Yahoo Shelves the CBC’s Video System
Yahoo has decided to stop supporting the CBC’s online video content management system, known as Maven.
The California-based search and web services company made the decision to shelve Maven last week. The sudden move will force the CBC to find a new video software provider by year-end.
The CBC had entered into a relationship with Maven Networks prior to the later’s acquisition by Yahoo in 2008 for $160 million.
Now the CBC must scramble to switch several thousand videos to a new content provider and figure out a transition plan in next several months. Nevertheless, the move is being well received at the CBC, many of the producers that used the Maven product were unhappy with it.
What did you think of Maven?
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I shed no tears over its loss.
MAVEN?
Tod Maffin titles himself a social media Maven.
Could Yahoo make that go away also?
Or will his picture forever keep appearing in the Facebook grousing?
Is this the one that didn’t have an “embed video” feature? If so, bon voyage!
who’s writing your copy nowadays? You need a proof reader
All those project managers, and a real turd of a platform.
Good work!
Good effing riddance. I don’t think anyone who worked with it will have anything good to say about it, not just producers. Hopefully though the replacement will have to go through a more rigorous selection process, as scrambling to meet a crazy deadline is how we ended up with Maven in the first place.
Live & On-Demand streaming video is not rocket science. Nor is managing said content. The BBC has done it relatively in-house (of course, with support from external content reditribution networks such as Akamai to lessen the bandwidth load), and CBC should join the club.
“latter”
@cpf: the CBC also delivers its streaming media via Akamai’s CDN. Content management is the trickier part (this is true in general), and having even an appreciable fraction of the BBC’s new media budget would probably help. If you’d like comparable service from the CBC, please, for the love of all that’s maple-leaf shaped and hockey-loving, contact your MP and let them know.
@cpf
CBC uses Akamai for its wmv video streaming.
@Kev [Qoute]…please, for the love of all that’s maple-leaf shaped and hockey-loving,…[/Quote]
lmfao! You need to write for a new-still-to-be-developed CBC sitcom starring Colin Machery.
@Johnny B: Sorry, what I really wanna do is direct.
Why wouldn’t CBC.ca look into what Radio-Canada.ca developed in-house? http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/