The 2024 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards Finalists

We've counted all the votes in the 2024 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards, and today we're announcing the finalists—the top three vote-getters in each of our 17 categories. The Readers' Choice Awards program recognizes our readers' selections for the industry's top products from companies based outside of Europe. Check out the 2024 Streaming Media Innovation Awards to see who readers of Streaming Media Global chose as the top products from European tech companies.

This year’s awards brought in more than 100 nominees, which were then voted on by StreamingMedia.com readers. More than 1,200 readers cast more than 9,000 votes in 17 categories. After discarding votes from obviously phony email addresses, as well as votes by employees casting ballots for their own companies' products, we identified the top three vote-getters in each category. Many of the names are familiar, even expected, but you'll find more than a few surprises in the list that follows. And if you're surprised that a company isn't represented, well, all we can say is that it either wasn't nominated or didn't get enough votes.

We'll announce the winners in the November/December issue of Streaming Media magazine.

If you'd like to see what companies took home the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Award in 2023, look to our list of winners.

Congratulations to our finalists, listed in alphabetical order in each category below.

Analytics/Quality of Experience (QoE) Platform

Bitmovin - Analytics
Elecard - Boro
TAG Video Systems – Realtime Media Platform\

Closed Captioning Solution

TAG Video Systems – TAG Language Detection
Telestream – CaptionMaker
Videolinq – GenAI automated captions and subtitles for live broadcasts

Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Solution

Amazon Web Services – Elastic Transcoder
Ateme – Ateme+
Haivision – StreamHub Receiver & MoJoPro Mobile Camera App on AWS

Cloud Video Production Platform

Akta – FLEX Channels
Amagi – Tellyo Studio
Vimeo – Vimeo Platform

Content Delivery Network (including Edge)

Akamai – Connected Cloud
Amazon Web Services – CloudFront
Google – Cloud CDN

Corporate Video/Enterprise Video Content Management Platform

Muvi – Muvi Flex
Telestream – Sherpa Stream
Vimeo – Vimeo Enterprise

CTV/OTT Ad Platform

Amagi – ADS PLUS
Amazon Web Services – AWS Elemental MediaTailor
Roku – Roku Advertising

DRM/Content Protection

EZDRM – Universal Complete
Microsoft – PlayReady
Widevine – Widevine DRM

Encoding Hardware for Live Production

Ateme – KYRION DR5000
NETINT – Quadra T2A
Haivision – Makito X4

Linear Channel Creation Platform

Amagi – Channel Creation
Backlight – Live Studio
Zixi – ZaaS for FAST Channels

Live Streaming Service

Akamai – Adaptive Media Delivery
Resi Media - Resi
Wowza – Wowza Streaming Engine

Meeting/Collaboration/Webcasting Solution

LiveU – Air Control
Microsoft – Teams Webinars
Zoom – Zoom Events

On-Prem Encoding/Transcoding Solution

Ateme – MV-HEVC
Harmonic – XOS Advanced Media Processor
Telestream – Vantage Media Processing Platform

OTT Video Platform

Endeavor Streaming – Vesper
Harmonic – VOS 360 Media SaaS
Quickplay – Curator Assistant

Per-Title Encoding Solution

Ateme – TITAN File Content-Aware Encoding
Bitmovin – Per-Title Encoding
Telestream – Encoding.com

Quality Control/Monitoring Platform

Akamai – Broadcast Operations Command Center (BOCC)
TAG VS - Live Production
Telestream – Vidchecker

Video Mixer

Blackmagic Design – ATEM Constellation 4K
Magewell – Director Mini
Telestream – Wirecast Gear 4K