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.
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.
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.
What should a mobile streaming service from YouTube offer? Let’s give them som help develop a good service for MOJO’s!
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.
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.
Mogulus offers an amazing service for producing live and recorded streams. They’re virtual TV studio ables you to produce your own TV shows on the web. You can import videos from YouTube or other sites in a couple of clicks or upload your own files. You can even use webcams or streaming cell phones to produce content.
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