February 03, 2021

Online Video News

VVC Patent Pools: And Then There Were Two

Access Advance and MPEG LA will both administer patent pools for VVC, but it's still unclear what will be covered under the patents and what the likely royalty costs will be.

Vimeo Launches New Video Marketing Tools

The company also introduced native integrations with top marketing software platforms Mailchimp, HubSpot, Constant Contact, and more

Featured Articles

Q&A: Zoom CTO Brendan Ittelson

Zoom has become the go-to communications tool for everything from business meetings and conferences to online learning and virtual happy hours. We talk to CTO Brendan Ittelson about the company's remarkable growth and its plans for the future.

Spotlights

CEO Interview: Richard Oesterricher, Streaming Global

Streaming Global aims to solve three of the online video industry's biggest pain points: high delivery costs, lack of reliable scalability, and too-long latencies

CEO Interview: Steve Orlando, Seaborn

Seaborn is helping its customers respond to the overwhelming demand for new OTT services with capacity and scale

CEO Interview: Claudio Lisman, Primestream

Primestream's Media IO and Xchange Media Cloud work together to create an IP Network Operations Center for live production and editing using any streaming protocol

CEO Interview: Christopher Levy, BuyDRM

We spoke with BuyDRM CEO and co-founder Christopher Levy about how his company is keeping up with the demand, how CMAF is changing the video landscape, and how watermarking and DRM are working hand-in-hand to thwart piracy.

Short Cuts

How OTT Services Are Monetizing Content

Hub Entertainment's Jon Giegengack discusses what recent surveys have revealed about the evolving OTT market and which monetization models are working with today's viewers.

How OTT Discovery and Recommendation Changed in 2020

Hub Entertainment's Jon Giegengack and TAG's Peter Wharton debate the limits of OTT recommendation engines in an era of super-aggregation in this clip from their Streaming Media West Connect panel.

Industry News

Grass Valley Adds Connected Switcher Panels to its Cloud-Based Live Production Arsenal

SaaS Version of award-winning K-Frame switcher engine runs virtually on GV AMPP

Matrox Video Introduces Enhanced KVM-over-IP Operations for NewTek Live Production Workflows

Extio 3 IP KVM extenders now compatible with NewTek 3Play® 3P1 and TriCaster® TC1 production systems to enable seamless 4K and multi-display extension and switching support over IP

Telstra Awarded DPP Committed to Sustainability Mark Building on the Company’s Environmental Programme

Telstra’s commitment to operating as a responsible and sustainable business has today been recognised by the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) Committed to Sustainability Programme, an industry leading scheme celebrating and promoting good practice in

Telestream Announces Comprehensive Ad-Insertion Monitoring for both OTT Streaming and Linear TV Delivery

New Ad-insert Monitoring enables streaming video operators to find and fix advertising faults fast