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We're happy to announce the launch of Flixwagon Solutions for Mobile Carriers and Media Companies.

The scoop: our business solutions allow our clients to deploy live video broadcasting capabilities from mobile phones to the web and TV on a large scale, with customizable features, and extremely fast time-to-market.

Mobile carriers can offer the service to their own subscribers to improve subscriber experience and generate additional revenue via service fees and data plans. Subscribers can then share live or stored videos directly from their mobile phones with their friends, family, and colleagues via any wesbite, blog, social network, video sharing site and more, and interact with their viewers through live 2-way chat.

Media companies can create new cost-effective content offerings around live mobile video by allowing their reporters and entertainers to make live high-quality videos from anywhere in the world. These videos can be watched online and/or on TV, in combination with viewer participation (live chat, viewer submitted questions and requests, etc.). Also, the Flixwagon platform allows media companies to incorporate citizen journalism and user-generated content by supporting video feeds from up to hundreds of thousands of contributors. The web and TV experience is entirely customized to fit the media organization's existing properties.

Feel free to check out our Viacom/MTV case study, which includes info on various projects we powered for MTV, including 'Coose or Lose' that featured an exclusive interview with VP Candidate Sarah Palin, and 'Jonas Brothers: Live & Mobile' that pulled over 6 Million video streams in just one weekend.


Our new Solutions page for Mobile Carriers and Media companies is here: http://www.flixwagon.com/solutions

The press release is here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20080916005463/en

And here's our flickr account with photos and screenshots: http://flickr.com/photos/27816411@N02/


Updates:

Some coverage from this morning:

Center Networks

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Great news: Flixwagon is now available for iPhone 3G and for original iPhones running firmware 2.0.1!
After being first to broadcast from iPhones back in June, and first to launch our public iPhone app for 1.1.4  in July, we're now releasing our app for iPhone 3G and original iPhone 2.0.x. This means we now support all iPhone models and firmware!

To install you'll need an 'opened' iPhone with either Cydia or Installer. Simply open Cydia or Installer, make sure all your versions and resources are up-to-date, and then install Flixwagon from the multimedia folder (under 'Sections' in Cydia, or 'Categories' in Installer 4. You can also find it under the iSpazio directory). Special thanks to Fabiano from iSpazio.net for all the great help with Cydia and Installer!




Flixwagon iPhone Broadcast Screen

Advantages:

• Super-fast sign-up: there is no need to sign-up in advance anywhere. Simply launch the app on your iPhone, enter your phone number, and you'll be instantly logged-in and can start broadcasting video immediately. You'll also receive an SMS message with your new user name and password which you can then change or restore via flixwagon.com.

Express Registration

• Highest Frames per Second rate: Flixwagon broadcasts the highest frame rate per second on iPhone in the market -- at 12 frames per second -- providing a smoother broadcast flow.

Choose between sharper resolution or more frames per second

• Edit video details on the fly: change title and tags directly from the iPhone before or during broadcast. This is especially useful in helping more users discover your broadcast while you're still live, by adding relevant tags and titles based on events in the broadcast.
  

• Set sharing preferences directly from the device: set flix as private, public, or viewable only by certain groups like friends, family, co-workers, etc., all directly from the iPhone and while broadcasting. 

Edit video details and sharing preferences on the fly

• Light app: the entire package is only 98Kb.
  

If you're using iPhone 1.1.4 of older check out info for your phone. Please note, the iPhone apps (1.1.4 and 2.0.1) are both in Alpha, and are used primarily for us to learn and experiment more with the iPhone platform. Feel free to email us comments or feedback about the alpha app at feedback [at] flixwagon [dot] com. Once the iPhone SDK supports native video we expect to develop an app for the new official app store. We don't encourage 'opening' or 'jailbreaking' iPhones and users do so at their own risk.

36 hours, 600 clips, over 6 Million video streams, 60,000 hours of video viewed, 90,000 user comments, at least 2 clips per hour on air during commercial breaks on MTV over the weekend, three 30-minute compilations on TV -- shot entirely on mobile phones, over a dozen locations including backstage at Madison Square Garden, and 3 Jonas Brothers. These are some of the stats from MTV's Jonas Brothers event this past weekend using Flixwagon. We knew this was going to be our biggest event to-date, but it surpassed even our wildest expectations. For example, according to MTV, the latest season finale of reality show The Hills got 5 Million video streams during its first 3 days.  The Jonas Bros event pulled in more traffic in a much shorter period of time, and consisted of live videos made via mobile phones -- making this the biggest live mobile video event in the world to-date that we know of. The official press release is here.

As mentioned last week, we provided MTV with the Flixwagon platform to cover the Jonas Brothers tour of their new album “A Little Bit Longer”. Throughout the 36-hour event, a number of MTV bloggers and reporters made live videos directly to the MTV site and TV studio using mobile phones running the Flixwagon application. The videos showed the Jonas Brothers as they traveled and prepared for their concerts and even showed some candid moments like the brothers reacting emotionally to some items on the news. Even the brothers themselves carried one of the phones and made several live videos throughout the event.
 


MTV Website with the Flixwagon video player, showing Kevin Jonas making a live mobile video using Flixwagon

Apart from the successful event itself, what we’re also extremely happy about is that we were able to show again how the Flixwagon platform can scale and be customized to fit different types of live broadcasts, in terms of number of concurrent broadcasters, web video streams, and streaming from mobile phones to internet and/or television.

All the videos are available exclusively on the MTV site here: http://jonasbros.mtv.com.

I just read about MTV's “Choose or Lose” voting initiative:

"MTV will be launching a “Street Team” comprised of 51 young, amateur journalists from each state and Washington D.C. to cover the 2008 election, emphasizing issues important to younger demographics.

Members of the Street Team will begin appearing in January on a new mobile site as well as the existing MTV Mobile, ThinkMTV (a social network), and other websites as well. You’ll note that MTV is even taking advantage of its revamped efforts to reach the youth through its mobile initiatives as well.

The content will be a conglomerate of blog entries, videos, photos, podcasts, and animation. [...] the members have also been equipped with laptops, video cameras, mobile phones, and Adobe software."

[via Mashable]

For us at Flixwagon this is a dream come true... When we started thinking of who will benefit from Flixwagon's ability to broadcast live from the mobile (or our 'end users'), one of the natural candidates was the Citizen Journalism domain. Web 2.0 has already turned most of us into reporters, journalists and opinion leaders armed with blogs who have a certain amount of readership and mobile cams at hand. Let me add the following to the current state: the ability to publish to your favorite social websites and leverage their viral nature + the immediacy of a live broadcast from the mobile and we get a whole new definition for "citizen journalism".