Today, HTML5 is essential to serving video to audiences browsing the mobile Web. HTML5 and H.264 are the runtime/format combination that you have to support. And while the mobile market is fragmented, iPhone and iPad users represent an attractive audience demographic of early-adopting, technologically-savvy users that tend to fall into higher income brackets. So yes, if you care about mobile Web video at all today, you’ll need to consider an HTML5 support strategy.

Take a look at our Mobile Video Hosting plans here.

By becoming a GravityLab mobile video hosting client,we can help you deliver live and on demand streaming to every screen. Let us help you:

• develop an effective and efficient streaming mobile device strategy
• simplify video delivery to mobile devices
• increase views and reach a broader audience with mobile video
• overcome the challenges for monetizing video to mobile

Get started with GravityLab Mobile Streaming Video Hosting today !

Considering this new aspect of live television, it’s only natural to look toward the same experience on the web. GravityLab will change the way we watch, interact, and monetize live streaming on the web.

Flash Media Server has always had the ability to archive a live stream on the server for On2/Sorenson based content. Flash Media Server can now archive H.264/AAC content too. DVR functionality extends this basic archive function by allowing you to watch the stream as video on demand as it’s being written to the disk. You can pause, play, and seek around the video cache, as if it were a prerecorded stream. You can even insert cue points to manage advertising (for example, disabling the seek bar when ads are played).

The most exciting part of this feature is the ability to scale. If you choose to deploy the Edge caching technology of Flash Media Server or manage your own large cluster, this functionality is easy to deploy using the automatic caching technology or manage by creating custom plug-ins.

From the client side, nothing special is required. When your live event is over, you can take the DVR cache and make it available as a VOD stream.

GravityLab’s live flash video DVR functionality. Changing the way your broadcast on the web.

What’s new for 2011? We took a new approach. We identified a smaller number of strategic global locations near primary Internet Exchange Points, and built supercharged points of presence we call SuperPOPs. These SuperPOPs have massive amounts of computing and caching power and are directly connected to all the major backbone fiber networks.

The result is a blow your mind fast streaming content delivery network that’s custom built for mobile delivery, streaming video, and large multimedia files that need to be distributed globally. Our new globally distributed network means your content is just milliseconds away from almost every broadband user in the world.

So what exactly are we talking about? For starters, we’ve added the following POPs to our CDN that your content is cached on and delivered from automatically :

North America: Los Angeles (2), San Jose, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Ashburn and New York

Europe: London (2), Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam

Asia: Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore

Australia: Sydney

So what does that mean?

Our Content Delivery Network for video and media delivery truly is global, with our SuperPOPs (points of presence) located on four continents. These concentrations of optimized streaming servers are located at integral Internet exchange points and are just milliseconds away from almost every broadband user on the planet. Because our SuperPOPs are located directly at the world’s fastest data interchanges, we are able to deliver more content with less overhead than other CDNs. Our CDN is efficient, scalable and the reason why we routinely outperform older CDNs in performance tests while remaining price-competitive.

Not only have we placed our POPs inside the same data centers where the major backbone providers peer with each other, we have also signed peering agreements with the majority of the global carriers. Our tactic – physically distributing our high end video streaming caching servers at the carrier interconnection points, while peering with the carriers – means we can offer mind blowing speed, the industry’s lowest priced delivery, and stream your media to even the most remote geographies.

Our business model is not complicated – We buy our bandwidth in huge amounts and parcel it out for you to take advantage at wholesale prices. We bundle that bandwidth with our optimized streaming video servers strategically located around the globe. In addition to the low bandwidth pricing, the caching of your content around the world, the highest end new tech video servers, you also get to take advantage of our team of experts’ knowledge of media delivery.

Apple announced that the new iPhone software will be compatible with embedded video in HTML5, which is supported by GravityLab’s mobile hosting solutions, like mp4 H.264. Also HTTP streaming for audio and video, codecs and chunking support.

