As you may have read the Brightcove Product team recently released the Brightcove Mobile Upload App for the iPhone. To support this awesome way to capture content and get it into your Brightcove account we've updated our transcoding system to better handle videos captured by devices such as the iPhone that may be held in different orientations while recording.

The Brightcove product team is pleased to announce the release of the Brightcove Mobile Upload App for the iPhone.  The Brightcove Mobile Upload App allows you to publish your content directly after capturing it on your device, giving you an edge on distributing your content and delivering your message.  

Everyone is a-buzz with excitement for Apple's latest announcement: the iPad 2. Over at Brightcove, we're pretty excited by fact that so many of the new features contribute to video activities on the device, whether it's watching, producing, or sharing video. 

Our quarterly online video report produced along with partners at TubeMogul highlights some of the interesting trends that emerged in 2010 in the industry. Today we'll take a closer look at the trends in the newspaper category that speak to videos news organizations present on their websites, alongside feature articles or in video galleries in Brightcove players.

IDC reported in the fourth quarter of 2010, global smartphone sales surpassed those of PCs. 100.9 million units were sold in the three month period, representing a 87.9% increase year over year. PCs sold 92.1 million during the same period, which also represented a record for the category, but wasn't enough to edge out smartphones.

Sometimes we're reminded that even the simplest tools can be put to impressive use in capable hands.

We've enhanced the Brightcove Smart Player feature to now support players that include a playlist. Smart Players enable you to automatically deliver your video in Flash or HTML5, depending on your viewer's device capabilities. Using a single embed code, Smart Players automatically detect the devices viewing your video and deliver the appropriate format for that environment. Smart Players support all of Brightcove’s advanced styling features, including point-and-click style editing and BEML customization.

A few weeks ago, Google released an online guidebook to help answer some of the most basic (and therefore most important!) questions about the nature of the web today. Illustrated by Christoph Niemann and written by the Chrome team, "20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web" is an interactive web-based book built using only HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.

It's Cyber Monday, everyone! And this year, the online holiday retail boon seems to be spreading out over the entire holiday season, as consumers become more comfortable making their purchases online.

A lot of our Express customers present video that caters to local niche markets. One awesome example is Thumb Magazine, a video magazine covering the people, places, organizations, and events in the Thumb of Michigan. Their ad-supported video features aim to build community by sharing positive and inspiring stories about the people and places in the neighborhood.

Last week, Brightcove's CTO Bob Mason walked us through the state of HTML5 video in a well-attended webinar, HTML5 Experiences for Today and Beyond - Developing your HTML5 Strategy. We covered a wealth of HTML5 topics, including:

Back in March, Brightcove announced early support for HTML5 experiences. And Brightcove has supported HTML5 in a basic form since 2008, when we introduced support for the H.264 format.

If you want to monetize your mobile videos in an iPhone app, Apple's iAds ad network is the only way to go. We have a new article that describes how to integrate iAds into an iPhone app created using the Brightcove App SDK for iOS. Using iAds is not too complicated: you can add iAd banners to your app the same way you would add a button, label, or any other UI element to your app in the iOS SDK. For details, read Monetizing your iOS app with iAds.

We have released version 2.0 of the Brightcove App SDK for iOS. The new version includes new APIs that support sharing videos by e-mail and Twitter. Read more.

Here's a roundup of the week's news in online video, with a little perspective on the impacts to the industry at large.

Following on the heels of yesterday's announcement about the new Sympatico.ca iPad video portal, we're pleased to announce another Brightcove customer is taking advantage of our mobile solutions to deliver a new iPhone app. Cantos, the market leader in online investor communications, recently launched the Cantos iPhone app, developed using Brightcove's App SDK for iOS. The new app provides users with high quality, in-depth interviews with CEOs and financial industry commentators that they can watch and download at their convenience.

We are very excited to announce today that Bell Canada, the largest communications company in Canada providing telephone, wireless, high-speed Internet, digital television and voice services, has chosen the Brightcove platform to power its online video initiatives.

Today, we released an updated version of the Brightcove iOS SDK (version 1.2.1).

Today, we released an updated version of the Brightcove iOS SDK (version 1.2.1).

It's an exciting week for Brightcove on the mobile app news front. Yesterday we highlighted our partnership with Mobile Roadie and the highly successful Taylor Swift mobile app created by Big Machine Records.

UPDATE: Twitter has pushed off the date for this authentication API change until August 2010. We expect we'll be able to update the Twitter feature in the Brightcove App SDK for iOS (formerly the Brightcove iPhone SDK) before then, so this issue shouldn't cause anyone any problems after all.

I hope you are excited about yesterday’s release of the Brightcove iPhone OS SDK (version 1.2.0). This new version is compatible with iPhone OS 3.2 and the iPad, and allows you to create compelling applications containing video optimized for these devices! To allow you to take advantage of significant updates to the iPhone OS, we chose to break out our API rather than doing a straight port of the old version.

Today, we released an updated version of the Brightcove iPhone OS SDK (version 1.2.0). Download the newest version of the SDK. The updated version includes support for Apple's iPhone OS 3.2 and the iPad. We've also split the SDK into three separate libraries for greater flexibility.

As commercial availability of the Apple iPad draws near, we have been getting a lot of inquiries from customers looking for guidance on what they need to do to deliver great video experiences on these devices that exclusively support the HTML5 approach to video. These customers are excited about the possibilities of the iPad, but they also have concerns about what it will take to deliver great video experiences in this environment. They want to know what the tradeoffs and gotchas are, and what we're doing to help them navigate this new landscape.

We're happy to announce the release of an updated version of the Brightcove iPhone SDK (version 1.1.0). Download the newest version of the SDK. If you have deployed an application to the iTunes app store or have created ad hoc builds for others to check out your app, we recommend updating your Brightcove iPhone SDK version in use and rebuilding the app. Read more about what's included in the updated version.

Sam Robbins has a new article in the Brightcove Developer Center that shows how to use the Brightcove iPhone SDK to load a playlist and render the text metadata for the videos into a UITableView.

I'm very excited to announce that today we released the Brightcove iPhone SDK. This SDK enables you to deliver videos from your Brightcove account via a native iPhone app to the iPhone or iPod Touch.

The Brightcove SDK is now available for download in the Developer Center.

Our reference application for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available for download on the iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/one-planet/id338782569?mt=8

Matt Congrove has updated the JavaScript code for his sample iPhone web app so that it now supports our new Universal Delivery Service feature, which lets streaming accounts also deliver video by HTTP where appropriate. This means that the sample app will work with streaming accounts as well as progressive download accounts.

Want to get your videos onto your viewers' iPhones? A new article by Ashley Streb describes how to encode your videos and deliver them on the iPhone. Check it out here.