{"id":1168,"date":"2010-04-05T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2010-04-05T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:24:47","slug":"google-buys-episodic-video-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/google-buys-episodic-video-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Buys Episodic Video Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently acquired the video hosting service <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episodic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Episodic<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0This is interesting because Episodic is not a free video sharing service like YouTube. \u00a0Rather, it&#8217;s a paid-for video hosting service used by professional video content producers, i.e. people who pay for professional service, quality and features.<\/p>\n<p>Episodic competes with other paid-for video hosting services like Brightcove and Ooyala.<\/p>\n<p>No word was given on what Google plans to do with Episodic, but the Episodic employees now work for Google and it&#8217;s rumored Google wants to somehow incorporate it&#8217;s newest acquisition into YouTube. \u00a0 Additionally, Episodic has stopped accepting new customers (at least temporarily).<\/p>\n<p>More details are available on the Episodic blog, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episodic.com\/episodic-joins-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently acquired the video hosting service Episodic. \u00a0This is interesting because Episodic is not a free video sharing service like YouTube. \u00a0Rather, it&#8217;s a paid-for video hosting service used by professional video content producers, i.e. people who pay for professional service, quality and features. Episodic competes with other paid-for video hosting services like Brightcove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[501,500],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}