Content Distribution
Digital Rapids Corporation
Digital Rapids develops hardware and software solutions for transforming and delivering media, enabling the multi-platform experiences that are defining the future of digital video. Digital Rapids combines innovative technology with proven expertise to help customers maximize productivity, quality and the value of their content in the evolving digital media market. Highwinds and Digital Rapids have joined forces to provide streaming video and Internet TV solutions that span the critical points in media workflows, including ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming, playout and content delivery.
Thomson Technicolor Electronic Distribution Services
Technicolor EDS addresses the growing need for digital content and media distribution services. Its business model is unique, and unlike other outsourced content delivery networks that only distribute content, Technicolor EDS offers clients a comprehensive suite of end-to-end or a la carte services – from content preparation and digital rights management to global distribution and reporting. Thomson Technicolor EDS leverages the Highwinds CDN for digital content distribution solutions that power distribution for some of the world’s largest media and entertainment companies. Read Press Release
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Content Monetization
BlackArrow, Inc.
BlackArrow is an independent provider of multiplatform ad management for viewer-controlled video. The company’s ad management system is designed specifically for video content distributed over any on-demand platform – enabling content providers and distributors to maximize advertising revenues and improving advertisers’ ability to reach target audiences. Highwinds and BlackArrow have formed a dynamic ad management partnership that enables content providers to cost-effectively deliver high-bandwidth content and targeted advertising for viewer-controlled video. BlackArrow is led by an experienced team of executives from the advertising, television and digital media industries.
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Tremor Media, Inc.
Tremor Media is the leading online video advertising network providing advertisers with both in-banner and in-stream video advertising opportunities on over 1,400 top-tier publisher sites with more than 135 million unique visitors per month. Tremor also offers the Acudeo Video Monetization Platform for publishers, a full suite of products and services to monetize streaming video and maximize ROI. Tremor’s full-service solutions offer the necessary tools for advertisers and publishers to utilize online video advertising as a powerful interactive medium. Highwinds is a preferred partner of Tremor Media, delivering rich media advertising over our global CDN.
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Cloud Computing
Carpathia Hosting
Together, Carpathia Hosting and Highwinds improve total site performance --- the cloud for dynamic site acceleration and the Highwinds CDN to boost static content and rich media such as live and on-demand video. To learn more about the advantages of pairing best-in-class hosting and cloud computing solutions with a top tier content delivery network, view the Carpathia and Highwinds webcast and white paper. to request the link and digital copy, please send an email to info@highwinds.com.
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Digital Agencies
Fiction Creative
Fiction Creative is a group of artists, photographers, motionographers, filmmakers, graphic designers and musicians intent on creating innovative and professional work. The Fiction Creative team produces work for customers that represent the customer’s brand in a memorable and compelling way. Highwinds has tapped the creative team at Fiction for video production and web development.
Lightmaker
Lightmaker is a professional services agency creating award winning interactive experiences worldwide since 1997. Our goal is to bring inspiration and innovation to every user. Our strong foundation in creativity and our deep knowledge of technology drive our ability to provide engaging and effective digital marketing solutions. Lightmaker leverages Highwinds as a reliable media delivery platform for high demand, high bandwidth projects. Highwinds StrikeTracker real-time analytics provide useful insight into the launch of new campaigns without the usual delay
of 24hrs for traditional log analysis.
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Digital Rights Management
BUYDRM
BUYDRM is the leading rights management and media technologies company servicing the entertainement, enterprise and education industries. Broadcasters, telcos, universities, networks and private media companies use BuyDRM's KeyOS Rights Management Platform as a service or a solution, to efficiently market, monitor and monetize their broadband, set-top box and mobile content media offerings. Contact us today to learn how BUYDRM and Highwinds work together to protect your content.
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Encoding and Transcoding
Digital Rapids Corporation
Digital Rapids develops hardware and software solutions for transforming and delivering media, enabling the multi-platform experiences that are defining the future of digital video. Digital Rapids combines innovative technology with proven expertise to help customers maximize productivity, quality and the value of their content in the evolving digital media market. Highwinds and Digital Rapids have joined forces to provide streaming video and Internet TV solutions that span the critical points in media workflows, including ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming, playout and content delivery.
Encoding.com
Encoding.com is the leading global provider of studio-class encoding services, delivering over 4 million encoded videos. Encoding.com makes video transcoding into all popular formats easy, cost-effective and instantly scalable for global enterprises and SMBs. Highwinds and Encoding.com have partnered to enable a robust and simple video workflow for any site seeking to support video streaming.
ViewCast Corporation
ViewCast develops industry-leading hardware and software for the transformation and delivery of professional quality video over IP and mobile networks. ViewCast’s award-winning solutions simplify the complex workflows required for the web-based streaming of news, sports, music and other video content to computers and mobile devices, empowering broadcasters, businesses and governments to easily and effectively reach and expand their audiences. With more than 300,000 video capture cards deployed globally, ViewCast sets the standard in the streaming media industry.
