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San Francisco, California – November 7, 2012 – Encoding.com, the world’s largest video processing service, today announced that Discovery Communications, the world’s #1 nonfiction media company, will leverage its high-speed, cloud transcoding platform and Vid.ly universal video delivery solution to enable video playback across web, mobile and set-top box platforms for Discovery’s TV and digital brands, including websites for popular networks including Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet, Revision3.com, HowStuffWorks.com and Petfinder.com.

With popular TV series like Gold Rush and Long Island Medium, and dozens of original online web series, video is at the heart of Discovery’s digital...

San Francisco, California – October 11, 2012 – Streaming Media has selected Encoding.com as one of its Top 100 Companies that Matter Most in Online Video.

This marks the second consecutive year that Encoding.com has been included on the list for its high-speed, infinitely saleable, cloud encoding solutions. Recipients of the award are chosen by a panel of 11 streaming media experts and selected for doing “the most important and innovative work in online video today”.

Jeff Malkin, President of Encoding.com, responded to the announcement saying “The Encoding.com team is very pleased to be recognized for our...

Encoding.com, the leading cloud-based media processing platform, today announced the launch of the EDC Private Cloud designed specifically to meet the accelerating demand for long-form, HD video content from Hollywood movie, television and sports content providers.  Integrated with Encoding.com’s popular transcoding platform, the EDC Private Cloud provides unparalleled video processing speed and capacity in a highly secure environment at market disruptive pricing.

In addition, Encoding.com is announcing another $1.5 million infusion of capital from existing investors Metamorphic Ventures and other well-known angels to support the EDC Private Cloud and the proliferation of premium video content...

Encoding.com, the leading provider for enabling universal online video, announced that Webs is using Vid.ly, Encoding.com’s universal video URL platform, to power the video component of its new website builder, SiteBuilder3, announced earlier this month. The Vid.ly service powers the entire SiteBuilder3 video workflow – upload of source videos, expert transcoding, hosting, and device detection – for multi-screen / multi-device delivery for Webs’ large user base.

Webs, the world’s largest do-it-yourself solution for creating free websites, has been used to help create over 40 million websites. SiteBuilder3 is a completely new version of Webs’ website creation...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service and provider of Vid.ly, the universal video URL platform, announced that Vid.ly powered the Mozilla Firefox Flicks global user-generated video (UGV) contest. Encoding.com, via its Vid.ly service, powered the entire video workflow, managing video upload, transcoding, and optimization, via its proprietary Encoding Intelligence™, hosting, and device detection for multi-screen / multi-device delivery of content created by filmmakers around the world.

Mozilla’s Firefox Flicks UGV contest was designed to give filmmakers the opportunity to create and submit short videos that promote Firefox, the open-source browser, and how it differs from...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, and provider of Vid.ly, the universal video platform, announced that it will encode videos across The AOL On Network. Encoding.com is known for its highly scalable, cloud-based service, including its proprietary Encoding Intelligence™ for accelerating video processing, along with exceptional levels of customer support.

Encoding.com’s powerful cloud platform provides dynamic, elastic capacity to support AOL’s varying video volume requirements. Its ability to process tens of thousands of videos each day eliminates long video queues, while ensuring that videos are immediately available to view on the Web and mobile...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, has replaced Revision3’s in-house encoding system with Encoding.com’s powerful cloud-based video encoding platform.  Revision3, the leading Internet Television network, entertains an audience of more than 23 million unique users on the full range of mobile devices and browsers, totaling more than 100M video views a month. Leveraging Encoding.com’s scalable cloud-based platform, with accelerated encoding features and universal video support, Revision3 is able to meet its goal to “put video on anything with a screen.”

Revision3, an Internet video pioneer and leading special-interest video network, creates and produces over 30 high-quality...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, and provider of Vid.ly, the universal video URL platform, announced that it is working with Dolby^® Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB), to integrate Dolby Digital Plus within Encoding.com’s cloud-based video platform. Dolby Digital Plus enables the delivery of high-quality audio to a wide range of devices and distribution workflows, including broadcast, over-the-top, online, and video-on-demand.  The combination of Encoding.com’s video expertise, with Dolby’s world-class audio capabilities, enables Hollywood studio-quality video experiences to online and mobile platforms.  

