blogs.wsj.com - 10/28/2008
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Time Warner's AOL unit on Tuesday plans to announce that it is scrapping its online video player technology in favor of systems created by Cambridge, Mass.-based Brightcove. In addition to using Brightcove to deliver video to viewers, AOL says it will integrate its own video advertising ...
sportsbusinessjournal.com - 10/28/2008
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By ERIC FISHER Staff writer Former AOL programming
chief Jim Bankoff has secured a mid-seven-figure sum of...
venture capital for SB Nation, a startup network of sports blogs, from a group of digital media and technology luminaries. The round of funding ...
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Tech leaders back sports blog network
timewarner.com - 10/22/2008
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10.20.08 CNN Digital Dominates September with Coverage of
Economy, Politics, Weather 10.15.08 AOL Programming Sites Reach All-Time...
High Traffic for September 10.09.08 TBS Presents a "Very Funny" Festival: The Comedy Festival 09.22.08 HBO ...
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aol.com - 10/30/2008
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AOL Chooses Brightcove to Publish Video Content
Beet.TV —
... . Erick is co-moderating the Beet.TV panel today. Here's the take by the WSJ's Emily Steel, who we hope to see at our conference this morning. ...
Roundup: Layoffs hit Revision3, Google Earth on the iPhone and more
VentureBeat —
... AOL to use Brightcove video player — The move marks a shift in AOL’s strategy, because it has spent the last several years developing its own proprietary video player. ...
AOL Outsources Video to Brightcove
Wired: Epicenter —
... as AOL bought a minority stake in Brightcove back in 2006.
Another of Brightcove's investors, The New York Times, also recently announced a major new video initiative using the updated Brightcove 3 platform to implement more high def videos throughout its website.
AOL decided it was smarter to outsource its video business and focus its efforts on developing better video search and ad products, said Fred McIntyre, senior vice president at AOL.
AOL Ditches Its Own Video Player for Brightcove [WSJ]
AOL Dumps Its Online Video Player
ClickZ News Blog —
... AOL, a unit of Time Warner, will instead use Brightcove's technology, for online video, according to published reports. It will also integrate its online video ad technology into Brightcove's, according to a WSJ.com report. Typically companies that use Brightcove's video player also use its ad technology. ...
Conde Nast Partners With Brightcove on Online Video
CenterNetworks —
AOL Cutting Off Uncut Video Service; More Squeeze On Third-Party Vendors?
paidContent —
... will this move put additional squeeze on the already-cash strapped online video vendors? As their customers (TV news sites, online portals and others) pare down on non-revenue generating user-gen video, a major source of software licensing revenue could be going away; the other side of the argument is that most sites trying online video in-house will just outsource it to third-party vendors. Some like Brightcove are getting the cream of the outsourced deals, like NYTimes, AOL and Conde Nast. Other smallers one will fall by the wayside. ...
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Brightcove Scores AOL
newteevee.com 10/28/2008 — Brightcove , which just saw its investors at the New York Times fully deploy its product , now has fellow investor AOL using its video publishing platform.
Brightcove will take over from AOL’s terrible home-grown video product ...
Brightcove Snags AOL Video Deal
techcrunch.com 10/28/2008 —
On the heels of announcing an expanded relationship with the New York Times website last week, Brightcove is adding all of AOL to its video-distribution client list. Like the New York Times, AOL is an investor in Brightcove.
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AOL Journals transferring to Google Blogger
jackkonblog.blogspot.com 10/9/2008 — I just received this email message from AOL last night regarding the status of AOL Journals since AOL is shutting down that blogging service this month. They have decided to facilitate migration of AOL Journals over to Google's Blogger blogging ...
Bring Back The AOL Client!
businessinsider.com 3/26/2009 — We found a rant in our inbox from "an ex AOL dev." It's a bit untidy, but it makes a few interesting, contrarian points.
The AOL Client was (and remains) popular, still “used by more than 28.6 million people on broadband and dial-up ...
Bewkes Babbles About AOL
alleyinsider.com 12/11/2008 — Jeff Bewkes babbled for a long while about AOL at the UBS conference yesterday, but he doesn't appear to have said anything. PaidContent.org took notes:
"I'd like to get it resolved, meaning clear so AOL can be seen and valued We need to do it fairly soon and we've been working hard on ...
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