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

By sabina | May 3rd, 2011 | No Comments | Press, Technology

As the Royal Wedding is over and so are the Bank Holidays, you can now switch on to Brainient where the next best news are. We are very happy to announce that today we’re launching Create Station, a very cool interactive tool that enables you to take any YouTube video, playlist or channel and create your own branded TV station.

We have partnered with Albion London, one of the leading digital agencies in the UK, to build Create Station and after a few weeks of intense work, our team and the amazing guys at Albion have made it possible for you to  “brand” your YouTube videos. All you have to do is type in the name of your station, select a theme, paste the URL of a YouTube video, playlist or channel and have your own personalised TV station in just a few seconds. It’s like the new Instagram for video.

Before you go play with Create Station, there’s one more secret we’d like to share with you: along with the Create Station project, we are also relaunching our interactive video editor, BrainStudio. It was through the new and improved capabilities of our Editor that the magic techie bit of Create Station has been made possible.
So here they are, the two new tools we’ve given you to have some fun with while we’re preparing more exciting stuff in the Brainient labs.

P.S Feel free to add interactivity on Royal Wedding videos using the new BrainStudio and share them with us. Have fun

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.

By Emi Gal | September 28th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Our stuff, Press

We’re happy to announce that we recently closed a funding round led by Venture Capital Investor Arts Alliance (investors in LOVEFILM, Opera Software and lastminute.com, among others) and a group of superb angel investors including Dave McClure, Sherry Coutu, Alex Hoye and Algy Williams.

We’re also very happy to have Jason Goodman, CEO of Albion London and Oliver Shapleski, Head of Business & Legal Affairs at Arts Alliance joining as Non-Executive Directors, Claude London, Digital Director of Global Web Properties at BBC Worldwide joining as Chairman and Reshma Sohoni, CEO of Seedcamp, coming on our Board of Directors as an Observer.

We’re very excited about the future of Brainient and we believe both the cash as well as our new investors will help us get to where we want to be: the best interactive advertising platform in the world.

You can read the rest of the press release here.

By ana | January 14th, 2010 | No Comments | Our stuff, Press

The wonderful people at Reuters wrote a very interesting article about young and ambitious companies moving their headquarters to London.

Emi Gal, Brainient’s CEO was interviewed by Reuter’s Kate Kelland and asked to talk about what determined him to move the company’s headquarters to the UK.

“London is pretty much the center of the world if you want to work in media and advertising”, he told them, and we believe that’s indeed, very, very true.

Feel free to go ahead and read the entire article, here.

And stay tuned, we have tons of news in the following weeks. While some of you have been sipping Pina Colada’s in Bora-Bora and others have been skiing St. Moritz, we’ve been working like crazy. And we’re loving it, so we believe you will as well .