Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail’s Bits on the Run has announced they’re going freemium (YA!). While they’re not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire’s freemium service which is still going through some growing pains but for which you can sign up and click Free Premium account), they are perhaps one of the largest and most well known.

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A Tale of Two Online Video Freemium Platforms: Longtail and Playwire

Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail’s Bits on the Run has announced they’re going freemium (YA!) with a Free video hosting and streaming service option. While they’re not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire’s freemium service which is still going through some growing pains but for which you can sign up and click Free Premium account), they are perhaps one of the largest and most well known. Of course, it’s not quite all that

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A Tale of Two Freemium Online Video Platforms: Longtail and Playwire

Jeroen “JW” Wijering is an online video pioneer, Chief Digital Architect of LongTail Video and the creator of the Internet’s most popular and ubiquitous media players, the JW Players , which have generated millions of downloads since their launch in 2005. The unassuming Dutch internet entrepreneur helped changed the face of the online video industry with his open source JW Player which can be found on tens of millions of websites. Even YouTube ran on the JW Player for the first 18 months of its existence.

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Who is JW? A Documentary of an Online Video Superhero

Last week, we held our second ReelSEO webinar event titled, “Dive Into HTML5 Video – Learn From The Masters.” The webinar was a great success and we had more than 1100 attendees join us for the first hour with more than 500 remaining online past the hour as we extended the Q&A session an additional

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Dive Into HTML5 Video With The Masters – Webinar Replay Video

Tomorrow, Wednesday July 21st at 11am Pacific time, we will be holding a FREE webinar titled, “Dive into HTML5 Video.”  This webinar will offer you the unique opportunity to learn about HTML5 video from true experts on the subject, Jeroen “JW” Wijering, creator of the JW Player and the Opera’s HTML5 video core developer, Philip

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Dive Into HTML5 Video – Free Webinar Tomorrow, Space Is Limited

By now everyone knows that HTML5 will have a <video> tag built into it allowing you to place video online without the need for an external player. But ReelSEO has scored a major win and put together two major powers in the online video player arena, Jeroen “JW” Wijering and the Opera browser’s HTML5 video

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Free HTML5 Video Webinar – Learn from the HTML5 Masters

To call HTML5 Video a hype would be an understatement. Every week, major tech companies announce improved support or new breakthroughs. Literally hundreds of new blogposts a day pop up on Google’s blog search

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Apple Doctors Magical HTML5 Video Demo – Safari & Quicktime Are Not Web Standards

Several months ago, Google bought ON2, the company behind the successful video codecs VP6 (used in Flash) and VP7 (used in Skype). Ever since the first rumors of this acquisition emerged, the online video community has speculated what this would mean for HTML5 video and its current issues around codec support

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Google’s VP8 WebM and What it Means for You

Last week, LongTailVideo announced that they have created and released the open source JW Player in a new HTML 5 version (Beta) that features PNG skinning, Javascript API, fallback to flash and more.

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LongTailVideo Releases The First Flexible Open-Source HTML5 Video Player

Online video is an exciting field to work in. As creator of the JW Player, I’m privileged to be at the forefront of the industry. Every week, our team receives thousands of emails from web developers regarding various bug reports, product feature requests and general thoughts about the online video space

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HTML5 Video: Promising Opportunity, Just Not Quite There Yet