List of 10 Winners Places Gotuit Alongside Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft
Woburn , Mass – March 27, 2008 - Gotuit, the Video Metadata Company, today announced that their flagship product, the Gotuit PowerVideo Suite, was selected by the editors of Streaming Media magazine as one of their 2008 Editor’s Picks.
This annual list, recently published in the 2008 Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook and online at streamingmedia.com/article, highlights “the top ten products and services in the streaming and online video industries in the last year.” The editors polled Streaming Media readers and coupled the complied information with their own industry knowledge for this year’s selections.
“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),” noted Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, Editor, Streaming Media. “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 2008 Streaming Media Editor's Picks are: 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.
“Video publishers are searching for ways to unleash the full potential of their video libraries,” said Mark Pascarella, CEO of Gotuit. “Our patented technology utilizes a new layer of rich, granular video metadata to drive greater user engagement and content monetization. The PowerVideo Suite enables our customers to deliver true video optimization. We are honored to be recognized by Streaming Media alongside such prominent products like the Apple iPhone, the Adobe Media Player, and Microsoft’s Expression Encoder.”
For more info:
Gotuit – www.gotuit.com
Streaming Media - www.streamingmedia.com
Media Contacts:
Patrick Donovan
Gotuit
Phone: 781.970.5500
E-mail: pdonovan@gotuit.com
FilmRoom Video Portal Drives Personalized Access of Team Highlights
Woburn , Mass – March 17, 2008 - Gotuit, the Video Metadata company, today announced that Sports Illustrated has again selected Gotuit to power its SI FilmRoom™, with the latest version dedicated to the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
SI Men's NCAA Tournament FilmRoom sponsored by RadioShack and launched today, allows fans to personalize their viewing of regular season video highlights of their favorite teams in this year’s tournament.
“FilmRoom creates the opportunity for fans to watch a video summary of their favorite tournament teams at any time in any place,” said Stacey Vollman, VP/General Manager SI Digital Group. “This video portal, combined with our award-winning editorial coverage, gives fans an entertaining and informative resource as they fill out their brackets.”
Visitors to the FilmRoom can access team video footage via multiple methods. Fans can use the By Seed view to easily watch just the top seeded teams in the tournament. The By Conference view lets viewers watch a playlist of the teams in a particular conference, such as the Big East, Pac 10, ACC, SEC, or Big 10. The Still Alive playlist will be updated throughout the tournament as the field goes from 65 down to the eventual champion. There is also a By Team view to use an alphabetical list to access a particular team. Fans can also share direct links or embed the video in their own sites and blogs.
“We are honored to continue to deploy innovative video products with Sports Illustrated,” said Dan Gill, VP Business Development at Gotuit. “They share our vision of providing viewers with the ability to personalize their video viewing experience in a simple and intuitive manner. In SI’s FilmRoom, Gotuit’s rich metadata and patented technology empowers SI to present the video library in ways that puts their users in complete control of their viewing experience. Also, Gotuit’s advertising logic ensures that users see an optimized amount of targeted advertisements no matter what path they take through the library.”
For more info:
Sports Illustrated – www.si.com
SI FilmRoom
Gotuit – www.gotuit.com
Media Contacts:
Patrick Donovan
Gotuit
Phone: 781.970.5500
E-mail: pdonovan@gotuit.com
Scott Novak
Sports Illustrated Group
Phone: 212.522.2687
E-mail: Scott_novak@timeinc.com