We love Revision3! If you are not one of the 23 Million monthly viewers, then you need to check out some of the best original web video programming on the Internets.  Here are 3 popular shows from over 30, high-quality HD shows that we like:

Revision3's goal is to "put video on anything with a screen" and Encoding.com's highly scalable cloud-based platform helps them achieve this.

“Working with Encoding.com has enabled our Production team to focus its energies on generating superb quality output while eliminating the overhead of managing encoding infrastructure in-house,” said Rob DeMillo, CTO of Revision3. “The Encoding.com team has been very responsive to our needs and continues to build out new features to meet our evolving requirements.”

Revision3 realized that the in-house encoding of its massive amounts of content, into all the formats needed, had become a scaling bottleneck as well as a resource drain.  Revision3 migrated from it’s own transcoding servers to Encoding.com’s powerful, cloud-based parallel processing for its video encoding, allowing for a cost effective, scalable, and flexible solution. In addition to the benefits offered by the cloud, Revision3 also relies on Encoding.com’s domain expertise and attention to rapid technology evolution in video, to manage the technical details that ensure successful viewing on new formats and devices in the market.

Working with the Revision3 technical team has been awesome.  Looking forward to their continued success.

A new era in home and mobile entertainment has arrived!  

Encoding.com is thrilled to announce our partnership with the great folks over at Dolby Labratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB).  Together, Encoding.com and Dolby are bringing true theater experiences to mobile devices, web browsers, STBs and connected TVs. 

So, what does this announcement mean for you? 

Using Dolby technologies via the Encoding.com platform, you will be able to do the following via the API and UI:

1. Utilize HE AAC and HE AAC+ audio codecs for superior audio quality… even at low bitrates.  You'll be blown away with the improvements on mobile and laptop devices.
2. Utilize the Dolby Digital Plus EAC3 audio codec for multi-channel audio which is great for speakers connected to computers or STBs connected to home theater systems.
3. Detect and repair audio features… even poor sounding source content can be improved.
4. Utilize Audio Normalization features to control loudness and to maximize audio levels for specific mobile devices.

Encoding.com is the first cloud-based encoding provider to enable Dolby audio for all video content providers.  Customers can utilize Dolby Digital Plus to deliver a studio-quality HD audio experience to a huge array of mobile devices, STBs, game consoles, Blu-ray players and connected TVs.  There are more than 640 million devices which support Dolby Digital.

"Dolby Digital Plus is a key part of high-definition entertainment and delivers a cinematic sound experience to consumers across a wide range of devices," said Jean-Christophe Morizur, Senior Director, Professional Solutions at Dolby Laboratories. "Encoding.com is a leader in Cloud encoding services and our collaboration enables service providers to deliver high-quality, multi-channel audio entertainment for services, devices and applications."

I'd like to thank the great folks who run ad:tech for inviting Encoding.com to participate in the Startup Spotlight series and competition.  It was awesome sharing the Innovation Alley with many other interesting and soon-to-be successful startups.

We're also excited and honored to announce that Encoding.com won the coveted Innovation Award for Video.  We showcased some of our work powering video campaigns for amazing agencies such as Tribal DDB's "Bud Light High-Five League" user-generated video (UGV) competition for Anheuser Busch; Firstborn's "Try a New Look" branded video mashup app for iPhones and iPads for Pepsi's SoBe brand; and Creative Asylum's "GLEE Give a Note" campaign supporting music education programs for high schools around the country.  You can view the presentation below.

Special shout out to DOTSTUDIOZ, Addroid and SeaWell Networks for providing stiff competition.  Excellent presentations.  

We are so pleased to see Vid.ly penetrating the the action sports community, we spotted this guy on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Creek, Colorado.

Blowing our own horn?  Clearly.

Encoding.com was recently included in Gartner's 2011 "Cool Vendors" in Enterprise Communications and Network Services report alongside some very interesting companies like Twilio, Aryaka, Talari Networks and others.  I'd love to share what they wrote about us but Gartner's report is for subscribers only.  You'll just have to take my word for it... very "cool."  Actually, here's what they said we could write:

"Gartner noted in its key findings that the selected vendors are developing innovative approaches that make the deployment of cloud-based communications and networking services more secure, reliable and efficient and that these vendors offer attractive subscription-based pricing, along with favorable terms and conditions, that are enabling cloud-based services to be cost-effective for emerging communications and networking uses."

My PR folks asked me to promote this inclusion but I'm not sure how to promote something that's not actually publicly available.  Sorry to throw you under the bus PR team -- but, any press is good press... right?  We actually have some more exciting new features to be announcing in the coming weeks.  Until then, just know that Gartner said we're the greatest new service to launch since Pets.com.

It’s that time of year again.  Summer’s over, kids are back in school, Jets disappoint in Week 1, and of course, the Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards.  Encoding.com was nominated in four categories (thank you) and we’d very much appreciate your support in voting for us if you believe we’re providing a good service.  The PR definitely helps.

We’re nominated in these categories:

1) Best Streaming Innovation 2010
2) Best Online Video Company 2010 – Technology
3) Encoding Software Under $1000
4) Mobile Video Platform

To vote, please click here — should only take a couple of minutes.

We have lots of exciting product announcements coming so keep a look out.

Cheers,

- Gregg and Jeff

We were nominated for the best Transcoding Service provider in Streaming Media’s European Readers’ Choice Awards.  We could certainly use your help so we can bring this award home to California.  If you like our service, please take 30 seconds to follow the link below and give us a nod.  Much appreciated.

Click here to vote for Encoding.com in the best Transcoding Service category.

If you don’t think we’re worthy, we welcome your feedback to help us continue to improve Encoding.com.  Thanks!

From TechCrunch:

Earlier this week, Steve Jobs kicked the debate about the need for Flash into high gear, especially for Web video. As he explained, Apple products like the iPhone and iPad don’t support Flash because although 75 percent of video on the Web is in Flash ” almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads.” The next day, Microsoft weighed in, saying that Internet Explorer 9 would only support the H.264 codec for HTML video.

So how much video exactly is available in H.264? I asked Encoding.com, which has encoded 5 million videos over the past year for a variety of Websites and customers including MTV Networks, WebMD, Brightcove, Nokia, MySpace, and Red Bull. President Jeff Malkin sent me the chart above, which he believes is representative of the Web in general, including mobile. As the chart shows, in the past four quarters, the H.264 format went from 31 percent of all videos to 66 percent, and is now the largest format by far. Meanwhile, Flash is represented by Flash VP6 and FLV, which combined represent only 26 percent of all videos. That is down from a combined total of 69 percent four quarters ago. So the native Flash codecs and H.264 have completely flipped in terms of market share (Flash also supports H.264, however, but you don’t need a Flash player to watch H.264 videos)

Another data point that Steve Jobs mentions: All YouTube videos are available in H.264, which alone represents 40 percent of all videos on the Web. So these numbers from Encoding don’t seem so crazy.