Jul 15

Preview Networks API is ready for iPad

By czigler Digital Media Trends, General, Preview Networks PR and News, Technology Comments Off

The first weeks sales of iPad exceeded the sales for iPhone.  Anyone lucky enough to have an iPad understands why this piece of hardware is amazing and can change the way we consume online.  Video looks incredible on the iPad and the big screen opens up for delivery of better quality video. 

Preview Networks development team have worked overtime to make sure that our feed structure also supports the growing number of iPad applications out there.  The goal is simple.  To enable any iPad user in UK, IT, ES, DE and FR (where the iPad is currently on sale in Europe) to watch the latest local trailers and look up local theater show times.

About Preview Networks

Preview Networks is the largest international preview syndication network serving web, mobile and TV platforms in ten markets in Europe.   Preview Networks is available on MSN, MTV, Brightcove, IMDB, The Times, MySpace, The Guardian, El Pais, El Mundo, Le Monde and more than 1,500 other online media.  We work with more than 300 entertainment companies.  Learn more on previewnetworks.com

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Jun 22

Live on Time Out London

By Ben Johnson digital content, News we can use, Products, Technology, video services 1 Comment »

Copenhagen, 21 June, 2010. VIDEO TECH UPDATE. We are happy to report that Cooliris Express newest embed wall works flawlessly with Preview Networks’ MRSS feed.   Check it out on Time Out London.  The simple wizard interface, which has a  very similar functionality to Preview Network’s own wizard is not only easy to use; it is a great example of clean and well-thought design, and the trend towards the use of content wizards to increase content flow & distribution.

You can read more about embed wizards here, and you can watch an embeded sample of how this awesome tool looks using Preview Networks’ feed below:

About Preview Networks

Preview Networks (owner of Filmtrailer.com), founded in 2004, is the leading international provider of digital marketing content distribution services for the film industry. We provide digital distribution and marketing services for content owners, linking high-quality content to a wide variety of media partners.

Today, we work with more than 300 content owners and distributors and provide content channels to over 1300 digital media partners across 10 european markets.

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Jun 07

Filmtrailer App Review Round Up: Highest Marks for Preview Networks iPhone App

By Ed Celis Because We Love Film, mobile, movie app, Products, reviews, Technology Comments Off

Since it’s launch in December 2009, Preview Network’s Filmtrailer iPhone Application has been an undeniable success. Downloaded 524,000 times and counting, the application has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from users and reviewers in multiple markets.

Now Updated
Filmtrailer v1.1, was released in June 2010 by Preview Networks, and includes a number of improvements to increase performance and stability as well as cinema listing and mapping functions in its French, German, and Spanish versions.  At the same time, users in Denmark and Germany will have access to more content via Preview Networks new DVD / Blu Ray Channel. The application will also deliver video in Mobile HD format for optimal picture quality.

The latest review of the application, from German on-line magazine digital-room.de can be seen here: http://www.digital-room.de/test/movie/232

Other Preview Reviews can be read here:

From Spain:

blueplastic.net
macvisions.es
actualidad iphone
gizmovil.com
juegosiphone.org
goponygo.com
fansdeapple.com

From Italy:

spazioiphone.com
iphoneitalia.com
izpazio.net

From Germany:

pocketbrain.de
apfelkraft.de

In English:

mactalk.com.au

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May 17

Transparency Redefined: Steve Jobs Email Exchange with Journalist

By Ed Celis General, mobile, News we can use, online media, Technology Comments Off
Steve Jobs at the WWDC 07
Image via Wikipedia

There seem to be no shortage of news of Apple these days. Every few weeks or less, the guys from Cupertino seem to announce one  radical reality-altering-gadget or, in the least, be in the process of redefining the future of music, TV, books, film, or just about every other information-based industry. Well, this week, the company’s founder and CEO Steve Jobs, managed to top all of that by participating in an open-email exchange with a journalist, which one could hope, could set an example for others to follow, and change the concept of “openness and transparency” these days.

Rare is the CEO (or government official) who answers their own emails, much less get into a no-holds barred discussion with an aggressive interrogator that questions his motivations, and values; but that is exactly what Jobs did.

Jobs went “mano-a-mano” on a series of emails with a Journalist (Ryan Tate,  a writer affiliated with Gizmodo made recently famous for  their unveiling of a prototype of the next iPhone), and sparks enzued. Jobs and Tate went at it with gusto on an exchange of ideas that covered a number of subjects including the company’s strict control over it’s development platform, porn, and the future of technology.

The mails, which can be read on its entirety here,  are a fun read and fascinating in itself. But what makes it all the more special is that, living in an era of unfulfilled promises of openness and transparency from politicians and business officials of all stripes, Jobs walks the walk, and reminds us that transparency means indeed speaking frankly and directly, and that, once again reminds us of why the Apple CEO (huge ego and all) continues to be perceived as a master of innovation, and the most admired entrepreneur today.

Words to live by.

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May 12

News You Should Take With a Grain of Salt: Android Bigger than Apple, says AdMob

By Ed Celis digital content, Digital Media Trends, News we can use, Technology 1 Comment »

If you follow mobile marketing trends or just technology in general, you are probably aware of the buzz generated by a report by AdMob, which concludes that Android OS-based phones have now (barely) left iPhones behind as the mobile OS type that is using the most mobile broadband in the US. Notwithstanding the fact that the San Mateo’s motives and reporting is compromised vis-a-vis its relationship to Google, the reality on the ground is that there are just too many variables (network metrics, number of handsets, signal strength, app surfing vs native applications using data updates, streamed video use, vs use of video downloads, compression technologies) in to make it valuable or relevant to take its findings at face value.

Finally, another note of caution: as I see it, the war for the mobile space is going into no-restrains mode, and studies like this are just the beginning; so expect more of the same in the near future from both sides of the mobile OS wars.

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May 12

LeMonde Using Preview Networks’ Content Feed to Enliven News Reporting From Film Festival

By Ed Celis Because We Love Film, Digital Media Trends, Film News, Preview Networks PR and News, Technology Comments Off

As the Cannes film festival is getting underway, we are happy to report that Preview Networks France collaboration with France’s LeMonde continues to evolve.  As we show on the composite picture below, the French news giant is now using our feed to illustrate stories on its web-site with video relevant to the stories it is reporting from this year’s festival.

You can watch the French version of the trailer for Robin Hood, Starring Russel Crowe (sorry, only subtitles for now) here:

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May 10

Development Update: VLC tool for Preview Networks Feed

By Ed Celis digital content, Preview Networks PR and News, Products, Technology Comments Off

Our Tech department has completed an internal milestone towards the implementation of a VLC service which will allow for the creation of a one-step integration of any of Preview Networks’ feeds.

This means that in the near future, subscribers to PN’s video feeds will have a service significantly better, as it will allow for media partners to use “smart players” with broadband detection, Adaptive Bit Rate, and streamed service functionality for mobile devices.

These functionalities allow for users to get the most out of the different resolutions and to offer a terrific user experience, it also means that mobile users on a number of popular platforms (RIM, for example) can have access streamed servers for the best and optimal viewer experience of PN’s material.

In addition, users of the service will be able to copy a simple code into a player and obtain content streamed directly form our server into ANY video player.

We leave you with a video sample of Big Buck Bunny, a movie project associated with VLCs platform watch it here, but click on the links to learn more about VLC, addaptive bit rates, and why they will be a significant improvement to PNs platform.

More details, coming soon…

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