WebTView Announces Availability of Over Half Million Videos From Over 17,500 Content Providers on the Web

WebTView Announces Availability of Over Half Million Videos From Over 17,500 Content Providers on the Web

TEL AVIV, Israel, May 16, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    - Cloud-based Over-The-Top Video Platform to Enable Rich Premium and
Freemium Video Content for Consumer Electronics

    WebTView, a leader in over-the-top video content delivery to connected
devices, today announced its web crawler has discovered over 17,500 video
feeds published on the Internet by content providers such as HBO, ESPN, NBC
and many others. The WebTView Video Platform now offers over 550,000 videos
that are playable on digital media players, connected TVs, STBs, connected
Blu-ray players, gaming consoles and mobile devices. Developed by WebTView
for the last 3 years, the web crawler handles thousands of new videos that
are automatically updated in an on-going basis, creating the biggest updated
syndicated video catalog, which can be used on embedded devices, PCs and
mobile devices.

    Unlike other video platforms that heavily rely on YouTube as their main
source of video content, WebTView had developed its own technology to
automatically collect and analyze publically-available video content
information from the web. Thanks to this deep analysis, connected devices can
display important video-related information for videos that can be played on
these specific connected devices. Cross content provider functionality such
as search, tag-based browsing, personalization, recommendation and statistics
are fully supported by the platform's robust and scalable REST API.

    "Our substantial content offering enables our customers and partners to
provide a unique mix of free and paid video content to consumers that buy
their enabled connected devices", commented Eli Fux, WebTView's CEO and
co-founder. "We are very proud to be the over-the-top platform of choice for
many consumer electronics vendors in order to bridge the gap between content
providers and video-eager consumers."

    Beyond content, WebTView handles the entire workflow from content
discovery, analysis, ingestion, management, billing, accounting and much
more, in order to let consumer electronics vendors to leverage its
capabilities without the hassle of service management.

    WebTView's rich video catalog is also available on its OverCast mobile
application that enables consumers to watch these videos on mobile devices as
well as any standard media player at home controlled by OverCast.

    About WebTView

    WebTView is a leader in over-the-top video content delivery to connected
devices. WebTView's products include the WebTView Video Platform, a
cloud-based solution that provides a best-of-breed user experience based on
its advance search, recommendation and personalization engine, and the
WebTView Accelerator, a client-side embedded software module that enables
seamless video streaming and download over HTTP from any content source on
the Internet to any enabled CE device.

    http://www.webtview.com

    For Further Information Contact:

   
    Gilad Brand
    VP of Marketing
    WebTView Ltd.
    Email: gilad@webtview.com
    Website: http://www.webtview.com
    Tel: +972-3-6225525

Source: WebTView

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