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Stream UK at Streaming Media Europe

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.

Stream UK finalist in Streaming Media European Readers’ Choice Awards

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.

Reuters uses the Stream Crowdsourcer

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.