Kompas Gramedia to leverage the New Brightcove Video Cloud to scale
video initiatives across digital media properties on the web and mobile
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Brightcove
Inc. (NASDAQ:BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud services for
video, today announced that Kompas
Gramedia, leading media conglomerate based in Indonesia, has
selected Brightcove to power the video experiences for its leading
digital media news properties and entertainment channels online.
Brightcove will enable the next generation of online video distribution
and publishing for Kompas.com,
Indonesia's leading news site with 43 million unique visitors monthly.
Using Brightcove's next-generation Video
Cloud, Kompas.com will be able to leverage a single, integrated
solution to manage its online video content with ease. The new Video
Cloud will provide Kompas.com with a simplified video workflow across
its media value chain, and help scale the company's online video
initiatives more effectively to meet the exponential demand from
audiences consuming news and entertainment content across the web and
mobile devices. In addition, the new Video Cloud incorporates the latest
industry-leading HTML5 and mobile-first Brightcove player to enable
Kompas.com to deliver a premium playback experience to enhance audience
engagement on any screen.
"The Internet, mobile, and social generation has created new ways in
which media companies need to engage with their audiences," said Edi
Taslim, Digital Group Director at Kompas Gramedia. "With video, we
believe we are making significant strides in appealing to a younger and
growing demographic of next generation viewers who are consuming content
on-the-go and on the screen of their choice." Taslim added, "Brightcove
not only allows us to deliver amazing video experiences on many of the
devices that we need, we are thoroughly impressed with the speed and the
elevated performance of the whole user and playback experience on the
new Video Cloud. We needed an advanced solution that was easy to deploy
and would be highly scalable across all of our digital media properties.
We are excited to be partnering with an industry leading player like
Brightcove, as we expand beyond the possibilities and potential of video
for Kompas.com."
"We are incredibly proud to be working with another leading media
company in the region," said Mark Blair, Vice President of Asia Pacific
at Brightcove. "Video has the power to engage the masses and to move
businesses. The new Video Cloud not only powers the next generation of
video experiences for Kompas Gramedia's audiences, it provides them with
the speed and the agility to deploy new and innovative video offerings,
a high-quality and engaging playback experience to reinforce the brand,
and the ability to monetise these important assets on mobile screens and
across social channels where there is demand for content."
About Brightcove
Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ:BCOV) is the leading global provider of powerful
cloud solutions for delivering and monetising video across connected
devices. The company offers a full suite of products and services that
reduce the cost and complexity associated with publishing, distributing,
measuring and monetising video across devices. Brightcove has more than
5,000 customers in over 70 countries that rely on the company's cloud
solutions to successfully publish high-quality video experiences to
audiences everywhere. To learn more, visit www.brightcove.com.
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Press
Asia Pacific:
SlingStone for Brightcove
James
Hutchinson, +61 404 786 423
brightcove@slingstone.com
Source: Brightcove Inc.
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