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Brightcove, the leading Internet TV platform, today announced that it has entered into a company-wide agreement with Channel 4 allowing the broadcaster to incorporate video content across all of its online properties. The first Channel 4 site to launch video content with Brightcove is its new online promotional destination “TV Clips,” featuring clips from current TV programmes, an archive of the best moments from Channel 4’s 25 years of broadcasting, and a preview of new programming coming to Channel 4.

Channel 4 will use the Brightcove Internet TV platform to distribute online video clips to help drive Internet users to watch full-length programme content via Channels 4’s linear transmissions, its 4oD on demand site or by purchasing a DVD.

With Brightcove, Channel 4 can further expand online distribution of promotional content beyond its websites using viral sharing features such as video link sharing, “email to a friend,” as well as embeddable video that bloggers and viewers can use to add clips to websites and popular social networking services.

www.brightcove.com, www.channel4.co.uk

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Tags: Brightcove, Channel 4

TubeMogul has added Veoh Networks, the world’s leading innovator in Internet television, as a distribution option in its popular Load & Track service that allows video creators, advertisers and marketers to upload videos once and have them automatically deployed to multiple top video sharing sites.

With the addition of Veoh, users of TubeMogul - the leading online video distribution and analytics company - can now choose over 10 different sites where TubeMogul will post their work for them so they don’t have to waste hours upon hours doing it manually one-by-one.

Through this relationship, Veoh’s more than 85,000 video publishers - from independent producers to some of the best known brands in music, sports, politics, and entertainment - get free access to Load & Track’s integrated analytics. This powerful analytics solution aggregates video-viewing data from multiple sources to give video creators improved understanding of when, where and how often their videos are watched, track and compare what’s hot and what’s not, measure the impact of marketing campaigns, gather competitive intelligence, and share the data with colleagues or friends.

“Providing distribution on Veoh is right on strategy for us,” said Brett Wilson, TubeMogul co-founder and CEO. “The deal furthers Veoh’s mission to provide the best and most comprehensive selection of video content on the Internet, and it furthers our mission to provide tools that empower video creators. What’s not to like?”

Todd Leeloy, vice president of product at Veoh Networks said the relationship with TubeMogul helps Veoh further expand its large library of compelling video content. “We are very excited to work with TubeMogul to make it even easier for professional creators to reach Veoh’s vast and growing audience of viewers,” said Leeloy.

www.tubemogul.com, www.veoh.com

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Tags: TubeMogul, Veoh Networks

As if we needed another question answering site, Amazon has launched its own in the form of Askville.com. You all know the drill, type in a question and hey presto! a ‘real’ person gives you the answer. Askville, in beta since December, is now live. They join illustriuos company such as Yahoo inc’s Answers and Answerbank. The Google ‘Answers’ service was discontinued in December 2006.

The question is ‘how long before Askville is dead?’

www.askville.com

Tags: Amazon, Answerbank, Askville, Google, Yahoo

Slicethepie, the revolutionary new website that turns every music fan into a record label, will on Tuesday release its first Facebook application.

Through allowing friends to compare their A&R skills in a head-to-head battle of musical wits, the app makes use of the 250,000+ reviews submitted by Slicethepie’s dedicated user base, who have so far earned over £20,000 through rating the website’s community of participating artists.

The application, which provides a league table of review accuracy among Facebook friends, will finally settle the oldest of mate debates. No more arguing over who really has an ear for great music – Slicethepie’s app offers ‘conclusive proof’ of who’s hot and who’s not when it comes to judging some of Britain’s best emerging talent.

www.slicethepie.com

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Tags: Facebook, Slice The Pie