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Re: BrightCove.TV Shuts Down; Company to Follow?

Web Videographer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:48:19 -0000

Just stumbled across this year old article, and wondering if "Rizzn" was right about Brightcove fading away. Looks like they recently got AOL and NY Times as clients, so I'm guessing not!

Re: BrightCove.TV Shuts Down; Company to Follow?

Darussia — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:20:44 -0000

OMG! than i should delete brightcove videos from my website.

Re: BrightCove.TV Shuts Down; Company to Follow?

Jeremy Allaire — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:27:49 -0000

Hi Mark-

Thanks for the post and comments. I've put together a few thoughts and clarifications in response. Thanks for starting the conversation.

http://blog.brightcove.com/...

Regards,
Jeremy

Re: BrightCove.TV Shuts Down; Company to Follow?

PhillC — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:05:52 -0000

This is the first worthwhile article Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins has ever posted on Mashable. The normal tripe spewing forth from his keyboard is barely worth the time to skim over - weak analysis, poorly written, US centric and mostly utter conjecture.

While this article is certainly full of unsubstantiated rumour, at least we're now aware of one IPTV giant's slide into oblivion. The fact that my number one competitor uses the Brightcove platform certainly helped me enjoy this article.

Re: BrightCove.TV Shuts Down; Company to Follow?

Ben — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:54:19 -0000

Don't really understand this article. I'm at brightcove.tv right now and everything appears to be the same. There's even an "Upload" button like there always is. Is this a phased shutdown or just a rumor?

Re: BrightCove.TV Shuts Down; Company to Follow?

Steven Bao — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:46:27 -0000

Note that Brightcove is still offering its options for services other than direct consumer upload, which means their other options (internet TV over its network and platform) is still available to publishers. They have numerous contracts with others and those aren't affected by the end of "ordinary user" uploads to Brightcove.TV. I believe that they're taking a step in the right direction - serving video through their platform to larger organizations, not to personal users (to make like another YouTube, albeit much improved.)