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Brightcove Alliance - An Ecosystem for Online VideoDecember 8 2008

Today, we announced the formation of the Brightcove Alliance, a broad ecosystem of companies who have announced partnerships with Brightcove focused on enhancing our platform with a massive range of third-party technology, applications, and solutions – nearly 100 companies in all, spanning nearly every size, scale and tier of technology and solution company. (See announcement details here)

This is both a huge milestone for our company as well as the online video industry as a whole.

For Brightcove, this represents a key component of our unfolding strategy to establish a new software platform for video and rich media and on the Internet.  With Brightcove 3, we put into place a software platform that would make it possible for nearly any professional website to easily publish and distribute online video.  More importantly, we opened up our platform with a wide range of APIs, SDKs and developer resources so that leading technology companies, web services, and solution providers could easily integrate with, add-on to and create solutions and applications for online video with our platform.

For the online video industry, this is also a milestone. 

Brightcove Named 2009 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic ForumDecember 4 2008

Although the New Year is still a few weeks away, the accolades for Brightcove in 2009 are already coming in. We are very pleased to announce Brightcove has been named a 2009 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Brightcove was recognized alongside a remarkable group of 33 other companies worldwide. Brightcove was the only online video platform to receive the honor. For the full list of 2009 Technology Pioneers, please visit http://www.weforum.org/techpioneers.

Brightcove was chosen out of more than 320 applicants as a result of a vigorous selection process conducted by a panel of 44 global technology experts. Winners were based on technology innovation and the potential for long-term impact on business and society.

Jeremy Allaire has also been invited to participate in the upcoming World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.

We are extremely honored to be named a Technology Pioneer by such a prestigious organization.

Click here to read the full press release.

-- Kristin Cronin

Times Online Chooses Brightcove 3 Video PlatformNovember 17 2008

We are very excited to announce that the Times Online, a leading UK newspaper Web property and winner of the 2008 Newspaper Award for Best News Site, has chosen Brightcove 3 as their online video platform. Times Newspapers will use Brightcove to deepen engagement with their audience over 20 million unique monthly Internet users, expand monetization opportunities throughout their website with online video advertising, and grow their audience across the Web. 

Video content for Times Online will be co-produced through a new partnership between Times Online and Sky News.

Times Online is the latest UK newspaper site to tap the Brightcove online video platform, which follows Guardian News & Media and Telegraph Media Group. 

The deal with Times Newspapers expands the adoption of the Brightcove online video platform across News Corp Web properties, which already includes BSkyB and the television networks and studio properties of Fox Entertainment Group.  

-- Josh Hawkins 

Condé Nast Taps Brightcove to Expand Online Video BusinessNovember 10 2008

We are very happy to announce a corporate-wide deal with Condé Nast Publications which will enable all of the publisher’s magazine titles and CondeNet digital properties to standardize video operations on the Brightcove online video platform. The first Condé Nast websites to launch with Brightcove include WIRED.com, Portfolio.com, Glamour.com, Parade.com, and Self.com. Over the coming months, Condé Nast plans to launch sixteen additional website properties using the Brightcove online video platform.

Today’s announcement also marks the re-launch of WIRED.com, which is built on Brightcove 3. The site now includes new video offerings from contextual clips within news stories to full-screen, broadcast-quality feature programming. Brightcove 3 boosts the quality of the video experience and enables new publishing models that increase page-turns, video consumption, and overall advertising inventory. (Read the full press release).

Condé Nast joins a fast-growing list of major consumer magazine publishers who have standardized on the Brightcove online video platform, including Time, Inc., Rodale, Meredith, Hachette Filipacchi, and Gruner + Jahr.

-- Kristin Cronin

Brightcove Customers Roll Out Special Election Day Online Video CoverageNovember 4 2008

Today, Brightcove customers around the world unveiled special Election Day online video coverage. We are thrilled to see such a diversity of publishers using online video to tell their stories about American politics, provide unique insights into the campaigns, and connect with audiences across the Web. Here are some highlights: 

Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Politico, Slate, Guardian, Telegraph, Boston Globe, Stern.de, and of course, Barack Obama TV.

-- Josh Hawkins