The UK government’s online resource for businesses, Business Link, has recently launched two major new online resources featuring video and e-learning content produced by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Digital Surface Ltd, is very pleased to have helped out on the video player customisation aspect of this project, delivering technical consultancy and production services…

The pros and cons of using YouTube as an alternative to a commercial online video platform. For low-budget or start-up publishers, the benefits of a commercial service may well pale in comparison to the undeniable attraction of a free service offered by the world’s largest online video publisher who also happens to be one of the all time top 3 internet destinations…

A case study that illustrates the way digital media services mini-agency Digital Surface can help larger agencies stay on-track and on-budget by providing a range of on-demand specialist consultancy and production services. In this case, London-based agency Lavish Productions landed the job of producing an online talent contest for well known recruitment service monster.co.uk

Here we have a fairly straightforward web based mini-app showing how geo-coded videos can be visualised on a Google map and linked to a comments system. Deep linking is also catered for so we can distribute a URL and know that a particular video will be shown on the map straightaway

Here is a neat little video player that makes use of the YouTube Chromeless Player and YouTube AS3 Player API to present a YouTube video within a customised (and nicer looking, in one’s opinion!) viewing experience. Although the YouTube Player API is somewhat primitive, all the essential bases are covered and there’s no reason why elegant, interactive media experience can’t be built

Digital Surface has recently worked with Five, one of the major channels in the UK, to produce a new generation of video player for its top-rated pre-school programming block, Milkshake! The colourful video player features a simple customised user interface that makes it easy for parents and young children to play episodes of some of the UK’s best loved children’s programmes

Digital Surface has produced an interactive and stylised online video experience for the launch of os1.tv, a new and exciting online broadcaster for the Osnabrück region of Germany. This is no ordinary video player as you will see for yourself

Digital Surface is pleased to announce that it has completed a first round of work for NHS Choices to enable subtitling on a new generation of video players to be rolled out over the coming weeks. NHS (the UK’s National Health Service) Choices has developed a radical new media initiative