For the second consecutive year, Brightcove Video Cloud powered the live streaming of Samsung Electronics’ Press Conference at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, US.

Started in 1967, CES is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. The 2012 International CES was the largest in the event's 44 year history, with a record number of more than 3,100 exhibitors across the largest show floor in CES history.

Brightcove is proud to be the exclusive live streaming video partner of the PivotCon 2011 event in New York City, taking place October 17 - 18th. PivotCon 2011 is an event for top brand managers who seek to bridge the gap between their brand and the rising "Social Consumer". The event will deliver the context and understanding that attendees need to redirect marketing dollars, create authentic interactions, and map a strategy of successful engagement with this powerful new market. 

We recently published another solid new case study with the California Academy of Sciences, which is a multifaceted scientific institution committed to cutting edge research, educational outreach and finding new and innovative ways to engage and inspire the public. 

This week marked a broadcasting first in the UK with the opening match of the FA Cup shown live on Facebook.

Brightcove is proud to sponsor Drupalcon, the international conference bringing together people who develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. We're always excited to support software that helps organizations publish content to the web! Drupal is also a Premier Brightcove Technology Partner.

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. 

Here's another use case for resizing a player: you want as large a screen as possible for the video while it's playing, but you don't want to give up all that real estate on the page when a video isn't playing.

We're more than excited that our very first customer conference is completely sold out, but we're sad that means we'll be missing some of you at the event! But if you can't make it in person in Boston, don't worry! There are lots of ways you can participate and follow the events from afar.

The Brightcove PLAY 2011 global customer conference is sold out, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out on the fun and excitement of the event. We are streaming all of the keynotes live from the Boston Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center!

Long-time Brightcove customer AOL has a ton of cool stuff in the works this week at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin,  including a series of "pop-up concerts" from bands like The Dodos, Bright Eyes, and The Vaccines that are being streamed live on the Web with Brightcove, as well as to iOS devices.

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:

Brightcove is proud to sponsor Drupalcon, the international conference bringing together people who develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. We are a Drupal shop here at Brightcove: this blog here, and our entire website for that matter are all Drupal!

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 marked the first day of Evento Blog España (EBE) 2010 in Seville, Spain, and we are proud to be the official live streaming partner for this exciting event. EBE10 is a major blogger and Web entrepreneur conference in Spain that is expected to draw about 2,500 attendees this year. The event runs through Sunday at the Barcelo Congress Center in Isla de la Caruja.

Getting Live Streaming done right will give a massive boost to your online video initiative.   
 
Learning how to do it right from the experts can save you at lot of time and headaches as you try to navigate this new form's many pitfalls.

We are pleased to announce that Telefónica O2 Ireland, a leading provider of mobile services and communications solutions to more than 1.7 million customers in Ireland, has chosen Brightcove to support a variety of new online video initiatives.

If you're unable to make it out to Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA this evening for the Boston Brightcove User Group Meeting "New Enhancements in Transcoding," don't worry!

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're excited to kick off yet another busy week for Brightcove in the UK. On Tuesday, March 16th, we will be live streaming from the Social TV Forum at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. The Social TV Forum will examine the current state of Social TV, the challenges in developing and implementing Social TV experiences, and the future outlook for Social TV. If you're attending, make sure to visit Brightcove at booth #9.

Tomorrow, Channel 4 in the UK will air "Embarrassing Bodies Live," an interactive online show that will be shown live on http://www.channel4.com/bodies using the Brightcove platform. Channel 4 will be taking advantage of the new live streaming capabilities introduced in Brightcove 4 to deliver a high quality live feed for this interactive event based on their the broadcaster's hit multiplatform health series Embarrassing Bodies.

The month of January was Live Streaming month for me.   Coming out of 2009 everyone was asking the same questions around Live Streaming: What is it?  What do I need to make it happen?  Why do I need it?

The subject was so popular in fact that I sat in on half a dozen global customer calls around it, organised the LBDG to delve deep into it and wrote an internal memo about it.  Over the last 4 weeks we also had the privilege of streaming over Brightcove:

So we're up and Live for the next 2.5 hrs

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid46572716001?bctid=46866543001

Remember to try to use the Facebook button on the player!

Send me a tweet if you want to ask a question :  http://www.twitter.com/cameronchurch

Quick note - sound won't start until the speakers do at 7pm