Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Yesterday Stream UK streamed British hypnotist Chris Hughes live weight loss webcast for World Hypnotism Day. It was also the first webcast to help people lose weight.
The Socialtrance weight loss session consisted of a 15 minute online webcast hosted by Stream UK. The hypnosis audio download is available from ITunes and other leading online music providers.
To download the webcast click here
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. IET.tv (http://tv.theiet.org) is their web-based service, delivering synchronised, multimedia content to web users anytime, anywhere. Stream UK has allowed IET to maximise the value of this content by streamlining the process of content management and distribution.
IET provide webcasting services to hundreds of leading global companies and brands, and Stream UK is now their partner to deliver market-leading webcasting production and software. IET offers a number of channels on IET.tv .These channels provide a corporate space to deliver presentations, product launches and demonstrations and similarly provide academic institutions a space to stream conferences and lectures using the Stream Connect software via IET.tv.
IET also has a huge archive of media content which needed to be managed and delivered efficiently via their public facing site, Stream UK allowed the IET to standardised all their assets and allow rapid categorisation and distribution on IET.tv with Stream Connect. Stream Connect allows IET to offer branded and interactive webcast interfaces that can be delivered across a world-class network.
Stream UK also migrated IET’s content, thousands of assets, onto the Stream UK Crowdsourcer platform, also used by the BBC, to drive IET.tv’s channel-based site structure. Combining automated transcoding with intuitive moderation and distribution tools, Stream Crowdsourcer is used retrospectively with existing media as well as providing advanced content management for the future.
As a result, webcasts are now being delivered (both live and on demand) with Stream Connect, benefitting from the tool’s interactive options, automatic archiving, and reliable delivery platform.
Friday, December 17th, 2010
On Tuesday 14th of December the Roundhouse in Camden Town broadcast the band ‘Fiction’ on a custom built Stream UK player on the home page of the newly rebranded social platform Myspace and this was delivered over Level 3’s CDN and received 41,000 hits.
Stream UK’s partnership with the Roundhouse allows Stream UK to broadcast live video performances from the Roundhouse without loss in audio or visual quality. The performances are broadcast within in real time to ensure users are watching truly live performance. Stream UK provides the Roundhouse with international live delivery using Level 3’s CDN and an account based solution which enables the Roundhouse to create bespoke players in multiple formats to allow viewers to watch on computers, iPhone, iPad and all other devices with 3G / internet connections whilst adhering to the strict guidelines that publishers, social platforms and record labels expect when delivering live content for free.
If you would like to know more please get in touch sales@streamuk.com.
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Last night at Union Chapel Stream UK did the satellite, vision mixing, encoding and engineering for the Everything Everything gig which was broadcast live to the web, and also via an iPhone and iPad App!
The whole show was broadcast live in HD to Apple iPad and iPhone users via a free artist-branded app entitled ‘Man Alive – Everything Everything: Live at Union Chapel’.
Everything Everything singerJonathan Higgs said of the broadcast: “We wanted to try something unique. The concert sold out and we wanted to do something special for fans who couldn’t get tickets. We couldn’t hijack a TV channel but now we can play live to people on the bus, or wherever they want to hear it.”
The band played alongside a 13-piece orchestra at the show.
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Today at 6.30pm Stream UK will be encoding a live feed for the webcast of Sarah Phillips’ Single Launch. Sarah Phillips’ ‘Say it’s Possible’ music single is being launched to raise money for cervical cancer research.
The single aims to raise funds for Debbie Fund, a charity set up in memory of Sarah’s mum Debbie, who died of Cervical Cancer on 11th February 2010.
During the progression of Debbie’s disease, it became apparent that there was no dedicated research into a drug treatment specifically for Cervical Cancer, and so, of the numerous friends whom Debbie had, a group of us have come together with her family to raise sufficient funds to ensure that the necessary research can be carried out by a team of scientists at University College London.
So far, Debbie Fund has raised just under £460,000 in the form of cash received and pledges.
Sarah hopes to raise even more through her EP Say it’s Possible.
The webcast is free to view, and all you need to do is visit Sarah’s website.
If you haven’t already watched it, the video of Sarah’s “Say it’s Possible” is now available to watch on You Tube.
From Monday, Sarah’s audio CD will be available in all major stores of Tescos, Sainsbury’s and Asda as well as HMV and other music outlets
The audio CD is also available online (and still for pre-order) from Amazon.
The download is available for pre-order now on iTunes with a bonus mix of “Blue Chair”.
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