Today we’d like to profile a digital agency who’ve selected SublimeVideo as their video player of choice for both clients and their own project.
Wollzelle have been working closely with Gucci since 2006 and Gucci Timepieces & Jewelry since 2008 to create an engaging web presence for their brands. They chose SublimeVideo to display a selection of videos showcasing the latest timepieces and jewelry collections across their sites.
Visit guccitimeless.com.
Originally founded in 1998 in Vienna as a non-profit artist’s workshop, Wollzelle has grown into a global agency offering branding, design and web development services to clients across Europe and the US.
Alongside their work with Gucci and a number of independent artists, Wollzelle also run their own online file management application, Fluxiom, where they chose SublimeVideo to present a range of demo videos.
Visit wollzelle.com.
“We love pushing web technologies beyond their limits, by turning sites into immersive, highly interactive experiences. To help with development, we’ve coded and released open-source tools that enable web developers everywhere to work faster and more efficiently.
This means we have high standards, but not that we want to reinvent the wheel: there is such a thing as building on the shoulders of giants. To us, SublimeVideo is one such giant: it puts great engineering at the service of original design. Practically speaking, it enables us to integrate rock-solid video capabilities into our sites and applications, safe in the knowledge they will work everywhere, so we can focus on what the video is about and what happens around it.
Because Jilion keeps an eye on the rapidly changing browser and plug-in landscape, we know our videos will keep playing, no matter what. That kind of surveillance is best centralised and entrusted to a specialist. The application’s low-latency, high-availability platform is second to none and we know integrating SublimeVideo in our sites will not penalise end users by slowing down pages. SublimeVideo shares our commitments and blends into our code: what more could we ask for?”
“SublimeVideo ensured the player looked consistent across all browsers, including the HTML5 and Flash modes. We felt it was important not to detract from the surrounding content, so a player that looked different in various forms wasn’t an option.
“Our clients review our work on a variety of platforms across multiple browsers. We needed a solution which would give our clients a consistent experience. We are in a creative business, and creating a consistent experience helps our clients to focus on our amazing music for advertising portfolio, instead of focusing on the technology.
“We wanted to avoid building our own player implementation, and started an extensive search for the best HTML5 Video player on the market. After hours of testing and comparing the top solutions, we finally chose SublimeVideo Player for a variety of reasons. Specifically, the perfect cross-browser/platform compatibility and beautiful look and feel.”
“We chose SublimeVideo as our video delivery mechanism because we believed that native MP4 delivery of our videos was the best choice for visitors to our site. We don’t yet live in a world where every visitor can view MP4 videos natively, so we needed a solution that degraded gracefully back to Flash-wrapped videos for people using older browsers.
“SublimeVideo was absolutely crucial in pulling off the video gallery on 
“Ferdinand Center for the Creative is a progressive organization, and when it came to posting videos, I wanted us to support HTML5 first and foremost, with Flash as a fallback, not the other way round. At the same time, I knew that a large segment of our audience views our site from older, outdated PCs at internet cafes around the Philippines, so we needed to be compatible with a large assortment of browsers.
“In redesigning the website for our private high school, we chose SublimeVideo for two reasons: (1) The lightbox is beautiful, and (2) The flawless and automatic conversion from HTML5 to Flash is exactly what we were looking for.
“When we first came across SublimeVideo we were really impressed by how beautiful the player looked. At the time, we were in the process of redeveloping our homepage (using HTML5), and SublimeVideo felt like great timing for our video player needs.
“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.
“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.”
“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.
“I’m a fan of any service that helps make Front End Developers lives easier. In the case of 
“Katabatic Digital is a creative services media company and video content is our product. We’ve spent a great deal of R&D on developing proprietary encoding technology to display our work on the web and our digital artists spend countless hours perfecting every pixel on screen. We needed a first class vehicle for showcasing our work to our clients and SublimeVideo delivered on tech and style.”
“We’ve already moved into the next generation of the web; with the abundant growth of tablets and smartphones making their way into our analytics, service rich media to all of our audience is highly important to me. As a result, I specifically wanted a player that 1) could reach multiple formats, 2) avoided flash unless necessary, 3) was friendly to use, and 4) was damn good looking.
“Since the launch of our updated TV service back in 2010 we have strived to offer our customers new channels, with a high quality of service. The SublimeVideo Player has helped us to showcase the latest and upcoming TV-shows. Thanks to the support offered by SublimeVideo, the implementation into our 
“Sublime simply gets the job done and looks great whilst doing it! After trying out numerous other (free) alternatives I’d always come across a random bug or browser issue that meant they couldn’t be used in a production environment — then along came Sublime, and just worked flawlessly first time. When time is precious, sometimes it’s best to just spend a little to save a lot — and this is one of those times!”
“We chose Sublime having become frustrated with FlowPlayer. We liked that it looks the same with Flash or HTML5 video (that was important to our customer; they didn’t want to know about different video types, etc; they just didn’t want the look to change at any time), and (most importantly) that it was super-easy to implement. The ease-of-implementation saved us a lot of time.”
“We looked at plenty different players as well as building one ourselves. We wanted something that was high impact. The choice was dead easy: we love the SublimeVideo player.”
“After trying more than a dozen other video players, we were thrilled to discover the SublimeVideo Player, with its support for HTML5 video. Now, whether our users access the training videos from their desktop or mobile device, we know they’ll enjoy the same gorgeous interface and ease of use.
“HTML5 video can be a bag of hurt if you implement it on your own. The fact that SublimeVideo makes it so we can just drop in a line of Javascript and it works consistently across all the browsers is amazing. The great design and thoughtful user experience just make it even better.”
“One of the main points I wanted to address during the design was how the trailer would stream. After years of using Flash for video I wanted to get away from it and allow iOS and other mobile devices to be able to watch it natively. The trailer was the most important part of the site so I spent a lot of time looking into HTML5 video but was aware we needed to make sure older browsers had a Flash fallback. I had tried a few solutions but nothing wrapped it all up so nicely like the Sublime service. When I showed Cathy a demo she loved the interface and the zoom/full screen options. I had already signed up for the beta earlier and incidentally I got my invite just few days after deciding it was the service for us.
“Being a motion designer my knowledge building websites is limited so I needed to find a solution that was easy enough to implement it myself without compromising on the design of functionality. I did some research and tested most of today’s HTML5 players and Sublime was by far the sexiest looking and easiest to implement.
“We’ve tried a number of different video players, but none of them have satisfied our craving for design perfection like SublimeVideo has. Not only does it look amazing, it also works everywhere we need it to, from desktop to mobile. Plus, with its flexible JavaScript 
“We needed to leverage HTML5 video for Method & Craft because we knew iOS device use would be high among our visitors. The SublimeVideo player not only delivered on that need in spades, but also looks absolutely gorgeous which is a big deal to design nerds like us.”
“The SublimeVideo player has set a real benchmark for high quality HTML5 video players. By using it on littlebigplanet.com, it’s allowed us to deliver our videos across a broad spectrum of devices and operating systems to a much wider audience, including the latest smartphone handsets – an ever increasing proportion of our site visitors. Additionally, the Jilion team have been really helpful and supportive, allowing us to deliver the best experience for our users.”