According to research from the CEA, 76% of homes are not considering cutting the cord. This survey provides interesting insight into consumer behavior, showing that television is by far the most popular form of device to view video (93% compared to the number 2 form, PC at 49% – interestingly, the popularity of the tablet wasn’t identified in their research).
From TechSmith, maker of Camtasia, this inexpensive app looks lie it makes it easy for anyone to review video of a sporting event and then illustrate on their iPhone/iPad exactly what the player should have been doing.
Coach’s Eye: The ultimate coaching app for iPhone and iPod touch.
Good tips on how to interview people for both print and video publications. Local content invariably leads to some sort of “Man-on the street”, type interviews, so it is good to get comfortable with this sort of production.
Looks like a quick way to synchronize slide, video and audio presentations from within Vegas.
Veedios helps content owners take their videos and allow them to be viewed on various InternetTV and mobile platforms. Essentially, it allows a content creator to create their own “apps” and do so on a subscription-type basis.
Delve Networks | Online Video Platform Demo | Online Video Demo.
This is Limelight Networks video sharing platform. They also have a Content Management System.
I haven’t done enough research to see if these are really the same thing (they should be in this day and age). One advantage to this approach is that the CDN is part of the solution, so it should scale nicely as demand increases.
Bitflx, started by former Raynet colleague Sebastian Andreatta, is a platform for gathering videos and providing location and time stamping to make add relevance to the videos. As it says on their web site:
Thousands of videos are available on the web all the time, but there is no indication of when and where they were taken and what they’re about. Relevance to the viewer is lost. BitFlx provides that relevance.
via Bitflx: about
There could be some interesting private-label applications for this technology, which we hope to explore with Sebastian at a later date. .
Audiosocket is a music licensing and technology company that sources original music from bands and artists. They have partnered with Vimeo to allow Vimeo customers to easily source music for their video projects.
VidBlogger from SimplyNew Studios is an interesting take on a local, really self-produced, content that gets mixed together into a nationwide on-demand network. Both available on Comcast On Demand, as well an online outlets, it will be available for a three season run (each season is 10 episodes, 12 bloggers) of 360, 3 to 5 minute episodes that will be run over the next 90 days.
VidBlogger Nation is a social TV network that features self-portraits by hometown tastemakers who share the stories of people, places and things in their city from a first-person perspective.
VidBlogger Nation is the first-ever Social TV Network. The network launched on Comcast On Demand and is available in 10 key Comcast markets, including: Atlanta, Denver, Michigan, New England, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Portland (Oregon), Sacramento, San Francisco, and South Florida.
They will expand to other markets depending on the success of this run.
Some questions:
This is a collaborative video editing system that is relatively affordable and could be an interesting way to create crowdsourced videos. Could be real good for schools or other communities where multiple people might be contributing to a story.
