Over the last couple of months, Google and Microsoft have each officially launched new game streaming services. Each is still under development; however, tech advances within each project could ultimately impact regular video streaming as well as potentially changing the
VDMS (Verizon Digital Media Services) made two major announcements this week: another addition to its growing feature set with Real-Time Log Delivery (RTLD), and the news that Argentina’s largest media conglomerate, Grupo Clarín, is now using its CDN services, expanding
Today we’re going to take a deep dive into the work of StriveCDN, a cool startup in the OTT space focused on improving video streaming. The company is headquartered out of Hilden, Düsseldorf, and has a global vision to “provide
Bitmovin, a startup that provides an adaptive streaming HTML5 player that transcodes digital video and audio to various formats has recently introduced per-title encoding, a ground breaking technology. Founded in 2013 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Bitmovin actively participates
Since its founding in 2011 as a Content Delivery Network (CDN), Fastly has scaled rapidly into an edge cloud platform that serves more than 10% of all Internet requests (up to 400 billion a day), powering the systems behind Spotify
Today, Dolby Laboratories and Verizon Digital Media Services announced Verizon is integrating encoding and playback of Dolby Audio into its digital media platform. The feature will be available as an add-on for the Uplynk Video Streaming service so that users
The free video-hosting platform Vimeo, has adopted Multi-Regional Google Cloud Storage, one of the new storage classes that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recently unveiled during its major refresh of Google Cloud Storage platform. Crucially, GCP has been integrated with Fastly’s
Digital communication on cruise ships is not the first scenario that comes to mind when it comes to content streaming, but it’s crucial for crew members to transmit safety videos, weather updates, and emergency broadcasts to passengers, not to mention,
Wowza and NewTek are releasing an all-in-one streaming appliance that simplifies workflows and enables production and seamless distribution of high-quality live video to various global markets, dubbed the Media Distribution System (MDS). The MDS is an out-of-the-box solution that integrates
AT&T has announced its plans to launch an affordable online video streaming service called DirecTV Now, which it will unveil later this year. What sets it apart, according to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is its “very, very aggressive price points,”
NGINX Plus is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) via AWS Cloud Quickstart, and can be accessed on the AWS Community Quick Starts landing page and the AWS Quickstart Github repository.
Vimmi, a next generation provider of distributed video delivery network platforms, has announced that it is integrating V-Nova PERSEUS video compression technology into its online video platform (OVP). V-Nova Ltd., which has partnered with Vimmi, is a global software IP
Greta Rolls Out Hybrid CDN and Peer-to-Peer Delivery Service Greta, a Swedish hybrid CDN, also has ambitious plans for the content distribution industry. The startup is hot on the heels of its $1.1 million seed funding round led by BlueYard
The video streaming industry is rich and diverse, with companies from different verticals introducing dozens of business models. Some business models are born out of necessity to stay relevant in a highly competitive space. Others are highly commoditized, whether its
Today, video content makes up 64% of internet traffic – in three years, it should make up over 80% (Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2014–2019). So why are so many CDNs treating this vital traffic as only a
