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Brightcove Accelerates Expansion of Global Partner Ecosystem
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, September 11 /PRNewswire/ --
- Brightcove Alliance doubles in size, adds new partner categories and
introduces training and certification programs
Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, today announced that
the company's global partner ecosystem, the Brightcove Alliance, has doubled
in size in the past seven months to include more than 200 technology,
distribution and solution providers. Brightcove today also unveiled several
new Brightcove Alliance partner categories, including content management,
transcoding, e-mail, content, and live, as well as a new training and
certification program for solution providers.
"The rapid growth of the Brightcove Alliance represents an enormous
groundswell of innovation and value that third-party providers are building
on top of the Brightcove platform," said Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove chairman
and chief executive officer. "The new additions to the Brightcove Alliance
and our training and certification program provide our customers with a
growing range of opportunities to extend our platform with the highest
quality technologies and services available in the online video market."
Brightcove's new partners and platform integrations include leading
content management systems, transcoding services, e-mail solutions, content
providers, and live publishing technologies, which together provide the
company's worldwide customer base with additional flexibility to easily add
and extend functionality to address wide-ranging business requirements:
- Content Management Systems - Integration with leading content
management systems provide customers with new efficiencies when
leveraging third-party services to operate websites and manage
libraries of video assets. The first content management systems to
provide interoperability with Brightcove include Ektron and Six Apart's
Movable Type. Brightcove is also supporting open source content
management systems, such as Drupal and WordPress.
- Transcoding - New partners like Encoding.com and mPOINT provide
Brightcove customers that have specialized encoding needs with access
to advanced, high volume video transcoding services.
- E-mail - Partners like Goodmail Systems present an opportunity for
Brightcove customers to deliver video content directly within the body
of an email, which expands distribution while helping to drive user
engagement and loyalty.
- Content - Brightcove's content partners, including ScreenPlay Inc. and
SundaySky, are empowering Brightcove customers to ingest and distribute
Third party content from within their Brightcove account, augmenting
Existing online video offerings.
- Live - Brightcove partner Livestream provides customers with a broad
feature set for live video capture, publishing, distribution and
analytics. Additionally, Qik provides Brightcove customers with
location-aware, high-quality live video capture and streaming from more
than 140 mobile phones.
In addition to the new partner categories, the Brightcove Alliance spans
existing categories including interactive agencies, advertising networks and
servers, distribution outlets, mobile devices, analytics and audience
measurement solutions, social media and community-building services. Through
the Alliance program, partners have access to training, support, technology
and co-marketing opportunities for reaching Brightcove customers, which span
hundreds of major media brands, businesses and organizations in 28 countries.
Training and Certification
Brightcove today also introduced a new training and certification program
for solution providers. These programs are designed to provide creative and
interactive agencies and systems integrators with the opportunity to provide
video services and take advantage of new revenue sources through a referral
program with flexible business and campaign-based pricing models. Certified
partners will also have access to a special Partner Edition of the Brightcove
platform, which enables them to publish and manage video services for their
clients.
Certification is open to all Brightcove solution partners. At the base
level, Authorized Solution Partners will have completed the basic
contracting, staffing and training requirements for solution partners.
Partners that fulfill additional requirements to validate their capabilities,
such as advanced expertise in online video technologies and services or
knowledge of Brightcove solutions, can become Certified Solution Partners.
Brightcove will recommend Certified Solution Partners to customers for
matching solution needs and refer appropriate solution and service
opportunities. This level of certification will be offered at two levels -
Standard and Premier, which includes additional entitlements such as advanced
trainings, opportunities to author whitepapers and recognition by Brightcove
as a preferred solution provider.
"Our new training and certification program offers our solution partners
even more support and flexibility in how they work with Brightcove and how
they engage with our customers moving forward," said Mike Deskewies,
Brightcove's vice president of channel sales and partnership programs. "In
becoming a Certified Partner, organizations can extend their knowledge and
use of the Brightcove platform to help introduce new revenue opportunities
and drive new services."
