Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
We can spot significant changes from watching live music on television over the last few years. Lighting and special effects have become more dramatic and flamboyant whilst broadcast video and audio quality has complemented the technology in our homes. But probably just as noticeable, we have seen a rapid increase in crowds holding rectangular devices at live music events, creating a sea of LCD displays all capturing the spectacle ahead.
So what has caused such an up-rise in user generated content? Well some research has categorised UGC creators into two subjective groups; the implicit and the explicit. Those with explicit incentives can see tangible rewards for capturing and uploading their content. The culture bred within the larger video hosting websites encourages users to capture viral content that creates a large amount of hits, growing prospects of financial reward through advertising or simply internet stardom.
The first category however, classifies those with implicit incentives, consisting of content creators who seek no tangible award, except the opportunity to share something fairly significant with their online community.
2011 has been a momentous year for both national and international headlines, offering an abundance of opportunity for the public to capture their first-hand experiences as social events unfold. Probably the most notable being the capture of Muammar Gaddafi, filmed on multiple mobile devices and delivered to news broadcasters all over the world. In fact, the Arab Spring in general will be an event remembered for its strong reliance on UGC, to report fast unfolding events occurring in distant areas.
In the UK however, it was the England Riots that saw the largest single creation of implicit UGC. The UGC platform Stream CrowdSourcer that enables broadcasters such as the BBC and The Guardian to receive mass amounts of media content, saw its highest usage of the year during this period, a time when a large majority of news was portrayed by videos and images submitted by the public.
After the Royal Wedding, Capture of Bin Laden and Gaddafi, The England Riots, phone hacking, numerous protests and the Arab Spring, 2012 may struggle to compete with this year’s calendar of events. It will however see UGC and its creators in bigger numbers than ever, ready and waiting to give society’s side of the story.
Tags: 2012, Crowdsourcer, ugc, ugc platform, user generated content
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
London – 13 October 2009 - Stream UK is very pleased to announce that they will exhibiting at Stream Media Europe, a two day showcase of what is happening currently in the online video and content industries.
Stream UK will be demonstrating the enterprise level streaming media solution, Stream Connect which was recently reviewed as “a simplified yet powerful interactive streaming platform that could be managed by the presenter” (Tim Siglin, Streaming Media Magazine) along with their award-winning Crowdsourcer – the ingest, transcoding and moderation tool.
Maintaining their position as digital media specialists Stream UK will also webcast the conference sessions, seminars and keynote speakers live and Stream UK’s Duncan Burbidge will participate in ‘Will the cloud rain on the CDN’s parade?’ session at 10.30 am on Friday 16th October.
Streaming Media Europe will be held in the Novotel West in London on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th October. Entry to the exhibition and key note speeches are free. To REGISTER click here.
Tags: cdn, Crowdsourcer, Stream Connect, Stream UK, Streaming Media Europe, ugc, user generated content
Posted in Company News, Crowdsourcer, Stream Connect, Webcasting |
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Streaming Media Europe are this year holding their first annual European Readers’ Choice Awards. The Awards have been very well received with more than 5,500 votes cast and Stream UK are a finalist in the User Generated Content Platform category for our product ‘Stream Crowdsourcer’
Stream Crowdsourcer is a simple yet elegant online application that allows publishers and brand owners to capture incoming content from a variety of locations in a variety of image and video formats.
It’s like an inbox but much better. Better because it’s designed to handle huge amounts of video and image content and to make it is as easy as possible for you to evaluate and distribute the best assets.
The inbox can accept a variety of formats sent via email as attachments, mobile phone MMS/SMS messages or via ftp upload. The Stream Crowdsourcer can also transcode the various formats on the fly into one universal format for easy integration to your website.
At the core of the product are comprehensive moderation tools allowing you to modify and approve content at a variety of levels.
The winners will be announced during a reception on 15 October.
Tags: Crowdsourcer, Stream UK, ugc
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Reuters used the ingest, moderation and transcoding capabilities of the Newsdesk Transcoder to power the Times Square billboard.
The entire system allowed users to send in photos directly from their phone, the best were selected by moderators and these were converted into an RSS feed which fed the sign directly. Users were given confirmation of their choice by SMS and the images on the sign were captured for use within the online galleries.
Tags: crowdsource tool, ugc, user generated content
Posted in Company News, Crowdsourcer |
