Jilion

We’re proud to have great individuals, companies and organizations using SublimeVideo. Introducing the latest entry to our SublimeVideo Showcase:

Wing – http://www.wing.tv

Wing is a London-based creative visual agency specializing in delivering innovative, targeted campaigns. Wing have created ads, promotional videos and other short form content for such leading brands as Coca Cola, Puma, Lotus, McLaren and Hugo Boss.

UK-based digital agency Slipstream developed Wing’s video-driven site, and chose SublimeVideo to power their video portfolio. Using SublimeVideo API (resize method), Slipstream implemented a custom ‘Cinema Mode’ to instantly enlarge any video on the Wing site.

“With SublimeVideo we know that videos work in every browser, every time. Slipstream developed a custom video management and encoding platform for Wing, and really needed a player that we could integrate as quickly as possible. Wing also needed to be able to present the results of their campaigns to their clients, so finding a video player with integrated statistics was vital.

In SublimeVideo we found everything we needed and more, and come back to it as our player of choice for every project.”

—Dan Griffey, Director, Slipstream.

We are proud to have some great customers using SublimeVideo. Introducing the latest entry to our Customer Showcase:

Own Point of Sale – http://ownpointofsale.com

Own is an end-to-end solution for running quick service businesses. Billed as the world’s first ‘social point of sale’ platform, Own provides small business owners with an integrated, cloud-based POS solution. Own offer a 12.1” tablet and ‘Nimbus’ OS to make it easier than ever to take orders from anywhere. Email receipts, open tabs, time-tracking for employees, coupons and real-time analytics are some of the features provided by Own to put the fun back into running a small business.

The site’s new Tutorials section makes use of SublimeVideo’s playlists feature to showcase video demos of various Own features and workflows.

“SublimeVideo lets me focus on creating beautiful videos and not on maintaining plug-ins. It is a breeze to set-up, and the video player design is just slick and awesome.”

—Erol Ahmed, Vice President of Own Point of Sale.

We’d like to wish everyone happy holidays and end 2011 nicely by releasing the most requested addition to Aelios: A way to store your favorite locations. This may sound like a basic feature, but we took the time to think about a good way to implement it.

We decided to use a photographic metaphor: We let you frame your favorite locations on Google Maps and take a snapshot to create your own Weather Posters by pressing the new camera button.

You can recall them from the search screen at any time and can easily reorder, delete or rename them.

Aelios 2.1 with Weather Posters is available now on the App Store.

We are proud to have some great customers using SublimeVideo. Introducing the latest entry to our Customer Showcase:

Spyder – http://spyder.com

Spyder is a global leader in manufacturing performance ski wear and outerwear for use in snowy environments. Having developed and integrated several innovative technologies into its products to aid speed, performance and durability, Spyder is the chosen brand for some of the world’s top skiers and winter athletes.

US-Based Web agency BKWLD developed Spyder’s new site, choosing SublimeVideo to power the video profiles of Spyder’s sports team.

“It was a huge relief to be able to rely on SublimeVideo to have a cross-browser solution that was not only visually pleasing to the users but to our designers as well. It took less than 10 minutes to implement with zero to little configuration to get up and running so we could swiftly move on to other things.

Something SublimeVideo was able to provide compared to some of their competitors was a very simple JavaScript API so we could track some vital video analytics for when the user started the video and to see if they finished watching the whole clip which is something the client requested.”

—Garrett Bjerkhoel, Senior Developer at BKWLD.

Apple have selected Aelios as one of the best iPad Weather apps in the US in their App Store Rewind 2011.

We’re very honored to have been selected and happy to be featured alongside some of the biggest names in the App Store. Thank you Apple and congratulations to the developers of all the other apps featured.

Best of the iPad Weather category, App Store Rewind 2011 in the US.

You can check out the App Store Rewind 2011 here.

Please note that apps selected in the App Store Rewind are country-specific.

Today we’re announcing a major update to SublimeVideo:

New, Free and Unlimited SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player

We’re thrilled to introduce a new, free and unlimited version of SublimeVideo.

After the commercial launch of SublimeVideo earlier this year, and alongside today’s introduction of great, cloud-powered new features, we’re ready to shift gear and introduce something radical that we’ve wanted to do for a while: Give anyone a free, traffic unlimited, no-compromise version of SublimeVideo Player.

Contributing to the web’s transition to HTML5 Video

We started SublimeVideo last year because we wanted to turn the promises of HTML5 Video into a reality – to make web video simpler and more enjoyable for everybody.

Adobe’s recent decision to stop development of Mobile Flash and fully embrace HTML5 is a clear signal that HTML5 is now mandatory for all sites.

SublimeVideo already provides any website with a fast, reliable and pain-free way to migrate from Flash to HTML5 Video. The new, free plan now makes it accessible to anyone. We’re really happy to be able to do this; we see it as our contribution to a better and more modern Web.

Enhanced Paid Plans

In addition to our new free plan, we’re also introducing enhanced paid plans with amazing new Real-Time Stats (more details below) and far larger monthly viewing allowances!

Not only do we now give you many more views, but we’ve also switched the metric used to measure your player views from Video Pageviews (counted every time the page containing your video loads) to Video Plays (counted only when playback of your video starts).