This collaboration between Dolby and Encoding.com addresses the challenge of providing high-quality digital...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service and provider of Vid.ly, the universal video URL platform, was named the winner of the Innovation Award for Video as the most innovative, enterprising new company in video digital marketing. Encoding.com won against fierce competition during the Startup Spotlight Competition at the ad:tech conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco. 

Encoding.com showcased its work powering video campaigns for advertising agencies, including: 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 application for iPhones and iPads; and Creative...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service and provider of Vid.ly, the universal video platform, has been selected as a finalist for the ad:tech Innovation Awards, as the most innovative, enterprising new company in video digital marketing. Encoding.com will participate in the Startup Spotlight Competition at ad:tech, at Moscone Center in San Francisco, on April 3, and will showcase its work on video campaigns with advertising agencies, including: JWT, Grey Group, Tribal DDB, Wunderman, McCann Erickson Worldwide, Firstborn, Creative Asylum, and Ackerman McQueen.  In other news, Jeff Malkin, president of Encoding.com, was named to the Board of...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service and provider of the Vid.ly universal video URL platform, announced a set of valuable new analytics features for Vid.ly Pro customers.  The Vid.ly analytics feature set provides video statistics, for a specific date range, across mobile device and browser platforms per Vid.ly URL, per a group of URLs, or for an entire account.

“Video analytics has been the most highly-anticipated feature request since we launched Vid.ly Pro this past summer,” said Jeff Malkin, president of Encoding.com. “The new Vid.ly analytics package gives our customers powerful information about the viewing of their...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, announced year-end Vid.ly video consumption trends across mobile platforms.  Vid.ly, the universal video platform deployed one year ago to solve the complexities of delivering video to HTML5 browsers and mobile devices, show trends that represent a dramatic gain in mobile video viewing from Android OS-based cell phones and tablets versus Apple iOS devices (iPhones / iPads) in 2011.  

Vid.ly automatically transcodes source videos into 24 different video formats and stores them for delivery.  It uses powerful browser/device detection to deliver the appropriate video format for the best quality viewing...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, announced it has integrated its Vid.ly universal video platform into Encoding.com’s intelligent video encoding workflow, further simplifying the process for enabling video playback on all devices and browsers.  In addition, Encoding.com announced its Future-Proof Video program that offers automatic preparation of Vid.ly videos for new formats/devices as they enter the market.    The integration of Encoding.com and Vid.ly, into one platform, delivers a powerful set of features for powering universal video – now and in the future.

Vid.ly is evoked in the Encoding.com platform via a simple...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, today announced it has teamed with Creative Asylum, an integrated creative agency, located in Hollywood, CA, to power the GLEE “Give a Note” campaign to recognize at-risk music programs in the US and provide $1 million in donations to support music education.  Encoding.com powered the entire video workflow, managing video upload, transcoding, and optimization, via its proprietary Encoding Intelligence™, for the thousands of videos, in multiple formats, uploaded by the schools.

Creative Asylum’s Emmy® Award-winning team feels passionate about making an impact on music education in America.  They developed...

San Francisco, CA – November 8, 2011 – Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, announced that LA public radio station KCRW 89.9FM, an NPR affiliate, has integrated its Vid.ly platform to power video for KCRW’s Music Mine iPad application.  Vid.ly is the first universal video URL platform and radically simplifies the preparation and delivery of video to all mobile devices and browsers, thus solving the biggest challenge facing video content publishers and application developers who want their videos to work for everyone. KCRW is leveraging Vid.ly to manage the heavy lifting of transcoding, device detection...

SAN FRANCISCO – November 2, 2011 – Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, today announced that the company is providing video encoding that makes it super simple for developers to create a video channel for Roku, the leading streaming platform.