To learn more about the partner training and certification program or to
sign up, please contact solutionpartners@brightcove.com.
Brightcove Alliance Members
Participants in the Brightcove Alliance include:
Solution Partners Advertising and Reporting and Analytics
Monetization Amplified State
Aboutface Media 24/7 Real Media comScore
Adjust Your Set Ad Delivery Solutions GlanceGuide
Animal LLC Adap.tv Nedstat
Artists Upfront ADTECH Nielsen Online
Automata Studios AOL Advertising Omniture
Automotive Networks Corp Auditude Quantcast
BASIK BlackArrow TubeMogul
Best Before Media BrightRoll Visible Measures
Big Rich Media Cavi.tv
Blonde CheckM8 Search and Discovery
BrainBox DoubleClick Blinkx
Cantina Consulting evenhere Cooliris
Cantos Eyeblaster EveryZing
CMS Professionals FreeWheel Gotuit
Code and Theory Google Loomia
Commonplaces e-solutions HIRO-Media Taboola
Cynergy Innovid Truveo
Dare Digital InSkin Media Vibrant Media
Deeson JD Project
Devious Media Layer Dynamics Social Media
Diginovations LiveRail Clearspring
Digital Surface Panache Gigya
DVLP ScanScout IntenseDebate
Element LLC Smartclip JS-Kit Echo
Eyetag SpotRails Meebo
Fullhouse SpotXchange Pluck
Funny Garbage Tremor Media SplashCast
Gen-i Media Utarget.FOX Slide
Grantastic Designs Videoplaza Sprout
Hashrocket Videostrip
HD Film Content YuMe Transcoding
Hub'Sales Zoomin.tv Encoding.com
IDINI Consulting Inlet Technologies
Indeks Content & Content mPOINT
Communication Boulder Creek Nativ
Consultancy International
Insidedesign Preview Networks
interFUEL ScreenPlay Inc. Viewer Experience
Intricate Arts Stupeflix Adobe
Jeffrey Tunches SundaySky Asterpix
Joyrider Films dotSUB
Juicyorange Content Management HowTo.tv
Systems
M&M Media Drupal Limelight Networks, Inc.
Maverick Television Ektron PLYmedia
Mchizi Media Leverage Software Quick.tv
MEDIAmobz Six Apart's Movable Type
Melity WordPress
Method
Mob Media Distribution
myvideorights.com AnySource Media
NBTV Studios AOL Video
Oasis Technology Bebo
Partners Boxee
OgilvyInteractive Critical Media
Olyvon ffwdPlayer Facebook
Partners and Simons application
PI FX & Interactive Free Stream Media
Factory Glam Media
Pod Design MediaNet Digital
Poke London Metacafe
Prisma IT Plex
Profusions sevenload
Rariti Sony Bravia
RedBee TubeMogul
Red Star 18 Veoh Networks
Reply VUDU
Sanborn Media Factory Webcastr
Schematic Yahoo
Screaming Panda Zimbio
SCREENCRAFT
Scube NewMedia Srl E-mail
Serranetga Goodmail Systems
Simply Media
Slamcore Live
SONARconnects Livestream
StoryWorks Media Qik
StudioNow
Techitra Mobile
theCode Appcelerator
Thinkdigital AtomiZ
Trade Warrior Consulting Azuki Systems
TRIPLE8 IDEAS Mobile Roadie
TurnHere Internet Video Nellymoser
Twin Technologies Transpera
Universe Inside vtap
Entertainment Yospace
Upgrade Marketing Qik
Villagedirect.org
VivaKi
wearevi
Wethecitizens
Woven Interactive
xif
Zoom Factor, Inc.
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About Brightcove
Brightcove is an online video platform. Media companies, businesses and
organizations worldwide use Brightcove to publish and distribute video on the
Web. Founded in 2004, Brightcove is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business
with offices across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information,
visit http://www.brightcove.com.