The new Plus plan is available for $9.90 per site/month and $99 per site/year, and replaces the Comet plan. The new Premium plan is available for $49.90 per site/month and $499 per site/year, and replaces the Planet, Star and Galaxy Plans.

Existing customers: Don’t worry! Your plans have automatically been upgraded to our new, enhanced offerings. Visit this page for more details on how you’ve been updated.

Universal, Real-Time Stats

Today, we’re also introducing a great new feature to our paid plans: Universal, Real-Time Statistics for any platform!

We think our new stats platform is quite unique: As far as we know it’s the world’s first to offer a truly comprehensive, real-time picture of your site’s video traffic, whether generated from mobile or desktop, HTML5 or Flash.

Our Real-Time Statistics platform leverages the power of SublimeVideo’s cloud-based technology and lays the foundations for even more great new features to come. Please let us know what you think and what you’d like to see next in our new Community Forum.

Users of our new, free plan also have access to stats for the past 24 hours, and can easily upgrade to our paid plans offering real-time stats and longer data retention (with yearly or unlimited stats storage).

HD Switching, Video Embeds and Community Forum

We’ve also added two important features to our player, which we ensured work perfectly in HTML5: HD Switching and Video Embeds.

You can now switch SD-HD video sources with a single click using the HD switch built straight into the player’s UI. To the end user it may just look like an ordinary HD switch, but we took great care to implement it properly so that it fully complies with the HTML5 standard.

The addition of our free plan and larger monthly viewing allowances to our paid plans means that we can now offer SublimeVideo embeds, allowing your audience to easily embed your videos into their own sites or around the web.

Read more about the new player features on our Features page.

Last but not least, we’re launching a new Community Forum on GetSatisfaction which you can use to report bugs, share your ideas and ask us questions. Sign up for SublimeVideo to join the community today and let us know what you’d like to see next!

We hope you’ll enjoy the new SublimeVideo as much as we do! A big thank you to our customers for their continued support …and welcome to our new users!

Nissan just launched their ‘Zen to Z’ HTML5 web campaign for the new Nissan 370Z.

Car manufacturers have traditionally relied heavily on Flash to implement and deliver big web campaigns such as this. Nissan’s new campaign is built entirely with HTML5 and makes significant use of video.

We’re thrilled they decided to rely on SublimeVideo to deliver their video message. The campaign is live now with new video episodes being revealed every week. It’s always great to see companies such as Nissan taking advantage of the latest web technologies for important product launches.

Check out the campaign at http://370z.nissan.com.au.

Here’s some news regarding our recent Twitter contest to celebrate the launch of Aelios 2. The community response was fantastic – 858 people entered over the 7 days the contest was running.

To select the lucky winner once the contest ended, we needed a method that was fair and transparent. Here’s how we did it: We assigned a number to each participant in order of entry. We then flipped a coin ten times, each time recording the result as either a 1 (heads) or 0 (tails). The result was a 10 digit binary representation, which when converted to a decimal number gave us a completely random figure between 1 and 1,023.

The resulting number was 84. So, congratulations to entrant #84, Chris McKay – we hope you’ll enjoy your collectors-edition iPad 2!

We’d also like to say a huge thanks to all of Aelios’ users, your positive feedback means a lot to us!

Make sure to watch the blog and follow @jilion and @aeliosapp for the latest Aelios news.

We are proud to have some great customers using SublimeVideo. Introducing the latest entry to our Customer Showcase:

CSS-Tricks – http://css-tricks.com

To many of those who follow our blog, CSS-Tricks probably needs no introduction. A popular web design community with the simply-stated goal of making websites better, CSS-Tricks is a treasure trove of knowledge for all web designers.

Articles and tutorials keep the community on the cutting-edge, while a broad library of code snippets and downloadable projects helps developers get hands-on. Founder Chris Coyier chose SublimeVideo to power all of the community’s video screencasts, and recently wrote a great post on our player’s new fluid-width capabilities.

We’d highly recommend checking out CSS-Tricks to anyone looking to learn more about the latest capabilities of ever-evolving web standards.

“I’m a fan of any service that helps make Front End Developers lives easier. In the case of CSS-Tricks, I have a whole archive of videos that are essentially self-hosted. I want those videos to be watchable by anybody on any browser. But because different browsers need different things to make that happen, it’s not trivially easy. There are some great free projects that do similar things, but the value for me in SublimeVideo is that I don’t have to worry about upgrading to new versions or troubleshooting for the browser landscape. Even though I’m the kind of guy who keeps up on HTML5 stuff, I still love it that I don’t have to worry about it.

Another part of making sure videos are watchable by anyone is making sure the videos fit and look good in any browser. For my design, that means the videos need to be fluid with. I’m happy that SublimeVideo provides the necessary things to make that possible.”

—Chris Coyier, Founder of CSS-Tricks.

To celebrate the release of Aelios 2 we’re running a Twitter contest; visit aeliosapp.com or click the button below to enter for a chance to win a one of a kind, laser-engraved Aelios iPad 2!

The contest will end at midnight (ET) on 8th November 2011. We’ll be announcing the winner on Twitter – check out aeliosapp.com for the full contest details. Make sure to tell your friends!

UPDATE: The contest has now ended, thanks to everybody who participated! We’ll be announcing the winner on Twitter shortly.