Online Video Piracy is Posing an Existential Threat to Premier League Online video piracy is increasingly becoming an existential threat for the English Premier League. The Premier League is widely branded as the best league in the world ( often to the dismay of purists who prefer the more technical Bundesliga or the superstar La Liga). The popularity and scale of the Premier League is rising with the wave of record high broadcasting revenues. The reliance on broadcasting revenues however means that the league needs to ensure that viewers remain on the authorized broadcasting networks, and not opt for illegal video streams.…
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Washington Post – Video in Content Marketing
The Washington Post was acquired in 2013 by Amazon's Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, at a time when the news industry had been seeing considerable decline in their revenues from print subscription. This trend is largely due to an increasing number of people getting their news from the internet. The key challenge for WaPo in the Jeff Bezos era ahead is to execute a content strategy that maximizes their digital presence. Part of their strategy is using video in content marketing efforts. The Washington Post since 2013 has started to aims towards expanding readership and subscription to their digital content. This is expected…
WP eMember as WordPress Membership Plugin: User Management Tutorial
In this post we will describe in detail one of the most popular Wordpress membership plugins – WP eMember. Membership plugins are necessary to manage users. Each membership corresponds to a user role, which determines access to content and other features on your website. Using this Wordpress membership plugin would help you in deciding what content to provide to which category of learner. Control of access to content eventually determines that you are able to monetize your content. We discuss how to implement Per user restriction on login time and preventing unauthorized access so that one paid member has maximum restrictions from sharing…
WordPress course plugin to make course website – Sensei tutorial
Building a course website in Wordpress is a great way to monetize your education content. It is being done quite effectively by individuals and companies across the globe. In this blog post we shall walk you through the steps necessary to install the very useful Sensei wordpress course plugin. Using Sensei, you can set up Wordpress to sell online courses. By using the plugins features and integrating them with secure Vdocipher's online video player, you can sell online courses to your target audience more effectively. The quality and security of videos is the USP for most companies that wish to sell…
Business Video Alternative to Vimeo and YouTube
Why not to host videos on Vimeo and YouTube ? Vimeo and YouTube have a free offering to help consumers and businesses host videos on either their own platform or on Vimeo/ YouTube directly. Still, many times businesses tend to choose options other than Vimeo and YouTube to better fulfill their requirements and make large revenues. 7 Reasons to choose VdoCipher instead of YouTube or Vimeo ? Secure Video Streaming Viewers can easily download videos from Vimeo and from YouTube, using so many free tools, downloaders, plugins and hacks. VdoCipher encrypted video streaming ensures 100% download protection from piracy. Customers & Testimonials Ease of…
Faster video upload to VdoCipher: AWS acceleration + Aspera
Now you can enjoy speedy video upload even of large size from your dashboard & APIs to VdoCipher dashboard. The speedy functionality works with all kinds of video upload- from desktop, ftp, url, server, dropbox. The speeds of video upload to VdoCipher servers now show improvements typically in the range of 50% to 500% for cross-country transfer of larger objects, but can go ever higher under certain conditions. Technology behind faster uploads: AWS S3 accelerations - Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket. Transfer Acceleration takes advantage of…