Online Video Goes Mainstream, Sparking an Industry Land Grab

You'll need a paid WSJ subscription or pick one up from a newstand to read it, but today's Journal carried a front-page story with this headline which was mostly a profile of Brightcove.  The sub-heads were "Start-Ups Such as Brightcove Challenge Google, Yahoo; A Problem for Old Media" and "Many Producers, Many Outlets."  If a link shows up on their free pages, I'll come back and link to it here.  Peter Grant writes:  "... Brightcove's technology makes it easy for any producer -- from home-made movie buffs to television networks -- to distribute their videos to multitudes of Web sites.  All three parties -- the video's maker, the site that shows it and Brightcove -- often will share revenue from the resulting advertisements or sales. ..."  --Dennis