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After a 12-year hiatus, Streaming?Media is bringing back the Streaming Media All-Stars for 2025 to pay tribute to?a select group of key technology innovators who?are driving and disrupting the streaming industry.
Can generative AI (gen AI) rip things apart and then try to glue it all back together with more insight, more intelligence, more efficiency, and more value? It really depends on what the application is. Within the video workflow, some tasks are good matches for using gen AI, and others aren't.
Old Hollywood got Wall Street's memo: "Do whatever it takes to do what Netflix is do?ing." And finally, the studios have begun making money from streaming. With the exception of NBCUniversal, the biggest leg?acy media companies all reported a profit from their direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses in Q3 2024. They got there by variously writing down or shedding ca?ble assets, slashing jobs, hiking...
The sports media sector continues to undergo rapid change, with streaming aggregators attempting to reconsolidate for greater ef?ficiency but still falling short of traditional broadcast models in reach and revenue.
Although software transcoding is accept?able for transcoding most VOD streams and even low-volume live programming, most high-volume live applications need hardware for efficient transcoding, both to save you money and to save the planet. This buyers' guide will cover: What hardware transcoders are, what you need to bring to the table to identify the best hardware transcoder, factors to consider...
HEVC rode the 4K/HDR wave to success, but AV1, VVC, and LCEVC lack an equivalent killer app. With CDNs racing to the bottom on pricing and new royalty pools threatening to increase costs, codec adoption is no longer just about technical merit?it's about survival. These are the issues I'll explore in this article.
This article focuses on AIO tablets for live production and streaming?devices so little that you really can put the smallest of them in your back pocket. The larger ones will travel well in a jacket pocket. The only thing they don't include is the cameras.
The 2024 edition of Streamticker, recapping the streaming industry's most momentous mergers and acquisitions of 2023, kicked off with Disney's gobbling up the last extant portions of Hulu, as Comcast ceded its re?maining 33% stake. But if the late-2023 deal marked only the quiet conclusion of an already-silent part?nership, the much noisier news of Jan. 6, 2025, found Disney absorbing sports-...
In this article, I'm going to look at a few of the un?derlying issues facing the industry when it comes to sustainability, starting with one of the biggest pow?er consumption challenges of our generation: the explosion in data center growth.
Conversation about monetization is so nuanced that after a decade of writing on this topic, I am still looking for meaning where there may be little to find. Essentially, what I've come to understand is that ad?vertising is like the stock market: Certain aspects of advertising deals are not transparent now and may never become fully transparent. What is clear, ac?cording to research from Statista...