Tomorrow, our regional sales director for Spain, Portugal and Latin America, Nicolas Amado, will be presenting two sessions at the BDigital Apps event in Barcelona. BDigital Apps is a national congress focused on applications for mobile devices. It is organized by the Barcelona Digital Technology Centre. 

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

Here's a great article on results on the use of video by Zappos and the results they're seeing - 6% - 30% uplift in sales.  The ROI is such that they're investing in 10 full time video studios with the goal of having 50,000 videos next year (up from 8,000 today).  Wow!  This is very much a trend that we're seeing with e-commerce retailers investing in online video, Share:

Join Brightcove and Cavi for breakfast and find out how companies such as Stern Magazine, Marks and Spencer and Thomas Pink are using next generation video technologies to deliver new services and revenue streams. Video is a vital component of all companies online strategy as it creates a powerful way to engage an audience in a way that captures their attention. Brightcove, the leading Online Video Platform and Cavi, a leading provider of invideo ecommerce solutions will show you:

In October we kicked off a Site of the Month competition for Brightcove partners. Brightcove partners across EMEA were invited to submit sites to sotm@brightcove.com that showed innovative use of video technology, had sophisticated technology integration or were just plain cool looking.

Our next Meetup in London will be held on Thursday June 11th from 6 pm at the Pitcher & Piano, Trafalgar Square.  Jeremy and Bob (our CTO) will be the special guests so don't miss this opportunity to meet them and ask them your questions on roadmap, etc!  RSVP here.

Yesterday during their panel at the Next09 show, Jeremy and Axel Schmiegelow, the CEO of Sevenload, announced a partnership between the two companies.  We are very excited to be working with Sevenload who operate one of the largest video portals in Germany and several other territories.  Brightcove customers will now be able to easily have their content syndicated into a channel on Sevenload and,

Editor & Publisher writes of a newspaper industry report from Borrell (hat tip to Beet.tv).  Of particular note was the stat that: "Those newspapers investing in online video -- though only a small percent -- are reaping ad dollars. On average 27.7% of their total online revenue comes from video.