Benchmark Introduces Logo and Watermarking Feature for Streaming Video

July 19, 2007; 04:09 AM
Benchmark Rich Media, an online hosting service for streaming video clips, has launched a feature that embeds logos or company brands into online streaming media. The Web-based tool empowers businesses to upload a video, transfer it into a Flash-format movie, embed their logo, and use that watermarked Flash clip in newsletter and email campaigns. With the new service, customers can also publish their watermarked movies on Websites.

"Our new feature is a solid, professional way to protect your company image across the Internet," says Curt Keller, CEO of the Benchmark Internet Group. "A streaming video clip with a watermarked logo not only protects the integrity of your company's media, but it makes that rich media immediately identifiable to both current customers and potential new ones."

The new watermarking tool requires no downloading and is available with a paid package. Customers can add their logo during first step up of a two step upload process, which transfers MPEG, MPEG4, QuickTime and AVI footage into Flash-format movies. Company logos can be placed in any corner of the video. After the video is transferred into Flash with the watermark in place, customers can use Benchmark's videomail toolset to create and send email and newsletter campaigns. Clients can also use Benchmark Rich Media's suite to stream their marked movie clips on their Websites.

Benchmark Rich Media's paid packages start at $19.95 a month for streaming video hosting and $9.95 a month for video email hosting and delivery.

About The Benchmark Internet Group
Founded in 2003, the Long Beach, Calif.-based Benchmark Internet Group provides affordable, user friendly, Internet-based marketing tools. As a leading software as a service provider, the company's portal-based products include Benchmark Email, an elite e-mail marketing system, Benchmark PPC, a Pay Per Click management service, and Benchmark Rich Media, a video email and streaming movie service for Web-based applications. Benchmark E-mail, the company's flagship product, was named the best e-mail marketing service two years in a row by the Website Top Ten Reviews.