Kyte Wins OnHollywood 100 Award!

Hey Kyte Fans,

We are very excited to announce that AlwaysOn has named Kyte an OnHollywood 100 award winner!

This prestigious award recognizes the top 100 emerging companies in digital entertainment.

The judges were comprised of industry experts from KPMG, Silicon Valley Bank, Manatt, Phelps & Philips and AlwaysOn editors, and evaluated nominees on the following criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, industry "buzz" and stakeholder value creation. 

Thanks to all of you for your continued support of Kyte, this recognition would not have been possible without you.  We are extremely grateful to all of you, inlcuding our customers in the media and entertainment industry that are using the Kyte Platform everyday to create, distribute and monetize their content. 

Midem Roundup

Hi Everyone - Several of us from Kyte just returned from the Midem conference in Cannes, France.  The event was a big success for us, starting off with our Universal Music Group announcement, and culminating with an equally exciting Sony Music deal that we announced today. Here are a few additional highlights from the event:



Michael Robertson of MP3.com, who couldn't be there in person due to legal problems with EMI, came in live from San Diego to Cannes via Kyte for the MidemNet keynote panel. This gave everyone a first hand glimpse of the technology and created quite a buzz.... after all, seeing is believing:

Daniel's panel, "Connecting artists & fans – A showcase of services," gave us the opportunity to explain what Kyte for the music industry is all about - connecting artists with fans. Given that the theme of the conference was artist-fan engagement, this was a perfect forum for us.

We were surprised and flattered when several speakers acknowledged Kyte on stage during their various talks, including Courtney Holt, president of MySpace Music, Michael Doernberg, CEO, ReverbNation, and Tero Ojanperä, Nokia's EVP Entertainment and Communities. Thanks guys!

We met a lot of interesting people. One of the most inspiring was JYP, the most successful artist/entrepranuer in Asia. JY is not only one of the biggest stars in Asia, but he puts together super stars like Rain and Wonder Girls. Of course we'd love for him to start using Kyte:

The Midem organizers used Kyte to power their MidemNet vblog and artist video channel. It was great working with them and we look forward to a continued partnership.

Our booth provided the perfect meeting place for folks to get to know us and our technology:

Thanks everyone for all your support!

Kyte Mobile Producer for Nokia S60 Now Publicly Available!

We are very excited to announce that Kyte Mobile Producer for Nokia S60 is now publicly available!  Now anyone with a supported Nokia S60 phone can live stream or record and upload video content to their Kyte channel.

The Kyte Mobile Producer for Nokia S60 private beta program has been an amazing success.  Leading media and entertainment brands from all over the world including, The Pussycat Dolls, Huffington Post, SPIN Magazine, KCRW, 50 Cent, tech blogger Robert Scoble, and many others, have been using the application to easily produce and distribute authentic video content and engage with audiences at a level and frequency not previously possible.

To get Kyte Mobile Producer for Nokia S60, point your mobile browser to m.kyte.tv/get and follow the instructions to download the application.

Here’s a short video on Kyte Mobile Producer for Nokia S60 and how media and entertainment brands are using the app:

Kyte Nominated as Popkomm IMEA Finalist!

We are very excited to announce that Kyte has been nominated as a finalist for the Popkomm Innovation in Music and Entertainment Awards 2008. 

Now in its 4th year, Popkomm IMEA, recognizes the best new business ideas, the brightest entrepreneurs and hottest companies in the worldwide music, media and entertainment technology sectors.  CEO Daniel Graf will present on behalf of Kyte at the awards ceremony on Oct. 8 in Berlin, where the winners will be announced. 

Big thanks to all of our partners around the world in the music and entertainment industry for using the Kyte Platform and helping us achieve this recognition. 

New features on the Kyte Platform!

Our partners have been very active this summer, leveraging the Kyte Platform in new and exciting ways to promote their brands and engage with fans. As we continue to see a steady and significant increase in traffic, we've taken steps to prepare for future growth by focusing our recent development efforts on performance optimization and architectural platform improvements. But that's not all we've done. Following are a few of the features and enhancements our users can expect with this release:

New Features

• In-show Overlay Ads – Partners can now display an overlay ad in the bottom 1/3 of the viewer canvas

• Show Production Ads – Partners can customize splash ads during show production (when uploading media)

• Kyte Mobile Media Optimizer – For partners that want to integrate Kyte media into their mobile web applications, Kyte Mobile Media Optimizer can be accessed via the public API to properly customize media transcodes for delivery to various mobile devices
• Portuguese Language Support - For our Latin American and European friends, Portuguese is now a language option.

Kyte Player Enhancements

• Channel Changer – Header text links can now be used to change the channel, allowing users to browse to content on other channels (such as a Fan channel)

• Clickable Channel Logo – Partners can add a hyperlink to their channel logo that directs users to any destination

• Load Performance Improvements – Player components are loaded on an as-needed basis and caching is improved to reduce initial load times.

Server Enhancements

• Performance optimizations, stability improvments, and support for increased server load.

We hope you enjoy these new features and welcome all feedback on how we can continue to improve the Kyte experience for you and your fans.

Thank you!