If you are looking for details on the CDN industry, including marketing sizing, vendors, and trends, do_not_buy any report! I will provide the data to you free of charge. Reports on the market are stealing users’ money by listing “current vendors,” as Limelight, Lumen, StackPath, Verizon, and others that went under years ago, were acquired, […]
While the live stream of the Super Bowl broadcast receives a lot of media attention due to its high viewership, events that last longer and are delivered in multiple countries around the world have more complex streaming pipelines. Across 30 days, DAZN live-streamed 63 matches of the FIFA Club World Cup for free in 200 […]
It was only a matter of time before Netflix shared more details on its live streaming infrastructure. Today, in the first of a series of tech blog posts, Netflix provides a detailed examination of the architecture behind its live streaming events and the lessons learned during their development. As Netflix rightfully points out, a unique […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to review Bending Spoons’ product roadmap for its Brightcove platform, providing the company with feedback at the executive level. While I can’t share the company’s detailed document, Bending Spoons is allowing me to highlight some of their plans for Brightcove’s product line and where they are […]
Some want to suggest that the “success” of the F1 movie at the box office shows that Apple can and will make more movies of this scale for theatres. However, Apple’s interest in the F1 movie extends far beyond the content. Apple spent a year developing advanced camera technology to capture the sheer force of […]
For the final NCAA March Madness game available on Max Saturday March 29th, I did a quick test of the stream across nine platforms and looked at the quality of the stream, encoding bitrates, key moments feature and CDNs used. It was an excellent experience with fast startup times, no rebuffering and a great picture […]
Amazon’s exclusive NFL AFC Wild Card game is live on Prime, and the company tells me they are seeing record viewership. On Twitter, some viewers reported varied audio and video quality issues, which is expected for an event with a large viewership and a larger number of older devices. Amazon says they do not see […]