Posts from May, 2009
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Stream UK and Doritos Dodgeball
Doritos are celebrating the release of their new ‘Flamin’ Cheeseball’ flavour with the interactive Doritos Dodgeball Challenge. The interactive dodgeball game is to find the UK and Irelands dodgeball champions with the winners going to compete in Las Vagas. The game allows the potential champions to do battle with the public. The public can log in online and take control of a ‘cannon’.
Stream UK’s Content Delivery Network is providing live flash delivery of mulitple camera views that players can select from. The website received over 150,000 hits on the first day alone and the competition continues throughout May.
http://dodgeball.doritos.co.uk/
Tags: content delivery network, live flash delivery, Stream UK
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Stream UK recently hosted and delivered (in flash) the short film shot for Grey’s London, Women’s Aid domestic violence campaign starring Kiera Knightly.
The controversial short film was released on April 2 2009 but has only been shown in cinemas and online as broadcasters refuse to show the film on television due to the level of violence. The short film which saw the collaboration of Kiera Knightly, Atonement director Joe Wright and Oscar nominated Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey has recieved huge press coverage prior to and since the release of the campaign. The online clip hosted by Stream UK delivered 4.5TB of data, and had 200,000 visitors for a total of 400,000 hits since the April release.
If you wish to view the campaign click here
If you wish to find out about Stream UK hosting and delivering a video for you please contact us on 020 7419 1820
Tags: hosting, Stream UK, video
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
In the summer edition of Streaming Media Magazine, Tim Siglin reviewed Stream UK’s Stream Connect. Siglin wrote, “Stream UK saw a need to provide a simplified yet powerful interactive streaming platform that could be managed by the presenter through a series of seven steps”.
You can find the full review at: http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/article.asp?id=11161
Stream Connect is a complete webcast administration tool that allows the user to administer a complete live and on-demand webcast programme, including the building of a structured and searchable archive. Stream Connect works with any encoding hardware or software to add interactivity, accountability and impact to your video presentation and is designed to make administering your own webcast programme easy.
The template wizard allows the administrator to brand it with their logo and colours for any type of event from audio webinar to live webcast, add interactive content such as PowerPoint slides synchronised with a presenter speech, a chat room to interact with the audience, voting window and further reading resources. Stream Connect now gives the user control by reducing reliance on outsourcing to service providers and offering a user-friendly and intuitive interface that can easily be used by non technical staff.
Tags: Stream Connect, Stream UK, streaming, video presentation, webcast, webcast admin tool, Webcasting
Posted in Case Studies, Company News, Stream Connect, Webcasting |
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Stream UK’s is delighted to announce Duncan Burbidge (CEO and Co-Founder) made the cover of the 2009 summer issue of Streaming Media Magazine as part of the 2009 Streaming Media Dream Team.
Streaming Media Magazine have this month recognised 19 of the ‘most important, innovative, and interesting people’ in the European online video world. Over 70 nominations were received from Streaming Media Magazine readers as well as the magazine themselves looking for a mix of vendors who’ve ‘created technology that enables online video communications and end users who’ve taken those tools and used them to deliver compelling content and establish successful businesses’ .
“It’s great to be recognised as part of the Dream Team”, says Duncan. “I’d like to thank all the people I have worked with over the past eight years, especially Joe Bray without whom I wouldn’t have recieved this award.”
To view the full article online you can visit www.streamingmediaglobal.com/article.asp?id=11099
Tags: Stream UK
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Stream UK is please to announce the roll-out of Microsoft Silverlight Smooth Streaming, an
IIS Media Services extension, which enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients over HTTP. Smooth Streaming provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on content distribution networks, making true HD media experiences (720p+) a reality.
See our example at:
http://smooth.streamuk.com/default.html
The quality and adaptability of the solution, combined with the delivery over http makes it ideal for getting through corporate firewalls.
Tags: silverlight, silverlight playready, silverlight smooth streaming, smooth streaming
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