Incited Media and Widevine announce a technology partnership that bundles Widevine’s content protection as part of Incited Media’s cross platform live streaming service. Incited Media offers full-scale streaming media production services for companies that require high quality streaming entertainment capabilities. Widevine will enable Incited Media to secure distribution and consumption of live streams on a wide range of consumer platforms.

Velocix announces its P2P+ initiative, a new offering for developers of commercial P2P media services and applications. Velocix P2P+ takes advantage of the Velocix Open Platform which is designed from the ground up to provide global delivery services for video, software and games over the Internet. What sets the Velocix Open Platform apart from many traditional CDN providers is that it is optimised to work with P2P technologies. Velocix blends the cost and scalability advantages of P2P with the quality of service benefits of a cacheing network. With this announcement, Velocix is now opening up its network to allow independent P2P application and software providers to run on its Hybrid-P2P optimised network.

Velocix and Kontiki are partnering to extend their market leading solutions for web delivery of large digital assets, including video, software and games. Under the terms of the partnership, Velocix will provide a hosted version of the Kontiki Delivery Management System within its Global Digital Asset Delivery Network, providing new deployment options for Kontiki customers and prospects.

As Kontiki's preferred CDN partner, Velocix will provide Kontiki customers with additional opportunity to subscribe to the Kontiki service, as an alternative to owning and operating the application and hardware themselves. This gives Kontiki customers flexibility and choice of deployment models in accessing the benefits of P2P web delivery.

TANDBERG Television is providing a range of MPEG-2 video compression technologies to the European Broadcast Union, for coverage of a strong line-up of high profile sporting events this summer. TANDBERG Television’s digital TV systems have already been and will continue to play a key role in the delivery of footage of both standard definition and HD sports action from the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing and the Tour de France, Roland Garros and Wimbledon, as well as all the most prominent football events of the season to more than 650 million viewers in 56 countries in and around Europe.

Velocix announces the availability of its revolutionary new FREE Velocix Accelerator digital delivery service. The new service is aimed at the growing and vibrant community of entrepreneurs and new start-up ventures, as well as larger organizations looking to distribute rich media such as video, music, games and software on-line. To be successful, these ventures need help from a global digital delivery partner to ensure that their website visitors receive a high quality consumer experience when downloading content, viewing videos or simply browsing web pages from anywhere in the world.

The new offering includes a 500GB per month delivery allowance for file download, video progressive streaming and website acceleration services all provided at no charge.

Adobe has adopted Akamai’s Stream OS solution to power its media management and distribution workflow for Adobe TV. Adobe TV is an online video channel offering expert instruction and inspiration about Adobe products via informative and entertaining videos. Adobe TV is available online at http://tv.adobe.com.

With multiple channels, original series programming, and content from leading training organizations, Adobe TV delivers a virtual library of entertaining and instructional videos to millions of designers and developers worldwide. Adobe is leveraging the Stream OS integrated media management suite to seamlessly manage and catalogue thousands of videos from across the Adobe organization and automatically publish assets using open standards for delivery to the browser-based Adobe TV user interface built on Akamai’s Media Framework developer toolkit and into the Adobe Media Player.

Brightcove announces distribution partnerships with Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide and Veoh, giving media companies new opportunities to expand the reach of their online video, while maintaining control over their content and advertising inventory. Now media companies using the Brightcove Internet TV platform can program and syndicate advertising-supported content into social networks, social media applications, and a leading online video destination.

Brightcove customers publish some of the most highly sought-after news and entertainment video on the Web. The distribution partnerships announced today will make an exciting array of high-quality, premium video content available to be viewed on Bebo channels, shared through viral widgets from RockYou and Slide on Facebook and MySpace, included in instant messaging activities on Meebo, and viewed in full-screen at Veoh's Internet Television portal.

Dailymotion announces full implementation of INA’s “Signature” technology across all localized and local language Dailymotion sites. Dailymotion’s use of video filtering technology follows several other copyrighted material protection initiatives throughout the site, including a hashing system, blocking videos that have already been removed from the site and use of an audio fingerprinting solution. In addition, Dailymotion is an original signatory to the UGC Copyright Principles. Implementation of INA video fingerprinting technology reinforces Dailymotion’s leadership position in providing the most advanced copyright protection system for content owners.

