Brightcove EMEA

In October we kicked off a Site of the Month competition for Brightcove partners. Brightcove partners across EMEA were invited to submit sites to sotm@brightcove.com that showed innovative use of video technology, had sophisticated technology integration or were just plain cool looking.

At the very last minute UK Partner Adjust Your Set submitted Pink TV, the Video site of their latest client, UK based Shirtmaker Thomas Pink. What a fantastic site it is. Not only does the site offer great looking high quality video but the team at Adjust Your Set worked hard to ensure the player carried the same look and feel of the overall site to ensure that visitors got a consistent user experience.

The player was built using BEML with custom .swfs for the majority of the other controls.  The player uses custom cuepoints, which fire down the right hand side of the player as the video progresses (all linked from external XML files), which help to drive sales.  The player also includes full screen functionality and links into Twitter and Facebook to facilitate the viral spreading of links back to the video content.

Overall this is a great looking site that uses a clean, branded player that has been carefully customised to deliver a fantastic user experience. The client requirements of using video to help drive online sales, increase traffic to the site and to better engage visitors are being met.

So well done to the team at Adjust Your Set for producing the first Site of the Month and we hope they like the FlipHD Video Camera that we are sending them as a prize.

If you are a Brightcove Partner with a site you'd like to enter into the Site of the Month Competition send an email to sotm@brightcove.com

The conditions to entry are:

• Site must be based on Brightcove Video Technology
• Brightcove Partner must have contributed to the delivery of the site
• Site must be live and visible via public internet

Not a Brightcove Partner yet? Contact mbaker@brightcove.com to find out if you can become one!

Brightcove EMEA.

Comments (0), Tags:

We have the following online training classes this week and next.  You can register here:

Comments (0), Tags:

Our next Meetup in London will be held on Thursday June 11th from 6 pm at the Pitcher & Piano, Trafalgar Square.  Jeremy and Bob (our CTO) will be the special guests so don't miss this opportunity to meet them and ask them your questions on roadmap, etc!  RSVP here.

Comments (0), Tags:

Yesterday during their panel at the Next09 show, Jeremy and Axel Schmiegelow, the CEO of Sevenload, announced a partnership between the two companies.  We are very excited to be working with Sevenload who operate one of the largest video portals in Germany and several other territories.  Brightcove customers will now be able to easily have their content syndicated into a channel on Sevenload and, as always, the commercials will be for them to work out with Sevenload (ie we do not get directly involved in any negotiations).  You can see our other distribution partners here, and we are always in search for other partners that can offer significant distribution and monetisation opportunities to our customers so please get in touch if you fit the bill.

Comments (1), Tags:

Editor & Publisher writes of a newspaper industry report from Borrell (hat tip to Beet.tv).  Of particular note was the stat that: "Those newspapers investing in online video -- though only a small percent -- are reaping ad dollars. On average 27.7% of their total online revenue comes from video. One site reported it pulled in $550,000 from online video advertising." 

Comments (0), Tags:

The latest ABCe results show telegraph.co.uk back at the top with guardian.co.uk second followed by MailOnline and then TimesOnline.  Great to see Brightcove customers also succeeding in their general websites!

Comments (0), Tags:

Good article in the WSJ highlighting the use of online video by ecommerce sites to improve conversion rates, including featuring Brightcove customer Simon & Schuster.

Comments (0), Tags:

Comments (2), Tags:

It was gratifying to win the IPTV Award for Best Internet TV Technology/Solution at last night's awards ceremony. Our very own Stu Barnes & Vanessa Wade were on hand to accept, though no award speech was given!  

Thank you, judges!

Comments (0), Tags:

Our head of Marketing, Jeff Whatcott, just published an article on the use of online video by brand marketers such as Kohler, Sun Microsystems and the San Diego Zoo.  While these are examples of US Companies, we are seeing similar use cases and customers in EMEA.  Just today we signed up a large brand marketer that intends to do just that.  Watch this space for more on this topic...

Comments (0), Tags: