The entry for the 36th edition of Worlds’ biggest
Catamaran Race, the annual Round Texel Race was opened yesterday. This year’s
event will take place on the 15th of June.
Hundreds of catamarans sail around the Island of Texel
to be the fastest, either in order as finishing boat, or in calculated
(handicap) time order.
The event is fixed to take place annually off the Texel Beach
at Paal 17 in
a concept of perfect mixture of public entertainment and catsailors’
competition.
Webdevelopment and Support
For several years, MedCapz has been contracted for
webdevelopment and support of web
site activities as well as for providing additional media related services. The last few years, being part of the event media team,
MedCapz has also provided on-site services to enforce media distribution
services.
Serving up to 100.000
page views per day
Especially during the event, MedCapz high performance
hosting services serve a world wide audience with traffic demands up to 100.000
page views per day. (Source of numbers by Google Analytics).
These page views concern generic content pages, as well as
high broadband demanding photography and video content.
MedCapz provides high demand hosting services on self-owned
VMware Windows server hosting facilities, as well as additional Linux and
Windows platform hosting services in cooperation with our Premium Hosting
Partner, Denit Internet Solutions in Amsterdam.
Video Production and
Live Video Streaming
During the last two years, MedCapz has provided Event Video
Production services, as well as Live Video Broadcasting services. Live
Broadcasting Services have been provided using Windows Media Server and third
party platforms to broadcast the start and finish of the Round Texel Race.
Video Channel Application
In the event website, MedCapz has implemented it’s self
produced MLV9 Media library software applications to distribute video reports
and photography.
The video publishing software is specially built to serve an
event community with both low res and high resolution video in a branded and
channeled environment.
With our software, event marketing officers are given the
tools to optimize the use of video in their Cross Media and Social Media
Strategy, aiming a maximum result of media distribution.
Our video publishing software features sophisticated (open
graph) social media integration, as well as advantages which Media RSS
provides, all integrated into one channeled platform.
Our software is nearly video format independent accepting
WMV, MP4, MOV, FLV and even You Tube Video, which makes it easy for event webmasters
and video editors to publish video on the event web site.
Social Media
Any individual video on the platform suggests to share the
video over Facebook and Twitter, but is also fixed to be 'liked” and
re-distributed to other social media platform users. The video channel
application uses the Facebook Open Graph Protocol, aiming to maximize community interest and social
media platform distribution.
Facebook Fan Page
Video Publishing
A special feature that the roundtexel.com video channel uses
is Facebook whitelisting of publishing video over our high performance web
server.
As a result of software development by MedCapz, in
combination with global leading internet video publishing software provider
Longtailvideo, our software gives you
the opportunity to publish your event video with event (domain) website
directing links and branded looks on your event Facebook page, instead of
losing traffic to your web site.
Event web site
www.roundtexel.com
Reference for Online Video Channel
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