BitBand has implemented its Auto-CDN technology at ON Telecoms, enabling increased storage space and reduced traffic load in ON’s network. On Telecoms successfully completed installation of a metropolitan fiber optic network totaling 220 km of fiber in the Attica region of Greece. The company offers voice telephony, high speed broadband and television to residential and business customers accessing till now 1.350.000 million households and 300.000 companies in wider Attica area.

BitBand Auto-CDN is a dynamic, real time mechanism for content positioning in the network according to actual usage of assets, maximizing streaming throughput, optimizing storage capacity and minimizing network load. Utilizing BitBand’s Auto-CDN, On Telecoms can leverage network resources and further expand its offering to Greek customers.

China International Television Corporation and KyLinTV have agreed to provide global distribution of the Great Wall TV Package on KyLinTV's IPTV platform. KyLinTV consolidates Great Wall content from Europe, Asia and America to provide the most comprehensive and in-depth channel collection to its viewers. Starting in February, KyLinTV will offer the Great Wall Package in North America. This is the most expansive Great Wall Package comprised of 20 channels including: CCTV-4 and CCTV-9 which are major domestic and international news channels, Chinese Movie Channel, CCTV-Opera, CCTV-Entertainment and various provincial channels that keep Chinese living in North America connected to their hometown.

Viacom and Microsoft Corporation announce a broad-based, strategic alliance under which major divisions of both companies will collaborate on advertising, content distribution, event promotions and games over the next several years.

The comprehensive agreement spans across the two companies and includes a number of significant components. Among them:

• Microsoft will license, on a non-exclusive basis, long and short-form television and theatrical content from across Viacom's cable network and motion picture businesses, including MTV, Comedy Central, BET and Paramount Pictures for use on Microsoft properties such as MSN and Xbox 360.
• Microsoft's Atlas division will become the ad server for Viacom's U.S. websites and Microsoft will have the exclusive right to sell remnant display advertising inventory on Viacom's U.S. websites.
• Microsoft will buy advertising on Viacom broadcast and online networks over a five-year period and the companies will work together on promotions and sponsorships for MTV Networks and BET Networks award shows;
• Viacom will work with Microsoft on opportunities to become a preferred publishing partner across Microsoft's casual gaming platforms.

Brightcove inks a wide-ranging agreement giving IAC businesses the opportunity to launch comprehensive high quality Internet video initiatives with Brightcove. Ticketmaster, Citysearch and 23/6 are among the first IAC brands to utilize Brightcove's platform to create, manage, publish, distribute and monetize video on the Web.

Under the terms of the agreement, any IAC business can easily use Brightcove's on-demand platform to publish video content to their websites, manage syndication and viral distribution, integrate advertising, and launch independent or integrated consumer media campaigns.

Pando and PeerApp partner to enable Internet Service Providers to accelerate delivery of video and other digital media published by Pando's peer-assisted content delivery platform, improving consumers' experience while reducing network congestion. The partnership provides the first solution that lets content providers, content aggregators and service providers collaborate in peer-to-peer content delivery and share the benefits.

The partnership integrates Pando's industry-leading managed peer-to-peer distribution services with PeerApp's peer-to-peer acceleration and caching solutions for ISPs.

The Nielsen Company and Digimarc Corporation launch a new service 'Nielsen Digital Media Manager' that will enable media companies, social networks, peer-to-peer services and user generated content sites to monitor and manage the distribution of media content across the Internet.

Nielsen Digital Media Manager will use digital watermarking and fingerprinting to establish an industry-wide rules-based solution to copyright security and to assure copyright compliance. By providing a more reliable way to track content, the service will help clients realize the value of their digital content, promote the expansion of Internet-distributed media and facilitate a number of revenue streams, including ad-pairing, e-commerce, royalty reporting and others.

Limelight has been selected as the exclusive CDN provider to deliver video content for all 17 of Dailymotion's growing portfolio of localised, country-specific online portals. Dailymotion needed a trusted partner that could help support its in-house content distribution infrastructure. Dailymotion has been experiencing exponential growth, in terms of site traffic, content volume and general brand awareness. In June 2007, Dailymotion drew 37.6 million users who viewed a total of 715 million online videos.