Here is the Announcement USTREAM Sent Out Today!

You asked for them and we delivered. Now anyone can have a professional looking Ustream broadcast without having to use a third-party application. With our new Text Overlay feature, you can add scrolling text, lower third nametags, or any other text you can imagine. You can also hyperlink text, so users can click on them in the video player. With our new YouTube overlay feature, you can add any YouTube video directly to your broadcast. Once you’ve selected the YouTube video you want to overlay, you can cue them up and play them at any point during your show.

(Be sure to look out for Image, RSS, and Chat overlays in the next few weeks!)

Want to get viewer statistics for your shows? Well, now you can see metrics for all your Ustream broadcasts! Simply login then go into your “My Shows” page and click the “Metrics” tab. In addition to viewing your Metrics, you’ll be able to email and export them.

As part of a continued effort to keep an open dialogue about preparations being made in advance of the 2008 GOP Convention, we are launching a weekly online conversation with convention staff called “Lunchtime Chats.” Lunchtime Chats will offer informal, interactive, and LIVE question and answer sessions with convention organizers. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the convention progress as senior staff members answer your questions LIVE from their desk at the convention headquarters in Saint Paul, Minn.

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