10 posts and columns on Brightcove

Mortar Data, Hadoop for the Rest of Us, Gets Seed Funding

in News on April 2 at 1:47 pm PT

A new player in the Hadoop Big Data ecosystem aims to make the software more readily usable by programmers.
elephantorigami

News Byte

Bright Start for Brightcove

in News on February 17 at 1:48 pm PT

Shares of Brightcove, provider of cloud-based video publishing services, were welcomed onto the market in their first day of trading today. The company priced 5 million shares at $11, and the stock finished the day at $14.30, up 30 percent.

You’re Spending More Time Than Ever Watching Web Video. But You’re Not Watching For Long.

in Media on October 12, 2011 at 11:52 am PT

Brightcove reminds us that in the world of Web video, three minutes is a really long time.
poltergeist

Brightcove’s Old-School IPO

in Media on August 24, 2011 at 8:07 am PT

Yes, Brightcove is a money-losing Web company trying to go public, just like several other Web companies this year. But compared to some of its peers, Brightcove is almost a throwback: Jeremy Allaire’s accounting is simple, and the insider selling has been minimal.
jeremy allaire

News Byte

Report: Brightcove Targets IPO for Next Year

in News on October 18, 2010 at 12:02 pm PT

Brightcove sees a bright future in online video distribution, and according to a Reuters source, the company is prepping an IPO for the first half of next year in anticipation of doing battle with the larger competitors it expects to see. The company’s new CFO, Chris Menard, was hired in large part for his experience with acquisitions and an IPO while working at Phase Forward.

Google Open Sources VP8 Video Codec. Will Apple, Microsoft and Intel Use It?

in News on May 19, 2010 at 10:36 am PT

Google’s plan to open-source the VP8 video codec has been rumored ever since the company acquired its developer, On2, in August 2009. After all, in the press release detailing the acquisition, Google clearly stated that “video compression technology should be a part of the Web platform.” So it’s no surprise that the company announced an open-source, royalty-free video format based on VP8 at its I/O conference Wednesday. What is surprising is the level of industry support Google has already rounded up for it.

Twitter’s Miracle Short Attention Span Cure

in Media on April 12, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

For video! Guaranteed or you get your money back!

Voices

Brightcove Completes New Financing Round

in News on April 5, 2010 at 3:47 pm PT

Brightcove Inc., already a well-funded player in online-video management, raised what could be its final financing from private investors, as money continues to pour into companies that provide services to distribute Internet video.

Yahoo Execs Tapan Bhat and Ash Patel Talk About Yahoo's Open and Social Launch

in News on December 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm PT

Here’s a video interview I did with top Yahoo execs Tapan Bhat and Ash Patel yesterday, after Yahoo finally launched a lot of the new open and social elements that it has long said it was injecting into its most popular products. The initiatives Yahoo finally released into the wild have been long in the making, first discussed as just vaporware by Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Now, after the longest of gestation periods, they arrived yesterday, in an impressive rollout.