Month: May 2014

WimTrade: create and join video contests from laptop and mobile

WimLabs has launched a new service of it video revolution network: WimTrade. Now you can not only put up for sale your videos to the WimTrade video marketplace but also ride the video crowdsourcing wave. You can request videos of gives characteristics and join contests with your videos – from your laptop but also from your smartphone/tablet.

Over the years video crowdsourcing has become a consolidated tool used by Brands, Associations, Newsrooms, Festivals and TV programs to incentivate their fans and followers to participate and acquire valuable content. In this contex WimTrade enables anybody to create a video contest and develop new business models thanks to the use of Creative Commons and commercial licences. Thanks to the WimLance mobile app, you can join a video contest from a mobile device.

Use of the service is very intuitive. You just need to subscribe from WimTrade or, if you have already subscribed to the WimTV video platform, use the same username and password of your WimTV account.

 Create one or more calls and request videos of specific categories

Is a big event happening somewhere? Does your newsroom need relevant videos NOW? Are you looking for an entertaining and exclusive video to post on your blog?

Enter a descripotion of the video with the features of the video you are looking for and the deadline for submitting videos in response to your call. If you want to give addinional incentive to participants to submit high quality videos, you can offer a prize or a remuneration for the best videos received and selected for  publication.

 WimTrade offers many advantages

•  It is innovative, because you can create productions and new formats with the best videos contributed by your audience
• It is exclusive, because only the contest creator will be able to preview the videos sent by the respondents
• It is engaging, because your audience will feel like being part of your creation

 Do you want to join calls, collaborate with newsrooms and win prizes?

If you are a wannabe reporter or you enjoy filming the world around you with your smartphone, have a look at WimTrade calls and join with your videos from your PC or directly from your smartphone/tablet thanks to the free WimLance app for Android and iOS .

You could win a prize or earn a remuneration for your creativity and possibly start collaborating with companies and newsrooms that create contests.

CEDEO and Panasonic, partners of GreenICN, a EU-Japan project on the next generation “information centric” networking, have collaborated tin the development of end systems (peers) for GreenICN and demostrated their achievement at the first project review.

The demo is called “Managed advertising for real estate” (MARE). In MARE Toshiki, a real estate businessman, applies a windowing policy for his offers of vacation apartments. For two weeks his clients are pre-emptively offered available apartments but, after that, everybody, including non-clients, can access the apartments on offer. The MARE actors are:

1. Nozomu, an apartment owner
2. Toshiki, a real estate businessman
3. Mary, Toshiki’s administrative assistant
4. John and Keiko, Toshiki’s customers.

The GreenICN peer offers a number of features that map very well with Toshiki’s promotion strategy as shown by Figure 4 where the main steps of the walkthrough can be identified:

1. Toshiki requests Segmenter Peer to prepare video (DASH segmentation, encryption, data identification) and store it to GreenICN
2. Upon notification that Segmenter Peer has completed its job, Toshiki requests Licence Peer to create licences for his customers (currently John and Keiko)
3. When Keiko requests to play the video, her Peer request Licence Peer to provide the means to decrypt the video
4. Upon reception of decryption key Keiko can decrypt and see Toshiki’s video.

The demo is depicted in the figure below

The demo supports a use case called “Managed advertising for real estate”. In the use case Toshiki, a successful real estate businessman, applies a windowing policy for his offers of vacation apartments. For two weeks his clients are pre-emptively offered available apartments but, after that, everybody, including non-clients, can access the apartments on offer.

The actors of the Managed advertising for real estate are:

1.      Nozomu, an apartment owner

2.      Toshiki, a real estate businessman

3.      Mary, Toshiki’s administrative assistant

4.      John and Keiko, Toshiki’s customers.

 

The GreenICN peer offers a number of features that map very well with Toshiki’s promotion strategy as shown by Figure 4 where the main steps of the walkthrough can be identified:

1.      Toshiki requests Segmenter Peer to prepare video (DASH segmentation, encryption, data identification) and store it to GreenICN

2.      Upon notification that Segmenter Peer has completed its job, Toshiki requests Licence Peer to create licences for his customers (currently John and Keiko)

3.      When Keiko requests to play the video, her Peer request Licence Peer to provide the means to decrypt the video

4.      Upon reception of decryption key Keiko can decrypt and see Toshiki’s video.