How To Achieve Broadcast-Grade Latency For Live Video Streaming - Part 1 August 5^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

For a serious discussion about “making streaming broadcast-grade” we must address latency. Our benchmark is 5-seconds from encoder input to device, but we cannot compromise on quality. It’s not easy, and leaders in the field grapple with the trade-offs to ensure the best possible customer experience.

NRK’s LL35 Gaming Reality TV Experiment July 28^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

LL35 is a “If you build it, they will come” attempt to attract the young gaming community to live streaming and TV content.

How Open Caching Aims To Support Broadcast Grade Streaming - Part 2 July 22^nd 2022 - 09:00 AM

Open Caching is still relatively young. In fact, it is about 10 years younger than the first major introductions of D2C Broadcaster services like BBC iPlayer.

How Open Caching Aims To Support Broadcast Grade Streaming - Part 1 July 8^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Open Caching, a specification created by the Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), promises Content Providers a standardized CDN (Content Delivery Network) model that delivers a better end-customer QoE (Quality of Experience), and a possible way for ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to gain new operational efficiencies and earn new revenues from the…

Linear vs D2C: The Future Of Sports Media & Fan Engagement - Part 2 June 22^nd 2022 - 09:00 AM

Our sports media COO featured in this article continues to reflect on how the D2C business opportunity drives their decisions about where content is made available, how content is created and produced for different audiences, and how the “D2C Bundle” is critical to media businesses.

Linear vs D2C: The Future Of Sports Media & Fan Engagement - Part 1 June 8^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

This is a story about the COO of a media business, that shines a light on the thinking underway at the leading edge of the media industry, where the balance shift from Linear Broadcasting to D2C Streaming is firmly underway.

Broadcaster D2C Requirements For The 2020s - Part 2 May 24^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

The first part of this article explained the set of requirements that appear in the most modern OTT Services from broadcasters launching their own App-based services in the 2020s. Here we inspect those requirements in the two broad areas of Content Monetization and Content Delivery.

No Sign Of Innovation Slowing At NAB 2022 May 16^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Covid-19 may have changed the course of broadcasting but has not slowed its development, judging from NAB 2022, the first major industry show with a physical presence since before the pandemic.

Broadcaster D2C Requirements For The 2020s - Part 1 May 12^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Most national broadcasters in developed countries have app-based OTT services, many of which have been in place for over a decade. Less-developed national broadcasters still rely on YouTube, Social Media platforms, or their own websites to deliver OTT content to their audience.

Quantifying The CO2 Of A CDN May 5^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Consumer awareness about the impact of video streaming is increasing and broadcasters are more willing to choose environmentally friendly solutions. However, they also expect image quality to continue to rise. At the same time content streaming services are hitting a processing bottleneck to achieve high quality at the lowest possible…