Vimmi Communications, a four year old Israeli startup is an up-and-coming CDN focused on providing end-to-end video solutions to Network Operators and MSO’s. The founding team, Eitan Koter and Amon Sherf bring vast experience to the company, having worked for
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
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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
On January 7, 2014, I predicted that Kaltura would raise a monster round within the next 60 days. Low and behold, they raise $47M thirty five days later. In total, Kaltura has raised $115M, and joins the elite group of
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
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
Brightcove, the leading online video platform (OVP), is on track to surpass a $100M in annual revenue in 2013, and record its first profit ever. Based on the share price as of 12/31/13, it’s market cap is $406M. They also
