Brainshark Now Enables Users to Share Presentations as YouTube Videos

WALTHAM, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Brainshark, Inc., the leader in on-demand multimedia for business, today announced “Brainshark for YouTube” – a new capability enabling users to easily share their Brainshark presentations as YouTube videos for free. This functionality is available to Brainshark’s enterprise customers, as well as users of the free myBrainshark.com site. Brainshark for YouTube allows users – with only a PowerPoint deck and phone in hand – to immediately create high-impact business content that’s ready to post on YouTube.

“By turning their professional-grade Brainshark presentations into YouTube videos, users can engage in high-impact online video marketing – at little-to-no cost and with no advanced skills required.”

“We’re pleased to provide another avenue for users to virally share their Brainshark content – reaching YouTube’s audience of millions at the click of a button,” said Brainshark CEO Joe Gustafson. “By turning their professional-grade Brainshark presentations into YouTube videos, users can engage in high-impact online video marketing – at little-to-no cost and with no advanced skills required.”

Brainshark lets users create multimedia presentations that can be viewed online, anytime and from anywhere – including mobile devices such as smartphones and iPads. Brainshark presentations combine PowerPoint slides, documents, photos, voice narration (recorded via phone or computer microphone), background audio and more. Pre-existing video clips can be incorporated as well, with support for more than 100 video file types. Now, with Brainshark for YouTube, Brainshark and myBrainshark users can seamlessly upload their presentations as videos to YouTube, with all metadata – such as the presentation title, description and tags – preserved.

For Brainshark’s enterprise customers, Brainshark for YouTube is included at no additional cost as part of the core Brainshark platform. Free users of myBrainshark.com – along with myBrainshark Pro and Pro Trainer subscribers – can use this capability at no cost as well. In order to publish a Brainshark presentation on YouTube, users must first have a YouTube account.

To view sample Brainshark presentations on YouTube, please see “A Quick Tour of myBrainshark” (http://www.youtube.com/user/brainshark#p/u/2/L2n6Y5lKCo8) and “The Brainshark Story” (http://www.youtube.com/user/brainshark#p/a/u/1/dHp9x9TkCQs).

About Brainshark, Inc.

Brainshark is the leader in on-demand multimedia for business, transforming static business content into high-impact communications. Delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Brainshark enables audiences to access and engage with business content when and how they want, including from mobile devices. More than 1,300 companies – including a third of the Fortune 100 – rely on Brainshark software and services to help sales, marketing, training, and HR experts cost-effectively deliver measurable results. In addition, organizations and individuals use the myBrainshark site to create, share and track multimedia presentations for free. For more information on these offerings, visit www.brainshark.com.