We are excited to announce a new BEML search component available to any Truveo partner for free! 

Truveo has built a search component that you can use in your Brightcove templates. It has the ability to search your entire Truveo channel and will return results that will playback in your Brightcove player when selected. This is done through an integration with the Player API. 

Main Benefits:

• Offers search functionality, provided by the leading Video Search provider Truveo, embedded in your Brightcove video player.
• It greatly helps with recirculation and engagement with the optional "Related Video" functionality at the conclusion of a video.
• It's free.

Here's how you can participate:

1.) If you have not already, create a channel on Truveo.com. Truveo is a great video search engine partner and indexing your content there can help you reach more new viewers. You can sign in using existing AOL, Bebo, or AIM credentials to create/access your 'Director Account'. This is where you can add feeds of content - http://developer.truveo.com/DirectorMyAccount.php.

2.) Once you have created this account and are approved, you can add your channel name, appid and edit the optional parameters in the SWF URL for your Brightcove BEML template:

<SWFLoader id="truveo_widget" width="480" height="420" source="http://www.truveo.com/brightcove/release/truveo_search.swf?channelName=<your channel name>&appid=<your appID>&hideWebWideSearch=true" depth="2" visible="false"/>

The SWFLoader element should be placed within "<Canvas>" tags, ie:

<Runtime>
  <Theme name="Deluxe" style="Light"/>
  <Layout>
    <Canvas>
      <VideoPlayer id="videoPlayer" width="480" height="420"/>
      <SWFLoader id="truveo_widget" width="480" height="420" source="http://www.truveo.com/brightcove/release/truveo_search.swf?channelName=BCCL&appid=f2f9d2d35f529c1db&hideWebWideSearch=true" depth="2" visible="false"/>
    </Canvas>
  </Layout>
  <Labels>
    <label key="controls menu">Search</label>
  </Labels>
</Runtime>

The "Menu" button will trigger the search menu, in this example we have renamed it "Search". Please note that currently the player dimensions must be 480x420.

Demo: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid36249156001?bctid=15251106001

Full instructions from the Truveo team are available here: http://developer.truveo.com/BrightcovePlugin.php.

Let us know what you think!

 

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New Brightcove Alliance partner, Livestream, today announced the availability of their new API and a Brightcove player plug-in that they developed with it. At its simplest, the new plug-in allows joint Brightcove and Livestream customers to broadcast live web shows within their Brightcove players. 

Setup is fairly simple, especially since Livestream put together some straightforward instructions here. For the technically-oriented, the process involves creating a custom player template using BEML; creating a player that uses that template; and then specifying which Livestream "channel" should be loaded into the player. Easy.

Livestream offers some great tools for live broadcasting, making the process dead simple. You can use their downloadable Procaster application for single-source broadcasts, or their more fully featured Studio, which allows you to choose from and switch between multiple sources (live or VOD), add graphics, and perform other control room-like functions. 

The entire system is turnkey, too. No need to figure out solutions for uploading, encoding, hosting, distributing, etc. It all just works. And as of today, it works with Brightcove!

Learn more about Livestream here, or just sign up for an account and try it out.

 

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A recent report by Cisco has mobile web data usage increasing 66x by 2013 (Network World). The majority of this increase is expected to come from growth in mobile video. I can definitely say that the topic of mobile video has become increasingly important to publishers that I have spoken to over the past 3-6 months.

We have some great partners in this area that can help build WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) sites -- basically sites optimized for viewing on mobile devices, iPhone applications, and also help you to monetize the traffic that you generate. Check out our mobile partners here. These partners can integrate your Brightcove MRSS feed into an application and if you are using our H.264 format, they can even stream the content directly from your account.

Do you have plans for mobile in '09? Will be interesting to see how much growth we see this year.

 

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One of the things I find really valuable about online video is the ability to be more interactive with your audience. There are often many competing distractions online that you don't get when you are watching TV, and depending on the type of audience you are trying to engage, providing interactivity with your video experience can definitely keep users around longer.

We are working with some great partners that can provide these elements of interactivity to your experience. A few examples include comments and ratings by JS-Kit and IntenseDebate and live chat from Meebo.

Check out these Examples:
Sun Microsystems (Comments/Ratings by JS-Kit)
Showtime (Live Chat by Meebo)

There are also lot of other great examples of online video publishers taking advantage of various types of interactivity to engage their audience and drive increased consumption of video -- one of my favorites would have to be the CNN Inauguration. CNN & Facebook did a great job tying together a major historical event fairly seamlessly with social media and live online video (image courtesy of TechCrunch).

Think about how your audience wants to communicate with like-minded individuals and their friends and family and how you can enable that on your site -- I bet we will see some more creative examples of this in 2009 from publishers as well as new technologies to make it happen.

 

 

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