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Flumotion nominated to win its 8th Streaming Media Award

May 16, 2013 in Conferences, Industry Events, News with 0 Comments

In the past 4 years Flumotion has received a total of 7 awards from industry publication Streaming Media. We are very happy to announce that also this year, we have been nominated to participate in their annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

The nominations are in the following categories:

• Music & Audio Delivery Solution
• Webcast Platform
• Online Video Platform

If you like our services, please give us your vote. It’s very easy to vote and it will only take you a few seconds. Just fill in your name and email here and then use the search function to find “flu” and in a few moments you’ll have checked the 3 boxes.

Voting will remain open until Friday 24th May, and on that day you will receive an email asking you to confirm your vote. Only confirmed votes will be counted.
Winners will be revealed on 18th June during the special Drinks reception of this year’s Streaming Forum in London.

Thank you very much for your support and please vote for Flumotion. Vote NOW!

Flumotion streams the FOSDEM developer conference live in open formats WebM and Ogg

February 1, 2013 in Conferences, Industry Events, Live Streaming, News, Open source streaming, Open Source Video with 0 Comments

The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. This year’s edition takes place on Feb 2-3 in Brussels and brings more than 5,000 hackers together to share ideas and to collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and is one of the most important events for the open source communities. This year there are features 477 speakers, 487 sessions, and 40 tracks. Activities take place in 24 rooms spread across several buildings of the Solbosch campus of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

Like in the past years, Flumotion is one of the conference’s supporters and provides the live streaming from 5 conference rooms during these two days. Flumotion provides a total of 10 simultaneous live streams as each room is streamed in both OGG (Theora – Vorbis) and WebM (VP8 – Vorbis).

FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community for the community. The goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to meet to:

• get in touch with other developers and projects;
• be informed about the latest developments in the Free Software and Open Source world;
• attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by Free Software and Open Source project leaders and committers;
• to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software and Open Source solutions.

Read more about the event and its history here

Jameson Notodofilmfest powered by Flumotion’s User Generated Content features

January 14, 2013 in Case studies, News, Online Video News, OVRP with 0 Comments

Jameson Notodofilmfest is an online Film Festival, founded in 2001, by La Fábrica. In the past decade more than 9,000 films, from 38 countries, have been submitted. It has become an online launch platform for young creators and has attracted an audience of 20 million viewers.

La Fábrica has selected Flumotion’s Online Video Platform to reduce the workflow and to efficiently manage all video assets. The participants of the contest upload their videos via a simple form directly into Flumotion’s Media BackOffice. The Project Manager can now review each video and publish it in the appropriate channel. The Flumotion player can be customized with a few clicks and its social sharing options assure the optimal promotion of each video.

Flumotion has developed these functionalities to allow marketers to easily create and promote campaigns based on User Generated Content. Viewers from around the globe can watch the content in multiple qualities and on any device. Thanks to the Flumotion Advertising Module different types of ad formats can be ingested into each video. The easy to use APIs enable La Fábrica to seamlessly integrate the management of video assets into their existing systems and workflow.

Flumotion, Facebook and Google named among the top companies in Online Video in 2012

December 18, 2012 in Industry Events, News, Online Video News, Press Releases with 0 Comments

Industry leading Streaming Media Magazine compiled their annual list of the top 101 companies. The selection process consists of a list of more than 220 companies that is presented to the publication’s editorial and publishing staff, asking them to rank each one on a scale of 1 (has no business being on such a prestigious list) to 5 (absolutely must be on the list). The final list — the 101 companies that ranked highest — comprises 63 companies that are either based in Europe or have their roots there. The remaining companies are mostly U.S.-based, but they have a strong market presence in Europe.

At Flumotion, we are very proud to be part of that list again and to share the space with heavyweights such as Adobe, Apple, Facebook and Google. To review the entire list, visit the Streaming Media’s website.

This is Flumotion’s 7th award from Streaming Media in the past 4 years. To learn more about the other 6 awards, follow this link.

Live streaming and Facebook contest – The Shopping Night Barcelona Case Study

December 12, 2012 in Live Streaming, News, Online Video News with 0 Comments

The Shopping Night Barcelona. An annual event hosted on Barcelona’s emblematic Passeig de Gràcia. Top fashion stores, Gaudi buildings and luxury hotels set the stage for a night of shopping and events until the early morning hours. Together with The Shopping Night Barcelona, Flumotion, CTL Comunciació and Easypromos created a unique experience that allowed online and offline fans to become part of the event.

This new concept combined a live streaming of the VIP Photo Call and Party, with a contest in Facebook, where fans could win exclusive VIP tickets and one night in the Chic & Basic hotel. The contest was created with Easypromos’ Premium Facebook
application, while CTL Comunicació was in charge of the audiovisual production and Flumotion’s Online Video Platform powered the live streaming.

The campaign started a few hours before the actual event and 300 fans entered the competition. The prize was presented to the winner, on the red carpet, in front of the live cameras. This combination of live streaming and Facebook promotion, creates excitement before and during the event. This promotes engagement and sharing, which brings the event to a larger audience.

Watch the video case study below!