Brightcove is pleased to announce that we’ve recently integrated Video Cloud with Adobe’s CQ5 Web experience management platform, adding a robust, enterprise-class content management system (CMS) to the growing roster of CMSs with which we’ve integrated.

Today we announced the general commercial availability of App Cloud, our second major product. You can learn all about it here. This post is the back story for why we built it.

Let’s begin with a few somewhat controversial assertions:

The Brightcove PLAY 2011 global customer conference is sold out, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out on the fun and excitement of the event. We are streaming all of the keynotes live from the Boston Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center!

We are excited to announce today that we have licensed Adobe Pass authentication and authorization technology and have also become a certified Adobe Pass Enablement Partner.

Following on the heels of the exciting Brightcove PLAY keynote announcement about Akamai's David Kenny, we are proud to announce today that Adobe's director of platform evangelism, Ben Forta, will also present during the opening keynote session at our first annual global customer confe

Brightcove just announced native support for Adobe's latest Flash Player release (version 10.2), including support for Stage Video. Stage Video works by offloading much of much of the display and scaling functions of video to a device's GPU, which means improved playback quality plus decreased processor usage. As the leading Online Video Platform, Brightcove is the only premium video solution to have Stage Video support available at the launch of Flash Player 10.2.

Google's release of the new open source, royalty-free WebM video format and VP8 codec is big news today. Brightcove is enthusiastically joining Google, Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, and others in pledging support for WebM. Our COO and CTO are on stage out at Google I/O to tell the crowd what we're up to.  As you will see below, we believe that WebM is changing the landscape of online video in important ways that you'll want to understand.

It's hard to believe we're only a few weeks away from Adobe's 360|Flex conference, which is set for March 7 - 10 in San Jose. We are happy to be a Bronze sponsor for this year's event, which should prove to be another well-attended and extremely valuable gathering for the Flex community.

We are very happy to unveil the Brightcove Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This new solution will enable organizations to easily deliver an optimized video viewing experience across smartphone platforms running Flash Player 10.1 when it is available, including Google Android, Symbian S60, Palm webOS, Windows Mobile and Research in Motion BlackBerry.

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.

We are pleased to announce today that we have rolled out broad support for Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 through content delivery services provided by Limelight Networks to provide more than 700 customers in 28 countries with turn-key access to enhanced dynamic delivery capabilities for HD-quality online video. We also introduced on-demand access to advanced security options for video stream encryption and SWF verification.

Today at the NAB Show in Las Vegas Adobe and Brightcove will announce a new and far-reaching strategic alliance that deepens the integration and alignment between Adobe's software platform and Brightcove's online video service. The alliance also sets in motion a new sales and marketing framework between the two companies to jointly acquire new customers on a worldwide basis.

The Adobe and Brightcove strategic alliance focuses on four core areas:

We're delighted to announce Brightcove support for the latest version of Flash video. Moviestar, announced today, is the fruit of Adobe efforts to bring the HD-capable H.264 video standard to Flash. Moviestar matches Flash's ubiquity and rich user experience capability with high video fidelity. This is a combination we've all been waiting for since Flash 6, with blocky, instant-on video, first hit.

Adobe's merger with Macromedia will create a powerful software company focused on converged media - bringing together dominant formats and runtimes, tools and applications for digital media (documents, images, video), and interactive, multimedia applications into a single company. This new Adobe will likely become one of the most important, independent commercial software companies outside of Microsoft. As computing and media becomes more 'converged', Adobe should become an even more crucial supplier and enabler.