For the second year in a row, ABC wasn’t able to pull off a successful Oscars webcast without some major technical problems. The backstage stream I was watching on the PC got messed up and cut over to the World News Tonight program just before the start of the awards ceremony. Later, while watching the […]
I’ve just finished laying out the advance program for the Streaming Media East show, taking place May 12-13 in NYC. We’ve got a lot of new session topics and presentations this year and now that all of the topics have been chosen, myself and the moderators will start placing speakers. If you are interested in […]
There are a lot of product verticals within the streaming media industry, and one of the lesser known ones includes a small handful of vendors that are typically referred to as offering stream optimization technology. While many of them have very different solutions, the goal of all of them is the same. To reduce the […]
The CDN market has both steadily grown and evolved over the past twenty years, but the core CDN function continues to be to deploy a network of distributed caches in order to “move the content closer to the user.” As content has also evolved to become much richer and personalized, advanced techniques such as front-end […]
It’s that time of the year again, where myself and the digital media team at Frost & Sullivan capture key video technology trends in the media and entertainment world. The industry has come a long way in the last three years, with the alphabet soup of walled garden formats giving way to the relative uniformity […]
The Phoenix Business Journal is reporting that on Friday, private equity company Tuition Build Inc. submitted a $645M bid to acquire CDN provider Limelight Networks in an effort to take the company private. With Limelight’s stock closing at $2.83 a share on Friday, Tuition Build’s offer values each share of Limelight at just over $6.50, […]
While some want to suggest that TV personality John Oliver brought a lot of exposure to the topic of net neutrality by doing a segment about it on his show last Sunday, in reality, all he did was make the industry take two steps back. In addition to getting many of the details on net […]