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Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, announced that SPOX.com will adopt the Brightcove platform for online video content management and publishing advertising-supported video players across its Web properties. Beginning later this year, SPOX will use Brightcove to deliver exclusive video content and programming from professional sports leagues in Germany and around the world, including the Champions League, DFB Cup, Formula 1, Premier League, PGA and boxing. The content is provided by Premiere, the leading pay TV operator in Germany and Austria and SPOX investor.

Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, announced its continued expansion in Europe with a major new Italian media sector customer and new Italian solution partners. The new customer, MTV Italia, and the new partners, Idini Consulting Group and Slamcore, are pioneering the adoption of online video in Italy.

"Italy is among the most advanced European media markets with innovative news and entertainment brands, a fast-growing broadband population, and advertisers seeking new ways to engage consumers on the Web," says Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove chairman and chief executive officer. "We are excited to see the widespread adoption of our online video platform across leading Italian media companies and local partners who will help extend our platform with products and services that drive additional value for our customers."

Brightcove Inc. today announced the formation of the Brightcove Alliance, a global ecosystem of leading technology and distribution partners who have integrated with the Brightcove online video platform, as well as solution providers building customer websites and video applications using Brightcove. Through the Brightcove Alliance, organizations worldwide have access to a broad range of expert partners, pre-integrated technologies and services to support online video initiatives of any size and scope in every market.

Brightcove Inc. and Conde Nast Publications today announced a corporate-wide deal enabling the publisher to use the Brightcove online video platform to launch advertising-supported video initiatives across the company's websites. The first Conde Nast websites to launch with Brightcove include Wired.com, Portfolio.com, Glamour.com, Parade.com, and Self.com.

Brightcove Inc. and AOL announced AOL will adopt Brightcove for online video content management, publishing and video playback throughout the AOL Network. This partnership will combine AOL's video content offerings with Brightcove's market-leading online video platform. Beginning in early 2009, AOL Programming and AOL Video, http://video.aol.com, programming partners will use Brightcove to deliver video to the millions of people who visit AOL sites each day. Brightcove's integration with AOL's global advertising platform, Platform-A, will also expand opportunities for content partners to monetize video with online advertising.

Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, and OMS, Germany's online sales and marketing network for regional newspapers, announced a wide-ranging partnership that will enable OMS to use Brightcove to create an online video network for its member newspapers. The online video network will feature premium content licensed and distributed by OMS, as well as local video published by the regional newspapers. OMS will sell advertising against the combined video inventory and provide a new ongoing revenue stream to participating newspapers.

Brightcove, the leading online video platform, today announced that it has entered into a company-wide agreement with UK terrestrial broadcaster, Five, enabling them to incorporate advertising-supported video content across their online properties. The first websites to launch online video using Brightcove include Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky, Football Italiano, and Australian soap opera, Neighbours.

Under the terms of the agreement, any Five website producer can easily take advantage of the Brightcove online video platform to program online video content, create Flash-based video players for their websites, target advertising into the content, and access rich analytics on viewing behavior. Five plans to offer promotional clips and highlights, website exclusives, and user-generated videos for special news features.

Brightcove Inc., the leading global Internet video platform, announced that it has appointed technology industry leader and entrepreneur Hisashige Hashimoto as general manager of Brightcove KK, Brightcove's. Japan-based subsidiary. It was also announced that Web TV distribution giant, PRESENTCAST, has selected the Brightcove Internet video platform for gorin.jp, the exclusive online video portal in Japan for coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. gorin.jp is backed by all of Japan's commercial television broadcasters.

As general manager, Mr. Hashimoto will lead Brightcove's operations in Japan and drive overall customer acquisition efforts targeted at Japanese media companies and marketers. Mr. Hashimoto joins Brightcove after two years as president and chief executive officer of Paygent, a mobile auction escrow service he launched in 2006 and grew to 2,000 customers before leaving in 2008. Prior to Paygent, Mr. Hashimoto worked in three different senior management positions for Macromedia KK, helping lead the Education, Channel Marketing, and Platform Product Marketing divisions. Before Macromedia KK, Mr. Hashimoto spent 14 years with Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Brightcove Inc. announced the beta of its next-generation online video platform, Brightcove 3. The beta program provides access to a completely new version of the Brightcove service, which is already used in its current form by major media companies, businesses and organizations worldwide to reach more than 135 million unique Internet users every month.

Scheduled for release this fall and immediately available to selected Brightcove customers, Brightcove 3 is built around the company's vision for increasing video consumption and engagement by introducing a completely new model for incorporating video players and information about videos into the context of Web pages. Brightcove 3 also brings TV to the Web by enabling the delivery of long-form, broadcast-quality content through any website without the need for proprietary software plug-ins. These powerful Brightcove 3 capabilities are unified in a new suite of visual tools for site producers that greatly accelerate the production of video websites.

Brightcove, the leading Internet TV platform, today announced support for the AdSense for video beta program, Google's contextual advertising technology for online video. Brightcove's support of the AdSense for video beta program unlocks a powerful economic proposition for the Web's top media publishers. Brightcove customers, which include some of the world's largest and most innovative media, entertainment and consumer brands, will now have an additional and complementary advertising opportunity available to monetize video streams across their web properties.

Serving ads based on both the content of an Internet video and the context of a web page, AdSense for video beta gives media publishers the additional ability (beyond direct ad sales) to target tailored in-stream overlay ads from Google's large base of advertisers. Publishers and content providers can control which videos get which ads and when the ads play in each video. Appealing to both consumers of online video and the advertisers trying to reach them, AdSense for video's InVideo and text overlay ad format is non-disruptive and does not separate viewers from their desired content.

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 programs, an archive of the best moments from Channel 4's 25 years of broadcasting, and a preview of new programming coming to Channel 4.

Recognized as one of the industry's most innovative broadcasters, Channel 4 will use the Brightcove Internet TV platform to distribute online video clips to help drive Internet users to watch full-length program content via Channels 4's linear transmissions, its 4oD on demand site or by purchasing a DVD.