Streaming Media Europe Blog

Times Online and Sky News Announce New Video Project, Will Use Brightcove

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:07:10 +0000

Sorry for the radio silence; been out for a couple weeks after having carpal tunnel surgery. Dan Rayburn noted some interesting news today over on his Business of Video blog: This morning, Sky News and Times Online announced they are teaming up to develop video content to be shared between the Times online and Skynews.com websites. [...]

Streaming Media Europe Videos Now Available

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:55:01 +0000

Videos from all of the breakout sessions at this year's Streaming Media Europe are now available, along with speaker presentations from most of the breakout sessions and several of the pre-conference workshops.

Streaming Media Europe by the Numbers

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:31:10 +0000

Thanks to everyone involved—speakers, sponsors, delegates, visitors—for making this year's event a resounding success. We had 768 attendees, which is a whopping 54% increase over 2007; what's more, those attendees represented 23 countries.

Jet Stream Named Readers’ Choice Award Winner

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:10:52 +0000

One of the highlights of Streaming Media Europe was presenting the first-ever Readers' Choice Award for Regional (European) Content Delivery Network. The finalists were Global-MIX and Stream UK, both from the UK, and Jet Stream from the Netherlands

How to Create a Customized Flash Video Player

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:52:34 +0000

Thanks to everyone who made last week's Streaming Media Europe event such a success. We'll have official numbers from the event soon, and we'll also be posting video of all the sessions. In the meantime, we've got a great video for you from Adob

Streaming Media Europe: Social Features in Online Video

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:46:42 +0000

Jose Castillo writes: “Over 50% of the broadband usage in Europe is video”, said Fernando Gil del Bernabé from Cisco Systems. And yet a large portion of online video have not embraced social media features. Our panel discussion today, The Convergence of Social Media and Online Video, discussed the merits of using social functionality [...]

Live From Streaming Media Europe Later Today

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:55:43 +0000

Thanks to Stream UK and Global-MIX, we'll be webcasting the closing session from Streaming Media Europe live from London at 16:15 GMT/4:15 p.m. EDT. The session, "What the Future Holds," will feature Jake Ward from Broadview moderating and Mark Little from Ovum Research, and Dan Cryan from Screen Digest, two of the leading analysts of online video trends.

Streaming Media Europe: Beyond Skateboarding Dogs

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:42:06 +0000

Two terrific keynotes this morning—Alec Hendry from MTV talked about the network's workflow, while Digby Lewis from Dailymotion shared his company's strategy of mixing user-generated content with professional video.

Streaming Media Europe: “Cannibalisation Doesn’t Exist”

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:36:29 +0000

That was one of the messages from Claude London, director of digital media for the BBC Worldwide, in his opening keynote at Streaming Media Europe Thursday morning; and he showed statistics to support his claim that online delivery of television shows doesn't decrease broadcast viewership.

Full List of Streaming Media Europe Exhibitors

Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:44:10 +0000

Streaming Media Europe is less than a week away, and already more than twice as many people have registered to attend than were at last year's event. We've also got a full exhibit hall floor, and this year the exhibit hall will also feature the Exhibit Hall Theatre with timely presentations on everything from webcasting to encoding in H.264.