We are very excited to announce the next-generation Brightcove Video Cloud Smart Player, which provides a new level of stability and consistency for HTML5 video experiences on iOS and Android devices.

We are very excited to announce that Farm Aid 2011 has teamed with Brightcove to live stream the all-star concert to fans around the world.

Farm Aid is the longest running benefit concert series in America, raising more than $37 million to help family farmers thrive all over the country while inspiring millions of poeple to learn about the Good Food movement. 

For the past six years, Brightcove has been headquartered in Kendall Square near the MIT Campus in Cambridge, Mass. While we love the location, we've outgrown our space and today announced plans to move into an amazing new facility on Boston's waterfront.

We are very happy to announce that Brightcove has opened a new country headquarters in Sydney, Australia. With more than 30 customers already in Australia and New Zealand, Brightcove this week unveiled plans to deepen the company's investment and commitment in the market with a new corporate office and key executive appointments.

Against the backdrop of the G20 summit, Brightcove announced yesterday the opening of a new country headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. At a press conference in Seoul’s financial district, Brightcove President and COO, David Mendels, introduced James Yoon, who will lead company operations for Brightcove in South Korea. Yoon comes to Brightcove from 24/7 Real Media Korea and reports to Brightcove VP of APAC, Dennis Rose.

We are very excited to announce Brightcove 5, a major new release of the Brightcove online video platform with wide-ranging enhancements that will empower our customers to significantly expand audience reach, accelerate productivity, and maximize the return on their online video investments. Some of the new features in the Brightcove 5 release include: 

Today, Brightcove & TubeMogul released the Online Video & Media Industry Quarterly Research Report for the second quarter of 2010. The report examines online video discovery, usage and engagement data from a sample of nearly 2,000 news and entertainment websites representing 3.4 billion video streams.

We are very happy to announce a number of major milestones for Brightcove and share some exciting new leadership appointments.

Our continued focus on delivering wide-ranging online video innovations, at a pace and scale unparallelled in the industry, has resulted in a surge in new customer adoption around the globe. In the first six months of this year, Brightcove doubled the size of its customer based on more than 1,800 organizations, representing nearly every sector of industry and society.

We are very excited to announce that Akamai and Brightcove, next-door neighbors on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass., have entered into a wide-ranging global alliance that will drive quality, performance, and innovation in the online video industry. Under the terms of the deal, Brightcove will bundle Akamai's cutting-edge HD Network as an integrated part of Brightcove's market-leading video platform. Brightcove customers will benefit from the global reach, ultra-high quality delivery, and rock-solid performance of the Akamai HD Network.

We are very excited to announce today that Bell Canada, the largest communications company in Canada providing telephone, wireless, high-speed Internet, digital television and voice services, has chosen the Brightcove platform to power its online video initiatives.

We are very excited to announce that leading UK fashion retailer, Warehouse, has chosen the Brightcove platform to expand their e-commerce initiatives with video-rich online shopping experiences and a new Brightcove-powered iPhone app.

 We are very excited to announce that Brightcove today officially launched commercial operations in France with the addition of key personnel, strategic partnerships, and major new customer wins. France represents the fourth European country where Brightcove has established official company operations. Brightcove launched its UK operations in 2007, followed by an office in Hamburg, Germany in 2008 and Barcelona, Spain earlier this year.

While an enormous amount of ink is spilled everyday about the media industry and online video, there's still very little primary research available on the subject. Brightcove and TubeMogul have teamed up to develop a new quarterly research report with data and analysis focused on the online video market. Our goal is to contribute to the ongoing dialog on the state of the industry and inform additional research initiatives.

We are very excited to announce that The Financial Times has chosen Brightcove to power its ad-supported online video initiatives at FT.com. The Financial Times is one of the word's leading business news organizations and a go-to destination on the Web for news, commentary, data and analysis for the global business community. 

The Wall Street Journal has published an article featuring Brightcove and recent developments at the company.

Brightcove confirms that the company has closed a $12 million Series D round of financing led by Accel Partners and General Catalyst. Other existing investors, including AOL, Hearst, AllianceBernstein, Maverick, and Brookside Capital, also participated in the Series D.

We are very excited to announce that Brightcove will join Rovi and YouTube for a live video webcast on the future of TV, Thursday, April 8th. The panel discussion will feature Eric Elia, VP of TV solutions for Brightcove, Richard Bullwinkle, Rovi's Chief Evangelist, and Chris Dale, Global Corporate Affairs, YouTube.

The discussion will focus on: 

We are very excited to announce that Sportpost, Europe's first social media destination for sports fans, has rolled out wide-ranging video features powered by the Brightcove platform. Sportpost, which officially launched earlier today, brings together videos, blogs, news and debates from the world of sports in one central location. Ad-supported video content throughout the social media site will include high def exclusives from Nike Football, Red Bull, Monster Entergy, UFC, Laureus Sports, and World Sport TV.

We are very excited to announce a wide-ranging new partnership with EMI Group, a music entertainment powerhouse with a legendary catalog of artists, labels and music videos. EMI will use the Brightcove platform to publish, distribute and monetize video content across its website properties and to EMI Group's third-party syndication partners.

We are very excited to announce today that Nikkei, Japan's leading newspaper, is standardizing all online video operations on the Brightcove platform.

We are very excited to announce that Virgin Media, one the UK's leading entertainment and communications companies, has chosen the Brightcove platform to expand video programming across its website properties.

Today, Brightcove has announced another major milestone for the company with the official launch of operations in Spain and a new corporate office in Barcelona. Brightcove has also unveiled a fully localized online video platform for Spanish-speaking markets.

We are extremely excited about the fast-paced adoption of the Brightcove platform among leading Spanish media companies and marketers. Today, we are proud to announce a raft of new customer wins in Spain including Tuenti, Grupo Vocento, Grupo V, Conde Nast Digital Spain, Sony Music Spain, GEC, GX Magazine and TQMadrid.

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. 

We are very excited to announce a wide-ranging new partnership with TubeMogul. The collaboration involves several components:

It has been an exciting year for Brightcove in Japan. Since the formation of our majority-owned subsidiary in 2008 and the introduction of a fully localized Brightcove Studio, media businesses and marketers across Japan have embraced Brightcove as the solution of choice for online video publishing, distribution and monetization.

A little over two years ago, Brightcove opened its European headquarters in London. In that short amount of time, the UK has become an important global center for innovation in the online video industry, often spearheaded by television broadcasters in the market.

We’ve had the honor of working with many of the leading UK broadcasters, including ITV, Channel 4, Five, BSkyB, UKTV and STV. This week, we are very excited to add Virgin Media Television to the list.

Over the past two years, we’ve noticed a number of interesting growth trends in the UK broadcast sector.

We are excited to report that Virgin Media Television’s LIVING brand recently launched Liv, the UK’s first online TV channel delivering free, exclusive, original short-form content each day, using the Brightcove online video platform.

We are very excited to introduce a new, weekly video series in the Brightcove Developer Center called Developer TV.