Millennials are watching video content, but in most cases it’s on-demand video, not live TV. This is one of the reasons why, when content aggregators build television channels for them, they don’t show up. A truism that eventually shuttered Pivot and explains why Vice’s average viewer is 40 years old and their ratings aren’t quite […]
For well over a year, customers of Akamai have been complaining about Akamai’s cache invalidation times, which has impacted manifest caching, real-time news feeds, and any time sensitive content. Historically, Akamai purges used to take at least 15 minutes and sometimes, in a couple of really terrible cases, I’ve heard of hours. Competitors like Fastly […]
I’ve gotten a few inquiries lately from content owners asking which CDNs still support Adobe’s proprietary Flash streaming format (RTMP). Over the past 12 months, many, but not all, of the major CDNs have announced to their customers that they will soon end support for Flash streaming. Industry wide, we have seen declining requirements for […]
With last week’s live NFL stream on Twitter, we were all once again reminded of the delay that exists when it comes to streaming over the Internet. And as more premium video goes online, and more second screen interactivity is involved, syncing of the video is going to become crucial. Two months ago I highlighted […]
I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about tips and best practices for putting together a good webcast and what pitfalls to look out for. While live webcasts about sports and entertainment events seem to get all the exposure, more live webcasts take place each day in the enterprise market than in any other […]
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 […]