There is a distinct thing I see in your website. That is to provide insight and not just cover new startups like a lot of the other popular blogs do. Techcruch, venturebeat et al. Its like creating a blue ocean for yourselves. Just read robert young’s post on Google -the advertising OS. This summary of the big picture of popular trends is commendable.

Keep up the good work

Aditya

http://corp.brightcove.com/content_owners/platform/pricing/index.cfm

I’m definitely intrigued by these guys. They have all of the pieces to have a great shot at something huge. Seems like investors are thinking the same way.

Overall, it’s an excellent way to publish groups of videos, and being able to play all videos with one or more tags helps cut down on administration.

The big question is Brightcove’s pricing. They still haven’t announced the pricing for smaller companies, only saying that it will be ‘affordable.’ Unfortunately, that may end up being a disincentive to start uploading lots of videos to Brightcove, only to possibly find out you can’t afford the rates.

I took a moment to read the materials on their website and I slowly got very interested indeed. Yes, they could do a better job selling their major proposition.

For me they promote primarily professionally produced “Internet” or a new media video (which is very different production, length, cotent, etc from other entertainment or documentary video or cable content or even user generated content). This type of content is made by a new genre of small and large media companies looking for new ways to syndicate and distribute this content.

Often when service providers talk about getting into the triple play or quad play space, they talk about taking the same traditional content that cable and TV companies offer and offer it on the Web or cellphones. Or cable TV and TV companies wanting to offer Internet services on TVs etc.

To me the success is based on clear differentiation and meeting clear needs. You TUbe was the user generated content, for the web and used by web users. Different audience, and different use, leading to a different type of success which a company such as Google can monetise.

So if Brightcove fills the gap for professional “Internet” video companies to model how traditional content is syndicated, sold using the power of the Internet web 1 and web 2.0, then they may be onto something here. Since there are not too many of such companies around, it is no wonder Brightcove also has its eye on being the “Internet” syndicator for traditional content as well.

Meanwhile, as telcos and ISPs offer IPTV, Brightcove could be their key content partner offering relevant content and as more cellphone providers also look into the video space, Brightcove should definitely look into offering a mobile interface to access their content thus potentially filling yet another gap.

(side Notes: I feel that users on the Net, or on a cellphone look for very different type of content than traditional TV or cable users. Some studies have shown that users on the Net or cellphones will only watch anything between 5-7 minutes and no more.

Brightcove seems to offers an interesting suite of services allowing for upload, encoding, distribution, syndication, joint marketing, etc which this group of content creators can benefit from. This is probably where they will be spending most of their monies- to create a buzz and becoming the site of syndication for these players)
http://www.getit.org

1. Win in the TV-to-web play, bringing the hundreds of cable television channels to a web site near you.

2. Win in giving indie production studios direct access to their audiences (undermining their existing distribution partners?).

3. And win in the consumer markets, both on the amateur video production side and on the consumer web / blog publishing side.

Lofty goals. Diverse goals.

We at Splashcast wish Brightcove the best of luck with goals 1 and 2. However, we question goal 3. Why risk diluting focus, R&D resources, money, and marketing message on such a very different market & product (especially as players like SplashCast, which are exclusively focused on the consumer media syndication market, begin cropping up)?

As it is, there is already some confusion about their vision and I’m not sure their recent positioning statement will help clarify. That said, I respect Jeremy Allaire very much and look forward to the road ahead!