Trust the GravityLab network for all your streaming video hosting solutions, including iPhone streaming products designed to reach your mobile audience.

To get started with a free consultation about converting your multimedia assets to mobile compatible formats and delivery, contact us today.

• Check disk usage and see how much space you’ve got left
• View log files within a selected date range
• Download log files to Excel’s .xls format and the widely-supported .csv format
• Sortable data tables – Logs detail when data was accessed, who accessed it, and how much data was transferred

We’ve already got more features planned for our next version, which will be coming soon! So stay tuned for more updates, and enjoy the new feature!

Our final promotion for Winter 2008 is 10GB of bandwidth and 100MB of storage allocation free with any plan, from video hosting personal to dedicated streaming server tier 5. This is your absolute last chance to take advantage of the current prices.

Due to increased global demand and the decreasing value of the american dollar relative to the Euro and asian currencies, all our hosting and live broadcasting prices will be increasing on 4/1/2008.

Mention this offer upon signup and we’ll apply the free storage space or bandwidth to your account.

A sincere thank you to all our new clients who have made 2008 the best year in our company’s 7 year history.

Jeffery D Hauger
CEO / Founder
GravityLab Multimedia, LLC
We reach the world: Design to audience.

With extra storage or bandwidth, now is the perfect time to:

• Host streaming video with our affordable video hosting plans
• Stream live audio with our audio hosting plans
• Broadcast a live video feed with Windows Media or Quicktime
• Stream mobile video to a wide selection of mobile phones

Mention this offer upon signup and we’ll apply the free storage space or bandwidth to your account.

Such is the nature of business whenever the paradigm shifts. Recognizing a shifting paradigm is critical to dealing with it. Maintaining success requires changing the way things are done. Over the past 18 months, a new paradigm swing in video-based entertainment—also known as the Video 2.0 experience—has made old business models obsolete and created entirely new ways to view content. The video experience will never be the same again, and new capabilities in the IP next-generation network (IP NGN) will be required to deliver on the promise of this new technology swing.

Following the Money

Today’s video subscribers want choices, personalization, community-based content sharing, and often instant gratification. No longer complacent to be viewers, they are
now producers or distributors in their own right, empowered by the worldwide IP network. People no longer buy CDs to get a single song or remain glued to television to catch the 8pm broadcast.

Apple’s iTunes service—with over a billion downloads a year—demonstrated, unequivocally, that digital distribution not only works but can reach new customers. Download-to-own television and podcasts followed with time-shifted programming to a device other than the television, while Comcast’s own on-demand digital TV service has reached more than 3 billion cumulative video-on-demand (VoD) streams in just 2 years. Time-shifted viewing—what you want when you want it—is changing the way people watch video. Even the major broadcasters are posting their most popular TV shows to Websites moments after they are seen on network television.

Then there was a phenomenon from nowhere which, mere months after going live, culminated in a $1.65 billion acquisition by Google. YouTube with an estimated 120 million video streams downloaded daily by an estimated 6.2 million daily Internet visitors, has changed video distribution and viewing forever.

Video 2.0 Is Multidimensional

The Video 2.0 experience is multifaceted, offering an endless array of IP-enabled entertainment. Content that is just a click away using Internet TV through Slingbox or community sites such as YouTube and MySpace, interactive gaming sites, managed services such as iTunes, and broadcast networks from ABC to BBC or the cable networks of Comcast, Time Warner, or Cox—all this is part of the expanded Video 2.0 pool of entertainment. Network television becomes just one more interactive, personalized experience when it is IP-enabled through cable, IPTV, and mobile networks.

But Video 2.0 encompasses so much more by including business users too. Much of this video content is for consumers. Yet business video is equally as important to the “anything-to-anywhere” Video 2.0 experience and offers business subscribers ways to connect, communicate, and collaborate through telepresence, video-enabled chat, video conferencing, unified communications, or vertical applications such as distance learning and remote medical diagnosis.