Video interviews with online video technology leaders and entrepreneurs. Home to my videos produced for my blogs, Larry Kless' Weblog, and Online Video Publishing [dot] com, which are technology blogs focused on streaming media, online video, collaboration and social media. My blog is at: http://klessblog.blogspot.com/
As the demand to deliver content to consumers on multiple screens continues to grow at a rapid pace, companies adapt their methods and means to meet the challenge. It's no longer a notion or idea on the horizon – but a mandate for many product and services in a multi-platform world, where consumers want any content on any device, anytime and anywhere. This is both exciting and worrisome for service providers and content owners – but new trends and tactics like adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming...
Nick Balletta has been in the live webcasting business for a long time, and as CEO of Talkpoint, his company has helped shape the online video industry by providing clients, the technology and services to build scalable video communications. Talkpoint's predecessor – NextVenue – pioneered the live interactive webcasts since 1998, and its roots that go back to CNBC/Dow Jones desktop video. Talkpoint operates as a SaaS based model with overlay production services for large, live, interactive and...
One of the biggest stories of 2011 is what the future of television will look like as service providers, CE manufacturers and content aggregators all jockey for the prime position in your living room. One company seeking to help consumers "cut the cord" is Seattle-based ivi, an online cable company, and has been embroiled in a lawsuit with broadcasters seeking to stop it from rebroadcasting their content online. In February 2011, a New York federal judge ruled that ivi was infringing on broadc...
We're in the end game of the of the great unbundling of video services, says Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3, as next generation television channels shift from traditional models to IPTV video networks. Experts agree that the overall TV experience and PayTV business model will see dramatic changes over the next five years. The emergence of cloud-based services, OTT (over-the-top) content delivery, multi-screen entertainment, and the unbundling services are all driving that change. I caught up...
It was more than a year ago when Merton, the improvisational piano player, became an Internet sensation when he first appeared on Chatroulette playing piano and serenading the strangers he'd meet on the video chat website. His videos have attracted over 25,000,000 views on YouTube and he has performed in London, Montreal, and he how has live, interactive, webcam show that airs weekly on Wednesdays at 10:00 PM ET called The Merton Show.Merton is a self-taught improvisational pianist who lives i...
Streaming Media West was abuzz this past week with Adobe's surprising announcement that it will abandon future development of Flash Player for mobile devices following the next release 11.1, and will be more aggressively contribute to HTML5 innovation with key players, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and RIM. Adobe will continue to support its current Flash development. Over the last few years HTML5 and H.264 video have been gaining momentum as an emerging standard for online and mobile vid...
Earlier this year at OTTcon, I caught up with Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and Founder of blinkx, which calls itself "the world's largest and most advanced video search engine." Chandratillake founded blinkx in 2004 and has helped pioneer video search on the Internet. Unlike other search engines that focus on text web, titles and metadata, blinkx uses a unique combination of patented conceptual search, speech recognition and visual analysis to find and qualify online video. The company has an i...
I spoke with Andy Stack, Product Manager at YouTube following his keynote, "Video Convergence is Here: Get Ready!", at the 2011 Liveclicker Video Summit, who says, online video is a valuable tool to drive brands, and is transforming the way consumers engage and conduct commerce. The use of online video in e-commerce is an opportunity you can’t afford to miss or not fully understand. His main message to brands and retailers is to create content, not commercials. Stack says that it's important f...
Marc Scarpa, veteran director and executive producer of live interactive media events, has launched the first of it's kind social TV network with Comcast Xfinity On Demand, called VidBlogger Nation, that brings popular local YouTube talent into the living room of millions. I caught up with Scarpa on his recent visit to San Francisco where he met with several of his local VidBloggers, including Zennie62, who joined Scarpa in this interview. (See Zennie's article here: http://blog.sfgate.com/abr...
According to Reel SEO's Mark Robertson, online video is the swiss army knife of online marketing, and social video can help eCommerce retailers turn conversions into conversations. He discussed this at length in his keynote, "Welcome to the ‘REEL’ Web: Why Video Marketing has Evolved Beyond SEO" at Liveclicker’s 2011 Video Commerce Summit in San Francisco last month. I sat down with Mark to get a high level overview of how social media has changed search and what tactics and tools eCommerce ma...