Tomorrow, Channel 4 in the UK will air "Embarrassing Bodies Live," an interactive online show that will be shown live on http://www.channel4.com/bodies using the Brightcove platform. Channel 4 will be taking advantage of the new live streaming capabilities introduced in Brightcove 4 to deliver a high quality live feed for this interactive event based on their the broadcaster's hit multiplatform health series Embarrassing Bodies.

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan of WatchMojo has published an interesting take on how to make money with online video over on TechCrunch.

I'm very excited to announce the Boston Brightcove Developer Group.  This group is dedicated to discussing what's happening with Brightcove and online video through monthly meetups in the Boston area.  Everyone is welcome to join, and I hope you'll add to the 51 members that have already signed up.  To join the group or learn more, head over to meetup.com. 

Brightcove is proud to be the official provider of online video platform services for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. We are thrilled to be working with the Sundance Institute for a second year to support their mission to discover and foster independent artists. The official Sundance Film Festival website features interviews with filmmakers, round table discussions, video highlights on events, and much more.

Congratulations to all the artists recognized at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. 

Brightcove's external ad feature opens up a wide world of possible ad formats. John Huebner's new article in the Developer Center gives one example: banner ads that appear to fly out from behind the player when they're displayed.

So we're up and Live for the next 2.5 hrs

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid46572716001?bctid=46866543001

Remember to try to use the Facebook button on the player!

Send me a tweet if you want to ask a question :  http://www.twitter.com/cameronchurch

Quick note - sound won't start until the speakers do at 7pm

I am delighted to announce the availability, today, of the Brightcove TV Everywhere Solution Pack (TVE-SP). The solution gives TV programmers everything they need to deliver rich, branded TV Everywhere-compatible catch-up TV services. This solution combines the breadth and depth of the Brightcove 4 platform with key third-party technologies. First and foremost is Ping Identity's PingFederate system, a standards-based solution for user authentication and authorization.

Tonight at 8:00 pm, Canoe.ca and a host of other media organizations will broadcast a benefit show, “Together for Haiti,” to raise donations to help victims of the recent earthquake. The event will feature performances from dozens of artists who have united together to help the people of Haiti.

It's going to be a very exciting year for us at the LBDG as we start a monthly series of events designed for you to get the most of Brightcove and the emerging Online Video industry.

To kick things off, as you probably all know, we're starting with Brigthcove for Live Streaming!

We've got an exciting line of presenters for you:

Today at 9:30 am ET, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech on Internet freedom will be streamed live at http://www.state.gov on the Brightcove platform. According to a CNN article yesterday, Clinton will "lay out the Administration's strategy for protecting freedfom in the networked age of the 21st Century." 

As Jack Bauer and crew embark on another tumultuous quest to save the world, it is only fitting to share our excitement that Brightcove is the new online video platform behind FOX on Demand's catch-up TV site, http://www.fox.com/fod/index.htm.

One of the most important things that a project design teams needs to think about when building a successful online video initiative is the concept of Consumer Discovery.   Amazingly enough, in my experience, this tends to be one of the most overlooked component of any project.

A new year, a new decade and new energy!   As ritual as ever with the new year come the predictions and just for fun I thought this year I might give my own thoughts around what to expect.

With this AND taking up Twitter (@cameronchurch) I'm really pushing the boat out here!  Here we go:

It's that time of year again. Hoards of flashy new gadgets, cutting edge technologies and solutions will be on display starting today at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. As all eyes look to CES this week, we are very proud to be the online video platform behind this momentous event.

At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this morning, Brightcove will announce an exciting new distribution opportunity for professional media publishers. Through a seamless integration with the Yahoo! TV Widget Engine, Brightcove customers can now use their existing account and workflow to publish and maintain branded online video experiences for the living room television - no additional design or development work required.

As video becomes more common on the web, it's increasingly important to make sure that your video is treated as a cohesive part of your website. Making a few small stylistic changes to your Brightcove player will help tie in your brand while also making your video look more professional and integrated with your site.

Walking into 2010, there are some major changes at the company that I'm excited to share as we cap off what was a very big year for the company and kick off what we expect will be an even more significant year of growth for Brightcove.

Check out - Bitly.tv

Nice new site from the folks at Bit.ly to showcase popular videos based on their twitter mentions. Chances are, if you are like me, you are pummeled daily by friends and co-workers with the latest and greatest that viral video has to offer... if not, or if you just need a little instant levity, I would recommend bookmarking this page ;).

I really enjoyed this article over on Silicon Alley Insider, the commentary and Henry's sweet double-negative quote which pretty much says it all. "I see almost no chance that this is NOT the future of the TV business." Similar to something our founder Jeremy Allaire said to me in late 2004 when he convinced me to leave Comcast for what would become Brightcove. TV of the near-future, which is already here for some, will look a whole lot more like the rest of the Internet than TV of today.

As we near the end of 2009, we'd like to take a moment to wish all of our customers, partners, employees and industry friends a very happy holiday season and to thank all of you for your continued support. 2009 was certainly another banner year for Brightcove and we owe a lot of that success to all of you. Your continued feedback and guidance is extremely important to us and will continue to be so in the New Year. 

This month's Site of The Month (SOTM) goes to the Société Générale Careers video portal built by our French partners Hub Sales.  The WebTV team at Hub Sales was presented the challenge of making the recruitment process for the world renowned bank and financial institution more engaging and informative for the prospective candidates.  With the added challenge of presenting the

Brightcove 3 players offer optional cross-promotion of related, newest and most viewed videos within the information screen. This screen can be displayed as an end-cap when a video completes. Now, you can dynamically and programmatically control what videos are surfaced in these lists. Check out this new help topic, which describes how to use the new Player API methods, released with Brightcove 3.2, that control which additional videos get displayed.

Our new chromeless video player looks great out-of-the-box, but for a deeper brand experience here are 3 simple tips for easily customizing the player for your site.

It's been a year since I joined Brightcove in December of 2008. I have come to appreciate and understand online video technology and online video strategies at a much deeper level that I ever did during my many years at Macromedia and Adobe. In looking back, I can see the emergence of several key trends that are shaping the market in 2010.

By providing recommended videos, online publishers are able to keep users engaged for a longer period and entice them to come back to watch more. Thanks to our Engagement-based technology, publishers can now serve up recommended videos that truly have personal meaning for users.

It's always rewarding to see threads of one's life woven together.  With that in mind, I was happy to learn today that a ColdFusion developer had crafted a Brightcove Media API SDK for ColdFusion.  In short, this allows CF developers to easily integrate video into their content and database applications, as well as drive dynamic pages with video and related meta-data. 

http://cfbcove.riaforge.org/

Here at Oasis we are very much in support of playlists.  Most days you find our developers working to the tunes of themed playlists that range from classic rock to hip-hip or even the obscure artist specific playlist (These mainly include Canadian themed rock bands that go by the name of Rush.)  So you can see we are definitely fans of the playlist and have no ill will towards them.

We recently posted about the great work that our solution partner, Adjust Your Set, has done using the Brightcove platform to build new video-rich websites for leading retailers in the UK, including Thomas Pink.

Congrats to our friends at VEVO for launching this week. While it may be popular to bash the labels, it's been my experience that some of the biggest innovation around monetization, advanced features and business models have come from our partners in the music industry.

The holidays are here and that means shopping. Gone are the days when all your shopping could be done within the pages of a comic book. With online shopping thoroughly mainstream, you’ll note that some e-commerce sites have turned to Brightcove for their video needs. Video is the number one advanced site feature that online retailers are planning on adding to their ecommerce sites this season and we have some neat partner examples below: