Last May, Comcast launched their commercial CDN offering and since that time has signed up some pretty large content owners, while also expanding their product line. Their latest addition is a new live linear streaming service, announced at IBC 2015. The new platform provides customers the ability to easily turn-up, manage and enable ad or […]
Every day we’re bombarded with data that says how many times a video has been played or what’s most popular, but one of the things we don’t see much data on is engagement. Simply tracking how many times a video is watched is not the same as measuring what the engagement experience was with the […]
On a recent StreamingMedia.com webinar about live streaming, David Kirk at Epiphan gave out some really good information during his presentation on No Fail Live Video Best Practices. I asked him to summarize his best tips and to answer some of the most popular questions we received. Whether you’re tasked with getting your CEO’s message […]
[My list of the 2016 Black Friday TV specials will be coming soon. I will also be available by phone this year to answer any questions – free of charge.] 2015 Best Smart TV Deals and How To Pick The Right One Looking at all the TV options can be confusing. If you have questions […]
It looks like patent licensing administrator HEVC Advance has finally realized that the fees they are charging content owners to license patents from their pool are too high. In a press release announcing that integrated circuit designer MediaTek has agreed to join HEVC Advance, they also mention that they have, “received significant market feedback, particularly on […]
Cedexis, long known for its multi-CDN/multi-cloud solutions for general purpose HTTP and HTTPS traffic, has announced a product called “Cedexis Buffer Killer“, that is specifically aimed at the online video space. The Cedexis video solution allows content owners that use multiple CDNs to shift traffic, in real-time, based on QoS metrics. Cedexis new offering will […]
As expected, today’s vote on the FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules passed with a 3-2 margin. While this is a big step in a process that has been going on for thirteen years now, we’re still a long way off from this debate being over. Since a draft of the proposal wasn’t shared with the […]