Earlier this year, the FCC adopted rules requiring captioned programs shown on TV in the United States to also include captions if they’re delivered over the Internet. Since most U.S. broadcast television content is required to be captioned, nearly all of the country’s TV programming that’s available over the Internet eventually will require captions as well. Read More →

Consumers like to multi-screen. That’s according to a new report from Google, which not only turns “multi-screen” into a verb, it sheds some interesting light on consumer behaviors across multiple devices. In “The New Multi-screen World,” Google takes a 24-hour snapshot of the interplay between consumers - or multi-screeners - and their media engagement and multitasking habits across smartphones, tablets, PCs/laptops and TVs. Read More →

Today Brightcove announced the commercial availability of Google’s Widevine multi-platform digital rights management (DRM) technology as part of Video Cloud, delivering on the commitment we first made at NAB this year. Read More →

Though it feels like the 2012 election has been in full swing for some time, things really kick into high gear with this week's GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., followed by the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte next week. 2012, in fact, marks the 20th anniversary of the first use of email and websites in political campaigns according to Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century: A Whole New Ball Game? In the book, author Dennis W. Johnson offers an interesting timeline documenting other selected first uses of online communications tools, such as: Read More →