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 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 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.
We're very pleased to report that the History Channel (UK) recently launched new consumer websites for its History and Military History channels in the UK built on the Brightcove platform. The History Channel (UK) is a joint venture between two other long-time Brightcove customers, A&E Television Networks (AETN) and BSkyB.
Earlier this month, UK Premier League football club Manchester City launched a website featuring exciting new online video offering produced by Endemol Sport and powered by Brightcove. The website design and video implementation was spearheaded by London-based creative agency and Brightcove Alliance partner, Poke.
Join Brightcove founders Jeremy Allaire (CEO), Bob Mason (CTO) and others in the Brightcove UK office for an evening of networking.
Venue is the Pitcher & Piano Trafalgar Square:
The Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic has released March numbers for UK newspaper websites. Brightcove customers Telegraph and Guardian saw significant gains. In first and second place, Telegraph.co.uk is doing 8% month-over-month growth coming in at 27.7 unique Internet users and Guardian.co.uk is experiencing 4% month-over-month growth with 26.2 million unique Internet users for March.
We are very excited to announce that the British Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, has chosen the Brightcove platform for its official online video destination on the Web, Number10TV. New website offerings will include exclusive video of the Prime Minister speeches, press conferences, media appearances, and news archives.
Channel 4, one of the four terrestrial broadcasters in the UK, has announced a company-wide agreement with Brightcove to use its market-leading Internet TV platform to distribute and monetize Internet video on its website properties.
This week we are really pleased to be confirming a new deal and our second major signing with a leading European newspaper publisher, the Guardian News & Media, which publishes UK national newspapers the Guardian and the Observer as well as the Guardian Unlimited network of websites.
We are excited to announce the official launch of our UK operations and the opening of a Brightcove London office. This is an important milestone for Brightcove and represents the culmination of significant momentum in the region with major media partners, including British Sky Broadcasting, Sony BMG UK, Hachette Filipacchi UK, Emap and IPC Media.