Long time Brightcove customer, The Guardian, re-launched their homepage today - looks pretty slick.   In an interview given to Business Insider, Janine Gibson reasons it's "all about using it as a better window for the vast variety of what we're producing around our network."

Making a good-looking screencast can be a challenge. When the main of the point of a video depends on the viewer being able to read what's on the screen you're showing, you need to account for whether your viewers will be watching full-screen or in a smaller embedded player. In a new article, Mikey Carreiro from Brightcove Customer Support gives some tips for how to capture an effective screencast video and how to publish it in your Brightcove player. Read the article.

One of my favourite emerging player publishing models is what I like to call 'The Hook and Bucket'.  This model tends to be of tremendous value for omni-media infotainment publishers like La Vanguardia in Spain and the OMS network in Germany.