Livepeer harnesses data centre infrastructure that sits outside traditional CDN and cloud companies to provide lower cost streaming to media companies who provide content as diverse as premium cricket, religious and educational content. Designed for providers targeting less than 100,000 concurrent live users, Livepeer says its network offers average savings of 75% vs traditional CDNs.…
The Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight on Netflix peaked at 65 million concurrent streams, including 38 million concurrent streams in the U.S., with Netflix declaring it the most-streamed sporting event ever. While it confirmed the SVOD provider as a force in live televised sport, it did also attract complaints about the user experience. This…
We can expect multiview to become a core feature in streaming, allowing viewers to watch multiple streams at the same time and watch the same event from different angles – both of which are especially appealing for live sports and live concerts. Multiview helps differentiate a service, could be offered as a premium feature, and…
The video processing, storage, playout and advertising vendor has been demonstrating the impact AI can have for TV content providers. The technology can be used to automate FAST channel scheduling. AI will automatically detect live sport highlights and create clips for a highlights timeline. It can also be used to clone commentator voices in multiple…
Imagine Communications is helping its broadcast sales house customers take another step towards unified Total TV campaign management thanks to the recent integration between its Landmark Sales ad-management platform and Google Ad Manager. The collaboration provides a single point of visibility across Google-executed digital inventory and broadcast linear, With Google Ad Manager delegated to execute…
Speaking at the Future of Media London in October, ISBA’s Director General, Phil Smith, addressed concerns that the Origin cross-media measurement solution could become the basis for a rival TV currency in the UK. He insisted Origin wants to partner with Barb and is only intended for use in campaign planning, reporting and evaluation. He…
Enders Analysis estimates that half of all the UK’s broadcaster viewing will still be via broadcast signals by 2040, assuming organic progression in the migration to streaming without governmental interventions. “Broadcast delivery will remain strong due to the live schedule,” the company said in October. The research and analysis firm observes that broadcasters are accelerating…
Croud’s Chief Strategy Officer Avinash Kaushik used The Future of Media London to advise CMOs on how to make themselves indispensable. It was a one-word strategy: incrementality. Focus on demonstrating the incremental business impact of marketing and if you do that, you can ask the CFO for more budget.
Creating subtitles (translated speech-to-text intended for overseas audiences without hearing impediments), closed-captions (accessible speech-to-text for people who are deaf or hard of hearing) or subtitles suitable for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, is getting easier for media owners thanks to AI. Interra Systems, one of the companies driving advances in captioning (the…
Ateme has been showing how Pay TV providers can reduce cost and carbon from unicast streaming with a solution that automatically increases compression on popular programming by taking CPU capacity away from channels that currently have small audiences – with the result that the lower-audience shows are compressed more lightly. Picture quality is not affected.…
Barb is hoping that the next iteration of its audience measurement system, Barb Panel Plus, will be operational by the start of 2027, having closed its invitation for proposal submissions (relating to data fusion methodology, data processing and delivery) at the end of August. The evolution, which builds on (and replaces) Dovetail Fusion by integrating…
Viaccess-Orca is field-testing an AI model that can scan the next two weeks of a programme guide, predict the CPU loads needed for the video processing across the shows, and provision sufficient cloud capacity to cope with peak workloads, then provide the operations team with a guide to what they can expect or automatically provision…
