Category Archives: features

Limelight Video Platform Update on Creating Restriction Rules

For many of our publishers, enabling restriction rules is an essential tool for limiting where their video content can be viewed. Whether they want the content to be restricted to a specific domain or geo location, they have the capability to do this.
When a domain or geo location is ‘unknown’ the benefit is currently given [...]

Limelight Video Platform Adds a New Analytics Report for Improved Viewership Tracking

The Limelight Video Platform team is constantly adding and improving new features. We pride ourselves in having a comprehensive set of analytics native to our player.
Most recently released is a new set of analytics reports that provide granular data on viewership’s Operating System, Browser, and Device platform. Now LVP publishers can easily determine how videos [...]

Limelight Video Platform: Update to Existing Player Templates

Check out our new and improved player templates. Publishers can easily customize to create their own unique player to match the look and feel of their website. Also, we now have an audio only player.

Improve the Mobile Video Experience on Your Site with our HTML5 Player

Want to create a sleeker experience for mobile users watching videos on your website? 
 With our HTML5 Player, effortlessly deliver video to your mobile audience, reaching iOS, Android and Blackberry devices without any additional work. With our device detection technology, you can use one embed code to automatically deliver content across multiple devices; our players selects [...]

Online Video Publishers: How well do you know your audience?

As online video grows in popularity, so does the need for publishers to know their audience. So, I ask you-how well do you know your audience?
Let’s get down to the basics-according to comScore there are currently about 13.5 million people watching online video with an average of 17 hours each per month. Granted, this is [...]

How to Add Closed Captioning

 
Closed Captioning Guide
Audience and Overview
This guide is intended for all publishers that wish to enable closed captioning or subtitles in the LVP player. Closed captioning is the display of text on the video screen in order to communicate spoken dialogue. The audience for closed captioning is typically those individuals that are hard of hearing. However, [...]

Adobe & Limelight Video Platform: Taking TV Everywhere… Everywhere

Guest Post: In light of Adobe’s launch today of Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere services, we are pleased to bring you a guest post from Todd Greenbaum, Senior Product Manager for Adobe Pass
TV isn’t going just anywhere; it’s going everywhere. Which is why we at Adobe are launching Adobe Pass®, a new authentication service for [...]

Limelight Video Platform Universal Embed Code Ensures Delivery to All Devices

Limelight Video Platform Universal Embed Codes now have intelligence built into them that ensures video delivery to all devices including mobile. With video consumption on mobile phones growing rapidly, you will want to be sure that your customers are getting access to your site’s videos regardless of device. Once LVP Mobile Delivery is enabled, all a user has [...]

NFL Uses Limelight Video Platform for Live Streaming of Super Bowl Media Day

The week leading up to the NFL Super Bowl is filled with special events and the biggest of them all is Media Day; a forum for sports journalists to ask questions of players and coaches. The NFL chose the Limelight video platform to provide a player capable of handling live streams for this event. For over a [...]