Akamai’s Media Delivery Solutions division and Brightcove have disappointed The Street with their recent earnings report, and as a result their stock has dropped. Fortunately for Akamai, they have security to make up the shortfall. However, Brightcove has none. The
Timing is everything in life, especially in technology. On September 16th, Brightcove won the prestigious 2014 Frost & Sullivan award for Global Market Leadership for Online Video Platform. Three days later, Brightcove experienced a massive outage, and their platform was
It’s time to circle back and discuss Brightcove. I’ve written a few posts on Brightcove, and the OVP market. In April 2014, a NY graduate student working on a school project regarding Brightcove, asked me for my input on why
On January 1, 2014, I made my case why Brightcove should build its own CDN. Then on January 7, 2014, I recommended that Kaltura build a CDN. Low and behold, six months later, Kaltura builds a CDN. Recently, Kaltura formed
Summarizing the previous post, the OVP market in which Brightcove operates within is extremely competitive and small. In addition, the OVP market is fragmenting into smaller, more specialized platforms that offer a set of services catering to the needs of
Recently, a graduate student was tasked to write a research paper on a struggling company for his new project, and the company given to him was Brightcove. He reached out to bizety.com for feedback, in order to understand why Brightcove
Brightcove, the leading online video platform (OVP) has 30% market share, according to a 2012 Frost and Sullivan report. The OVP market has three dominant pure-play OVPs: Brightcove, Ooyala and Kaltura, which I refer to as the Big Three. ThePlatform
Today, the likelihood of IBM acquiring Akamai has increased from 10% to 30%, in my opinion. IBM has been an incredibly busy-bee the last two months, thanks to Bezos & Company. In February 2013, IBM lost a $600M CIA Contract
I didn’t see this one coming, but is IBM about to make a play for Brightcove? First, let’s back up to early January. Brightcove stock is hovering around $14 per share, from November 2013 to January 6, 2014. Then, on
ThePlatform was acquired by Comcast, Ooyala raised a monster $43M round bringing its total to $122M, and Brightcove is buying Unicorn Media. That leaves Kaltura, as the last man standing. Something’s gotta give, the OVP market is small. Kaltura can’t
Wow, this news blows me away. When I posted about Brightcove needing to buy companies, to reach the milestone of $1B in annual revenue, I didn’t mean to spend $49M on an ad insertion company. This deal is so bad,
In my earlier post dated January 1, 2014, I noted that Brightcove needed to acquire companies, in order to reach the milestone of $1B in annual revenue. Low and behold, they acquired Unicorn Media five days later. I think I
According to some industry pundits, OVP’s such as Brightcove, are huge resellers of CDN bandwidth. In some cases, more than 60% of the total OVP cost, is for bandwidth and storage. The CDN piece probably makes up half of the
The CDN industry offers a few options for selling CDN services. The inexpensive way to go is to become a white label reseller. The costliest route is to build a CDN from scratch. The best solution depends on the type
Brightcove, the leading OVP, has reached $100M in sales in 2013. Their economy of scale, impacting overall cost reduction, is improving. As the volume of digital media delivery increases (measured in Gbps), CDN costs drop. Brightcove has partnered with Akamai
