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
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
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
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
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
Limelight Networks (LLNW), once the dominant #2 CDN right behind Akamai, has been on a path of revitalization. A new executive team is in place, and their value proposition has broadened, in order to reach the office of the Chief