Because Roku is an open platform, anyone can create a content channel for the Roku Channel Store. Using the Roku SDK, developers can create anything from a basic free VOD channel to a full-subscription movie service. Now, the process for creating a video channel is even easier with five pre-tested presets provided by Encoding.com to...

 San Francisco, CA – October 26, 2011 – Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, announced it is teaming with Rockcityclub.com – The World’s Only Social Music Network created by Jack Wishna, Ofek Hayon, Brian Silver, John Kohl, and Stacy Haitsuka – past founder of NetZero, to provide encoding for the video submissions of millions of Rockcityclub.com’s artists around the world and for Rockcityclub.com live performances. Encoding.com’s cloud transcoding service provides infinite scalability for high-volume encoding, coupled with industry leading, guaranteed service level agreements that ensure timely video delivery.  Working with Encoding.com provides Rockcityclub.com with...

San Francisco, CA – October 19, 2011 – Encoding.com, the world’s largest video transcoding service and provider of Vid.ly, the universal video URL platform, was named as one of the one hundred companies that “matter the most in online video” by Streaming Media magazine. In addition, Encoding.com has been nominated in five categories for Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards, and the Company recently announced surpassing 15 million video encodes and is pacing at over 1 million video encodes per month.  

The Streaming Media 100, issued for the first time this year, is a list of...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, today announced it has teamed with Firstborn, a leading New York City-based digital agency, to help deliver “Try a New Look,” the fun and edgy iPhone/iPad App for SoBe®, a product of Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages.  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.

Firstborn is a multiplatform...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service and provider of Vid.ly, the universal video platform, today announced that it is sponsoring hackday.tv, a 24-hour hackathon dedicated to showcasing innovation and creativity in the world of video.  Taking place on September 10^th and 11^th in New York City and managed by the team from Shelby.tv, the event brings together video developers and videographers to build, demo, and promote video applications utilizing APIs from Encoding.com, Vid.ly, Twilio, Shelby.tv, Boxee, and more.  The winning team’s work will be showcased on the Times Square jumbotron.

“Using the Vid.ly API,...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, and Wowza Media Systems®, the "any screen done right™" media server software company, today announced a partnership that provides Wowza customers with custom Encoding.com presets to simplify the preparation and transcoding of videos into the optimal formats for adaptive bitrate delivery by Wowza Media Server®.

"Wowza has done an amazing job simplifying the very complex process of streaming video to the plethora of devices and platforms,” said Jeff Malkin, President of Encoding.com.  “This partnership expands that notion by leveraging Encoding.com’s custom Wowza transcoding presets, so Wowza customers can...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service and provider of Vid.ly, the universal video platform, today announced that Jeff Malkin, President of Encoding.com, has been selected as a member of Streaming Media Magazine's 2011 Streaming Media All-Stars Team. This annual award honors the most important people in the online video industry.

The fourth annual Streaming Media All-Star Team is the “Who's Who of Online Video” recognizing the people who have done the most over the years to advance both new technologies and sustainable business models, as well as those who time and time again have...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced the launch of its new award-winning website, including a significant expansion of its Developer Program.    Developers now have access to a FREE, unlimited monthly encoding plan that includes 1GB of video processing, greatly improved API documentation, and a refreshed and revamped Knowledge Base, including solutions to the most common errors and tips to generate the highest quality output. The combined new features, along with the existing tools, provide the most robust set of services for developers in the video encoding sector.

Encoding.com’s new always-free...

Encoding.com, the world's largest media encoding service provider, which leverages cloud computing to offer scalable and flexible usage-based encoding for video content publishers and platforms, today announced it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the Enterprise Communications and Network Services, 2011 report by Gartner, Inc.

The vendors selected by Gartner, as Cool Vendors 2011, “produce a range of services for communications and networking planners.”  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,...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest and fastest video encoding service provider, today announced a $2 million infusion from current investors, led by Metamorphic Ventures.  The funding will support a rapid expansion in the scale of Encoding.com’s operations, in response to its growing customer base, now 1,700 customers, and the explosive acceptance of its new Vid.ly universal video URL service.

