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Content Management Systems

Brightcove, ever since it released the latest version of its white-label video management platform last month, has been busy signing up new customers and adding features to its product set. And one of those features — … Read More »

There’s a new entrant in the video delivery business, a Madrid-based company called SPOTi that’s focused on tackling the management and distribution of high-quality, adaptive bitrate video streams to multiple platforms and devices. The main advantage of using SPOTi’s software, according to CEO … Read More »

 
 

Bebo, another one of the fast-growing social networks out there, might be a U.S. company, but its roots are firmly planted in broadband-heavy Europe. Taking advantage of faster broadband in its core markets — the UK and parts of Europe — the company has announced a … Read More »

Akamai (AKAM), the Cambridge, Mass.-based content delivery network company, has enjoyed a near monopoly of the lucrative CDN business for a very long time. But now that lead is coming under pressure from all sorts of competitors, many of them upstarts that are desperate to carve … Read More »

Paying less for bandwidth to serve-up streaming media and downloadable video clips on websites could become the bait that hooks the customer. At least that’s what James Segil, co-founder and president of content delivery network EdgeCast Networks, hopes. On Monday, the Los Angeles-based company … Read More »

Brightcove, an online video infrastructure provider, says it has signed a deal with Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) which will be used for various different Fox properties to go online, and build ad-supported Internet video channels. includes the Fox Studio, Fox Broadcast Network, and Fox’s 9+ … Read More »

On Monday, San Diego based Holt Labs launched Vidmetrix 2.0, making available to everyone a powerful video tracking tool. Building on its suite of online video management applications (previous coverage of the Vidmeter billboard), the new Vidmetrix system tracks the views and … Read More »

Interactive video enabler Ensequence announced Tuesday a $40 million “C” round of venture funding, moolah that the firm will use to expand its operations, including the opening of offices in New York and LA. By putting down solid roots in Madison Ave. and Tinseltown, the Portland, … Read More »

Is the corporate world of online video expanding to the point where enterprises feel a need for robust command-and-control systems? That’s what content management giant Akamai is hoping, announcing Monday a “rich media management solution” called Stream OS to give enterprise users a single-screen interface … Read More »

It’s been a year since the first official release of the Democracy player and podcast client, and the Democracy team is celebrating this birthday with the release of version 0.95. So what’s new, what’s coming up, and when will we see Democracy version 1.0? I … Read More »

Move Networks, which has developed some interesting streaming video technology over the last two-and-a-half years, is finally starting to talk about itself. The company helps TV networks get their shows online using its techniques for high-quality in-browser streaming. We had previously written about Move … Read More »

Roo Group, an entrant in the online hosted video space, said Tuesday it would purchase an online video startup called MyVideoDaily in a deal mostly meant to obtain MVD’s personnel and software technology. If nothing else, the terms of the deal — $350,000 … Read More »

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Yesterday we took note of an early report from Variety about Netflix’s digital addition to its DVD rental business. Now that all the major news outlets have taken their turn, we’ve learned a few more details about the cost and logistics of the Read More »

What’s the next boring, billion-dollar digital market? Digital Signage, according to Cisco, which is scheduled to announce Tuesday its first comprehensive offering for publishing, managing and display of digital-sign content. Exactly what is digital signage, and how might it become a $2 billion market by 2010, as … Read More »

Variety is the first to report on solid details of the long-expected Netflix digital download service, which “will be rolled out over the next six months.” Netflix chief Reed Hastings has previously complained that the terms attached to digital downloads were too onerous; it … Read More »

The Venice Project can’t escape hype, with GigaOM and NewTeeVee no exception. Finally, the online television startup from the founders of Skype has a production name: Joost. Of course, the premature hype streak lives on, as that URL is still password protected. We … Read More »

MediaZone, an enabler of subscription online television services for companies such as NBC Sports, is set to announce Tuesday it is beta-launching an ad-supported P2P streaming online television network. The idea is essentially cable-style television offered for free online. As opposed to on-demand efforts such as … Read More »

VeriSign has been active on the content delivery front following its announcement of a hybrid P2P-traditional CDN service based on its acquisition of Kontiki. VeriSign says via email it will be collaborating with Adobe for delivery of Flash video “including movies, TV shows, broadcast media … Read More »

NewTeeVee recently came across a stealthy newly funded video startup called Twistage, which aims to sell white-labeled video functionality for any Web site. It plans to officially launch next month. The company, dually based in San Francisco and New York, provides a customizable video platform, including … Read More »

Former Cadence Design founder Joe Costello has taken over as CEO of place-shifting software startup Orb Networks, adding that title to the chairman role he had previously held. Costello, who helped found the Emeryville-based Orb three years ago, is apparently taking a stronger hand to … Read More »

VeriSign, a company better known for its security and domain businesses, is launching a content delivery network called VeriSign Intelligent CDN. It’s new territory for VeriSign, but a logical extension of its $62 million purchase of Kontiki earlier this year. Prior to the acquisition, Kontiki … Read More »

As we reported last week, Philips Electronics says it has developed technology that will use digital fingerprinting to help online video sites restrict use of copyrighted content. Since then we caught up with Ronald Maandonks, CEO of Philips’ content identification division, for more details in … Read More »

Philips Electronics is announcing today a planned service that will use digital fingerprinting to help online video sites restrict use of copyrighted content. The AP has a brief story here, but we will save you the jump time and give you the nut graf: Philips did … Read More »

Daily Reel has signed YouTube star Lisa Nova to create a show exclusively for their site. Look for more Hollywood talent agency interest in web personalities to grow now that networks and sites are offering contracts to digerati. Marquee, a developer of software to … Read More »

Can P2P change media distribution? Manu Sporny — CEO of Digital Bazaar, which runs a legal online digital content distribution and sales network — says it can, for the benefit of both consumers and creators. In an in-depth essay on his blog, Sporny lays out … Read More »

Brightcove this week announced the beta release of a feature that lets Brightcove users accept user-generated videos. Theoretically, this means anyone using Brightcove to host their video site could become a mini-YouTube, albeit with editorial control over submissions. We haven’t played with the code yet, … Read More »

Move Networks, which sells a streaming video platform, has raised $11.3 million of a $12.17 million Series B round, PE Week discovered in a regulatory filing. American Fork, Utah-based Move promises broadcast-quality streaming, with PVR-style navigation, video embedding tools, and detailed reporting on viewers’ … Read More »

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