Here’s our new promotional video for Buto. As well as telling you about the awesomeness of the online video platform, it tells you the host of reasons you should trust the Buto team to help deliver your online video strategy. We hope you like it!
Buto uses an ‘Agile’ development methodology, which is a universally accepted best practice method for developing software that’s quick, cost efficient and, most importantly, allows development to twist and turn with clients’ changing requirements. In other words, it helps us to be Agile! Agile works by looking at a project in ‘sprints’. A Buto sprint [...]
The most important fact to remember about YouTube is that it’s a channel, not a platform. A platform stores, organises and deploys your online video whereas a channel is an environment in which video is exposed to your key audience. What YouTube’s great for YouTube is a fantastic channel for getting new viewers for your [...]
There’s an extremely geeky tradition in video games called ‘speed running‘. The idea is that after a gamer has mastered a level, the challenge then becomes to complete it faster and faster, shaving milliseconds off the best time. So we thought it would be interesting to demonstrate how quickly you can make a video clickable [...]
In just one minute, this short film will explain the difference between codecs and containers, and why it’s important that online video platforms like Buto support multiple devices.
In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple page that lists the 10 latest videos in a ‘carousel’ using the Buto API, and allows a user to select each video in the carousel to play.
Are you exploring video on the web but wondering about how it all works? We’ve put together a series of short ‘how to’ films to help guide you through. ‘How to’ number 5: What is video encoding?
Is “your marketing department thinks it’s funny” a sufficient reason to think a film will go viral? Buto’s technology director Will Grant gives some tips on creating successful viral films: ‘How to’ number 3: How do films become viral?
‘How to’ Number 2: How to add in-player call-to-actions to your videos, and drive traffic back to your site.
Buto Technology Director, Will Grant, explains a key concept behind online video in this short tutorial clip.