Bubbl

Fan Interaction Tech for Online Video

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Bubbl Clips now have bumpers!

Our partners love that their users can create new video assets from their source content using Bubbl. Now, we’re giving them the ability to brand and monetize those clips with our new bumper ads! Appended to the end of clips, and totally customizable, these bumper ads round out the Bubbl experience with further source attribution. 

Content partners who enable bumper ads can create and upload a video bumper ad to their dashboard and it is automatically appended to all new clips created within their bubbl ecosystem.

Stay tuned for more info on monetizing these bumpers with third party ad sales!

Bubbl on!

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New Overlay Text!

Adding a text overlay is one of the best ways to customize a Bubbl clip. We’ve completely re-designed the text overlay design to make the text more readable across all platforms and on all backgrounds.

Take a look, and give the new overlay text a spin at www.bubbl.me!

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New Partner: Dotstudio!

Bubbl is now natively integrated on DotstudioPRO!  

We've collaborated with the Dotstudioz team to make integrating Bubbl as easy as pie for content owners using the DotstudioPRO platform.  We're starting with Web and Mobile Web support, with Native Mobile and Connected TV plugins coming soon!

Contact us (link to our contact page or form) or the crew at DotStudioPRO (http://www.dotstudiopro.com/contact-us) to learn more.

The integration can bee seen LIVE here.

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Broadway Style Guide The Mix With Sarah Stiles: Summer Cocktails

Watch what happens when Sarah Stiles goes behind the bar at the Raines Law Room to learn how to make refreshing, summer cocktails!

NEW FEATURE!! You can now share the clips you create directly to Tumblr! You know the drill, create a clip, hit the Tumblr icon, and away you go. 

Here’s a clip from one of our favorite partner sites, Broadway Style Guide.

Try posting to Tumblr via any of our partner sites or by dropping a link into the bubblr at bubbl.me.

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Share Bubbl Clips via Text!

This week, Bubbl is releasing yet another way to share clips with your friends. You can now create and share clips directly with your friends via text message. Simply create a clip by dropping a link into our drop to clip product or create a Bubbl on one of our partner sites, then select the message icon and input your phone number. The clip is created and sent to your phone instantly!

This is definitely one of our favorite ways to share clips! For iPhone users, iOS 10 allows for in-line clip viewing and looping videos making the sharing experience that much better.

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NYME 2016

Excited to take part in New York Media Festival this week.  We’ll be spending the most time attending on Thursday, where the agenda is a bit more TV/OTT/Content focused.  

Excited to see friends - old and new - and learn. 

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Our New Fav Promo Video (ft. New UX/UI)

Glitch-happy promo spot we put together to demo our “Clip-and-Share” tech and new super intuitive UX/UI. 

Hope you like it!

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RE-BLOG:  Oldie, but goodie. :-)

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#NYCML16

Come out and support a great event: http://www.summit.nycmedialab.org

Big ups to the team at NYC Media Lab - what a cool organization.

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Share Your Clips via Email

Since the introduction of our Bubblr, users have been able to share their clips to Twitter and Facebook in just a few clicks. While most of our users love being able to tag their friends in posts and share clips publicly, we understand that some of our users prefer to share more privately via email. With that in mind, we are excited to launch a new feature that allows our same easy sharing via email!

We wanted to make sure users that want to share their clips via email can do so just as easily as they would to social media. To do this, we simply added an additional icon to the share section of our Bubblr. Clicking on the button opens a modal with a prompt for the user's email address, and pressing send delivers the clip straight to your inbox.

We attach the clip asset as an MP4 file to the email. This allows users to download the clip to share with friends via email or even in a iMessage or MMS.

Visit www.bubbl.me or visit one of our partner sites to try it out now!

Happy Clipping!  

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Here's the tech NBC built to stream the Olympics — now can it replace TV?

For NBC, this year’s Olympic Games coverage was more than just a series of household rating points; it was a moment of truth in a fast-changing media world. To say the network won silver in...

