Speaking of awards, Brightcove has been nominated again this year for the Streaming Media Reader's Choice Awards. We're honored to be a nominee in the online video platforms (premium) category this time around and would appreciate your help and support in the voting process!

If you haven't signed up already, make sure to register for the "I want my B2B Video!" webcast session on Thursday, September 17th, at 2:00 pm ET with Brightcove and Forrester Research. Jeff Whatcott, our senior vice president of marketing, will join Bobby Tulsiani, senior analyst at Forrester, to discuss the drivers behind the growing use of online video in the B2B industry.

We are very proud to report that last Friday at the IBC Conference in Amsterdam, Brightcove was named the "Best Web TV Technology or Service" at the awards ceremony for the 2009 CSI Product Awards. The awards, organized by Cable & Satellite International magazine, are one of the most comprehensive and competitive technology awards in the industry, as they are designed to reward technical and product marketing excellence in the cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcasing and IPTV sectors.

Last week, Forbes' Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, Quentin Hardy, sat down with Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire to talk about CIO strategy and online video in the enterprise. You can see an excerpt of the interview in the Forbes.com Video Network segment below.

We are very pleased to announce that the Brightcove Alliance, our global partner ecosystem, has doubled in size over the past seven months to include more than 200 technology, distribution and solution partners. We also unveiled 5 new technology partner categories, including content management systems, transcoding, e-mail, content and live, as well as a new training and certification program for our solution partners.

Brightcove has an exciting lineup of meetups over the next two weeks. If you're in the area for any of these meetups, we would love to have you join us for the festivities.

We're also very happy to announce that we have partnered with Boxee, the first "social" media center, to provide our media customers with turn-key distribution options to the living room television via Boxee's interface.

We're very pleased to announce today that Germany's most widely read newspaper has selected Brightcove to deliver a more engaging and user-friendly online video experience. ZEIT ONLINE, the Web property for Die Zeit, is now able to tightly integrate advertising-supported video with other online video content through the Brightcove platform. ZEIT ONLINE will also be able to extend its online audience by giving visitors the ability to share and embed videos on third party sites.

Greetings Toronto Area Publishers, Partners and Friends:

Come join us on Thursday September 10th for drinks and apps and all things Brightcove. We'll have representation from Account Management, Sales, and Product on hand to answer questions, update you on the latest, and mainly catch up in person. There will also be partners on hand to discuss their products and services and how they integrate into Brightcove 3.

You're invited to a Brightcove Alliance meetup that will take place in San Francisco on Thursday, September 10th at 6:00 PM at the Thirsty Bear brew pub (661 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105).

Join Brightcove founder/CEO, Jeremy Allaire, and Brightcove Alliance partners from the Bay Area for an evening of networking, brainstorming, and demos. Learn how leading media companies and marketers are taking advantage of our partner ecosystem to deliver powerful and innovative solutions built on top of the Brightcove online video platform.

As summer comes to a close, we are prepping for what should prove to be a rewarding (and busy!) Fall on the conference and tradeshow circuit. The Brightcove team will be speaking at and participating in many noteworthy industry events over the next few months.

In a new interview with Beet TV, Brightcove customer Time Inc. details the organization's newly revamped online video offerings at Time.com. Working in conjunction with the Brightcove platform, the Time.com team has created a dynamic, engaging online video experience for Time's readers around the world.

BusinessWeek'sTechnology Editor Peter Elstrom sat down with Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire for a video interview covering a wide range of topics including the state of the economy, mobile video, YouTube, and more.

On this bright and sunny Friday afternoon here at Brightcove headquarters in Cambridge, we thought it fitting to point out some of our latest and greatest product documentation and developer center articles:

Brightcove 3.3.1 is now available! This blog post from the product management team sums up the new features in the latest release, including image capture, faster/lighter players, integrated player debugger, new Advertising API methods and a built in ad-server.

Today, if you have good, professionally produced video content, chances are you are monetizing it using pre-roll ads.

Lifetime Digital has just launched an exciting new video site for the much-anticipated debut of Project Runway season six on Lifetime Television Thursday, August 20, at 10 PM ET/PT.

