Over the past few weeks I have been hearing rumors that ESPN360.com was working on migrating their video over to the Move Networks broadcast platform. In this case, the rumors were true and on Tuesday afternoon, ESPN360.com migrated all of the broadcast production services formerly being provided by The FeedRoom in NYC over to Move's […]
With the announcement last week that Internap's new CEO comes from Tandberg Television, Internap will shortly have the best chance they have had in awhile at getting their CDN business back on track. But in order for this to happen, the new CEO needs to make some drastic changes, and quick. Last Thursday, Internap announced […]
A few minutes ago, the RSS feed from Limelight's blog showed a new entry with more details on Limelight's network capacity during the Obama inauguration webcast. While both Akamai and Limelight put out stats after the event was over, they each used different metrics in their releases making for an apples to oranges comparison. Akamai […]
I've now watched over a dozen live feeds of the inauguration from most of the major news portals and hands down, CBS has the best quality and most reliable stream. Others like MSNBC, C-SPAN and Hulu are some of the worst and at least a couple sites has videos that would not even load. He's […]
The FeedRoom announced this week that it will acquire privately held ClearStory systems with the intent of integrating ClearStory's digital asset management (DAM) solution into The FeedRoom's enterprise video platform. This is the latest in a string of recent acquisitions in the industry (Entriq/Dayport, Accenture/Origin Digital) with the intent of giving content owners more control […]
When the NFL announced it would be streaming seventeen games this year on NFL.com and NBCSports.com, dubbed "Sunday Night Football Extra", many were excited to see what kind of video offering the NFL had in store for their fans. With the NFL having now completed nearly half of their broadcasts, the user experience has been […]
I’ve expressed interest in the past about launching a new conference focusing on the content delivery market as it pertains to video. The conference would talk to all of the workflow pieces in the CDN ecosystem and the focus of the show would be on producing really strong conference sessions, with a limited exhibition component. […]