Category Archives: mobile video
Online video powerhouse, Brightcove Alliance, comes to mobile with Azuki Systems
Rating: Azuki adds its mobile management platform to Brightcove’s online services
Azuki Systems specialises, amongst other things, in delivering media content (especially video) to users in an easily viewable manner. In terms of video, for example, its MashMedia platform automatically splits video files into “snackable” chunks, and offers them to the end user in an easily [...]
Off Deck Boston: AccuWeathers’ video service launches next week
Rating: Transpera bring weather forecasts by city and region to mobile
I got the chance for a quick chat with David Mitchell, Director of Wireless for Accuweather. Accuweathers highly popular on-line weather forecast videos will be coming to your mobile device from next week. As announced last September, Transpera will be providing the back-end services required [...]
MySpace Mobile Video
MySpace users with mobile phones are about to find out if they can walk and watch TV at the same time.
On Wednesday, News Corp’s online social network will make video clips from its members’ pages available for viewing on mobile devices including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and Samsung [...]
Monetizing mobile video: now you can make money and fly a Kyte
Rating: Mobile media platform Kyte picks up new monetization options including Google AdSense
Mobile internet media platform Kyte maintains that it’s platform is good at two things. The first is creating content from uploaded or live media. The second is distributing that content through their platform to all the major social networking sites, including MoSo‘s. They [...]
Major break for video ringtones launches in Turkey
Rating: Vringo signs crucial deal with Avea
In answer to critics who’ve said that video ringtones cannot be monetarised, Vringo has just announced a deal with Turkish operator, Avea. It’s aimed directly at the youth market.
The pair claim it is the first carrier-led video ringtone subscription model. Avea will be offering the service via its Patlican [...]
PixSense Accelerates Mobile UGC
Yesterday, I had a briefing with Paul Singh, CEO of PixSense. For those who don’t know much about PixSense, here is a short description. PixSense’s PSP Platform delivers a rich, intuitive interface to allow users to easily and rapidly preserve, share and publish media captured on their mobile phones. By just snapping a picture or [...]
WIN launches full service video streaming on T-Mobile Germany
WIN plc, specialists in interactive mobile entertainment and information today announced the launch of its new full-service video streaming platform with leading mobile network operator T-Mobile Germany. The service will make a broad range of streamed video content available to T-Mobile Germany’s 38 million subscribers.
The new service will provide subscribers with a significantly improved mobile [...]
dotMobi Device Atlas new Mobile Development Tool
dotMobi, the company behind .mobi has announced the inclusion of Mobizoft video content adaptation data into DeviceAtlas.
What is DeviceAtlas?
It is the handset content bible for mobile content developers.
From the press release
“Adapting video content for mobiles has traditionally been difficult due to wide variations in device capabilities,” said Paul Nerger, Vice President of Advanced Services and [...]
JuiceCaster joins Kicknote.com for Battle of the Bands
JuiceCaster the mobile social network and video service is teaming with kicknote.com.
Why?
Well it’s for Battle of the Boroughs or Battle of the Bands – where fans watch and vote on the internet for shows, concerts etc.
From the press release
JuiceCaster is partner and sponsor of the concert series and is powering the mobile video distribution as [...]
Amobee raises equity capital from Motorola and Cisco – what type of strategy is this?
Yikes – is it me or is Amobee like the tart of the mobile advertising space? I don’t want to sound rude so maybe I should make that pimp or something. But, first Vodafone (Richard Saggers comments here) and then Telefonica and now Motorola and Cisco.
What on earth. Is this a normal strategy to get [...]
Mobix Interactive partners with Rhythm NewMedia
Mobix Interactive – a mobile video and TV provider is partnering with Rhythm NewMedia.
We all know Rhythm NewMedia on GoMo because of its ad-funded service portfolio.
What is the new deal?
Rhythm will sell advertising into Mobix’s services (called Adrenalin). But also it will help Mobix use its own inventory with the ad serving to promote its [...]
Millenial Media and RipCode partner for mobile ad delivery on video
Yikes. Another day another mobile ad delivery solution. It only begs me to question if there are actually enough ads for delivery? Mobile Inventory is low and it seems as though money is being invested in the technology to catch the next wave.
I just hope the wave is a tidal so it can support all [...]
Poll: Mobile Live Streaming Video
Online Surveys & Market Research
Next2Friends
I wrote a quick short on Next2Friends and then I just spent about 20 minutes on the site.
The video quality is one of the worst I have seen so far – but I just love the design of this site and the ASK and Proximity Tagging section.
I like it – will try and get an [...]
