Silicon Prairie News videos now viewable on iPhone & iPad
We're excited to announce that all Silicon Prairie News videos going forward will be viewable on the iPad and iPhone. Up to this point, we've been hosting our videos with Viddler, and the Flash player it provided made it impossible for iPad and iPhone users to view videos of our interviews, reports and events.
On the recommendation of our good friends at Malone & Company, Mixergy and others, we have switched to hosting our videos with Wistia.
The benefits for us were immediate: the video player has a cleaner look, videos are higher quality and automatically available in HTML5, which is what enables them to be viewed on the iPhone and iPad!
Additionally, we get some great insights into how exactly our videos are being watched. Wistia provides heatmaps showing engagement, which in the long-term will help us craft our interviews and videos so they're more interesting and engaging.
This is the first of many technical changes to come on Silicon Prairie News in the coming months. We hope that all you iPhone and iPad users enjoy the new level of accessibility, and as always, thanks for tuning in to Silicon Prairie News!
Here's the video from the photo above, if you're currently browsing on your iPhone or iPad I encourage you to give the new player a try.
Chad Stansbury talks about leaving full-time job to develop Scriptito
ARCHIVED COMMENTS
Thanks for the write-up. I'm really glad you like Wistia and we're excited to have you on board. I look forward to catching up on more silicon prairie news.
We're sorry to hear that you're moving away from Viddler!
Maybe we're a bit too late but we are still rolling out our HTML5 options to our customers (which we released in Beta, and also have a brand-new encoding process for) but haven't been able to open it up to all customers just yet.
We've also got a killer Analytics package.
But life is all about choice and we hope you're happy with whatever video service you use and that Silicon Prairie News succeeds.