As most of the Romanian people reading this blog already know, yesterday was Elections Day in Romania. It’s that ‘let’s-now-choose-a-president-that-will-be-no-good’ thing that happens once in 5 years, but this time the main problem is we really don’t have whom to choose. I won’t go into a rigmarole on the subject though, ’cause I’m not really that much into politics.

What I am going to talk about is Realitatea.NET, the number one news TV channel (and the number one news website, as a matter of fact) in Romania. They’re using our Veevid platform to manage and distribute their video content over the internet. And yesterday, we had the supreme test. Most Romanians went to Realitatea.NET to view the exit-polls, which generated more than 3 million views in 12 hours or so.

Veevid had 100% up time, fast loading times and used very, very little resources. It seems we could of easily support three times more traffic on the current server infrastructure (6 servers).

Congrats to the Brainient and Realitatea.NET teams for putting together such an amazing product & infrastructure. We braved the day.

Written by Emi Gal on November 23rd, 2009 in Our stuff

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Today I spoke about what we’re up to at Brainient to a few people from eBay, PayPal, Skype and Gumtree, right in the beautiful eBay offices in Richmond, London.

The audience found the presentation highly interesting and entertaining, and they all agreed that TV Advertising as we know it is probably going to fade away, so I thought it’d be a good idea to share the presentation with you.

Without further ado ladies & gents, I believe there will be blood. Some slides might not make sense because I just used them to emphasis my speech, but the essential is there:

Written by Emi Gal on November 6th, 2009 in Our stuff, Technology

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