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Oovvuu | Putting the future of news in play
Our CEO Ricky recently switched his search engine to Ecosia, which plants trees with its profits. It also doesn’t save your searches or sell your data.
He loves it and it got me thinking, what are the other alternatives to Google?
Turns out, there are plenty so we made a video to share some of them.
Drone footage from over Eagle Point, a town in Oregon, shows the utter devastation wrought by the wildfires ravaging the west coast of America.
Captured and shared by news organisations including Reuters and CBC, it shows the blackened ruins of what were streets with houses and gardens, interspersed with charred trees.
This story is showing the power of having video in articles. The images coming out of California and Oregon are compelling.
Journalists with cameras have been up close to the raging infernos to capture the fast-moving fires on the ground.
Verified newsgathering from citizens using their mobile phones tells another angle, and in this case, captures the utter terror of watching a fire loom over your home.
As the fires continue to rage, journalists around the world are investigating just why they are so intense this year.
If you’d like to know more about Oovvuu and how we use technology in global newsrooms to add video to articles, please contact us.
This year’s US election is shaping up to be one of the most contentious in history and with that comes enormous global interest.
We’re expecting to see traffic to our publisher partners soar and we’ve been working hard to make the best in US political coverage available to them.
So here’s who we’ve got on board for Election 2020:
For the latest news on the ground including rallies, voxpops, protests, voting, issues and controversies from newspapers in America’s leading cities – Chicago Tribune, New York Post, New York Daily News, Florida’s Sun Sentinel and the Baltimore Sun.
Added to those illustrious mastheads, we have broadcasts from local TV stations for Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles from the Fox affiliate Channels 5 and 11.
Also, take a look at Newsy, the online news video experts who specialise on “concise and unbiased” coverage of multiple sides of stories to give a 360 view.
CBC is Canada’s state broadcaster and has an insightful perspective on her neighbour.
Publishers can rely on the world’s best wire agencies to deliver day in-day out over the build up to election night and its aftermath.
They’re the workhorses of the news business and always deliver.
Stand up and take a bow Associated Press, Reuters, Agency France-Presse (AFP) and Canadian Press.
These videos are perfect for adding extra depth to a report and are ideal for the 4th paragraph spot.
Stringr are a fantastic group of journalists based in New York, focusing on online-first content answering trending questions.
Oovvuu’s own co-productions with newsrooms will fill the gaps left – if there are any. Contact us any time if you have ideas you think we should commission.
Give readers the full picture with in-depth features from US and international broadcasters, including PBS and Al Jazeera.
More fresh content news from us, with leading American newspapers, local US TV channels and The Straits Times joining Oovvuu.
Publishers using Oovvuu quickly match video to their articles to enrich story telling and at the same time, increase advertising revenue substantially.
They access video in two ways: either by using our WordPress plugin in their content management system or by using embeds.
The new feeds spread our news-gathering network even further, including content from Singapore for the first time, courtesy of The Straits Times.
An English-language daily broadsheet, The Straits Times covers news and views from Asia and the wider world.
We’re delighted to welcome several esteemed US newspapers to our stable – and, in the midst of possibly the most contentious elections in history, they could not have come at a better time.
Get reporting on the ground from the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Baltimore Sun and the Sun Sentinel in Florida.
And bringing in pictures from the streets of Washington DC, Los Angeles and New York are the local Fox News affiliate stations, 15 of them in all.
We’ve seen local angles explode in the US and often these local stations are the first with the coverage.
They also bring fantastic local stories with global appeal, like doctors urging people to get a flu vaccine ahead of a coronavirus second surge, and weird signals from space.
If you’d like to add this kind of content to your website, contact us.
The New York Post, Al Jazeera and CBC are among dozens of new premium content makers now in Oovvuu’s video library.
These latest additions take the number of feeds available to publishers to more than 400 – that’s more news, insights and explainers plus video for all the non-news verticals.
Oovvuu takes pride in being the world’s news video platform and we draw on the best and most trusted broadcasters and newsmakers across the globe.
Canada’s public broadcasters CBC are obviously the go-to source for Canadian news.
This piece on the impact of the pandemic on women would work in many markets where the same story is emerging of the burden of home schooling falling disproportionately on mums.
Take a look at Al Jazeera for world news from a different angle and voices from the Middle East.
This long-form programme – Inside Story – looks at why people in Thailand are protesting against the monarch.
From Hong Kong, we have the respected English-language newspaper the South China Morning Post. It covers world news and is particularly strong on Asia and China.
From London, we have The Independent, the British online newspaper and digital specialist.
And from New York, the leading US tabloid, The New York Post, founded by THE Alexander Hamilton in 1801, giving publishers a fantastic resource of US politics and entertainment news.
In addition to these news hard-hitters, we’ve added a string of entertainment and lifestyle providers.
Check out Hollywood Life for the latest in celebrity and entertainment news.
NowThis is the digital-only brand out of New York which specialises in social-media driven content. They pride themselves on having their finger on the pulse of what’s trending.
GeoBeats is an excellent addition to any news website. Their culture, science and travel content is informative and clicky, and an advertiser’s dream.
PBS NewsHour has been nominated for seven categories in the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
It’s a fantastic tribute to the journalists and editors at America’s public service broadcasters.
Oovvuu has been long-term partners of the team at NewsHour, taking the digital versions of the stories in PBS’s flagship show and sharing them with new audiences around the world.
This gripping report by special correspondent Jane Ferguson from inside the Taliban command in Afghanistan.
Jane’s reporting picked up a nod in the Outstanding Hard news Feature Story in a Newscast category.
PBS NewsHour’s latest reports streaming on Oovvuu include interviews with Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton and Dr Anthony Fauci, stories from India’s polluted holiest river, refugee camps in Greece and this, on the impact of closure of the Mexico-US border on helpless migrants.
Overall, PBS programmes lead this year’s news and documentaries section of the Emmys with 48 nominations.
Read the full list of PBS’s Emmy nominations here.
