Posted by Patrick Donovan on Fri, May 08, 2009 @ 04:10 PM
We were very happy today to learn that we were named a finalist for the 2009 MITX Technology Awards in the Rich Media category (for the third year in a row!). You can see all the 2009 finalists listed here.
While our entry was for our complete Gotuit Video Metadata Management System (VMMS), we showcased our work with World Wrestling Entertainment and the WWE Smash-Ups site. It is a terrific example for Rich Media, as WWE created a compelling new video product using our technology and a subset of their video archive. Their viewers go to Smash-Ups to put together two minute remixes from the authorized WWE video library. Delivering strong viewer engagement with powerful inherent viral sharing, look for other remix customer announcements from us soon.
The winners will be announced on June 16th at the 6th Annual MITX Technology Awards event. Details can be found here. Having won back in 2007, we are looking to reclaim our title!
Posted by Patrick Donovan on Thu, Mar 27, 2008 @ 12:55 PM
Answer - we each have products that were selected, along with six other companies, in the 2008 Streaming Media Editor’s Picks. This annual list, recently published in the 2008 Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook and online at streamingmedia.com here , highlights “the top ten products and services in the streaming and online video industries in the last year.”
Here is what Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen wrote about our flagship product: “The Gotuit PowerVideo Suite is the only product in our Editor’s Picks list that also took home a Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Award (Oct/Nov pp.30-42). That award was in the Search and Indexing Platform category, but the VideoDiscovery Module is only part of the PowerVideo Suite’s four-pronged attack. Granted that’s a terrific app for both viewers and advertisers - videos in a library are marked with metadata for each logical scene, and then scenes are categorized into playlists based upon that metadata - but the VideoMarker and VideoMixer modules are equally impressive. The former lets users themselves control the marking and tagging of their favorite clips, while the latter allows publishers to give users various degrees of control over the metadata, building far richer search and indexing experiences than would otherwise be possible.”
The full list of 2008 Streaming Media Editor’s Picks is as follows: Accordent Media Management System, Adobe Media Player, Apple iPhone, Elgato Turbo.264, Gotuit PowerVideo Suite, Microsoft Expression Encoder, Mogulus Live Broadcast, Rhozet Carbon Coder, ViewCast Niagara GoStream Plus, and Wowza Media Server Pro.
It is an honor to be acknowledged by such an authority on the industry, and alongside such prominent companies and compelling products. We have been building out our patented video metadata technology for over eight years, and this recognition is a tremendous validation of our unique approach to unleashing video libraries.
Click here to see our official announcement.