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.

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.  

Encoding.com Selected to Present at ad:tech Startup Spotlight

ad:tech is one of the largest conferences for digital marketers attracting over 10,000 industry professionals.  For next week's event here in San Francisco, Encoding.com, along with some very cool companies, was chosen to present in the Startup Spotlight series.  We are very much looking forward to connecting with new industry friends and showing off our existing work with many of the world's best Agencies.  

If you want to attend, you can use the code STARTMEUP to receive a $200 discount.  You can register here.  

ad:tech San Francisco will be held this Tuesday and Wednesday, April 3-4 at Moscone.  Our presentation is on Tuesday at 5pm.  We'll also be hosting a booth in the Innovation Alley on both days... so please come by and say hello.  

Encoding.com is very proud to announce its partnership with Creative Asylum, an Emmy Award winning interactive agency in Hollywood, to support the GLEE "Give a Note" campaign to recognize at-risk music programs in the US and provide $1M in donations from Fox and Glee.  

http://www.gleegiveanote.com/

Glee star Jane Lynch promoted the campaign in a public service announcement video... see beelow. The campaign will support music education by awarding $1 million dollars in prize money to music programs in jeopardy throughout the United States.   To qualify, kids submitted videos showing why their school deserves a piece of the prize.  The voting is complete -- 1.7 million web votes, 262,000 Facebook “likes” with an expected 33,000,000 Facebook impressions -- and the prizes will be awarded on December 15, 2011.  Stay tuned.

Encoding.com and Vid.ly Support Operations will be closed for Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 24th, 2011 - Sunday, November 27, 2011. We'll be actively monitoring the queue for any outstanding issues. We will be back on Monday, November 28th. If you have any questions, please send us an email and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Happy Turkey Day!

Game on rockers!  We're excited to be teaming up with Jack Wishna, Stacy Haitsuka and the crew at ROCKRENA to power video for their recently launched RockCityClub.com 'social music network.'  RockCityClub is all about helping music artists get discovered and exposed to a worldwide audience... and we support that mission!

"Rockcityclub.com is changing the music industry in terms of how artists and bands are discovered and how their music is promoted and distributed," said Jack Wishna, CEO, of ROCKRENA.  "With Encoding.com managing video conversions, we are assured of high-quality video of Rockcityclub.com live performances and artist downloads to Rockcityclub.com being available quickly and reliably for our audiences around the world.  Encoding.com streamlines the video conversion process at a fraction of the in-house expense."

Wow.  Thanks very much to Streaming Media for including us in their inaugural list of Top 100 Companies that Matter in Online Video.  We accept this honor very humbly and appreciatively.  It means a lot to us to be recognized along with such video industry luminaries as Apple, Netflix, the BBC, etc... 

Our mission is just beginning.  As long as the complexity of preparing and delivering video that works across the ever-expanding ecosystem of devices and browsers exists, we will continue to innovate.  And when we need inspiration, we turn to Bluto.

We're excited and humbled to have been nominated for 5 Streaming Media Reader's Choice Awards... and we need your help to win.  If you believe that Encoding.com and Vid.ly are worthy, please take 2 minutes to vote for us by following the link below.  I've also included the categories for which we were nominated.  Your support is greatly appreciated.  

http://www.streamingmedia.com/ReadersChoice/2011/Vote.aspx

We are nominated for the following categories:

• Best Streaming Innovation 2011  (Vid.ly)
• Best Online Video Technology Company (Encoding.com)
• Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Service  (Encoding.com)
• Encoding Software (Under $1000)  (Encoding.com)
• Mobile Video Platform (Vid.ly)

Come meet us at the Amazon Web Services Media & Entertainment Summit

Join a couple hundred Digital Media and IT Execs from leading Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies to share and learn best practices for leveraging Amazon's cloud infrastructure to solve challenges in the new on-demand digital media world. 

Reasons to attend (from AWS)

- Learn how Media and Entertainment companies have benefited by building and migrating a variety of applications to the cloud.
- Learn how AWS's cloud platform can help solve your storage, transcoding and encoding, and content delivery problems.
- Discover how AWS's services can help you meet increasing customer demands while reducing overall IT expenditures.

Who should attend

- IT Executives, Senior IT Managers, Senior Architects, and other technical IT leaders.

Where / When

October 6, 2011
Sofitel Los Angeles
8555 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
 

We are excited to announce that we recently teamed up with Firstborn, one of the hippest digital agencies around, to deliver SoBe Try A New Look - SoBe Beverages, the fun and edgy iPhone/iPad App for SoBe®, a product of Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages.

"Cloud vendors usually offer their services 'as is' and the best we can expect is a User Forum.  Then Encoding.com reached out directly and consistently made things better for us.  In our experience, this is truly unique," said Francis Turmel, CTO of Firstborn.  "Now we know we can bring Encoding.com a whole problem, instead of just a question, and they give us a solution rather than just an answer.  This is awesome."

The video management component of this application made the development and deployment a complicated effort, but was dramatically simplified by leveraging the Encoding.com platform and expertise of the Encoding.com engineering team.  Originally scoped as a three-month, in-house project, Firstborn was able to deliver in just three weeks!

What can we do for you?  Call us at 800.513.1740 or email us: sales at encoding.com