When it comes to CDNs talking about the performance of their network, Akamai wins the award for using the most vague, generic and high-level terms, providing little to no definition of what they actually mean. On Akamai’s Q1 earnings call, the company used the term “quality” eleven times to describe their ability to deliver video […]
Beamr, the company that claims to reduce video file sizes by up to 50%, has announced the acquisition of Vanguard Video, the venerable encoding technology and solutions company. Beamr is not commenting on the deal size, only stating that they raised another funding round of $15M led by Disruptive Growth, with participation from their existing […]
Last May, Comcast launched their commercial CDN offering and since that time has signed up some pretty large content owners, while also expanding their product line. Their latest addition is a new live linear streaming service, announced at IBC 2015. The new platform provides customers the ability to easily turn-up, manage and enable ad or […]
Every day we’re bombarded with data that says how many times a video has been played or what’s most popular, but one of the things we don’t see much data on is engagement. Simply tracking how many times a video is watched is not the same as measuring what the engagement experience was with the […]
On a recent StreamingMedia.com webinar about live streaming, David Kirk at Epiphan gave out some really good information during his presentation on No Fail Live Video Best Practices. I asked him to summarize his best tips and to answer some of the most popular questions we received. Whether you’re tasked with getting your CEO’s message […]
[My list of the 2016 Black Friday TV specials will be coming soon. I will also be available by phone this year to answer any questions – free of charge.] 2015 Best Smart TV Deals and How To Pick The Right One Looking at all the TV options can be confusing. If you have questions […]
It looks like patent licensing administrator HEVC Advance has finally realized that the fees they are charging content owners to license patents from their pool are too high. In a press release announcing that integrated circuit designer MediaTek has agreed to join HEVC Advance, they also mention that they have, “received significant market feedback, particularly on […]