I’ve recently completed my bi-annual survey of customers taking media delivery services from third-party CDNs and the data shows pricing on very large deals is now down to an all-time low of $0.001 per GB delivered. That’s one tenth of one penny and is the lowest pricing I have ever seen in the market. [If you are interested […]
Over the last few years, most large broadcasters and OTT services have deployed multi-CDN solutions to improve the end-user experience for video. I’ve covered many instances where a multi-CDN strategy was a key component in the overall OTT workflow, as in the case of the Super Bowl, where CBS used four CDNs in a multi-CDN […]
At the Streaming Summit, taking place April 8-9, at the NAB Show, Zac Shenker, Director of Engineer, Video Delivery, Optimization & Experience at CBS Interactive will detail all the components of the end-to-end video streaming workflow, used to stream Super Bowl 53 across both the CBS Sports & CBS All Access platforms. Entitled “Engineering A […]
A thread was started on LinkedIn with some suggesting that CBS should have enabled low-latency streaming for the Super Bowl and that the stream should not have had a 20-40 second delay. There are so many wrong assumptions being made by people in the industry around low-latency streaming, from both a business and technical level. […]
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. […]
Data driven overlay graphics are ubiquitous in live television. The elements that are known in the broadcast world as lower thirds, over-the-shoulders, tickers and bugs have been sharing screen space with live video on sports and news broadcasts for well over 20 years. While some content creators and publishers have managed to integrate a few of these graphical overlays into their streaming-only productions, the […]
The live stream of Super Bowl 52 is looking great so far, across all the devices and platforms I’ve tried. I’ve tested the stream on Amazon Fire TV (NBC Sports App, SlingTV), MacBook (Firefox, Chrome, Safari), iPad Mini (NBC Sports App), Xbox One (NBC Sports App, Sling TV), Apple TV 3/4, (NBC Sports App) and […]