May 06, 2020

Online Video News

Virtual Video Summit Set for May 6

With no NAB to bring customers to them this year, a group of streaming industry vendors have come together to create a virtual event and bring the trade show to their customers and partners.

Defining Brands with Streaming Video in Challenging Times

Communications agency Brand Definition was ready to go live with their brand-new production studio when COVID-19 shut everything down. Here's how they pivoted to remote production to meet their clients' shifting needs.

Verizon Media Introduces New Publishing, Advertising Features

Output Syndication makes it easy to publish directly to social media platforms, while Content Control simplifies the creation of live linear channels and Smartplay Prebid improves the ad bidding process

Featured Articles

The 2020 Streaming Media Producer 25

The second annual StreamingMediaProducer 25 is here! We chose the most innovative companies that enabled, enhanced, and streamlined the workflows of live video producers—particularly those who need the mobility, agility, and versatility to deliver great work, regardless of the venue or production conditions.

Announcing Streaming Media East Connect

Streaming Media East and the Content Delivery Summit are going virtual with a week full of free webinars as well as five deep-dive workshops. Here's how to attend, speak, and sponsor.

Quarantine Covers: Making Music During Lockdown

Filmmaker and musician Bill Grant describes how he and former bandmates and friends are collaborating across social distance to create mosaic music videos he calls "Quarantine Covers."

Short Cuts

How to Choose a Video Quality Metric

Jan Ozer discusses the pros and cons of three key objective quality metric tools: Moscow State University, SSIMplus, and Hybrik (Dolby).

Moving from Monoliths to Microservices

StackPath's Nathan Moore and EZDRM's Olga Kornienko explain the process and benefits of monolith-to-microservice transition, such as identifying points of failure, in this clip from Streaming Media West 2019.

Blog

Advanced TV Advertising in a Post-Cookies Future

Connected TV and OTT will grow due to Google's imminent third-party cookies denial, and their growth will transform the digital advertising landscape.

Industry News

Broadcast Pix partners with CASTUS to deliver teleconferencing integration in today’s work from home world

Incorporate Zoom and other teleconferencing systems within your Live Broadcasting or Streaming Production

Verizon Media Brings Native Marketplace, Premium Inventory into Expanded DSP

Advertisers gain access to all formats and buy types through a single offering

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storageg Launches S3-Compatible APIs with Partners IBM Aspera, Veeam, Quantum

Company’s scalable object storage is now available to the global business population that built workflows dependent on S3

DiscoverVideo Introduces Distribution and Recording for Zoom Virtual Meetings & Events

Discover Video today announced the capability of DEVOS subscribers to broadcast and record their Zoom meetings and live events. One of the latest features of DEVOS (Digital Enterprise Video Online System) from DiscoverVideo, allows customers to simultaneo

COVID-19 Impact: Broadband Usage Jumps 47% in Q1, Nears YE2020 Expectations

Driven primarily by subscriber self-quarantines during March, average consumption at the end of 1Q20 jumped to 402.5 GB, an increase of 47% over the 1Q19 average of 273.5 GB and a 17% rise over the 344.0 GB in 4Q19.