With the addition of VideoBlast and VideoSearch, all of IBS' broadcast partners can maximize the power of their video footage enabling users access to the richest video experience and the most video choice available on the Internet. IBS is already the leading Web-based provider of local video news, currently serving up to 85,000 video streams daily, and more than 20 million graphic page views per month, with local reporting and video teams across its network of local Web Channels. VideoBlast allows IBS' Web Channels to offer integrated video running in synch with interactive editorial text and graphics. VideoBlast allows major stories to be packaged and presented with a depth of content not available from video alone. VideoSearch enables IBS' Web Channels to provide users with customized, on-demand access to archived video stories across the entire IBS network.
Users are able to search and retrieve archived video stories by date, topic or keyword.
VideoSearch intelligently ranks the video stories found in the search and then presents synchronized video, graphics and text for each selected clip. Both VideoSearch and VideoBlast operate over narrowband and broadband technology, which enables the broadest universe of Internet users to have easy, immediate access to enhanced video newscasts. IBS video technology is the bridge to making that happen. This demonstrates the power of the IBS network and of local TV on the Internet. IBS is partnering with technology leaders to build and deploy these new video services across its network of local Web Channels.