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Founded by Jeremy Allaire in 2004.1
Brightcove was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who served as executive chairman until April 2016, and Bob Mason. The company was named after Bright Cove Harbor in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where one of the founders liked to kayak.
In March 2006, Brightcove acquired Seattle-based Metastories, makers of StoryMaker, a publishing tool for video, audio, images, and text. In May of that year, it established a distribution partnership with TiVo and a content delivery partnership with Limelight Networks.
Coinciding with a series of deals with UK media companies, Brightcove opened an office in London in July 2007.
In November 2009, Brightcove was named as one of the top two U.S. video platform vendors.
In August 2010, Brightcove announced a content delivery partnership with Akamai Technologies. Along with Akamai Technologies, its other partnerships include the ones with Sitecore, Cleeng, FreeWheel, YuMe, Conviva, Oracle, DoubleClick, and other organizations.
Brightcove went public in February 2012 with its stock priced at $11 per share.
In November 2014, Brightcove brought on its new chief financial officer Kevin R. Rhodes. He was later replaced by Robert Noreck, who had previously served as a Senior Vice President. Noreck assumed the role of executive vice president as well.
In July 2017, the company announced that CEO David Mendels agreed to step down at the end of the month. Andrew Feinberg, previously Brightcove's president and chief operating officer was named acting CEO until April 2018, Jeff Ray was then appointed as the new CEO.Ray was succeeded by Marc DeBevoise, former president of CBS Interactive and chief digital officer of ViacomCBS, in February 2022.
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Bending Spoons, an Italian technology company, agreed to acquire Brightcove for $233 million in November 2024. The acquisition was completed in February 2025.
Internet TV partnerships
In December 2005, Brightcove partnered with Reuters to create a program to syndicate customized news video players.
In 2006, Brightcove completed Internet TV partnership deals with a number of large media companies including, The New York Times (NYTimes.com and About.com), Discovery Communications (Discovery Channel, Travel Channel), and Sony BMG.
In 2007, Brightcove capitalized on a trend of magazine and newspaper publishers expanding into online video by signing deals with print media companies, including Time Inc., TV Guide, and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive.
A number of television and cable media companies, such as Fox Entertainment Group, use Brightcove as an alternate, non-exclusive distribution channel for their video content.
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