Today, Brightcove and TubeMogul released the Online Video & the Media Industry Quarterly Research Report for the first and second quarters of 2011. The report examines online video discovery, usage, and engagement data from a sample of thousands of websites covering newspapers, magazines, online media, broadcasters, and brands. In addition to the quarterly data, this report takes a special look at engagement on mobile 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. 

Brightcove was pleased to be a part of this year's South By Southwest Interactive conference. Our own Jesse Streb represented at the event with a session on Monday in the Austin Convention Center.

Who doesn't love a good top 10 list? We do, especially when we are in it! Yesterday Fast Company published an article highlighting the "10 Most Innovative Companies in Video" that listed Brightcove at number 7 behind a variety of other video powerhouses - YouTube, Twitter, Netflix, FX, Funny or Die and UStream. Rounding out the top 10 are Blip.TV, Xtranormal and GetGlue.

Livestreaming from Drupalcon 2011 brought to you by Brightcove and Telestream!

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Drupalcon Chicago, a celebration of all things Drupal, bringing together the people who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. Thanks to the technology behind Brightcove, our CDN partner Akamai and their HD live capabilities, as well as Telestream, I was able to broadcast a live international event all from the sound and lighting booth of the Chicago Sheraton Towers.

Here are some pictures of the view from the booth:

Today Brightcove and TubeMogul released the Online Video & the Media Industry Quarterly Research Report for the fourth quarter of 2010.

As is the case every January, all eyes are on Park City, Utah as the 2011 Sundance Film Festival officially kicks off tomorrow, January 20th. And once again, Brightcove has been named the official online video provider for the Festival and today announced that Sundance Institute is also using Brightcove to support its new live and on-demand video initiatives.

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

In Q3, we also included a special feature focusing on the peak days of the week and times of day broken out by each of the media industries we cover. 

Notable findings include:

Discovery

• Facebook now refers more video streams than Yahoo! for the aggregate media sample. This marks the first time the social platform has surpassed the search engine and content portal. Facebook accounted for 9.6% of all referrals, making it second only to Google.
   

This post also appears as a Brightcove Sponsored Post on VidCompare's blog. 

In the US over the last year, time spent viewing online video increased a whopping 47 percent, from 9.8 hours/month to 14.4 hours/month according to comScore data. The audience for online video continues to grow as more content becomes available and viewers make a habit of consuming more across all their devices.

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: 

Register now for “Creating BUZZ with VIDEO: Shooting & Publishing Made Easy!" 

Join Brightcove and partners at Pixability in a free 60-minute webinar. Brightcove CTO and co-founder Bob Mason and CEO of Pixability Bettina Hein will share with you:

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.

This post first appeared as a sponsored post on VidCompare.

Chances are if you are reading VidCompare you’ve already been convinced of the need for an online video strategy. However, you might need to convince others in your organization to bring that video strategy to fruition. So here are a few stats that you can reference to help bolster your case to your colleagues and to help prove the value of video.

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.

Another successful release out the door, jam-packed with features available now...and some more a little later on today - stay tuned! I'll have another blog post later with details.

For now, read on for highlights of the release below, or check out the complete product release notes on our Support site.

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 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.

Great times here in Brightcove UK - we've moved offices!  

Today we're kicking of our Summer Video event with the IAB UK.   A series of 3 events over the summer months to look at issues that will fundamentally change the way online video advertising will effect your business.

Today we're starting with a dissection and dissemination of the VAST/VPAID standards.   At 3pm BST (GMT+1) we'll be kicking off a session looking into how these new standards will effectively change your business for the better.

 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: 

Long time Brightcove customer, The Guardian, re-launched their homepage today - looks pretty slick.   In an interview given to Business Insider, Janine Gibson reasons it's "all about using it as a better window for the vast variety of what we're producing around our network."

Tonight is London's BDG - Brightcove for Interactive Video.

Come back at 7pm GMT for the live stream (player below) - ask questions via Twitter!  #LBDG

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.

Last Thursday an eclectic mix of people attended The Spring Fever #Soxup Event at Fenway Park, which was the Boston booksigning event for Steve Garfield, author of Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business.  Brightcove was proud to sponsor the event for good friend, Steve.  We picked up 75 books for the event-- 70 books given away at the doo