Delve’s VP of Product Management, Edgardo Nazario, discusses the collaboration, and noted its complementary nature for both companies when he said that, “there’s great synergy between the two companies because of what we do.” Check out the interview, and learn more about why both Akamai and Delve were excited about the benefits of working together at Beet.TV.

The self-service starter pack or “Standard Package” option offers all the essential features and tools needed to distribute video content online, including:

• easy-to-use “drag and drop” content management
• customizable players
• video content ingestion
• encoding
• analytics
• content delivery
• player APIs
• the Delve Ad Server

Of course, Delve Networks will continue to offer the Professional, Premier and Enterprise packages of its Online Video Platform for customers that require advanced options beyond those offered in the Standard Package. If you want to experience these advanced options signup for our Free Trial here. During the Free Trial period you’ll have the opportunity to experience all of the advanced, enterprise-level features available with the Delve Online Video Platform like Search Inside, syndication and integration with Ad Networks.

Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, Delve Networks offers a solution that meets your needs. The web video revolution is here and it has never been easier to get started. Check us out!

To say that Standard & Poor’s is just the S&P 500 would be a great disservice to all of the other things that the company does. For example, did you know that S&P offers up a wide assortment of financial info, data and research and is the leading mutual fund analyst firm?

There is a lot excellent financial knowledge emanating from S&P.

But, what if people don’t have time to sift through page after page of ratings and reports? That’s where Delve Networks comes in. Realizing that online video is a great way to give a more complete experience to its clients and to spread visibility and influence, S&P selected Delve as its video publishing platform provider to enhance the financial services company’s already impressive portfolio of ratings and research with video.

Utilizing Delve’s Online Video Management System, S&P is providing daily video commentary on the most pressing economic and financial topics.

As music has continued to evolve into digitalization—both as an auditory “mixing” tool and expansion into the realm of visual horizons with music videos—Pitchfork has added HD quality music videos, artist interviews, live performances, along with other viewing pleasures ready to be enjoyed.

With organized channels and playlists, Pitchfork TV is able to regularly update its content, constantly providing viewers with content to satiate whatever their appetite seeks. Channels such as Faces in the Crowd, Interviews, and a personal favorite, Daytripping, we can delve into a day in the life of up-and-coming artists and sneak a glimpse of Girl Talk’s Chris Corner, parading around Connie Island, or catch an interview with influential artists including Paul McCartney, Cut Copy and U2, to name a few.

Not only can we experience awesome videos, but with Pitchfork’s use of Delve Networks’ extensive API, adding features such as thumbnail gallery, featured videos, and lists of “Recently Viewed” and “Top Viewed” Videos, we can check out what our peers’ are digging as well.

So, if you’re looking for a quick study break, mid-day lunch pick-me-up tune, or an interesting perspective on new age music, Pitchfork TV and Delve Networks’ are just what you need. To start you off here’s a video from Depeche Mode one of my favorite bands of my youth. Check out their site -I promise you won’t be disappointed!

We invite you to experience President Obama’s inaugural speech using our search inside technology. To do this, type what you’re looking for into the player searchbar above. A heatmap will show you where information related to your topic appears in the speech. You can move your mouse over the heatmap to see the matches. Click to jump to that place in the speech.

The Heat Map

Red = Highly Relevant
Yellow = Relevant
Green = Somewhat Relevant

Suggested search terms:

• America
• Constitution
• Iraq

• Domain Knowledge – our engineering team can be quite demanding and has an incredibly high bar for itself and the vendors they rely on. Edgecast distinguished itself by demonstrating a great deal of technical competency.
• Reliability – reliability is a key issue for our customers, which means it is a key issue for us, EdgeCast leverages backbone infrastructure from several of the largest telecom providers all over the world.
• Performance - we were impressed with EdgeCasts ability to provide high quality video content through their vast network of caching location. This, along with our own infrastructure, will help ensure our publishers can deliver the highest quality video watching experience to their audience.

We like the EdgeCast team and we’re happy to work with them; however, our philosophy has been to ensure reliability and performance. As a result of this desire, we will have relationships with several CDNs as well as maintaining own infrastructure across multiple data-centers.

Alex Castro

Web video has never been more popular, as evidenced by the fact that over 11.2 billion online videos were viewed in the United States in March of 2008, according to ComScore Video Metrix. Yet, you have to wonder if the current video platforms have kept up with demand—both on the publisher side and user side of the web video viewing equation.

Consumption has grown at a geometric rate over the past few years and it’s imperative that the technology for distributing and viewing that video—along with monetization through advertising—keeps pace with user demand for rich media content.

So, what are the top ten things that content companies should look for in a video platform?

1. A reliable hosting solution that scales with their business.
2. A fully featured video player— with normal play controls, plus sharing and posting functions.
3. An advertising solution that allows the publisher to monetize their video assets, either by placing their own ads or integrating with third party ad services (or both).
4. Metrics— enabling the publisher to rapidly measure the consumption of their video and learn more about their web-based audience.
5. An easy way to upload and manage video files to the video platform. This should be a secure, web-based interface that does not require advanced technical skill.
6. A consumer-facing solution that preserves and enhances the content publisher’s brand. This can be done by “skinning” the player to match the publisher’s web site and corporate “look and feel.”
7. The ability to easily organize videos into channels or playlists.
8. A video format that supports Hi Definition output.
9. A platform that is flexible enough to support company needs, but not so complicated that it requires special training or an inordinate investment of time to get going.
10. Great customer service. A publisher deserves to expect prompt access to the video platform team when any issues arise.

At Delve, we just made an exciting announcement about our new Video Platform. Obviously, we hope that we are raising the bar in our industry, helping publishers get more content into the ecosystem and giving users a radically new way to experience video content—giving them a chance to navigate within a file, before hitting “play.”

The innovations continue . . .