Video delivery and advertising platform wants to serve soup-to-nuts to the head-to-tail Back in 2006, I wrote about Brightcove, a rising star in the video platform business. Two years later, online behavior has changed, technology has improved dramatically, business models have iterated, and, of course, newcomers are trying to redefine what former newcomers tried to do not so long ago. Today, Ooyala is that seemingly rising star in the video delivery and advertising business. It’s different in many ways from Brightcove. But its ambitious is just as grand.  “Our goal in building our company was very similar to the way that Google has done AdWords, build a very sophisticated, scalable and extensible platform and make it accessible to all businesses of all sizes," said Bismark Lepe, CEO and co-founder of Ooyala. Lepe ... [ Read more ]