Really interesting and relevant article.

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Bubbl Clips Now Play In-Line on Facebook

The amount of video on Facebook is increasing almost 4X per year.  With that flood of new videos, Facebook has been optimizing the way we consume content.  One of the biggest (and most controversial) has been Facebook's adoption of in-line video playback.

65% of Facebook users say that they are watching Facebook videos on their mobile devices.  Taking that into consideration, we at Bubbl have re-engineered our Facebook social sharing flow to allow our users clips to play inline in the Facebook feed.  So, now when a user shares a clip, instead of being re-directed to a Bubbl hosted share page, the clip can be viewed directly from the Facebook feed.

We did, however, come across one challenge when implementing the new share architecture.  Our publisher partners rely on our clips deep linking ability for tracking and click-through to source content.  Facebook does not currently support the ability to add a click-through link to in-line video, so our development team has been tasked with creating a product that is more deeply integrated with Facebook.  This will ensure the most optimal clip viewing experience for our users while maintaining our core value proposition for our clients.

We will definitely be re-visiting our Facebook share flow to iterate it as Facebook grows and changes.  Stay tuned for more updates regarding in-line video play as well as for our experiments with Facebook Live.  Until then, enjoy your favorite Bubbl clips from directly within your feed.

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Try Bubbl on IIHF Content on ONE World Sports!

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Copy + Paste URL Video Clipping Now Live!

Our core mission at Bubbl is to make every piece of video on the internet interactive. To do that requires careful planning and diligence to ensure that our underlying technology can handle the vast range of web based video. Given the many video formats, video players, CDNs, asset management platforms, etc., building a product that integrates seamlessly is a real challenge.

As we work day in and day out to build a product that meets the needs of our clients and users, we became more and more aware of a big piece of the pie we were missing - user generated content. So many of the videos our users watch and share on a daily basis are not on a publisher website or OTT platforms, but on sites like YouTube and Vimeo. So with that in mind, we set out to build one of the most ambitious products we've released to date.

Our users can now simply copy and paste a link to a video into our website and begin clipping that video right away. Our engineering team completely re-thought our core clipping architecture and constructed custom methods for on-demand clipping. We're able to deliver the premium cliping experience our users are used to, outside of the confines of a publishers site.

Drop-To-Clip is now live at www.bubbl.me. Check it out and let us know what you think!

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Try Bubbl on NASL Content on ONE World Sports

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Bubbl Joins Digital Future Lab

Bubbl is excited to announce we are now part of the Digital Future Lab in DUMBO NYC. 

Big shout out to Craig Wilson and Steven Kuyan for keeping the snack pantry well stocked.

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Announcing the Bubbl “Freemium” Wordpress Plugin

As we speak with content publishers and creators in the digital media industry, we continually run into small to medium sized companies that rely on the ease of the Wordpress and video hosting platforms like YouTube and Vimeo to publish their content.  With these “long-tail” publishers in mind, we are excited to announce our Bubbl Wordpress Plugin!

We’ve engineered the plugin to be compatible to any Wordpress installation (Version 4.3x and later) to add Bubbl's "Clip This" functionality to videos embedded into Wordpress.  The plugin is a simple one-click install with no configuration required by the site owner.  All the user has to do is activate the plugin and then visit a page with an embeded video.  Once one the page, the Bubbl plugin activates and begins crawling the site for videos to ingest and pre-process for clipping.

As videos finish processing, the site owner will see the "Clip This!" icon appear within the video player automatically.  Site visitors will be able to clip their content and enjoy all of Bubbl's interactive features like text overlay and social sharing.  Any feature updates made to the Bubblr and our core clipping product will automatically propagate to each Wordpress site without the site owner having to lift a finger.

The plugin can be dowloaded here and seen in the wild at one of our partner sites, Broadway Style Guide.

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James, Head of Partnerships, Business Development, and Summer