Earlier today we announced that Matrix, the digital company of Telecom Italia, has chosen Brightcove Video Cloud to support its online video initiatives for the consumer news and entertainment website, Virgilio.it. Virgilio is one of the largest consumer sites in Italy with 15 million Web users per month, providing email, media sharing, news and location-based services to Italian-speaking users around the world.
In the past few months, there has been a raging debate about the relative merits of native vs. HTML5 applications. Obviously, Brightcove is a supporter of the hybrid application model.
We are happy to announce that smartycontent, a multimedia communication aggregator in Spain, has chosen Brightcove Video Cloud to power its i_smarty multimedia content player. smartycontent's service was launched with more than 7,000 video and has grown to reach an audience of 12 million unique users.
We’re thrilled to announce that Brightcove App Cloud has been shortlisted for a GSMA Global Mobile Award in the Best Cloud-Based Technology category. The awards, which honor excellence and innovation in mobile communications, will be presented at a ceremony during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, Feb. 28.

The ringing in of every new year brings with it emphatic resolutions from across the globe to exercise more, get in shape, eat better, lose weight, etc. It also ushers in a host of articles, newscasts and blog posts - like this one - addressing those often hollow proclamations. Interestingly, online video is quickly becoming a tool that can help people keep those resolutions.
Mobile apps are proven to be effective in generating business value. But unless you are satisfied with a cookie cutter app from one of those app generators (I suspect that most reputable and respectful organizations won’t be), developing and managing your custom mobile apps could be very expensive and involve a lot of hidden costs. This is the case whether you are building an army of native app developers in-house or outsourcing the project to external development agencies.
Growing faster than any other segment of online advertising, online video advertising generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each quarter for publishers from major media companies to special-interest websites.
For the second consecutive year, Brightcove Video Cloud powered the live streaming of Samsung Electronics’ Press Conference at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, US.
Started in 1967, CES is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. The 2012 International CES was the largest in the event's 44 year history, with a record number of more than 3,100 exhibitors across the largest show floor in CES history.
What do macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, and franks and beans have in common? Yes, they're all delicious. But more importantly, in each case the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts. Peanut butter by itself is delicious, but it's made better with jelly. I feel the same way about video and apps:
Video breathes life into apps while apps provide a contextual framework for discovering and delivering video.
In December, the Video Cloud product team was hard at work releasing features to help our publishers increase engagement with their video content and streamline their publishing workflows. Read up on December’s release here, but don’t forget that you can always check up on the most recent release on our product updates page.