Akamai and Brightcove announce a wide-ranging alliance to drive quality, performance, and innovation in the online video industry. The agreement between the companies is designed to bring together two of the most widely-used cloud-based platforms for professional online video to create a powerful, end-to-end offer that makes high-quality video publishing and distribution easily available for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Brightcove will provide the Akamai HD Network as a bundled component of the Brightcove online video platform service.

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Akamai and Brightcove Team to Raise the Bar on Global Online Video Experiences

The Professional Bowlers Association and NeuLion announce a new online video streaming service available for America’s number one recreational sport — bowling.

The new digital service will continue under the Xtra Frame brand, but will take advantage of NeuLion’s industry leadership in sports video delivery. Bowling fans will enjoy a new online experience that offers enhancements in video quality plus interactive features that give fans a chance to follow the sport more closely through pause and rewind of live streams, highlights, chat and exclusive content 24/7.

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Professional Bowlers Association Scores a Strike With NeuLion

Move Networks intends to retain a financial advisor to assist the Company in evaluating strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the Company. No timetable has been set for completion of the review and there can be no assurance that any transaction will occur. During this process, Move remains committed to supporting its IPTV customers in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.

Move’s streaming technology is based on its proprietary adaptive bit-rate technology, whereby large video files are broken up into many small files called streamlets, which are then delivered as a series of video segments using a highly efficient transmission protocol. The Company also owns Inuk Network’s leading end-to-end IPTV service. Over the last year, Move has combined the best of its streaming technology with Inuk to yield a comprehensive subscription service that couples live, multi-channel television, full PVR in the cloud capability and the mobility, functionality, and interactive features of the Internet to provide a rich multimedia experience for consumers on their television, personal computer, and mobile device.

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Online video distribution to the PC is predominantly an open platform: if you can launch a web site, you can distribute your content. But the distribution picture to the TV is quite different. Here, closed platforms provide a fixed set of content from which users can pick. For an Internet content provider to deliver video to the TV, a deal is required with the platform provider first. In 2008, Sir Howard Stringer, Sony’s CEO, said “Sony’s unique position in electronics and entertainment will enable us to provide specialized offering for Sony customers directly to their television outside conventional distributors…” Can companies such as Sony, Apple and Microsoft control the delivery of Internet video to the television? Or can open solutions such as Google TV win out?

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Webinar: Demystifying Open vs Closed Internet Video Distribution Platforms

Industry participants in the over-the-top video market are positioning themselves for what is anticipated to be a high-growth market with multi-billion dollar revenue streams, reports In-Stat. Companies such as Netflix, Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, YouTube, and Hulu are all vying for a piece of the action.

“OTT video is happening now, with over 37 million broadband households in the US downloading online video content,” says Keith Nissen, In-Stat analyst. “The growing adoption of both OTT video consumption and web-enabled consumer electronics promises to further expand the opportunity content producers and OTT retailers.”

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Report: OTT Video Providers Jockeying for Position as Market Heats Up