Posts tagged ‘user generated content’
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Stream UK has recently updated its upload form for BBC News. The BBC currently use Stream UK’s Crowdsourcer Content Management System to allow viewers to submit a news photograph or video that they have taken that they believe the BBC might be interested in.
The upload form now has a webcam application which allows users to record a clip to send to BBC News.
The new upload form has been timed to coincide with the ‘If I were Prime Minister’ campaign. Viewers can send a short video clip describing what they would do if they were Prime Minister, the best of the clips will be shown on BBC News.
To find out more click here
To upload a clip click here
Tags: BBC, Crowdsourcer, user generated content, webcam
Posted in Company News, Crowdsourcer |
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Last week Stream UK’s Stream Crowdsourcer won best User Generated Content Platform at the Streaming Media European Readers’ Choice Awards. Stream UK’s Stream Crowdsourcer bet both Daily Motion (worth $65.6 million) and Never.no to take the UGC prize. The award was received by Stream UK’s CEO Duncan Burbidge at an award ceremony at the end of the first day of Streaming Media Europe.
Stream Crowdsourcer is a powerful platform that allows publishers and brand owners to capture incoming content from a variety of locations in a variety of images and video formats. A simple and elegant online application, Stream Crowdsourcer can transcode various formats and allows you to modify and approve content for effective management of your assets.
For more information please check our website www.streamuk.com/crowdsourcer
Tags: Crowdsourcer, Stream UK, Streaming Media Europe, ugc platform, user generated content
Posted in Company News |
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 |
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 |
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
This weekend (10-11 May) BBC Radio 1 is using innovative new technology to give listeners a rich online experience during and after its Radio 1 Big Weekend music festival in Maidstone.
Revellers can log on and check out hundreds of photos from the event, select specific shots, zoom in and out to look for friends and celebs. It is also possible to contribute photos, this allows the event to be captured in a uniquely visual way.
The project is being put together by Conchango and Stream UK. Stream UK came highly recommended. Paul Dawson, Head of Interactive Media at Conchango said “Microsoft recommended Stream UK to us as the only Silverlight infrastructure partner they knew who could meet the pressing technology requirements and timescales required. They promised to deliver and were as good as their word”
Tags: crowdsourcing tool, silverlight, silverlight hosting provider, silverlight hosting provider london, silverlight streaming, user generated content
Posted in Company News, Webcasting |
