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D-Link partners with Veoh in bringing Internet Video to the TV

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dlink.pngD-Link and Veoh Networks announced that the D-Link PC-on-TV (DPG-1200) will feature VeohTV, a free service that provides both branded and user-created video content in high-quality for full-screen environments.

D-Link PC-on-TV is a breakthrough product for the growing media player market that lets users enjoy on their TVs virtually anything they can see on their PCs, including web-based content such as videos, movies, photos and TV programming. D-Link PC-on-TV will ship with a link to access VeohTV directly from the television, providing a single interface to search, browse and view thousands of videos found on the Internet. It offers programming from major media companies as well as independently produced content available on sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Veoh.com and MySpace. As with television, the player uses a remote control and displays PC video for a full screen TV experience.

D-Link PC-on-TV comes pre-loaded with VeohTV, which then launches into a channel guide, similar to the kind found in cable systems. Viewers can browse through channels or search by keywords, and watch full-screen video on demand. VeohTV users are able to stream directly from the host site or, as with a conventional DVR, click a button to download permitted videos to their hard drives and watch them at their leisure, either online or offline.

Originally posted on April 21, 2008 @ 12:14 pm

Magnify.net releases embeddable video player to share content

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magnify.pngAs more and more destination sites realize the value of adding themed or curated video content into their sites and blogs, Magnify.net continues to provide unique, brandable, and extensible site building tools and video discovery solutions.

Magnify.net announced its first off-site, portable video player that features the content from any topical Magnify video channel with fully integrated social media features.

The Magnify In-Page Player provides sites with a free video player that features all of the community features neatly into a portable widget.

Users can now view a Magnify channel without ever having to leave the blog, social network profile, or Web site that features the new player. The widget allows users to view all related content from a designated Magnify video channel and also comment, share clips, rate, tag, grab the widget for your own page, and more. Comments, tag, ratings in the widget are saved back at the source.

Magnify plans to release the player in various sizes and with more features in the near future.

Originally posted on April 18, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

EyeWonder donates portion of online video ad services to The Alliance for Climate Protection

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EyeWonder, Inc. has donated a portion of its services for the launch of an online ad campaign with the Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. This campaign marks the largest environmental campaign in EyeWonder’s history.

The Martin Agency of Richmond, Va. developed the “We” campaign and partnered with EyeWonder to support the rich media ad portion of it online. The campaign uses a variety of video expandable ads as an innovative way to spread the message to the young target audience.

The three-year, multi-phased advertising campaign will be partially funded by donations; EyeWonder is proud to help the campaign, which is aimed at educating Americans on the climate crisis and recruiting ten million advocates to pursue laws and policies that can reduce greenhouse gases.

Originally posted on April 17, 2008 @ 12:05 am

PluggedIn launches entertainment website with 10,000 major label music videos

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PluggedIn announced the launch of its beta website, offering free to consumer streaming of the highest quality music videos available anywhere on the web. The new entertainment website features over 10,000 HD and broadcast quality music videos from EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and other major and independent labels. The website offers more than one million Artist Profiles, and is powered by an innovative new media player that supports high-definition full-screen video playback with no buffering and DVD-like controls, a multimedia search engine and fan-centric community features. The website is also launching with over 1 million Artist profiles.

PluggedIn is also announcing a strategic partnership with leading entertainment and artist management company, Overbrook Entertainment. Overbrook, whose principals are world famous actor and musician Will Smith, and entertainment industry veterans James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz, is investing both its capital and resources into PluggedIn’s groundbreaking product.

Originally posted on April 16, 2008 @ 11:43 pm

ClipBlast! to index video content from MLBroadcast.com

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< href="http://www.clipblast.com">ClipBlast! announced that it will index all current and future video content from real estate marketing innovator MLBroadcast.

The move comes amid both persistent volatility in the real estate market–a market defined by the subprime mortgage crisis and the rash of foreclosures in its wake–and a significant shift in the industry from print to online media, particularly video. According to Borrell Associates, real estate professionals invested $2.6 billion in online advertising in 2007, a 26 percent increase over the previous year. The firm projects that real estate advertising online will grow more than 12 percent this year, with agents and brokers spending more ad dollars in online media than in traditional advertising avenues by the year 2010.

MLBroadcast enables real estate professionals to produce, syndicate and broadcast video content. Through a syndication method know as video podcasting, the company adds the appropriate data to the listing and then submits the podcast to a network of video directories that use this standardized data format to display the channel and its individual videos. The company also submits individual videos and the data associated with them to popular video portals, including ClipBlast!.

Originally posted on April 15, 2008 @ 11:47 pm