The new site, which has already spiked daily traffic to myLifetime.com by 19%, has rolled out the first set of the more than 500 exclusive video clips that will be featured throughout the new season. New video content and applications include:

We're very pleased to report that the History Channel (UK) recently launched new consumer websites for its History and Military History channels in the UK built on the Brightcove platform. The History Channel (UK) is a joint venture between two other long-time Brightcove customers, A&E Television Networks (AETN) and BSkyB.

Brightcove is recruiting to fill 30 new job openings in Q3 across nearly every department in the company including Engineering, Customer Support, Systems/Operations, Sales and Business Development. We've just posted the first wave of 12 new openings to our job board. We will be adding more jobs over the coming weeks.

Earlier this month, UK Premier League football club Manchester City launched a website featuring exciting new online video offering produced by Endemol Sport and powered by Brightcove. The website design and video implementation was spearheaded by London-based creative agency and Brightcove Alliance partner, Poke.

Earlier today, Brightcove Alliance partner Goodmail Systems announced an innovative new technology integration with the Brightcove platform that enables publishers and marketers to deliver streaming video experiences within emails.

Email & Video Equal a Winning Combination

Earlier today, Fortune's new Brainstorm Tech site published a guest column by Brighcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, "Had I Been at Sun Valley," where he provides some friendly advice for the media industry. Here's an excerpt:

At a press conference in Tokyo earlier today, Brightcove announced the general availability of a fully-localized online video platform for Japan. With today's announcement, Brightcove extends its existing localized player architecture to inlude the full suite of back-end online video platform services, including content management, player design and publishing, delivery, product documentation and customer support.

We are very excited to announce a new deal with News Corp.'s Fox International Channels enabling its many media brands to use the Brightcove platform for online video initiatives. The first major new initiative to launch under the deal is Mundo Fox, a VOD portal opeated by Fox Latin American Channels that features more than 800 hours of ad-supported clips and full-length show, including 24, Family Guy, Burn Notice, My Name is earl and The Simpsons. The video is available dubbed or subtitled in Spanish or Portuguese.

We're always interested in hearing from customers and partners about new and unique ways they are using the Brightcove APIs and our markup language, BEML, to build highly customized online video experiences. The flexibility of our platform enables organizations of all kinds to deliver customized user experiences that match the overall design and feel of their site and help them to deeply integrate video with the rest of their Web content.

Qik, a live mobile video provider, recently joined the Brightcove Alliance, a global ecosystem of more than 160 technology, distribution and solution providers integrating with and building on the Brightcove online video platform. The following is a guest post from Qik's co-founder, Bhaskar Roy, detailing the new partnership and how Brightcove customers can benefit from the integration.

Calling all Brightcove developers!

Brightcove will be hosting our next training session for customers and partners next week in New York. This is a rare opportunity to learn all you've ever wanted to know about BEML and Brightcove's Media, Player, and Ad APIs.

The instructors for this training session will be two of our lead developers, Todd Yard and Chris Tierney.

Brightcove invites you to a New York City developer meetup. Come join us for a night of networking, drinks and solution presentations with the Brightcove engineering team.

When: Thursday, June 25th, 5:30 PM
Where: MicroTek New York City Training Center, 90 Broad Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY

To learn more, RSVP and find directions, click here: http://anyvite.com/mkfjptw0zk

Please feel free to forward this invitation to anybody else who might be interested in going.

We're happy to announce that Philly.com has chosen the Brightcove platform to publish and distribute video content for its site. Philly.com is the flagship Web property for the Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the highest circulation newspapers in the U.S., as well as the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia area's leading tabloid.

In early May, Brightcove participated in the Next09 conference in Hamburg, Germany. Brightcove CEO, Jeremy Allaire, spoke on a panel at the event with sevenload CEO Axel Schmiegelow about the social media revolution and how to build communities and brands.

Since announcing the company was standardizing on the Brightcove platform last year, AOL has seen great stability and flexibility in making the transition to Brightcove.