Today marks the second full day of our annual user conference, Brightcove PLAY. And, with so many customers and partners in attendance, we couldn't think of a better forum to announce our latest exciting product news. Read More →
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Brenna Fitzgerald on May 14, 2013
Making Live as Easy as 3-2-1
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Albert Lai on April 26, 2013
In the first half of the 2000s, independent filmmakers were empowered through the availability of affordable digital non-linear editing (NLE) software and workstations, mass storage solutions, and prosumer high-definition cameras. With these tools, telling a story became much more achievable from a cost perspective, making film a desirable--but not required--part of the filmmaking process. 35mm reels and cans were replaced by Canons, Sony decks, a suitcase of G-Tech drives and a MacBook Pro. Read More →
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Brenna Fitzgerald on April 5, 2013The Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, or Bassmaster, is a fishing membership organization that boasts more than half a million members. The organization hosts 34--or more--tournaments in any given year, which take place all over the country. These tournaments range from smaller scale college events to grand-scale, crowd-attracting events such as the Bassmaster Classic. As you can imagine, bass fishing tournaments are typically held in remote locations. Read More →
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Jeff Whatcott on March 26, 2013
Today we announced the general availability of the Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding service, which is an open API for live video encoding in the cloud that removes barriers to multi-screen live streaming and changes the economics of live video events. Read More →
Video is a Critical Part of Marketing Transformation
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Brenna Fitzgerald on March 15, 2013A few weeks ago, we shared the news that Brightcove would power the live stream for the first-ever Chief Digital Officer Summit in New York City. We are pleased to report that the Summit was a great success in its promotion of digital media best practices. Additionally, our talented video producer Mykim Dang attended the event and has compiled some of the event's "greatest hits" into a short highlight reel (see video embedded below). Read More →
Inauguration 2013 Streamed Live to Millions
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Kristin Leighton on January 21, 2013
Earlier today, President Barack Obama renewed his oath of office for his second term in front of millions of people who had descended to Washington, D.C. to take part in this historic occasion. But those of us who weren't lucky enough to attend in person could tune in live via a number of live streams taking place across many major media outlets, including several Brightcove customers like The New York Times, POLITICO and USA Today. Read More →
Brightcove to Live Stream TEDxDumbo
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Kristin Leighton on October 12, 2012Brightcove is proud to be the live streaming video partner of the TEDxDumbo event taking place in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, October 13th. The event will take place at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, but thanks to the Brightcove Video Cloud online video platform, will also be streamed live at tedxdumbo.com/livestream starting at 10:20 am ET on Saturday. Read More →
PUMA to Live Stream from PUMA Yard at the London Olympics with Brightcove Video Cloud
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Kristin Leighton on August 3, 2012The London Olympics are in full swing and starting today, all eyes will turn to Olympic Stadium as the always popular track and field events kick off. As part of this, we are very excited to be working with our customer, PUMA, to support a series of exciting events they will be live streaming from the PUMA Yard in London. Read More →
Creating a Simple Live Stream Using Video Cloud
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Bob Bailey on July 12, 2012
The next topic in the Video Cloud Quick Start series is Creating a Simple Live Stream. This Quick Start will give you a set of hands on steps you can work through on your own to broadcast a live streaming event using the Flash version of a Video Cloud player. The Quick Start will walk you through enabling your account for a live streaming event, creating a live stream video using the Media module and configuring the Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder for a live stream. Read More →
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Chris Nicholson on June 6, 2012
HUGO BOSS treated online viewers of its recent BOSS Black Fashion Show to a live 3D video stream of last month’s event in Beijing. As part of the launch of its BOSS Black Fall/Winter 2012 collection, the iconic global fashion brand used Video Cloud to optimize delivery of the live video to an audience of 50,000 viewers worldwide watching on PCs, iOS and Android devices via the HUGO BOSS website and directly on its Facebook page. Read More →
