Project factsheet
VG Streaming ― Streaming Video Service for VG Nett
- Period
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2002 - 2004
(finished)
- Web site
- N/A
- NR contact
- Wolfgang Leister
- Funding
- Norwegian SkatteFunn
- Norwegian partners
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- Project description
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The project aimed to make VG Nett the leading video streaming Internet site in Norway.
- NR's contribution
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NR worked with VG journalists and ICT-people to set up the technologies and to make appropriate workflows and routines for journalists.
- Benefit for customers
- VG Nett is the leading internet site in Norway with a highest score of more than 3 million hits in a week. Their ambition is to remain the leading internet provider in Norway. Being early with streaming videos, both canned and live, was part of their strategy to be so.
- Benefit for society
- The project helped VG in achieving its goals in video streaming. That Norway's largest newspaper and leading internet site started streaming made the public aware of and gave trust to streamed video on the net.
- Project results
- Infrastructure and internal routines for VG.
