Video ad service SpotMixer lands $9M, gets in with Google
One True Media, an online video creation and editing company, has raised $9 million in a second round of funding to market SpotMixer, a video ad service it offers to small businesses.
Small businesses can use SpotMixer to make and distribute their own professional-looking videos by using photo and video templates, along with marketing copy and voice-overs. These videos are essentially ads, which can then be embedded in an email campaign or posted to YouTube and… Continue Reading
Envivio raises $25M for video compression
Envivio, a South San Francisco, Calif. company that handles video compression for broadcasting companies, has taken a significant $25 million financing.
The platforms that Envivio is aimed at include most of the largest markets — mobile TV, Internet TV and IPTV. The company works with standard video compression codecs like H.264 and Windows Media Video to make content more easily deliverable.
The funding amount is large, but not surprising. As video grows on the Internet, a number… Continue Reading