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Hybrid-Grid Delivery
Octoshape
Octoshape is a leading provider of fully hosted, high-quality streaming solutions. Octoshape Infinite Edge technology is powering the future of streaming media with HD quality video, highly scalable infrastructure, DVR functionality, and enhanced video delivery. Highwinds and Octoshape have created a Hybrid-Grid delivery solution for streaming live events to millions of concurrent worldwide viewers. The solution fully integrates Octoshape’s innovative grid data transmission technology with Highwinds’ high-performance network and real-time analytics – enabling major international broadcasters to power many of the most-watched live events on the Internet. Read Press Release
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Live Event Production
AEG Digital Media
By combining cutting-edge technical expertise in streaming media with full-scale production services, Digital Media (formerly Incited Media) provides its clients with new ways to connect with today’s media-savvy audiences. Experts in digital encoding, they are known for an ability to provide onsite encoding under difficult conditions – where speed is of the essence and reliability is essential. AEG Digital Media provides a unique skill set not found in other production and/or streaming media companies. Their partnership with Highwinds creates an end-to-end solution for the production, encoding and streaming of live events. Read Press Release
Right Brain Media
Right Brain Media is the newest division of CyberTV, LLC. More than just another web developer or software development company, Right Brain Media credits itself with the ability to create solutions when none existed. The company specializes in creating live streaming solutions and Internet TV channels for their clients. RBM’s clients include faith based, educational, private sector and sports industry clients who rely on weekly, often daily, live broadcasts of their activities. The Highwinds CDN is closely integrated in RBM’s software, making it simple to create new live event publishing points and begin streaming with ease.
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Peer-Assisted Delivery
Solid State Networks, Inc.
Solid State Networks is a leading developer of specialized, high-performance content delivery solutions. Solid State’s game delivery solution includes highly customizable and brandable download managers that allow game publishers to provide the ultimate game acquisition experience and patch/update delivery applications designed to reduce or eliminate game play interruption while controlling costs. Solid State’s core technology is designed for the delivery of large files (including games, video and software) using a variety of protocols to multiple platforms. Highwinds, in partnership with Solid State, has created a hybrid P2P/HTTP distributed content delivery solution that creates the best possible performance for large scale game and software downloads. Read Press Release
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Player Development
AllDigital
AllDigital offers middleware, development and consulting services that enable the secure transport of digital content to connected devices including mobile computing, desktop computers and digital television. The company primarily targets content owners that have a need to distribute their media assets and online services to a highly fragmented markt of IP-enabled devices. By partnering with Highwinds, AllDigital has added global CDN services to their offering.
JW Player
World-renowned developer Jeroen "JW" Wijering co-founded LongTail Video to develop and distribute the world’s best media players, called the JW Players. Since the launch of the first JW Player in 2005 (which a little company named YouTube used as their first player), individuals and companies have downloaded nearly five million copies. Highwinds and Jeroen Wijering have worked closely to ensure compatibility, so customers can download a JW Player optimized to deliver content over the Highwinds CDN. For more information about using the JW Player on your site(s), please contact Highwinds today.
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Video Publishing Platform
Bits on the Run
Bits on the Run is a video management console used for organizing and adding metadata to videos, setting up video channels, and quickly building tailored video players. Bits on the Run also assists content owners and distributors with video transcoding services. Together with Highwinds, Bits on the Run delivers high quality videos, thumbnails, and RSS fees. An extensive API is also available so customers can build video management services into their own sites. Bits on the Run supports the popular JW Player, one of the more popular players used in conjuction with the Highwinds CDN.
Daydream Interactive Ltd.
Established in 1995, leading U.K. digital asset management specialists, Daydream, deliver DAM applications to businesses in Europe, the United States and Canada. Their enterprise-class digital asset management platform, FocusOPEN, offers everything required to quickly and easily manage all types of digital assets, from uploading, cataloging and searching to purchasing, workflow and rights management. Distributed with a progressive open source license, FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager is ideal for large organizations that need flexibility and rapid ROI. When Daydream customers need a CDN, they utilize Highwinds, taking advantage of the CDNs footprint in Europe.
Endavo Media and Communications, Inc.
Endavo Media provides a hosted platform for Internet TV, enterprise video, social media and IPTV. This media management and distribution system offers high-quality live and on-demand delivery of video, audio and pictures. Content is delivered through brandable players, web sites and user interfaces across the social web and to consumer devices – enabling content owners to engage directly with their audiences, build their brands and generate revenue from their online video communities. Endavo Media has integrated the Highwinds CDN into its Internet TV Platform for worldwide delivery of clients’ rich media content.
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EyePartner
EyePartner offers a video platform capable of providing fully customized solutions. With a focus on high quality LIVE video, EyePartner offers a downloadable Flash compatible H.264 encoder promising the highest quality video at the lowest possible bitrates, including HD quality at under 1mbps! For live broadcast of Internet TV, EyePartner offers BlinkoTV, the affordable solution allowing anyone to start broadcasting a live or pre-recorded episode in minutes. For live premium broadcasts supporting pay-per-view there is TikiLIVE, for pay-per-minute models
there is JamOnCam, and for live collaboration and webcasting
StreamingBASE is the ultimate solution. To see HD samples encodes from
EyePartner running on the Highwinds CDN, follow this link: HD Video Samples.
