The Europas 2011

By sabina | November 18th, 2011 | No Comments | Buzz, Our stuff

Thank you all very much for voting for us as the Best Advertising Startup at the Europas. This year’s winner is Conversocial but Brainient is the runner-up. You can find all the other winners here.

Thanks again and stay tuned for more great news from Brainient ;)

Brainient and the European Readers’ Choice Awards 2011

By sabina | August 22nd, 2011 | No Comments | Buzz, Our stuff, Press

Isn’t it great when an e-mail pops into your inbox and the subject says: Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards 2011- You are a nominee? Well it just happened to us over here at Brainient and we are quite excited about it.  We’ve been nominated as one of the best providers in the Video Advert Platform category and we’ve got a month left to make it as one of the three finalists. This shouldn’t be too difficult though since there isn’t a judging panel and readers simply choose their favourites.

The three finalists in each category are announced end September and you will find out who the winners are on the 18th of October at the Streaming Media Europe Conference in London. Voting is now open and closes 23rd September so hurry up and vote for us here. All votes are much appreciated and champagne will be on us, we promise :)

 

Brainient gets shortlisted as one of the Start-Up 100 companies.

By sabina | April 6th, 2011 | No Comments | Buzz, Press, Technology

At the starting of the week we usually like to bring on the good news. As for today, we are delighted to announce that  Brainient in one of the hundred companies that made it into Start-up 100, an initiative supported by Orrick, Sillicon Valley Bank and Microsoft BizPark.

Start-Up 100 by The Telegraph in partnership with TechCrunch Europe is looking at creating a list of promising and innovative European technology  start-ups.
A judging panel has been carefully working through the applications and finally chosen the 100 companies split into eight categories: Audio& Media, Finance & E-Commerce, Gaming & Virtual Worlds, Social Networking & Collaboration, Education & Recruitment, Travel & Transport and Advertising & Media, the category Brainient got shortlisted for.

The winners of Start-Up 100 will be announced next Tuesday, the 12 of April when an awards ceremony will take place in Central London.
We hope to see you there, among ‘the cream’ of the European tech world but if you can’t make it, stay tuned for more exciting news next week as we might have really fantastic ones to share.

Interactivity by Brainient at the GeeknRolla conference.

By sabina | March 30th, 2011 | No Comments | Buzz, Digital video

It was less than a month ago when here at Brainient we were talking about the fact that the future is interactive. Because we love being busy , we’ve spent the past few weeks working on the next big interactive thing: we are now ready to take live streaming to the next level by providing interactivity at the GeeknRolla by TechCrunch Europe conference today.

With a little help from our magic platform Brainstudio, we have created some special features that will allow viewers to interact with the live stream at TechCrunch’s event.Some of these cool elements include a live Twitter feed, more information about the speaker and an interactive agenda that will show what’s up next.

GeeknRola is the annual conference that brings together Europe’s technology startups to network with investors and talk about how they create and build themselves. It is taking place today, March the 30th at Park Plaza Victoria. Major guest speakers at this year’s conference include Dave Mcclure, founder 500 Startups and well known super-angel, Josh Williams, co-founder & CEO of Gowalla, Iain Dodsworth, founder & CEO of TweetDeck and Tariq Krim,  founder of Jolicloud.

If you don’t have a ticket for today, enjoy the interactive live streaming of the GeeknRolla event and feel free to drop a line and tell us how you liked the experience.

 

Youtube reaction

By sabina | August 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Buzz, Digital video

Everyone’s talking about the new YouTube skip button that is suppose to launch before the end of the year. And if they’re not, maybe they should be.
It would be a bold move by YouTube, if they weren’t now owned by Google.  Potentially curbing a huge revenue stream with a single new feature.
The question is, will this new experience set expectations for those watching video on other sites?  And if so, are other publishers ready to follow suit?  They must be.
We think YouTube is right on.
They’re putting advertisers in the hot seat and giving them a really great reason to make their ads interesting.  Bad 30 second pre-rolls (or even half-decent ones) won’t be forced down the throats of video viewers for much longer. Advertisers are going to have to get creative about how to get a viewer’s attention quickly – and of course,  keep it.