I had the opportunity to write a guest article for Mashable, one of the top blogs covering the Internet industry, and in the spirit of the new year decided to outline my top predictions for Internet video in 2009.
Some of these predictions will not surprise anyone, e.g., video consumption will continue to grow, while others [...]
It can be difficult to find a “ray of light” amidst all the economic doom and gloom. Today, eMarketer released a study covering online advertising spending projections from 2007-2013 which includes some encouraging news about online video advertising growth. This study comes after a different eMarketer online advertising study from earlier this year reduced 2008 [...]
We’re pleased to announce that Delve Networks has partnered with Marion, Montgomery, Inc. (MMI), a marketing and interactive agency, to launch TroopTube, a video-sharing website for members of the United States Military and their families. The TroopTube video sharing site is part of Military OneSource, a resource provided by the Department of Defense for the [...]
Last night we learned that Brightcove plans to terminate their free network service for smaller publishers. As reported by NewTeeVee publishers have until December 17th to upgrade to Brightcove 3 or find another solution.
Here at Delve we’re sorry to hear that many small publishers who have been using Brightcove to publisher great online video might [...]
Today, we learned that EyeSpot shut down. EyeSpot was an early entrant in the “video mashup” space with a consumer destination that eventually moved into the video publishing platform space. This is an example of a start-up that eventually figured out the right strategy, providing tools for companies interested in publishing videos online, but didn’t [...]
Lately there has been a lot of news in the consumer video portal space that reminds me of the importance of treating your users well.
Joost – a well financed, must hyped service, that initially forced users to download a P2P client to view video has finally announced a web-only version. I don’t know why this [...]
Chris Albrecht from NewTeeVee recently posted an article about some of the ways the Olympics have pushed the envelope of online video technology. NBC has made over 2,200 hours of video available on NBCOlympics.com.
As Chris points out, Microsoft and Digital Rapids were forced to innovate themselves out of some unique challenges related to how [...]
Today Delve Networks announced that EdgeCast has been selected to provide CDN services for the Delve video management platform. After carefully evaluating many alternatives, there were a few reasons why we decided to work with EdgeCast:
Domain Knowledge – our engineering team can be quite demanding and has an incredibly high bar for itself and the [...]
This week, ComScore came out with online metrics for May. Here are some of the highlights:
12 billion videos were viewed during the month of May in the US
This represents an increase of 45% compared to a year ago
Google sites (mostly YouTube) represents 34.58% of all videos watched
There is a huge drop-off from there, with Fox [...]
Today, Brightcove has acknowledged their product lacks the ease-of-use and advanced capabilities publishers require to be successful. Or, as TechCrunch so aptly puts it, “Brightcove Gutted and Rebuilt.” After reading the various articles and blog posts, I came to the conclusion that there wasn’t much substance to this release and even less forward innovation available [...]