Current investors joining Metamorphic Ventures in the round are Patrick Condon, co-founder of Rackspace and active Angel investor; John Engates, CTO of Rackspace; and Dave Morgan, CEO of Simulmedia and founder of TACODA and Real Media.

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced that it is also the world’s fastest Encoding service, with the addition of its game changing new feature – Instant Encoding™.  With Instant Encoding, the Encoding.com platform will start transcoding source videos as the download process begins, dramatically accelerating the entire video workflow.  In benchmark beta testing with multiple customers, the overall encoding process – including download, transcode, and delivery – improved by 30 to 100% depending on the source video size.  In many cases, especially with large source video files, the encoding process was complete...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced that it is opening the Vid.ly universal video URL service from private to public beta.  Now, everyone can access the service to ensure their videos will playback on all popular mobile phones and web browsers.   The program expansion responds to the enormous demand for the Vid.ly private beta program over the past two months in which several thousand beta users generated over 10,000 Vid.ly URLs by simply uploading their source videos via the Vid.ly site. 

For content publishers, there is chaos in the video...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced that it has been selected by top advertising agency Ackerman McQueen (AM) to power its video encoding solution, replacing its in-house encoding farm.  The switch to Encoding.com has resulted in substantial improvements in both video quality and turnaround time, while saving AM thousands of dollars.  By leveraging Encoding.com’s services, including cloud-based scalability, AM is now able to easily and reliably deliver high-volume video deployments for its clients in advocacy, travel/tourism, law, healthcare, entertainment, the arts, manufacturing, and private industry. 

Ackerman McQueen, a full-service interactive,...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced that they have been selected by KickApps to support the video transcoding component of its social publishing platform. Encoding.com enables KickApps’ customers, including Hearst Argyle, the Weather Channel, and Scripps Network, to deliver consistent and high-quality user video experiences across all web and mobile platforms.

KickApps, recipient of IBM’s 2010 ISV Innovation Award and the SAMMY Award for Best Social CRM and Best Social Platform, helps leading brandsdeploy social web and mobile experiences that connect them with their fans. Sharing video content is an important part...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced the private beta launch for Vid.ly, the first Universal Video URL service.  Vid.ly radically simplifies the preparation and delivery of video to all mobile devices and browsers, thus solving the biggest challenge facing publishers of online video.  Users only need to publish a short URL provided by Vid.ly for each source video and the service will deliver the optimized video.  The free Vid.ly beta program, which includes encoding, storage, and delivery, begins today and is available to the first 1,000 qualified users.

For content publishers, there...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced that two key customers — Hurley and PBS NewsHour — now stream video to Apple iPhone and iPad devices by using Encoding.com to prepare their video.  Encoding.com enables customers to transcode video for Apple’s proprietary HTTP Live Streaming, to ensure an excellent video experience for viewers, by continuously adapting the video stream, in real time, to match the viewer’s available bandwidth.  

PBS NewsHour provides millions of viewers around the world with reliable and trusted news reporting on air and online. Its “Extra” program is an interactive,...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced the expansion of its video format library to include WebM and Ogg Theora.  Along with existing support for H.264, Encoding.com now has encoding presets to support all popular Internet browsers.   Video content developers now have a one-stop service for converting videos to high-quality formats across all HTML5 browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera; and mobile devices including iPhone / iPad, Android, Blackberry, Nokia and Samsung.

While HTML5 delivers on the promise of viewing videos across the web without the need for browser plugins,...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service provider, today announced Mobile Made Easy, one-step video encoding presets to meet the specific video requirements for all popular mobile phones. Together with its existing iPhone and iPhone Streaming presets, Encoding.com now makes encoding for more than 80% of the smart phone market as simple as clicking a button. Encoding.com’s one thousand business customers, including the newly-launched mobile version of Nature Education’s Scitable.com, leverage its cloud-based encoding service to prepare video for a range of mobile devices and platforms including: iPhone / iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and popular Samsung...

