Mojo Evolution

It had to happen. Mogulus finally launched a PRO option. They will still keep their free service, but in two weeks they will force ads on free channels. For PRO users, some of the news will be HD Quality (1.7 mbps), 16:9,  White Label and tools for analytics. For one PRO channel with 25 GB storage and bandwidth, Mogulus will charge 350 dollars. I guess their pricing on bandwidth will be the key factor for success or not.

For a lot of producers, this should be an attractive offer. Being able to design their own player, using their own ad-systems and mixing different types of streams in an easy production environment sounds like an attractive package. I guess that Quality Of Service (QOS) suddenly will be one of the most important service issues for Mogulus. In a free service, you will have to expect a lower quality. When you buy a service, you can demand quality. Leave a comment if you buy the PRO service and tell us what you think.

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There’s a lot of political activity on Qik these days. A lot of MOJO’s are following the final push in the US election. Adam Jadhav from the St.Louis Post-Dispatch is one of several journalists going mobile to cover the election as quick as possible. I’ve added his live stream on Qik in this post.  To check out his entire effort, check out his Qik archive. If you see other hard working MOJO’s, covering the election, feel free to ad their url as a comment.

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Check out this clip from the conference Streaming Media West with Steve Garfield, Qik and Mogulus.

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The BBC embraces the mobile bloggers on Qik in the Presidential Debates. The world’s biggest media company invites their audience to express their opinion before, during and after the debates. On Qik they have set up their own page with “Have your say”, on BBC’s website you find articles with edited material. This way BBC connects elements of social media and editorial control on their own site.

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The mobile streaming market is definitely hot these days. One day Flixwagon announces that they are selling in-house solutions for media companies, the next day Bambuser is answering. Bambuser have made a deal with another Swedish company, Poloply, to include live mobile streaming in their CMS. Poloply has nearly $1 billion USD worth of software installed worldwide and supports in excess of 800 customers in more than 40 countries, according to a press release.

Bambuser has one advantage over Flixwagon. Their streaming system can produce multiple mobile phone streams in one channel. Pretty much the same way you can use Qik and Mogulus. My biggest problem with Bambuser lately have been that their servers seems overloaded, producing streams with bad quality. My own company is already using Polopoly. It will be exciting to see how much the streaming addendum will cost and how an in-house solution will effect the quality. My guess is that the swedes are back in the race again, competing with Qik and Flixwagon.

Read the press release

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A short time after the success with the Jonas Brothers for MTV, Flixwagon is now announcing that they are offering mobile carriers and media companies in-house solutions for streaming from mobile phones to web or television. For media companies it is important so secure the quality of service (QOS). Usually this means getting the stream servers on the inside of their own network. I know that Bambuser already are in a lot of discussion with media companies about this and I guess the same goes for competitors like Qik and Kyte.

Moving the servers in-house also means that it will be easier to brand your product. It will also increase the possibility to harness the power of the social web. I guess that this announcement will speed up and increase the competition for professional in-house solution for media companies.

The interesting part is that Flixwagon also offers a solution for integration against TV. Making them a competitor for SonyEricsson’s “Me on TV”. What Flixwagon is missing is a way to produce multiple mobile phones in one stream. Today we find these solution from Mogulus/Qik and Bambuser.

Read more about it at Flixwagons blog.

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Kyte.tv is now offering live streaming for mobile phones. At present this service is only available for beta testers, but I guess it will be a part of their public service pretty soon. I’ve applied for a beta tester status and will bring you a report when I get the chance to test it. Kyte.tv already has one of the best solutions for on demand video. It will be exciting to see if they can surpass the quality from Qik, Flixwagon and Bambuser.  It will be interesting to see if Kyte.tv will be able to offer viral solutions like Qik and Mogulus offer. In my opinion it will be crucial for mobile stream companies to offer viral video solutions other than pure embedding.

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According to Robert Scoble, YouTube is well aware of the fact that they are falling behind with their streaming serviceses. Their main concern is not services like Ustream and Justin.tv. The Scobleizer has talked to some YouTube engineers. Their main concern is that thay can’t offer mobile streaming. A present they can’t compete with Qik, Bambuser and Flixwagon with this sort of service. According to Scoble, YouTube are working on solution’s, but no one will talk public about it. All I can say is, it’s not a minute to soon. It’s been a long time since YouTube was an innovator on the streaming platform. When they release their solution, I hope it’s even better than Qik, Bambuser and Flixwagon. In worst case, they just buy one of the companies.

Read more at The Scobleizer.

What should a mobile streaming service from YouTube offer? Let’s give them som help develop a good service for MOJO’s!

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Flixwagon is a contender to Bambuser and Qik. Recently they set a new record in partnership with MTV’s Jonas Brothers. With more than six million streams in 36 hours and amazing 90.000 comments making it one of the more successful mobile streaming events this far.

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Live steaming from mobile phones is getting better and better. More and more newsrooms are looking into this possibility. In this post I’ll try to give you some pointers on which providers you can use. I’ve also included some streaming samples at the end of the post.

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