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CareerTours partners with CareerVideos.com for international launch

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CareerTours, an online recruiting tool that allows career seekers to experience their next career, announced their partnership with CareerVideos.com. Companies in the US and Canada will now have the opportunity to use video career postings to recruit internationally without using separate online recruiters. Job seekers who are interested in international positions now have access to the largest base of international career videos to search. The partnership will entail cross-posting of all career videos and other career content between the two companies.

CareerTours and CareerVideos provide content that gives job seekers a clear and detailed understanding of what it would be like to work at any of their posted positions by using the power of video. With this new partnership, clients will have access to the largest library of career videos available online. Job seekers will be able to view 2,400 videos, information on thousands of companies, and over 1,500 job postings throughout five different countries.

Every career that is posted on CareerTours is already cross-posted throughout the largest online network in the recruiting industry. This network includes Google, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Jobster. CareerTours currently serves over 2,000 clients including Microsoft, The Capital Group, Cox Communications, and Club Med. CareerTours also supports hundreds of organizations and partners such as Arizona State University.

Originally posted on March 10, 2008 @ 6:01 pm

Swarmcast joins Microsoft Silverlight Partner Initiative

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silverlight1.pngSwarmcast has joined the Microsoft Silverlight Partner Initiative, a program that creates a universal language for media applications. The Swarmcast open video platform integrates seamlessly with rich-media platforms such as Silverlight to enable high quality, cost-effective video delivery over the Internet. Swarmcast is joining the Initiative to further its mission of providing content providers and rich-media developers with the tools to engage global audiences with high-quality video.

The Silverlight platform enhances user experience with interactive Web applications by enabling content providers to combine video and animation, while helping control costs. The offering also provides extended Web audio and video streaming and playback capabilities via Microsoft Windows Media technologies.

With its patented multi-source streaming technology, the Swarmcast suite of solutions enables high-definition (HD) quality, full-screen video over standard broadband, while protecting against re-buffering. The platform is content delivery network (CDN)-agnostic, and performs optimally regardless of type of content being viewed, whether it be long-form, short clips, live or archived.

Originally posted on March 5, 2008 @ 6:01 am

Stockxpert.com announces new microstock royalty-free footage offering

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stockxpert.pngJupitermedia Corporation’s Stockxpert.com, the royalty-free stock photography community, has expanded its product offerings and now includes premium royalty-free footage which are available in the most popular file resolutions and file formats and at prices to fit all budgets. File formats include both standard and high definition video as well as Flash video to appeal to Web designers. Stockxpert.com now enables footage buyers to purchase the clips they need for their creative projects for as little as $10 at the lowest resolution to $50 for 1080 HD. Stockxpert.com’s powerful footage search engine with 16 search categories and over 150 sub-categories makes finding the right clip fast and easy. Stockxpert.com offers one of the fastest and easiest ways to upload files and encourages members of the creative community to submit their footage for consideration to be sold on the site.

Originally posted on February 26, 2008 @ 11:03 am

BBC Motion Gallery inks deal with Mochila on video content distribution

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mochila.jpgBBC Motion Gallery, the footage licensing division of BBC Worldwide, inked a partnership with Mochila to distribute its content globally to the over 3,500 members of the Mochila marketplace. The relationship allows for syndication of approximately 800 video episodes and over 60 hours of BBC Motion Gallery Short Programs to mainstream media outlets, blogs and other online entities through Mochila’s innovative ad-supported program.

With Mochila’s ad-supported model, BBC Motion Gallery will provide its content to web publishers for free and earn a percentage of the advertising revenue that accompanies that content. Mochila suite of customizable widgets, including its proprietary video player, give web publishers powerful options for leveraging this world-renown content.

BBC Motion Gallery offers media professionals access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of high-quality motion imagery for licensing worldwide.

Originally posted on February 26, 2008 @ 1:58 pm

Canal Internet launches online Hispanic television network

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canalinternet.pngCanal Internet, Inc. announced the launch of CanalInternet.com. The company, founded by experienced Internet entrepreneurs, offers television shows and other quality video content in Spanish, with high quality sound and picture, for free. Users can watch some of their favorite shows as well as quality original programming in Spanish anytime, anywhere, on their computer screens.

Among the content already available are renowned primetime series such as Historias de Sexo de Gente Común, Policías en Acción, as well as other shows produced by Endemol Latin America, one of the largest TV production companies in the world. Canal Internet is currently negotiating licensing agreements from other large production houses, as well as from independent producers. Besides all the content being licensed, Canal Internet is currently producing original content which will air exclusively on the site.

Originally posted on February 25, 2008 @ 3:52 pm