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Zencoder Steve Heffernan Named to Streaming Media Magazine's All-Star Team
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
NAB Show -- Zencoder, the performance leader in cloud-based video
transcoding, today announced that co-founder and vice president of
marketing, Steve Heffernan has been named to Streaming Media
Magazine's 2012 Streaming Media All-Stars Team, an annual award that
honors the industry's most influential people in the online and
streaming video industry.
In its fifth year, the Streaming Media All-Star List recognizes the
"people who have done the most over the years to advance both new
technologies and sustainable business models, as well as those who
time and time again have given back by educating newcomers inside the
industry, and evangelizing about online video to those outside it."
"Our annual All-Star Team is selected based on nominations from
readers and Streaming Media's editors," said Eric
Schumacher-Rasmussen, editor of Streaming Media Magazine. "We chose
the team based on their business and technology achievements in
streaming video technologies and business in addition to considering
the impact they have had on the online video market and community as
a whole, through educational and evangelizing efforts. The All-Star
Team recognizes the best and brightest who are pushing the industry
forward."
"Honored to have been selected to the list," said Steve Heffernan,
vice president of marketing and co-founder of Zencoder. "It's easy to
be excited about the future of video technology and want to share
it."
Heffernan has been a front end web applications developer since 1999
and is the creator of the web's most popular open source HTML5 video
player with over 150,000k downloads, Video.js, which is available
here: http://www.videojs.com.
Zencoder is the world's largest and fastest cloud-based transcoding
service in the world. Since 2010, Zencoder has amassed over 20M
videos encoded to date, Zencoder is the performance leader in
cloud-based video transcoding and this new set of features continues
to solidify its position as the cloud transcoding service of choice
for professional content providers. The Zencoder platform delivers a
99.9% encoding success rate, supports the greatest number of input
video formats in the industry, and offers the fastest video
transcoding available in the cloud. Using a simple REST API,
Zencoder's customers can easily access highly scalable,
professional-quality video and audio encoding technology without
expensive upfront hardware investments or ongoing maintenance and
engineering fees.
Zencoder works with hundreds of customers worldwide, including PBS
Television, IGN, Scripps Network, github, Khan Academy, TwitVid,
Posterous, College Humor and Yammer, to name a few.
View Streaming Media's All-Star List here:
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=81272
About Zencoder
San-Francisco-based Zencoder is the largest and
fastest cloud-based transcoding service in the world. Founded in
2010,Zencoder gives broadcasters and content providers a way to
quickly deploy video to consumers on virtually any Internet connected
device. Zencoder's service delivers a 99.9% encoding success rate,
supports the greatest number of input video formats in the industry,
and offers the fastest video transcoding available in the cloud.
Using a simple REST API, Zencoder's customers can easily access
highly scalable, professional video and audio encoding technology
without expensive upfront hardware investments or ongoing maintenance
fees. Customers include major broadcasters and internet publishers,
including PBS Television, IGN, KIT Digital, Khan Academy, TwitVid,
Posterous, College Humor, and Yammer. Zencoder is also the creator of
the web's most popular open source HTML5 video player, Video.js,
which is available here: http://www.videojs.com
CONTACT
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SOURCE: Zencoder
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