Brightcove’s New Player Fights Ad-Blockers

AMSTERDAM — Video technology vendor Brightcove last week unveiled Perform, a new service offering publishers its HTML5 video player with analytics, content protection and ad insertion built in. One other feature signifies a war on the ad blockers: “By being able to circumvent ad blockers, we allow you to capture that 30% to 40% of […]

 
 

Programmatic Video ‘Three Years Behind Display’: Videoplaza’s Muehle

AMSTERDAM – So-called “programmatic” techniques for controlling and targeting online ad trading are already revolutionizing sales of static display ads; but video is later to the ad-tech party. Display has been like this for a while. Video is two to three years behind,” London- and Stockholm-based video ad platform Videoplaza‘s director David Muehle tells Beet.TV in […]

 
 

HTML5 Video Caters To Savvy Scandinavians: Smartcom:TV’s Larssen

AMSTERDAM — Scandinavian consumers are ahead of the curve when it comes to technology adoption – and that means the video industry must cater for what is one of the world’s first mobile-viewing markets, says one exec from the sector. “We are early movers in the technical industry; our users are very tech-savvy,” Jon Andreas Larssen, technology […]

 
 

Opera Sees HTML5 As Cure For Video Fragmentation

AMSTERDAM — Everyone knows how splintered the online video industry is. Opera Software, a veteran web browser maker, reckons TV can learn a thing or two from web standards. “The big problem in the TV market is, everything is fragmented,” Opera Software product management VP Frode Hernes tells Beet.TV in this video interview recorded at IBC […]

 
 

Premium And Long-Tail Video Are Blending: Brightcove’s Jain

AMSTERDAM — The highs and lows of video content production are colliding as amateur and pro-am producers start making output that looks increasingly good to broadcast execs. “One really interesting thing is the democratization of content,” Brightcove media SVP and GM Anil Jain tells Beet.TV in this video interview recorded at IBC Show. “Mostly, (with) ‘media’ […]

 
 

TV, Online Video Collision Accelerating: Brightcove’s Gaydon

AMSTERDAM — TV and online video are colliding – and the result will benefit both sides, according to an exec at the epicenter. “We’re starting to see the convergence between the digital landscape and broadcast gather momentum,” video technology platform Brightcove‘s EMEA media VP Luke Gaydon tells Beet.TV in this video interview at IBC. “Broadcasters […]

 
 

Brightcove Expands Ad Support with “Hybrid” Solution, Integration w/ DoubleClick & FreeWheel

AMSTERDAM –  Brightcove, the digital videos services company, has introduced a “hybrid” solution for its media company customers to have the ability to choose a client-side, server-side, or hybrid ad insertion solution.   The system provides integration with ad servers such as DoubleClick or Freewheel. At the IBC Show, we spoke with Albert Lai, CTO, Media at Brightcove […]

 
 

Brightcove Announces “Fastest” Video Player at IBC Show

AMSTERDAM – Brightcove, the big global  provider of video management and delivery services, has launched its first stand-alone video player, which is the “fastest” to load, says David Mendels, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV He states that the Brightcove player is the second most widely used video player, after Google’s YouTube. While the video player is […]