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Video Monitoring Dashboards with near real-time Edge Logs and CMCD KPIs

Earth Definition – The new standard in streaming

When it comes to edge computing, it's all relative

Process Nerd: The broadcasting-overhaul battle proves the system works - iPolitics

This Map Shows The Most Popular Streaming Service in Every State. It’s Super Surprising

Video: CMAF Live Media Ingest Protocol Masterclass – The Broadcast Knowledge

Making 5G broadcast ready for prime time

Verizon Media acquired by Apollo Funds

Q&A: Zoom CTO Brendan Ittelson

Windows 10 update will add AAC support over Bluetooth

Breaking Analysis: Moore's Law is Not Dead & AI is Ready to Explode - Wikibon Research

Facebook details self-supervised AI that can segment images and videos

Monitoring DNS Performance The Right Way With Catchpoint

Disney+ chooses AWS for global expansion

YouTube Ad Revenue Soars 49% in Q1 to $6 Billion, Alphabet Blows Past Wall Street Forecasts

What Roku and Google are fighting about: Video codecs, voice search and millions of eyeballs

Video: Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Packet Timestamping in Linux – The Broadcast Knowledge

ttconv Simplifies Subtitling and Captioning

The State of Live Streaming in 2021

Reimagining video infrastructure to empower YouTube

David Maclarty and Tamar Shoham - SMAF - May 6th 2021 | smadvancedforum

Content Delivery and Edge Compute Trends 2021

First live test of Full Duplex DOCSIS system-on-chip (SOC) device

Taking Streaming Video to the Next Level: Upgrading to ATSC 3.0 and Streaming Video | Light Reading

JW Player delivers HTML5 video player

Clubhouse’s rise sets off a scramble by rivals to copy it. Here’s who’s trying

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Bitmovin Banks $25 Million in Funding to Expand Video-Streaming Tool Set

Video infrastructure provider Bitmovin has raised $25 million in Series C financing, led by Swisscom Ventures, the venture arm of the Switzerland telco. Others participating in the funding round were Climb Ventures and existing investors Atomico, Highland Europe and Constantia New Business. The announcement brings Bitmovin’s total funding to $68 million to date. Customers of San Francisco-based Bitmovin include Discovery Plus, WarnerMedia, BBC, RTL, FuboTV, DAZN, RedBull Media House,...

UK government intervenes in Nvidia takeover of chip designer Arm

Then when SoftBank sold Arm on to the American chip giant Nvidia last year, there were even louder complaints from the likes of Hermann Hauser who had been instrumental in the founding of the company more than 30 years ago. But it seemed there was even less likelihood of an intervention - what business of the Competition and Markets Authority was a deal between a Japanese and an American company?

Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse — and podcasts — with a suite of new audio products

Facebook wants you to start talking, and listening, on Facebook. Sources say the social network is planning to announce a series of products — some of which won’t appear for some time — under the umbrella of “social audio” on Monday. They include Facebook’s take on Clubhouse, the audio-only social network that grew rapidly last year, as well a push into podcast discovery and distribution, aided by Spotify. Facebook’s audio plans include: An audio-only version of Rooms, a videoconfere...

Report: Satellite backhaul worth $25bn annually by 2030

\n \n Report: Satellite backhaul worth $25bn annually by 2030 NSR’s Wireless Backhaul via Satellite, 15th Edition report, forecasts $25 billion (€21bn) in annual revenue in 2030 for satellite backhaul, propelled by explosive connectivity demand worldwide and post-Covid-19 recovery in the near term. As it is a core target of virtually every current and new satellite capacity provider, NSR expects Satellite Backhaul to represent one of the largest revenue opportunities for satcom over ...

My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week of Virtual Presenting - Streaming Learning Center

So, here I am, just about to launch a course on webinars and live video production, and I experience the worst two virtual presentations ever. In this blog, I’ll share the gory details and let you know how you (perhaps) can avoid the same fate. All that said, this is more a writer’s self-therapy for me than learning for you, though perhaps you’ll get a chuckle or two. Insist on a Practice Session and Presenter’s Login The first presentation was a webinar I was presenting on the Zoom ...

The Atom AR2 security cam uses a light bulb socket for power

Debuting at Computex in Taiwan, the Amaryllo Atom AR2 is a 360-degree home security camera that cleverly uses a home's light socket as a power source, saving you the need to mount it on the wall. The Atom AR2 comes with auto-tracking and heat sensors (so you can't approach it from behind), and now comes with LED lights so the socket doesn't get wasted, an issue with the older Atom model. It features a paid cloud storage service for videos, or users can store videos on a microSD card ...

If you’re not living on the edge you’re probably not a major international telco

Nascent Multi-access Edge Computing industry body the 5G Future Forum is recruiting at a time when most telcos are already affiliated to a MEC grouping of some sort. Interested parties have the best part of three weeks to apply for membership of the 5G Future Forum, or 5GFF, according to an announcement from the half dozen founder members. The implication is that anyone can apply, but the group said it is specifically targeting mobile network operators. With MEC emerging as such a cr...

Are the Major Streaming Services Finally Running Out of New Shows?

The 2020 German horror/sci-fi film 'What Lies Below' ranks as the No. 1 show on Netflix Tuesday. Consumption levels of streaming video entertainment have boomed amid the pandemic, while production studios have been slowed—and for a time, halted altogether. Pearl-clutching began almost a year ago suggesting that the major streaming services would run dry on new shows. Based on a fair amount of anecdotal evidence, we might have arrived at that point. According to Kasey Moore, founder a...

