On2 Announces Worldwide Enterprise License of Flix Publisher
On2 Technologies, Inc., a leader in video compression solutions, announced that Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer products companies, has chosen its On2 Flix Publisher solution to provide enterprise video encoding and delivery services to Unilever's global community of marketers.
On2 Flix Publisher is a unique browser-based encoding and publishing solution for Adobe Flash Player 8 and 9, based on On2's VP6 video compression schemes licensed by Adobe. Publisher allows easy drag and drop video creation and publishing on a web page, without any special software installation on the user's PC. As a result, large enterprises, media companies, and video portals can allow anyone to become a video publisher without special training or equipment. Publisher's automatic workflow allows large number of videos from a large number of users distributed globally to be published without large infrastructure deployments and specialized management resources.
"Video for communication and training is becoming a critical enterprise application, and Unilever is a pioneer in making this possible," said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2. "Flix Publisher is intended for such tremendous scale without the complexities, costs and infrastructure that one would associate with such a large undertaking."
The Unilever US portfolio includes some of the best known and most loved food and home and personal care brands including Axe, "all," Ben & Jerry's, Bertolli, Breyers, Caress, Country Crock, Degree, Dove personal care products, Hellmann's, Knorr, Lipton, Popsicle, Promise, Q-Tips, Skippy, Slim-Fast, Snuggle, Suave, Sunsilk and Vaseline. Unilever US generated nearly $10 billion in sales in 2006.
"Flix Publisher allows for a fast, easy and affordable deployment of a company-wide video publishing solution and gives our users a solution that requires no learning to get up and running immediately," said Giampiero Corona, Global Projects Manager at Unilever. "With Flash video available on all our PCs, we can focus on the business objectives of our knowledge management repository rather than overcoming technical hurdles."
