The Business Video Resource CenterFebruary 23, 2012  

Video Company News

The latest news on online video company announcements, investments, mergers and acquisitions



Visible Meaures Gains Visibility: Gets Audited, Acredited By MRC
From: Online Media Daily - Joe Mandese | Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:33   
Online video tracking and measurement firm Visible Measures has been accredited by media industry ratings watchdog the Media Rating Council for a range of its core video metrics products.
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Brightcove prices IPO, raises $55M
From: Mass High Tech - Rodney Brown | Friday, 17 February 2012 15:03   
In its final prospectus filing made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Brightcove priced five million shares in its IPO at $11 per share.
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New YouTube producer terms let Google play your videos anywhere
From: VentureBeat - Tom Cheredar | Monday, 13 February 2012 21:23   
After announcing a new YouTube Google TV app yesterday, Google is now encouraging YouTube content partners to sign new terms that give the company permission to play their videos across all platforms (mobile, TV, web, etc.) by default.
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Blinkx Powers AOL Video Search
From: Online Media Daily - Gavin O'Malley | Monday, 13 February 2012 15:14   
Video search company blinkx has been tapped to power AOL's video search.
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Amazon exec: standalone Prime streaming video service isn’t likely
From: VentureBeat - Tom Cheredar | Friday, 10 February 2012 18:40   
Despite an aggressive push to increase its variety of TV shows and movies, Amazon isn’t planning to split off its Prime streaming video service into a standalone subscription offering, according to the company’s management team. At least not anytime soon.
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Online Video Competition is Everywhere; Like "The Hunger Games," or "Twilight"
From: MediaPost's VidBlog - Daisy Whitney | Thursday, 09 February 2012 16:38   
The online video segment has grown from a few key players to a much broader offering on media vendors.
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LA-based Viddy steals $6M from Silicon Valley VCs for social video
From: VentureBeat - Jolie O'Dell | Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:34   
Social video startup Viddy has raised its first round of institutional funding — a healthy $6 million from Silicon Valley venture firms.
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Flingo raises $7M to bring social TV to every network
From: VentureBeat - Devindra Hardawar | Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:32   
One of the largest TV app publishers you’ve never heard of, Flingo announced today that it has raised an additional $7 million from August Capital, which will help the company bring its Social TV technology to more devices and television networks.
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Spreecast Extends Reach Of Social Video Platform With Embed Feature
From: TechCrunch - Leena Rao | Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:30   
Spreecast, a social video platform that lets people broadcast together, is adding the ability to embed ‘spreecasts’ on their blogs, free of charge.
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As Brightcove Prepares To Go Public, Here's What To Keep An Eye On
From: Streaming Media Blog - Dan Rayburn | Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:29   
Yesterday, Brightcove filed an amended S-1 as the company prepares to have their IPO in the coming months. The company is looking to raise between $50-$60M from their offering and estimates shares will be priced between $10-$12. After IPO expenses and spending approximately $7M to repay an outstanding loan, the company looks to net about $40M in working capital. Depending on the share price, Brightcove would have a market cap of between $275-$300M, which is about 5x 2011 revenue.
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Brightcove Will Price IPO At $10-$12 Per Share
From: TechCrunch - Anthony Ha | Monday, 06 February 2012 17:16   
Online video service Brightcove will price its IPO between $10 and $12 per share, according to a new filing with the SEC.
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Conviva Raises $15 Million from Time Warner Investments
From: VideoNuze - Will Richmond | Monday, 06 February 2012 13:16   
The $15 million Series D funding that video stream optimization and analytics provider Conviva received has been earmarked for international expansion and headcount growth.
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IAC Trying to Sell Vimeo, Seeking $300M Valuation
From: Pando Daily - Erin Griffith | Monday, 06 February 2012 00:00   
Barry Diller's IAC make make a partial exit from the Vimeo online video business if they can raise $50 million in funding.
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Hulu CEO Jason Kilar: Original programming is an important part of the agenda
From: VentureBeat - Jennifer Van Grove | Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:13   
Streaming video site Hulu is on the cusp of airing its first original series. Original programming will be an important part of the company’s agenda in the future, CEO Jason Kilar said at the D: Dive Into Media event in Dana Point, Calif. Tuesday.
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GetHired Nabs $1.75 Million To Launch Its Video-Centric Recruiting Platform & Job Board
From: TechCrunch - Rip Emson | Monday, 30 January 2012 22:45   
Paper resumes are — or should be — going out of style. They rarely give employers a complete profile of a potential hire, they’re filled with abbreviated bunches of value-less buzzwords (or in my case, action verbs), and the thought of them makes trees cry. You don’t want to make trees cry, do you? No, you don’t. So many companies are turning to alternative, technological means to find the right candidates for job openings, some using algorithms, ranking systems, SaaS solutions like Taleo’s, and more. In fact, one in six are now finding jobs on social networks.
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Brand Safety Gets Boost from LiveRail
From: MediaPost's VidBlog - Daisy Whitney | Monday, 30 January 2012 13:09   
TubeMogul's new BrandSafe capabilities will enable web video marketers to select the sites they want their video ads to run on.
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The Future of Video Metadata, Automate Video Tags with Veenome
From: Tech Cocktail - Zach Davis | Thursday, 26 January 2012 10:40   
Washington, DC-based Veenome is able to identify products, objects and brands in online video content and automatically tag and index the videos for contextualization in search queries.
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YouTube makes more changes to support content creators
From: TechCrunch - Jennifer Van Grove | Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:00   
Like it or not, more change is afoot at Google’s widely successful video site.

YouTube is following its controversial redesign of the home page with another channel-focused update, several video editing goodies, and some small concessions to member indignation Thursday.
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Game Your Video Aims To Make Mobile Video Editing As Simple As Possible
From: TechCrunch - Greg Kumparak | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:30   
Modern day video editors can be daunting. While it’s better than the literal cut-and-paste practices of yesteryear, opening a new video editor can feel like stepping into the cockpit of a spaceship. Unless you’re trained to fly spaceships, in which case this analogy is broken (and also, you’re awesome.)
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Skyfire gets $8M to stream your mobile videos faster
From: VentureBeat - Sarah Mitroff | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 11:49   
Mobile browsing and video optimization company Skyfire has received an additional $8 million in a third round of funding.
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