I know some bloggers are going to take offense to this post, but over the past few years, it’s my opinion that the business of blogging has really ruined the medium. It used to be that many bloggers were writing every day because they wanted to tell a story and had passion for what they […]
For all the talk of how many videos YouTube delivers each month and the number of hours of content that's uploaded to YouTube each minute, why is it no one seems to ever question Google on why their playback experience is so poor? Why does the media continue give Google a pass on this? This […]
It's been a few weeks since I've been able to blog due to the Streaming Media West show we had last month in San Jose. By all accounts, we had a great show with a record number of 2,768 registrants. FOX Business News spent an entire day broadcasting live from the show floor, we had […]
Eighteen months ago, the online video platform space was largely dominated by only a handful of providers in the industry. But today, with over two dozen companies now providing services to the market, the online video platform space is hotter than ever. We've seen Brightcove become profitable, Ooyala able to raise money in a bad […]
Yesterday, Limelight Networks made two related announcements; a new global content delivery platform, called the XD platform, and two new services based on that platform, called LimelightCONTROL XD and LimelightDELIVER XD. I’ve been getting a lot of questions from folks about these announcements, especially since one of the releases contained a quote from Overstock.com, a […]
This morning, KIT digital (KITD) officially announced they have acquired NYC based The FeedRoom in an all stock deal valued at around $9.8M. While that's only about 1.5x The FeedRoom's $6M in revenue, the deal will probably end up being closer to 2x revenue since The FeedRoom agreed to the deal some time ago, back […]
It's been a busy morning with a bunch of news on the wire from many different companies. Here's a quick run down and I'll have more detailed posts on Adobe, Limelight and KIT digital's announcements later in the week. Adobe Announces HTTP Delivery, Flash Player 10.1, Bit Encryption and More Limelight Networks Introduces XD, the […]