Monetize Media
Monetize Media is a white-label Online Video Platform for live and on-demand video streaming with Software Encoder, Content Management, Customizable Players, Aggregation, Publishing, Syndication, Monetization, and Analytics. The all-in-one SaaS video solution is a channel-centric platform to easily create, manage, distribute, and monetize live and on-demand video. Monetize Media is the used by Sports Organizations, Education Institutions, Event Organizers, Government Agencies, Faith based Organizations and Corporate enterprise worldwide to publish and distribute video on the Web. Monetize Media has partnered with Highwinds
for deeper integration with their API’s to provide end-to-end solutions, seamless experiences, and a much higher value proposition for the customers.
thePlatform
thePlatform is the leading online video management and publishing company. Media companies rely on thePlatform as their open, central hub for managing, monetizing, and syndicating billions of video views annually. thePlatform's services provide unmatched versatility for designing and supporting video businesses on PCs, mobile, and TV. Highwinds has developed a PDK with thePlatform. The plug-in allows for deeper integration between the two companies and confers time saving advantages for customers managing their content using thePlatform and delivering it over the Highwinds CDN.
Twistage
Twistage has re-imagined workflow for video platforms. Gone is the monolithic, player-centric video experience; the Twistage solution is both modular and flexible, giving you the freedom to define and customize your own workflow. Twistage manages your relationship to the rest of the video ecosystem. No matter how much that ecosystem evolves, Twistage lets you keep your workflow in place, regardless of which technology partners you keep, and which ones you don't. The Twistage platform acts as the glue for a cohesive workflow, adapting to your demands - not the other way around. Twistage is fully integrated with the Highwinds CDN to allow first-class delivery paired with enterprise-class video software.
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Web Development
9mmedia, LLC
9mmedia is a tight-knit development firm comprised of extremely talented programmers and designers who specialize in building forward-thinking Flex and iPhone applications. For each project, 9mmedia provides a think-tank of bleeding-edge technical insight as well as creative ideas for layout, user experience and functionality in order to deliver the most powerful application that meets business goals and timelines. 9mmedia is using the Highwinds CDN to power its rich media applications. Read Press Release
CyberTV, LLC
CyberTV is an all-encompassing e-business solution for the development and maintenance of enterprise-class web sites, Intranets and Extranets. Designed to facilitate all of the necessary elements required to address overall web initiatives, CyberTV allows for the separation of design, function and content while combining everything in one easy-to-use platform – divided labor with a unified purpose. CyberTV has integrated the Highwinds CDN into their CMS, making it easy for customers to create live publishing points and deliver flawless live video over the Internet. Additionally, CyberTV is responsible for the development and maintenance of www.highwinds.com.
Fiction Creative
Fiction Creative is a group of artists, photographers, motionographers, filmmakers, graphic designers and musicians intent on creating innovative and professional work. The Fiction Creative team produces work for customers that represent the customer’s brand in a memorable and compelling way. Highwinds has tapped the creative team at Fiction for video production and web development.
i5labs
i5labs is a print and interactive agency specializing in web and multimedia design and development. i5labs relies on the Highwinds CDN to provide an all-in-one design-to-delivery solution for streaming video and other content to online audiences. Combining i5labs’ innovative services directly with the Highwinds CDN allows i5labs to provide its customers with unparalleled functionality between their site and the delivery of their rich media content. Customers receive a high degree of individualized service from the i5labs team of professionals, who are dedicated to ensuring the effective development and deployment of unique online marketing solutions. Whether you are setting out to develop a video destination website or desire to use streaming video to enhance an existing website, i5labs is the agency for you. Read Press Release
Lightmaker
Lightmaker is a professional services agency creating award winning interactive experiences worldwide since 1997. Our goal is to bring inspiration and innovation to every user. Our strong foundation in creativity and our deep knowledge of technology drive our ability to provide engaging and effective digital marketing solutions. Lightmaker leverages Highwinds as a reliable media delivery platform for high demand, high bandwidth projects. Highwinds StrikeTracker real-time analytics provide useful insight into the launch of new campaigns without
the usual delay of 24hrs for traditional log analysis.
One Pica, Inc.
One Pica is a professional web design, graphic design, search engine optimization and marketing firm based in Boston. One Pica melds strategic vision with rich media to help clients achieve their marketing and operational goals, sparking connections between brands and worldwide audiences. They specialize in uncovering new experience-rich opportunities for clients and delivering breakthrough results. A one-stop solutions provider, One Pica selected Highwinds as its CDN partner for the content command and control the Highwinds CDN gives them and the real-time analytical data they need to validate clients’ campaigns. Read Press Release
VirtuPoint, Inc.
VirtuPoint is an application developer that specializes in building rich media applications. Its services include web development and maintenance, Internet marketing, content delivery, live event webcasting, content encoding and production support. VirtuPoint leverages the Highwinds CDN to power the rich media applications it creates for its clients – giving them the ability to take every project from design and development to delivery and reporting. VirtuPoint has offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and Europe. Read Press Release
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