We’ve had a lot of activity around content management system integrations recently, announcing a partnership with Ektron and a new Brightcove module for Drupal 7 over the past few months. At Brightcove, we understand that our customers are managing not just video content but entire websites, so we place a lot of emphasis on making sure Brightcove Video Cloud works seamlessly with other tools that marketers and content publishers use to build engaging Web experiences. We’re continuing the trend of bringing you deep integrations with leading content management systems this week with the SharePoint 2010 integration with Video Cloud. Read More →

For many of our publishers, video metadata is an essential tool for content management and tracking. Whether they are using tags for video search engine optimization, assigning content to players programmatically with the reference ID, or using a custom metadata field for custom functionality, video metadata can be a crucial step of the content publishing workflow. Our latest Video Cloud product update includes a metadata assurance feature (for Professional and Enterprise editions) to assist organizations like these in content publishing and quality control. The feature lets account administrators denote certain metadata fields as “required.” Content missing any required data can be uploaded, edited, and even inserted into playlists, but will remain in an “inactive” state and thus will not display in players on the Web. Read More →