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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’ […]

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 […]

AMSTERDAM — All of traditional television is ready to be delivered using the same mechanisms as online video, says Adobe’s video spokesperson. “IPTV continues to grow all the time,” Adobe Primetime evangelism senior manager Steve Allison tells Beet.TV in this video interview recorded at IBC Show. “A lot of people are tying that back to the […]

AMSTERDAM — Networks are going to have to get smarter in the future if they are going to cope with booming demand for high-quality video, says network technology group Akamai. “Demands of audiences are going to increase, expecting broadcast-levels of quality,” Akamai product marketing director Kurt Michel tells Beet.TV at IBC Show. “Quality means more […]

Dov Moran once founded a business sold to SanDisk for $1.6 billion. Now he is heading up Comigo, another Israeli company making mobile software for interacting with TV platforms. “I believe we are just at the beginning of totally new TV,” Moran tells Beet.TV. “It’s going to be very different – many sources, a lot […]

AMSTERDAM — The upcoming HEVC video compression codec promises to cut streaming files by up to 50% without losing quality. But what if you could go 30% to 50% smaller again? That’s what brand-new video tech startup Beamr Video is promising. Launched at the recent IBC show after four years in development, Beamr’s technology, which runs […]

AMSTERDAM — More languages means more opportunity to make money from video. That’s the pitch according to Dotsub, the New York-based online video subtitling and translating outfit. “With captions and subtitles, there’s a great correlation between more views, more completions,” enterpris sales head Peter Crosby tells Beet.TV in this video interview at the recent IBC […]

AMSTERDAM — Multi-purpose social TV app Zeebox has spent the last couple of years dreaming up ways to help viewers engage with TV channels and each other. Its latest release helps them revel in shows that aren’t on conventional channels. Speaking with Beet.TV at the IBC show, co-founder Anthony Rose said the Zeebox app, which […]

AMSTERDAM — These days, it seems like hardware manufacturers are pushing out a new mobile or TV device every other day. For video content companies, that is a tremendous opportunity – but reaching the plethora of gadgets can also be a headache. “One of the key complexities is fragmentation of devices on the market,” Accedo […]

AMSTERDAM — At the recent IBC trade show, industry tech stalwart Adobe introduced a range of new features to software such as Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Story and other products via the Creative Cloud model. That includes more than 150 new features across products, says Ellen Wixted, Senior Product Manager at Adobe Systems, […]

AMSTERDAM — Is this the end for “end-to-end”? It often seems like every online video technology vendor is flaunting its “end-to-end” credentials. But, whilst they have boasted of offering content clients every single video function under the sun, the big video services Brightcove has gone in the opposite direction. “The single biggest strategic pivot that […]

AMSTERDAM — Is corporate split personality syndromestopping online video advertising from reaching its potential commercial heights? That’s what one sector exec thinks. “Digital video is managed by the digital teams on the buy side, whereas, at broadcast linear TV, buying is managed by a completely different team,” says Tal Chalozin, CTO and co-founder of interactive […]

AMSTERDAM — Video services like Netflix thrive on learning about viewers and giving them targeted recommendations about next viewing opportunities. Now those recommendations are becoming more advanced. In this video interview with Beet.TV at the IBC show, Rovi product sales and marketing SVP Bob Shallow christens “search and recommendation 2.0 – effectively going to prediction as […]

COLOGNE — The UK’s TV networks have spent the last few years building up their distinct cross-platform catch-up services against which to sell pre-roll ads. Now they are showing interest in letting some of those ads be bought by programmatic, real-time bidding algorithms. Speaking to Beet.TV, Danny Hopwood, the EMEA platform head for ad group […]

AMSTERDAM — Online video technology supplier Rovi’s top priority is helping clients pump out video in the next-generation video compression standard. Succeeding the popular H.264 standard, High-Efficiency Video Compression (H.265) promises up to 50 percent smaller video sizes for cheaper online transmission. Rovi has been amongst the few to commit early support for the standard, in […]

AMSTERDAM — Akamai may be best known for helping speed up the flow of internet packets of all kinds using its distributed network technologies. But the Cambridge, MA-based outfit is also zeroing in on the booming online video industry. In this video interview with Beet.TV at the IBC show, EMEA product director Stuart Cleary says […]