Kaltura postpones IPO

Cloud video management company Kaltura has postponed its Initial Public Offering (IPO), initially planned for Thursday. Kaltura was to have listed on NASDAQ, but delayed its market entry due to a lower than expected demand. It was looking to raise around $275 million through shares priced in the of $14-16. It’s reported Kaltura was expecting towards the higher end of the price bracket. The market is watching for signs of what might happen with other tech companies including Vimeo, Bu...

We Shouldn’t Have to Wait Until 2027 to Benefit From AV1 - Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com

For companies that supported the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) over the past few years, a lot is at stake to be able to deploy AV1 as soon as possible. There are signs that things are starting to move and the biggest ones are probably the upcoming WebRTC support, AV1 support in Chrome, and Android 10 support. Notably these are all Google projects. That is great, but while marketing is giving visibility to what has obviously been a breakthrough project, broadcasters and operators alik...

Presentations — Benedict Evans

Every year, I produce a big presentation digging into macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. This year, ‘The Great Unbundling’. Covid brought shock and a lot of broken habits to tech, but mostly, it accelerates everything that was already changing. 20 trillion dollars of retail, brands, TV and advertising is being overturned, and software is remaking everything from cars to pharma. Meanwhile, China has more smartphone users than Europe and the USA combined, and India is clo...

Netflix Targets Net-Zero Carbon Footprint by End of 2022

Netflix says it has a plan to hit net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2022, with a big part of the streaming giant’s efforts aimed at operating more eco-friendly film and TV productions. The “Net Zero + Nature” plan was outlined Tuesday in a blog post by Emma Stewart, PhD, who joined Netflix as its first sustainability officer last fall. At Netflix, “we aspire to entertain the world,” she wrote. “But that requires a habitable world to entertain.” In 2020, Netflix estimate...

In Broadcast - March 2021

Video: CDNs: Delivering a Seamless and Engaging Viewing Experience – The Broadcast Knowledge

Eric Klein\n Director, Media Distribution, CDN Technology,\n Disney+ Jorge Hernandez\n Head of CDN Development and Deployment,\n Telefonica/Movistar Adriaan Bloem\n Head of Infrastructure,\n Shahid Gonzalo de la Vega\n VP Strategic Projects,\n Fastly Robert Ambrose\n Co-Founder and Research Director,\n Caretta Research This video brings together broadcasters, telcos and CDNs to talk about the challenges of delivering a perfect streaming experience to large audiences. Eric Klein from ...

Change for the Better?

We all agree this has been a year of vast and dramatic change. I applaud the clean air, time spent outdoors and the creativity businesses (especially the small, local ones) have employed to stay afloat. Often, it is only when our backs are against the wall that we try new ways of staying connected or driving revenue. While big business debated the merits of working from home, any business with a digital strategy rose to new heights. Seriously, just look at Zoom. Their subscriber base...

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Collaboration technology has been invaluable during the pandemic

A new report from Zoom reveals which industries, countries and U.S. states were able to pivot and use communications technologies for business continuity and growth during economic turmoil. Image: iStock/AndreyPopov The pandemic forced the enterprise to quickly pivot from familiar business practices and develop ways to successfully function while keeping employees safe. A new report from Zoom, The Impact of Video Communications During COVID-19, was released Thursday. More about Mobil...

id3as: Streaming Tech Designed for When Things Go Wrong

Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. id3as: Streaming Tech Designed for When Things Go Wrong id3as directors Steve Strong and Adrian Roe have been in business together for 30 years. Roe began his career in retail and moved into fintech. He admits that they knew nothing about the media space until a decade ago when they joined forces with video tech specialist (and Streaming Media contributing editor) Dom Robinson. "What became obvious when we looked at med...

Report: Pandemic drives broadcasters’ IP adoption

\n \n Report: Pandemic drives broadcasters’ IP adoption Seventy-one per cent of broadcast and video streaming professionals say that Covid-19 has accelerated the IP adoption process within their organisation, according to the findings of the second annual Broadcast IP Transformation Report from real-time video streaming and networking solutions provider Haivision. Haivision surveyed its broadcast customers and prospects to gain clearer insights into what challenges they face, the tec...

Parks Associates: Average Household Monthly Expenditure on OTT Services

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Why Microsoft wants Discord

Microsoft is reportedly having discussions with Discord to buy the communications app. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is in “exclusive talks” to acquire Discord, and a deal could close next month. It’s the latest acquisition target for Microsoft, after the company failed to acquire TikTok and Pinterest recently. While all three are very different services, they share one common element: community. Microsoft is willing to spend big on these services because, outside of...

How to Licence Music for Streaming

" " Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. How to Licence Music for Streaming If you want to stream audio or audio and video online, and want to include someone else's music in that stream, you need to understand what licensing might be involved. This article will start with an explanation of licensing, then outline a clear picture of what licensing is required for some live and on-demand streaming scenarios. This will read a little formally to strive for ac...

The Coming Blockchain Revolution in Consumption of Digital Art and Music: The Thinking Lawyer's Guide to Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTS) - The National Law Forum

First there were CryptoKitties. Then came digital art, CryptoPunks and NBA Top Shot. But when Beeple’s digital art piece “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” sold at Christie’s for US$69 million, the NFT mania truly began. And as with any wave of media mania, there also came the groundswell of negative media and hand-wringing about NFTs. We believe it is time to address the pros and cons of NFTs from a thoughtful, legal perspective. NFTs are not all evil nor are they a panacea for artist...

Wilfried Dudink and Nadine Samra - SMAF - Apr 1st 2020 | smadvancedforum

Thu, Apr 01 www.smadvancedforum.com Wilf has come from carrier, through CDN and into multi-CDN, and Nadine has exceptional insights into Middle East and African streaming markets.