Comparison of Streaming Video Services

Recently, a client asked Rolled to recommend some video streaming service after Brightcove closed its doors to public uploads. I, Mike Robinson, stepped up to the challenge and immediately began watching videos of people singing, doing magic tricks and animals in funny outfits. Hey, we all have to take a bullet for the team sometime, right? Read on for my findings on alternative video streaming services!

I have reviewed four services, and drawn up tables comparing their supported formats and features. Each was to at least have good video quality and be Adobe Flash based, ruling out Google’s YouTube and DivX offering Stage6, respectively. Use the table of contents below to quickly jump to each section.

Vimeo
Revver
Viddler
Veoh
Comparing The Services
Conclusion – Which is the best?

Vimeo

Vimeo comes from folks at Connected Ventures and is known as “Flickr for video”. Vimeo is simple and [...]

Mike Robinson officially joins the team

Today Mike Robinson officially joins the Rolled Limited team as a Content Management System developer. Essentially this means he’ll be working with WordPress, Expression Engine, Drupal and the like to provide solutions for our clients. He’ll also be managing official Rolled built CMS based sites, including Sausage Roll, and making sure they are consistently up to scratch and updated.

His team member page describes him as so:
Mike is a Scotsman who hacks Content Management Systems, such as WordPress, Drupal and Expression Engine, into submission to get your site up and running. He is responsible for taking your web design and applying his knowledge of each platform to build a site with all the functionality you require. He’s also the resident tea boy as required..
He fought off several impressive people to get the full-time position and will be starting full-time in January after our yearly Christmas holiday [...]

Client launch: Impactt Limited

Rolled was called in by Antonio Gould to work on improving the web presence of Impactt Limited. This collaborative effort was to bring the old, out-dated Impactt website up-to-date with a new look, an online strategy and easy to use back-end.

Impactt’s new site describes what they do best:
Impactt helps companies to improve labour standards in their supply chains in a way that makes business sense.
Impactt’s passionate team strive to deliver the best, fair results for both ends of business, from production to corporate. Their work includes Strategy Development, Workplace Solutions and Training, which takes them to many parts of the world. With such a strong focus on improvement, we got to work on improving their web design.

Here’s where it all started:

And here is the work we rolled out: