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New Studio Build at StreamCity HQ

We are currently finishing work on a new studio at our Southbank offices. The studio will feature all the latest technology including the latest "Trinity HD" software. It will provide the perfect solution for businesses looking for a convenient, high quality and cost effective solution for online video briefings and corporate video communication, and is one of the first to offer HD live streaming! Visit www.twitter.com/streamcity for updates.

date posted: 20/2/2010

StreamCity viral produced for Boris Johnson and the GLA featured on BBC News

We were delighted to be chosen by The Greater London Authority to deliver a viral, fronted by Mayor Boris Johnson, to drive participation by Londoners in a new online consultation on the Mayor's 'Climate Change Adaptation Strategy'. The viral was deemed a great success, so much so that it was even featured on BBC news!

date posted: 19/2/2010

MAGIC Publisher Sales are Booming in 2010!

Since winning the recent Streaming Media Europe award for "Best Online Video Platform", we are adding more MAGIC Publisher clients than ever before. Recent new clients include La Redoute, Boden, Monster Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, Car Giant, Huntsworth Health, Mencap, Practical Law ltd, Geoff Howe Marketing Communications, HMA Web design and P&MM.

date posted: 19/2/2010

User Generated Content Sells Clothes and Saves Lives!

We have been commissioned by leading clothing retailer Boden and long running client Cancer Research UK to build UGC systems for their latest campaigns.

date posted: 17/2/2010

Monster contract for StreamCity

Not only are Monster using MAGIC Publisher to deliver their video online, they are now using us for production too!

date posted: 1/12/2009

Doha Debates over online video platform and chooses MAGIC Publisher

StreamCity have been chosen to stream The Doha Debates, Qatar's forum for free speech in the Arab world.

date posted: 15/11/2009

Boohoo use StreamCity to bring their clothes to life

StreamCity have produced a series of catwalk and concept shoots for women's online fashion retailer Boohoo. These will be used for their website and at the Clothes Show Live in Birmingham this weekend.

date posted: 15/11/2009

Txt Loan made StreamCity an offer we couldn't refuse

We have just filmed a series of gangster themed virals for TxtLoan, a revolutionary new short term loan company featured in The Guardian at the weekend. The shoot was a lot of fun and really gave our creative team something to get their teeth into!

date posted: 15/10/2009

MAGIC Publisher is Officially Europe’s Best Online Video Platform

The annual Streaming Media Magazine Awards took place last night at the Novotel, London West. StreamCity were delighted to walk away with one of the top prizes, the award for Best Online Video Platform. This is a great award for us to win especially coming from Streaming Media Magazine, who’s writers include some of the foremost experts in the online video world. The award also follows a very positive recent review by Jan Ozer from Streaming Media Magazine, who commented that “StreamCity's campaigns are both highly useful and exceptionally usable and Magic Publisher is the easiest to use OVP platform that I've worked with...none do it as simply or elegantly."

date posted: 15/10/2009

Radical Racing secure another pole position

Radical Racing, a pioneering motor racing company who recently broke the record time around the famous Nurburgring, has chosen MAGIC Publisher as their online video streaming solution to broadcast their motor racing exploits online.

date posted: 8/10/2009

UK Athletics go for gold

UK Athletics have chosen StreamCity’s MAGIC Publisher platform to deliver their video online in the run up to 2012. We are delighted to be working with such a major sporting body and look forward to a long and successful partnership.

date posted: 7/10/2009

BLESMA members inspire

BLESMA, in partnership with One, recently commissioned StreamCity to produce a video to tell their story. BLESMA work with wounded ex army servicemen, to show that disability doesn’t have to prevent them from taking part in sports and other physical activities. They are a very worthy cause and do some fantastic things - StreamCity are honoured to be chosen to tell their story.

date posted: 15/9/2009

ACEVO goes live

StreamCity recently broadcasted ACEVO's annual conference with MAGIC Live. This also involved building a custom player which included an "ask the speaker a question" feature. StreamCity are the largest online video company in the 3rd sector, and have strengthened this position recently by going into partnership with ACEVO.

date posted: 12/9/2009

HUGO BOSS Cross the Line Live with StreamCity

StreamCity provided an online tool connncted to Inmarsat satellite services to stream video from aboard the HUGO BOSS during the Rolex Fastnet race. StreamCity were asked by Alex Thomson Racing to Stream live footage aboard the HUGO BOSS. A Satellite link aboard delivered services to shore, where StreamCity's MAGIC Live service Streamed the service over three days through to the Alex Thomson racing website. Archive footage was placed on the www.alexthomsonracing.com website directly following the live broadcast.

date posted: 17/8/2009

Fire Safety at the Palace of Westminster

StreamCity embark today on a video shoot that will include all 13 buildings in the Palace of Westminster. Successful in the bid taking over 6 months, the StreamCity team will shoot a fire safety awareness information video that will be seen by the members of both houses. The video views will be tracked to record who has watched, and how much of the video has been watched, by the members.

date posted: 17/8/2009

RSC Eastern move to the front of the class

StreamCity have recently finished building a web TV interface for RSC Eastern, who support the development of elearning in educational organisations in the UK

date posted: 12/8/2009

Royal College of General Practitioners prescribe Magic Publisher

The RCGP have chosen MAGIC Publisher as their online video platform of choice. Magic Publisher makes it easy for clients such as RCGP to manage their video content and stream high quality clips to their website.

date posted: 12/8/2009

Westminster Abbey reach a wider audience

Westminster Abbey is one of London’s best known and most beautiful attractions. They will enable people all around the world to experience it for themselves by using MAGIC Publisher and MAGIC Live to stream services, concerts and events.

date posted: 12/8/2009

Which? choose StreamCity as “Best Buy” for online video production

StreamCity has recently finished filming a series of product buying guides and voxpops for Which? Online. For a company who specialises in reviewing and recommending the best products and services, we are delighted that Which? chose us as the online production company most suited to working on this challenging and ambitious project.

date posted: 12/8/2009

Preferred webcast delivery partners for the Rich Media Agency

The Rich Media Agency are a successful marketing and communications agency. We will be working together with them to deliver webcasts for their clients, starting on December 1st at the House of Lords.

date posted: 12/8/2009

Going Going Gone

StreamCity provide the live feed to Phillips De Pury during their recent Auction in London. Using the MAGIC Live service and a crew from StreamCity Phillips De Pury successfully delivered 2 x 3 hour auctions online with synchronised images of the lots sourced directly from their web pages. The live auction Attracted over 6000 viewers.

date posted: 30/6/2009

Which? Online buying guides

Which? Online have used StreamCity's production and online video services for over two years. Recently StreamCity were awarded a shoot encompassing 30 x "Buying Guides" to be placed on the Which.co.uk website. Onlive video is delivered through the Magic Publisher V2 online video platform by StreamCity.

date posted: 6/6/2009

Sales Amplified by 160%

StreamCity were asked to provide a full service to Amplified T-Shirts (sugarbullets.co.uk) including the sourcing of a location, shoot, post production, build of a custom branded video player and delivery on the sugarbullets.co.uk website. All delivered through MAGIC Publisher Version 2. Amplified have noticed an average 160% increase in T-Shirt sales of featured products.

date posted: 15/5/2009

House of Lords elect StreamCity

StreamCity have recently finished a project producing a series of fire safety videos for the House of Lords. Fire safety is an issue of utmost importance, and the House of Lords have clearly taken this seriously by commissioning the UKs number one online video production company!

date posted: 10/5/2009

Asbestos is Interesting

Stadium Housing Association have commissioned StreamCity to produce and deliver online a video, to inform residents to be aware of Asbestos in the Home. A short video of around 8 minutes was delivered in 6 languages and placed in a custom branded player on the http://www.stadiumha.org.uk/ website

date posted: 17/4/2009

Linklater Induction video

Streamcity have teamed up with EDP-UK to provide Linklaters with a 10 minute induction dvd for their employees and contractors. The video will also be provided on the website using the StreamCity MAGIC Publisher application

date posted: 26/3/2009

StreamCity deliver winning recipe for Delia Online

Delia online has signed up for MAGIC Publisher to help Delia Smith tell the world about her famous recipes and cooking advice.

date posted: 12/3/2009

Health and Safety WebTV

StreamCity have been providing the Health and Safety Executive with online video services for over 6 years.With over 300 videos HSE have chosen StreamCity to build their HSE WebTv service. The WebTv service will be driven by the popular MAGIC Publisher online video platform.

date posted: 4/3/2009

Streaming Media Europe

StreamCity are to offically launch their new MAGIC tool suite for online video publication, WebTV and UGC at Streaming Media Europe on the 4th/5th October 2007. www.streamingmedia.com/europe Stand 24.

date posted: 26/1/2009

OXFAM WebTV

OXFAM have placed their new StreamCity WebTV interface onto their main website. The WebTv system is driven by the MAGIC Publisher system by StreamCity

date posted: 26/1/2009

Norton rose LLP - choose Streamcity

Norton Rose LLP have chosen StreamCity Limtied to provide their Video Streaming services. Using the MAGIC engine a number of video briefing style videos will appear on their web site over the next few months.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Oxfam Web TV

Oxam have agreed to launch a new Web Tv portal using the Streamcity Magic suite, including MAGIC Publisher and MAGIC WebTv. The Service will use the content published through the MAGIC Publisher application that Oxfam have used to publish their online video content for the past two months. The service is due to go live in January 2008.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Streaming Media Europe Competition Winner

Congratulations to Dr. Luke Sanger of Eco-Watch, the successful winner of a years free subscription - Plan20 - to MAGIC Publisher by Streamcity and of course a new ipod Nano.

date posted: 26/1/2009

MAC Version of MAGIC Publisher

StreamCity have released a MAC version of there popular Video encode/upload and management and delivery system MAGIC Publisher

date posted: 26/1/2009

Water Aid switch to StreamCity MAGIC Publisher - Sept 07

Water Aid have used Streamcity's encoding, hosting and delivery of their online video content for over three years. The number of videos to be encoded and streamed convinced them that MAGIC Publisher by StreamCity was the perfect cost effective solution.

date posted: 26/1/2009

OXFAM switch to StreamCity MAGIC Publisher - Sept 07

Oxfam have used Streamcity's encoding , hosting and delivery services for over 4 years. The ease and control afforded by MAGIC Publisher by StreamCity convinced them to switch to the new online publication service.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Prince's Trust Celebrate

The Prince's Trust, once again trust StreamCity to produce Celebrate Success Award footage. August 07 - The Prince's Trust have once again chosen Streamcity to produce 50 one minute videos of nominees on their various award programmes. Streamcity teams will travel across all 13 Regions during a six week period to record and edit footage ready for the regional awards during November and December. Additional footage will be used at the UK award ceremony in March 2008. Streamcity are a preferred supplier for video and Online Media for the Prince's Trust

date posted: 26/1/2009

Health and Safety Agreements

Health and Safety Executive choose StreamCity for Online Services - July 07 The Health and Safety Executive agree a 5 year framework agreement for online communications with StreamCity Limited. StreamCity will continue to provide online video and audio services building on the excellent relationship built up over the past four years.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Which? How To Series

Which? Online commisioned Streamcity to produce a number of short videos to provide technical information and know how on a series of products. The videos where then encoded , uploaded and published through Magic Publisher by Streamcity.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Internet World - Earls court 29th April - 1st May

Streamcity sponsor video production of Internet World keynote theatre speeches - StreamCity are not only at stand E390 at the Internet World Exhibition - Earls Court - but are providing video production services to allow online viewing of the keynote speeches after the show in a StreamCity MAGIC WebTv Interface. Streamcity will be demonstrating the MAGIC online video publishing tool.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Primark Video Brief

Primark engaged StreamCity through the agency Armitage Bucks to produe a short video response to the Panorama report released on BBC 23rd June 2008. The video was placed on the Primark website in response to the programme. A fast production/edit and delivery was required.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Which? Online

Which? Online have commissioned StreamCity to produce and deliver 30 Online "How To" videos

date posted: 26/1/2009

Video Presentations

StreamCity have produced a virtual product demonstration for the Royal society of Medicine. The video demonstrates the use of the society's online Exam preparation system, Examdoctor.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Asbestos Awareness

Frankham RMS asked StreamCity to produce a video on Asbestos Awareness and make it interesting, quite a challenge. The result was a 7 minute video using vearious production techniques to engage the viewer.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Barnardo's Approved Supplier

StreamCity have become an approved supplier to the Childrens charity Bernado's for Production and Mulitmedia services. Barnardo’s strive to give the most disadvantaged child or young person a brighter future. They work with families in many ways including: fostering and adoption, disability and coping with domestic violence.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Celebrate Success 2009

StreamCity have once again been succesful in securing the video production for 50 videos for the Prince's Trust celebrate success awards 2009. Over the next three months StreamCity crews will travel the width and breadth of the UK to record the stories of the nominees for the awards.

date posted: 26/1/2009

MAGIC 150th customer signed

The success of the MAGIC Publisher, the online video management and publication tool, continues with the signing of the 150th customer, Milkround.com Milkround Online was launched in 1997 with the aim of bringing students and graduates together with fantastic employment opportunities. The website provides an efficient information and search service, facilitating the recruitment process for candidates and employers alike.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Saga Travel Virtual Tours

Saga travel have commissioned StreamCity limited to develop two new virtual tours, building on the success of the two previous tours of their cruise ships the Rose and Ruby.

date posted: 26/1/2009

Saga Travel Group

Saga Travel group have chosen StreamCity to produce 5 minute videos of their country destinations. StreamCity have been providing Saga with video streaming and multimedia services for over 5 years. Other travel companies have seen an increase in bookings where videos are shown. Saga will trial a number of countries before the possible commission of over 80 destinations.

date posted: 26/1/2009

La Senza campaign off to a flier

StreamCity recently built La Senza's Christmas online video campaign and are streaming it through MAGIC Publisher. They are currently averaging 500,000 video hits per week. Not bad if we say so ourselves!

date posted: 12/1/2009

StreamCity , Which? and the Paris Motor Show 2008

Which? Online commissioned StreamCity to attend the Paris Motor Show 2008 to shoot 26 car reviews in 2 days and post the video live on their site. The crew used Magic publisher to ensure that the reviews were posted by the deadlines of 11.00 & 16.00 on Thursday and Friday 2nd / 3rd October.

date posted: 26/10/2008

Streaming Media Europe

StreamCity launched their new suite of MAGIC Video Publication and Web Tv products at the Streaming Media Europe event at the Tara Copthorne Hotel in London on the 4th & 5th October. To view the stand click here http://www.streamcity.co.uk/exhibition.html to find out more about MAGIC Publisher and MAGIC Web TV go to the main pages and download the Product Information sheets.

date posted: 26/9/2007

Sticky: StreamCity's site for charities and non-profits is now live, Check out our low cost Video Briefing service starting at just 395 + VAT for a three minute video. Video Production for Charities.