Online Video Pushing Vlogging?
Published by Steve Garfield on 8 Feb 2006 at 9:45 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Vlog News.
Glen Dickson writes for Broadcasting & Cable, NYT Makes Online Video Push:
“The New York Times Company has signed a multi-year deal with Internet TV firm Brightcove to enable the distribution of broadband video content across all of the Times Company’s online properties, as well as the syndication of content to other sites.
The first NYT business to use the Brightcove service is About.com, which already offers more than 1.2 million pieces of original content, including Video Guide series on the Style, Home & Garden and Gadgets channels.
With Brightcove, About.com plans to continue to expand its library of “how to” video content to include consumer-submitted expert video content beginning in the first half of 2006.”
EASY TO WATCH
The Brightcove interface is FLASH based and really easy for web surfers to select and watch videos. There are no players to download, and no plug-ins to install.
NO FEEDS WITH ENCLOSURES
If you’re used to having your video content automatically delivered to you via RSS, you might be disappointed that there are no RSS feeds with enclosures built in. Brightcove supports RSS feeds to notify subscribers of new episodes, and they are looking into enclosure support.
Video content providers will have to decide if they want to maintain an RSS feed to distribute their content as a download. A lot of the big media companies entering the online video space are protective of their content and want to capture as many online eyeballs as they can. Some might choose to send out a partial RSS feed notifying their viewers that there is new video content online.
CAN I GET A COPY OF THAT VIDEO?
Josh Kinberg has written a Greasemonkey script for downloading video from Reuters but that script is specific to Reuters and won’t work with Brightcove.
Kinberg says, “Currently, using Brightcove for a videoblog would be like a text blogger posting every blog entry as a read-only PDF that could only be viewed in the browser.”
ENABLING A CONVERSATION
I’ve worked with the Brighcove back-end and set up a BETA Brightcove site for the videoblog It’s JerryTime!
You’ll notice that at the bottom of the player I’ve added a link back to the It’s JerryTime! videoblog so viewers can head over the Jerry’s WordPress blog to add comments. This player takes up the whole screen, but it could be part of a larger web presence which might include a comments area or message board. Check out this MediaStorm page, featuring the portraits of Martin Schoeller, for an example of the Brightcove player embedded within a site.
As new methods of video distribution are brought online, we’ve got to be watchful that the things we’ve grown to embrace as part of our daily lives, such as subscriptions, downloads, and comments, don’t fade away.
Josh on 8 Feb 2006 at 10:22 am: 1
> Check out href=”http://mediastorm.org/0002.htm?bctid=159326″>Mediastorm for
> an example of the Brightcove player embedded within a site.
I checked this out… lots of loading and buffering when I switch
between videos. Ads are pushed at me that I can’t skip through in the
beginning of each video (ads that didn’t make sense in context
either… an ad featuring extreme sports in front of a video section
about September 11, WTF?!). Also, notice that all the text on the site
is in Flash too — you cannot copy-paste. This is a retarded way to
make a website. No copyable text, no direct links, all Flash. Of
course, I wouldn’t expect anyone in Hollywood to understand things
like this… they don’t “get” the web.
My Friend Flyxa on 3 Sep 2006 at 2:38 pm: 2
I was under the impression the profits were donated or at least 50% of their profits.
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