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• Markus Bäckström
• 3 September 2010

ThirdPresence nominated for Readers' Choice

We are pleased to announce that ThirdPresence has been nominated for a Streaming Media Magazine Readers' Choice Award.

Our nomination is in the "Mobile Video App or Solution" category.

Some of the reasons we were nominated include:

-optimized video delivery to over 5,000 different mobile devices
-live video delivery to iPhone/iPad, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry
-adaptive bit-rate delivery supporting variable network conditions
-easy monetization via in-stream advertising or pay-per-view
-easy integration to any mobile application or web site

If you feel that ThirdPresence provides a valuable service in the mobile video marketplace, this is your chance to voice your opinion by voting for us!

• Markus Bäckström
• 26 August 2010

Large HD Plan Available Now

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Large HD plan.

The Large HD plan allows customers to serve even better quality video to devices such as the Apple iPad and the HTC Evo 4G using bitrates of up to 800 kbps.

The Large HD plan also allows customers to optionally publish extremely high-quality live streams, ideal for sports events and other action-packed content.

To see the difference in video quality, just take a look at the images below. You can click on the images to see the original Apple iPad screenshots.

Other features in the Large HD plan are the same as in the current Large plan, giving customers complete control over their mobile video publishing.

Customers can upgrade to the Large HD plan by visiting the Pricing page or by sending an email to our Sales team.

Standard mobile video

High-Definition mobile video

• Markus Bäckström
• 17 June 2010

Watch the World Cup on your mobile phone

It has been a busy week here at ThirdPresence, but we are now able to make the following announcement:

Sweden's TV4 Group, together with TeliaSonera, launched their mobile TV service just in time for the World Cup, allowing fans to see all the matches live on their iPhones, iPads, Androids and other video-capable mobile devices.

The mobile TV service includes all TV4's channels (TV4, TV4 Plus, TV400 and TV4 Fakta) and will feature full coverage of the football World Cup, the upcoming Swedish Royal Wedding and other exclusive content.

The service is delivered in co-operation with TeliaSonera, the largest Nordic mobile operator, as part of their summer campaign to promote mobile video. TeliaSonera is also the exclusive carrier for Apple's iPhone device in Sweden

To access the service, please visit http://sommartv.telia.se on your mobile device (service is only available in Sweden).

TV4's press release is available here.

• Markus Bäckström
• 24 May 2010

Mobile catch-up TV for RTL Netherlands

ThirdPresence has developed a mobile catch-up TV service for RTL Netherlands. The service is called RTL Gemist and the address of the mobile site is http://m.rtlgemist.nl.

The RTL Gemist service contains a selection of programmes that have been broadcast during the past three days on RTL's TV channels, including popular shows such as X Factor, Wipeout, The European Poker Tour, Style by Jury and others. The latest news and weather reports are also part of the line-up. The business model is a mix of free content and pay-per-view.

Read the press release here.

• Markus Bäckström
• 4 March 2010

[News] Mobile Video is a Winner at the Olympics

According to a press release from NBC on Wednesday, mobile video from the Vancouver Olympics has been a huge hit.

In 17 days, more than 2 million mobile video streams were served from NBC's Olympics mobile web site. This is more than 6 times the number of mobile video streams served during the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Total pageviews for the Olympics mobile site was 87 million.

Source: NBC Press Release

• Markus Bäckström
• 24 February 2010

[News] The Olympics NBC mobile website is very popular

54 Million page views, 1.3 million mobile video streams in just 10 days

The Olympic mobile website and iPhone app gives quick access to scores, medal count, top stories, athlete profiles , video, polls & trivia, live results, schedules, TV  listings and photos. To view the Vancouver Olympics on your cell phone Text OLYMPICS to 51515 or go to http://wap.nbcolympics.com/.

• Markus Bäckström
• 24 February 2010

[News] Mobile viewers watching favourite TV shows in prime time

BBC iPlayer figures provide revealing snapshot

The technology may have changed, but tech-savvy consumers still watch their favourite TV shows on mobile phones at the same times as they used to watch TV, with a healthy dose taking the BBC iPlayer to bed at weekends.

The BBC, which has provided a revealing snapshot into how consumers are using BBC iPlayer on their mobiles to watch TV, found that peak time viewing is about 9.30pm.

• ThirdPresence
• 15 February 2010

[News] The Online Video Landscape in 2010

Rather interesting – long tail sites are delivering more minutes than top 25 sites in US.

"Liz Gannes had an interesting post yesterday, in the wake of the Veoh bankruptcy announcement, with a great chart outlining the huge volume of funding that has flowed to video sites over the years and how that has panned out. As a document, the chart is an excellent indictment of the irrational exuberance — and folly — that attended the monies plowed into a handful of video sites.

• ThirdPresence
• 9 February 2010

[News] Streaming video is fastest growing mobile app

Doesn't surprise us a single bit :) HTTP streaming can be (mainly) attributed to iPhone usage as it doesn't support any "pure" streaming protocol.

"Streaming mobile video has become a mainstream medium and is the single most influential factor driving the need for increased network capacity, according to the latest survey from IP firm Allot.

The report found that global mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 72% between the second quarter and fourth quarter of 2009, and that YouTube was responsible for 10% of global mobile data bandwidth."

• ThirdPresence
• 8 February 2010

[News] Mobile TV is dead – long live mobile video

The operators' early aspirations to dominate on the mobile content distribution and services have not been very successful. Apple's iPhone, Google's Android, Nokia's Ovi and the "m dot" sites have captured the momentum for good. For example, mobile video was for a long time offered more or less exclusively through operators' portals, but now that has changed and the brands, video sites, advertisers and media companies are directly offering their content to customers. Off-deck content seems to be the way to go.