We are very excited to report that Brightcove has once again been named to the annual EContent 100 list. The EContent 100 honors the companies that have made a significant impact on the world of digital content and digital publishing in the past year. Honorees include publishers and content creators, as well as companies that support the infrastructure and technology of digital content. 

Video is a great way to drive organic inbound traffic to your site, but for maximum impact you’ll need to find ways to distribute your content to wherever your (potential) viewers are on the web. Distributing video to your viewers increases your exposure and can provide valuable hooks back to your own website to drive traffic.

You know that your videos can be shared via email or Twitter using the distribution tools that are built into Brightcove players. Here I'll show you how to modify the link to the video so that it always points back to the page that the video was shared from.

We recently published another great new case study, this time from the great country of Germany. Snack TV Media aggregates premium online video content from many different sources and distributes it to German-speaking audiences throughout the world.

Earlier today, we announced that Screen Media Ventures, a leading worldwide independent motion picture distribution company, has chosen Brightcove to support its new online digital movie platform, Popcornflix.com. The new Web service, which launched last month, provides free access to hundreds of theatrically released and independent movies to viewers in the U.S.

Every quarter, Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire and COO David Mendels present a webcast for customers with an update on newly released platform features and a preview of our product roadmap. It has been a busy few months and a lot was covered during the webinar, so we wanted to share a summary of some of the key highlights.

Web video series maven Felicia Day was one of the highlights of SXSW Interactive festival in her Q&A style keynote with NewTeeVee's Liz Shannon Miller.

I’m pleased to announce that we have started enabling users of the Brightcove Studio to start synchronizing content in their Brightcove libraries with YouTube User channels and everyone should have access in the next few weeks.

We are very excited to be the lead sponsor for the upcoming Beet TV Online Video Journalism Summit, "Exploring the digital transformation of video news reporting and distribution," which is being held on Tuesday, February 1st from 9:00 - 11:30 am ET.

We are very pleased to announce that Brightcove now offers seamless integration with TubeMogul’s OneLoad video distribution capability. Brightcove customers are now able to upload their video assets once to Brightcove and automatically distribute it to top video discovery sites, including Bing, Blip.tv, DailyMotion, Metacafe, iTunes, sevenload, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and Yahoo!.

Ever since YouTube made it possible to embed videos onto blogs and websites, video content has become completely ubiquitous and viral.

One of the most important things that a project design teams needs to think about when building a successful online video initiative is the concept of Consumer Discovery.   Amazingly enough, in my experience, this tends to be one of the most overlooked component of any project.

At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this morning, Brightcove will announce an exciting new distribution opportunity for professional media publishers. Through a seamless integration with the Yahoo! TV Widget Engine, Brightcove customers can now use their existing account and workflow to publish and maintain branded online video experiences for the living room television - no additional design or development work required.

With the release of native live streaming support in Brightcove 4 the question is not if you should take up live streaming but when.

Live streaming offers a video initiative bags of possibilities but true Live Streaming can be costly.   We do work with many partners that can complete this value chain very seamlessly, or for simple projects there's the very easy to use and free Adobe Live Media Encoder that can connect any camera to the servers via a PC.

There's so much buzz out there about the iPhone and what it means for the mobile online video market.  Sometimes the noise is so energetic that we tend to forget that the iPhone is only one player in the vast smartphone market.

Here, our Regional Director of Sales Engineering, Mark Harpur gives us a great anecdote that demonstrates that Brightcove is ready and available to handsets beyond the iPhone:

As the Brightcove platform continues to be used as the foundation for new and unique applications, one of the most exciting emerging proposals is for internal communications over a corporate intranet.

The use cases we're starting to see is for large multinationals who have embraced video as a key tool for corporate and client communications, particularily in the finanicial and legal vertical - if a picture says a 1000 words, how many words does a video say?

What's the best way to create an MRSS feed for a distribution partner? In this new article, Chris Little describes how to use MRSS output from the Brightcove Media API to create feeds for your affiliates. Read more.

This one goes in the horn tooting category.

"Overall, Brightcove appears to me as the premier choice for online video publishing and distribution. No other service comes close to the integrated array of features and facilities that Brightcove as put together so far."