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, today announced that Nature Education, the educational wing of Nature Publishing Group, is using Encoding.com’s Mobile Made Easy video encoding presets, also announced today, to make its Scitable open-access science library available on all popular mobile phones.  The Scitable mobile version, launched on August 25, extends access to science information to millions of students throughout the developing world, with content optimized for delivery on iPads, iPhones, Android phones, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and popular feature phones from Nokia and Samsung.

Nature Education’s mission is to democratize access to science education. ...

San Francisco, CA – June 16, 2010 – Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, today announced new features to its Application Programming Interface (API) enabling customers and partners to bundle Encoding.com’s powerful video encoding service within their own customer-facing platforms. Cisco Eos, Giant Realm, Kaltura, and vzaar are early adopters of Encoding.com’s white-label solution, which provides the seamless integration of cloud-based transcoding services directly into the video production workflow. Encoding.com customers and partners benefit from ubiquitous media format support,unmatched scalability via the utilization of cloud services, cost savings, and the assurance of timely video delivery with the industry’s...

San Francisco, CA – May 19, 2010 – Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, announced its plans to support the new WebM open media project introduced at today’s Google I/O developers conference. Google announced it would contribute to the project the recently acquired VP8 codec, a high performance video codec optimized for the web, under a royalty-free license. Encoding.com provides video encoding services to leading video publishers and platforms supporting all popular web and mobile media formats and today, announced its support for encoding to the WebM format utilizing the VP8 codec. Encoding.com joins other partners including Mozilla,...

San Francisco, CA– May 12, 2010 – Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, today announced that it has surpassed its 5 millionth encode milestone and is now encoding 1 million media files per month.  Encoding.com continues to seamlessly provide guaranteed service toits growing base of customers, now 500 strong, by leveraging the infinite scalability of its cloud-based, SaaS model. Encoding.com also leads the way in supporting emerging encoding technologies, including iPhone/iPad HTTP Streaming support.  Its market leadership was recognized last month when it was selected as a 2010 “Editors’ Picks” by Streaming Media.

Encoding.com has seen a...

San Francisco, CA – February 10, 2010 – Encoding.com, the leading global provider of studio-class online video encoding services, today announced the close of its Series A investment for US $1.25 million. The funding was led by Metamorphic Ventures and included angel investors: Patrick Condon, Fred Hamilton, Zelkova Ventures, Dave Morgan, and Allen Morgan. The funds will be used to fuel aggressive sales, marketing, and partnership programs to complement the word-of-mouth and natural search efforts that have already propelled Encoding.com to its leadership position in this emerging growth sector. The investment round was led by Marc Michel, Managing Partner...

SAN ANTONIO – January 12, 2010 – The Rackspace® Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), today announced that Encoding.com, the leading Internet-based video encoding provider, now relies on Cloud Servers, Rackspace’s enterprise-class Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, to support its rapidly growing computing and hosting needs. Using the power of Cloud Servers, Encoding.com expects to increase the average speed at which it can deliver studio-quality video encoding services to its customers by more than two-fold without adding to hosting costs. Launched in September 2008, Encoding.com was the first company to introduce a cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)...

San Francisco, CA – September 29, 2009– Encoding.com, the leading global provider of studio-class video encoding services, today announced the commercial availability of its new Turbo encoding service and opens up the world’s fastest cloud-based encoding platform to the mass market. More than twenty businesses participated in the beta test for several months to ensure the stability of the new Turbo feature set. With this release, Encoding.com provides more than 400 of its business customers in North America and Europe the ability to accelerate the encoding process by an average of sixty to seventy percent. High-definition videos that may...

San Francisco, CA – August 5, 2009 – Encoding.com, the leading global provider of studio-class video encoding services with tens of thousands of videos encoded daily, today announced the launch of Encoding.com 2.0. The upgrade to this Software-as-a-Service significantly reduces encoding wait-time and increases video throughput per hour. With millions of videos encoded and major system enhancements, Encoding.com now offers an industry first: performance-based service level guarantees. As the first cloud-based encoding service in the market, and with this major platform release, Encoding.com builds upon its leadership position in the rapidly growing area of cloud-based video services. In addition...