Category Archives: news

LVP Will Help Drive Business: comScore’s June 2011 Release

comScore recently released their June 2011 online video ranking that shows viewership  at an all-time high with 6.2 billion viewing sessions.
With the growing trend of online video growth, it’s now a necessity for companies to acquire Limelight Video Platform services to publish video content and grow their business.
In June, U.S. viewership rose to 178 million [...]

LVP: New Faith-Based Landing Page

Limelight Video Platform (LVP) just launched our faith-based landing page.
 Previously, faith-based organizations were limited to an in-person only congregation. Now a thing of the past with LVP’s options for live-streaming or on-demand, these organizations can reach beyond the walls to the palm of viewers on mobile devices. 

 As children grow up and go away to college, [...]

The Delve Video Platform

By Alex Castro
Delve Networks
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 [...]

Hungry? Get your Hot CNet Chunks!

Yesterday, Pluggd and CNet unveiled our HearHere search capability over a sampling of popular ZDnet shows.
It’s exciting, because this is the first time people are able to search within media using a heatmap experience.
Before this, users had two choices: full meal deal or get up from the table.
Now they can find and snack on the [...]

Pluggd in the Economist

We’re excited to be mentioned in a story in the Economist today about
speech recognition. The article does a good job of surveying the space, but
what really makes Pluggd different (and speech reco useful for video search)
is the chunking technology we’ve developed (read more about chunks).

It’s great to see the company getting highlighted this way in [...]

Google Combining Video with Search Results: Halfway There.

Google’s uber search across text, images and now video has a lot of people talking, including the New York Times. But the enthusiasm ignores how people really use search.
Searching includes not only finding results, but also figuring out which results you want. Google’s text search does a good job of highlighting a web page to [...]

Pluggd Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100

Today, Pluggd was awarded with a spot on the AlwaysOn Media Top 100 list. This is an awesome honor!!! Here’s a little bit about the list:
AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. Pluggd was handpicked by the AO Media editorial team based on a set [...]

pluggd Q&A with Wired

Alex Castro and Cornelius Willis were hanging out with the folks over at Wired today.
They answered some reader questions, check it out!
If you have any questions that weren’t answered you can always hit us up at support (at) pluggd.com

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Hear Here! Search new ESPN podcasts for what YOU want to Hear.

Yep, check it out y’all. New episodes of the ESPN Sportscenter podcast are searchable using the Pluggd “HearHere” technology. This badboy is going to be available sitewide so soon it keeps me awake at night thinking about all of the podcasts I’ll be searching through.

Like the Patriots? Fire up the [...]