Comparing Five Blockchain Startups And Their Potential Role In OTT

More than half a dozen blockchain-based video startups are promising to disrupt the OTT video market with even more decentralized peer-to-peer distribution. Some startups have pushed the limits, by replacing the entire video delivery chain — from rights management, to production, distribution, and monetization — and created their own ecosystem.

At the Streaming Summit, taking place as part of the NAB Show New York on Oct. 17-18th, Luke Carriere, CMO at Witbe, will present a practical assessment of the five most advanced blockchain video projects out in the market today. Learn what they are, what they enable and what role, if any, blockchain can play in the future of the OTT market.

With 100 other speakers and 40 presentations and discussions, it’s going to be a great two days covering the entire streaming media technical and monetization workflow. Use my personal discount code of dan18 and get a pass for only $595. #streamingsummit

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Hear About Future Scenarios For OTT Services In A Converging Media Market, at #streamingsummit

The markets for TV and OTT services are evolving rapidly, with most industry participants anticipating a dramatically different U.S. media market in the next few years. As penetration of some services matures and new services gain traction, how will the U.S. market for OTT and TV services evolve? At the Streaming Summit, taking place as part of the NAB Show New York on Oct. 17-18th, hear how the TV landscape is being heavily disrupted, as cord-cutting and shaving become majority behaviors, and what it means for a more fragmented and competitive market.

With 100 other speakers and 40 presentations and discussions, it’s going to be a great two days covering the entire streaming media technical and monetization workflow. Use my personal discount code of dan18 and get a pass for only $595. #streamingsummit

Come Hear About AV1 Benchmarks, 6 Months Post-Launch, at Streaming Summit

While HEVC and VP9 offer the best compatibility across devices and platforms, the newest AV1 standard promises a much higher compression efficiency and thereby also a better user experience. At the Streaming Summit, taking place as part of the NAB Show New York on Oct. 17-18th, Stefan Lederer and Richard Fliam from Bitmovin, will showcase the latest performance benchmarks and key encoding techniques that make AV1 an interesting choice for the future of your video delivery.

With 100 other speakers and 40 presentations and discussions, it’s going to be a great two days covering the entire streaming media technical and monetization workflow. Use my personal discount code of dan18 and get a pass for only $595. #streamingsummit

Learn About Powering Dynamic, Interactive Applications At The EdgeNext Summit

Delivering engaging, highly interactive end-user experiences is a complex problem. Developers and operations engineers understand that they need to augment their static object caching strategies with solutions to deliver dynamic content faster to end points. But as applications become progressively more dynamic, existing solutions are hitting a wall and are unable to keep up with the transport demands that dynamic content imposes. At the EdgeNext Summit, taking place Monday October 15th in NYC, Haseeb Budhani, CEO of Rafay Systems will discuss a unique solution for dynamic content delivery that leverages the infrastructure edge.

Held in association with NAB Show New York, the one-day EdgeNext Summit will focus on content distribution at the edge and all that is taking place with CDN, WAF, DDoS, DNS & more. With a focused lineup of companies showcasing all the new decentralized ways services are being brought closer to the eyeballs, you’ll hear how the Edge is improving the end-user experience. From the last mile to the last inches. What’s next at the Edge?

Use my personal discount code of edge18 and get a pass for only $495. #edgenext

Eric Black, SVP & CTO, NBC Sports Group Digital to Keynote Streaming Summit, On Live Sports Streaming

Playmaker Media, NBC Sports Digital’s technology service providing end-to-end support for live streaming and VOD solutions, delivered 4.37 billion live streaming minutes for the three biggest events of 2018: Super Bowl LII, the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

At the Streaming Summit, taking place as part of the NAB Show New York on Oct. 17-18th, Eric Black, SVP & CTO at NBC Sports Group Digital, Playmaker Media, will join me for a keynote fireside chat to discuss all aspects of live streaming from signal acquisition to end user delivery and discuss the growth and future trends of live sporting events on the Internet.

Eric joins other execs I will be interviewing from Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, Facebook, PlayStation Vue, Google, Comcast, Hulu, Cheddar and Fubo TV. Combined with 100 other speakers and 40 presentations and discussions, it’s going to be a great two days covering the entire streaming media technical and monetization workflow. Use my personal discount code of dan18 and get a pass for only $595. #streamingsummit

Learn How To Optimize Streaming Performance and Video Workflows With SRT

At the Streaming Summit, taking place as part of the NAB Show New York on Oct. 17-18th, Ghislain Collette, VP, Product Management at Haivision, will showcase the SRT protocol and its open source software stack explaining the important elements of the video streaming protocol and how it accounts for latency, packet loss recovery, jitter, security, firewall traversal and bandwidth optimization. Ghislain will also provide data on real-world network behavior and present several examples of the protocol’s performance in current live video workflows.

With 100 other speakers and 40 presentations and discussions, it’s going to be a great two days covering the entire streaming media technical and monetization workflow. Use my personal discount code of dan18 and get a pass for only $595. #streamingsummit

Learn The Best Practices For Managing AVOD With Multiple Ad Partners, at Streaming Summit

At the Streaming Summit, taking place as part of the NAB Show New York on Oct. 17-18th, Jeremy Titus, Director of Engineering at Crunchyroll, will detail how with over one million subscribers, they handle the technical and business challenges in supporting AVOD and SVOD at the same time. Learn how they found the sweet spot for ad revenue over subscription revenue and how they use client-side development tricks to increase revenue from the low single digit MM to over 20 MM annually, without increasing ad load or violating contracts or standards.

With 100 other speakers and 40 presentations and discussions, it’s going to be a great two days covering the entire streaming media technical and monetization workflow. Use my personal discount code of dan18 and get a pass for only $595. #streamingsummit