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Unicorn Media Responds to Demand Increase, Adds Servers in Phoenix NAP

Phoenix, AZ, June 8, 2011 – Phoenix NAP, a next generation datacenter and network access point, today announced Unicorn Media, a digital media management provider, has added to its colocation space within the Phoenix NAP facility to help address rising demands.
Unicorn Media decided to expand its presence in Phoenix [...]

Unicorn Media Adds OSMF and JW Player Plug-Ins to Media Management Tools

UNICORN ELEMENTS™ MODULAR TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM GAINS INCREASED FLEXIBILITY
Unicorn Media, Inc., a digital media management provider, announced today that it is now offering plug-ins for Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) and Longtail Video’s JW Player. The plug-ins will provide video publishers using the industry standard JW and OSMF players with the ability to take [...]

Unicorn Media and the NABShow

Unicorn Media CTO, AJ McGowan spoke on the Cloud-computing panel this past Monday at the DCIA CONTENT IN THE CLOUD Conference at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, NV. Other panelists included:

Alexander Marquez, Director, Intel Capital
Devon Copley, Managing Director, Kaltura
Alex Castro, VP & GM, Video Platform Solutions, Limelight Networks
Guy de Beer, CEO, Playcast
David Dudas, VP [...]

Unicorn Once

I am happy to announce the commercial availability of Unicorn Once!  It is very simple…deliver us ONE FILE, ONE TIME, and it is available at ONCE on 4,400+ mobile devices.  We are changing the way publishers can monetize content on mobile devices.  Contact us and let us show you why Unicorn Once is leading the [...]

AJ McGowan, Unicorn Media CTO to speak at NAB

Unicorn’s CTO, AJ McGowan has been selected to speak on a panel at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The show runs April 11 – 14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. NAB is the premier content event of the year. The panel discussion will take place on Monday, April 11, [...]

Unicorn Media Supports WebM

On Wednesday, Google announced the much anticipated release of VP8 and the WebM Project, a community effort to develop a world-class media format for the open web.  VP8, the high-quality video codec, adapts to varying processing and bandwidth conditions and is available royalty-free.
The team here at Unicorn Media is pleased to announce its support of [...]

More Than Just Video

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been discussing what makes Unicorn Media’s Media-as-a-Service™ solution unique from all the rest of the online video platforms in the market.  While my discussions here are certainly not exhaustive, we’ve covered a lot of ground, and I wanted to take a minute to boil it down.
I’ve mentioned before that [...]

The Art of Transcoding

A lot of people might argue that the transcoding process isn’t the most electrifying of topics…but we aren’t those people.
The fact is, transcoding isn’t a science.  It’s an art.
So I sat down with Rikki Carls, Director of Software Architecture and the Picasso of Unicorn Media’s transcoding architecture to get the ins and outs of how [...]

New Release: Part 2

As you know, last week we announced a new release that brought some great new features to our platform services.
This morning we released Part 2 of that build that enables a few very exciting features.
Enterprise Advertising Support:

We have released our first client-configurable enterprise advertising support.
Customers have the ability to setup custom rules for ad playback [...]