defining Online Video Platforms. It was an honor to sit on the panel with three distinguished CEOs of well-established OVPs; Bismarck Lepe of Ooyala, Ron Yekutiel of Kaltura, and Alex Castro of Delve Networks. Below is a video of the panel in it’s entirety (thank you StreamingMedia and OVPSummit):

Be sure to also check out Larry Kless’ post on the Summit and this panel specifically, he covers it well even including some popular Tweets. Larry co-hosted the OVPSummit and did a fantastic job promoting, organizing, and managing the first ever show with Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. Here’s Larry’s piece at his blog, KlessBlog.