This week the Reel Web covers a lot of topics including YouTube’s venture into providing premium content, the stats on video sharing apps on mobile devices as well as a couple quick resources on monetizing your videos and looking at your video analytics. Click here to watch this video
It’s a dark day indeed for online video, H.264 has seemingly won the war without any real battles being fought. Google has yet to remove H.264 from Chrome and now someone high up at Firefox has pretty much stated that they’re throwing in the towel as well. Honestly, it makes sense.
Brightcove has announced an expansion to its App Cloud feature set over in Spain at Mobile World Congress. If you’re trying to reach Android, iOS and other mobile web users, you might be interested
Another week, another fantastic assortment of hilarious and entertaining viral video hits.
According to TechCrunch , RedBox and Verizon
Avid just announced that the first version of Avid Studio for the iPad is now available on the Apple App Store. If you have been using Avid Studio at home for years and always wanted to use it on the road, now you will be able to, albeit in a lighter format. Avid Studio for iPad is priced at just $4.99 and is said to be easy enough for first-timers, yet sophisticated enough for more advanced editors.
Encoding.com just released new numbers pulled from Vid.ly which show that Android is gaining on iOS in terms of video viewing.
Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly - one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they're announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to delivery.
Cord cutting is dead some say. Others think it a passing fad and that there's no staying power.
While I've been doing some prognosticating of late, I'm not the only one, nor am I probably the most informed, so it's always interesting to see what others are predicting for the year to come. The Videomind blog over at Ooyala had some interesting things to say and some of them, even lined up with what I said. In a nutshell they basically saw five big trends that would push online video in 2012.
