Bitmovin announces the availability of its VOD Encoding on Akamai Connected Cloud to deliver high-quality video experiences.
Bitmovin, a leading video streaming software provider, has launched its VOD Encoder on Akamai Connected Cloud. This collaboration aims to enhance and optimize both companies' products, benefiting organizations that want to deliver high-quality, on-demand
Denver, Colorado(09 Nov 2024)
Bitmovin, a leading video streaming software solutions provider, announces the launch and immediate general availability of Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder on Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. The collaboration between Bitmovin and Akamai is designed to enhance and optimize both companies’ products, benefiting organizations that want to deliver high-quality, on-demand content to any viewing device. Bitmovin is an independent software vendor as part of the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program.
Bitmovin VOD Encoding on Akamai Connected Cloud is an easy-to-use, fully-managed video transcoding software-as-a-service (SaaS). Customers use Bitmovin VOD Encoding for a wide range of on-demand streaming use cases, including Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD), Transactional VOD (TVOD), Ad-supported VOD (AVOD) services, online training, and other use cases. Bitmovin’s Emmy Award® winning multi-codec outputs and per-scene and per-title content-aware transcoding produce higher visual quality video outputs at lower bit rates than other file-based transcoding SaaS to optimize content delivery and reduce streaming costs.
"Bitmovin's VOD Encoder running on Akamai forms a powerful combination that helps ensure customers can leverage advanced encoding techniques to deliver high-quality video with minimal file sizes, along with reduced storage and bandwidth costs,” said Dan Lawrence, vice president, cloud computing at Akamai. "Qualifying Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder to run on Akamai’s global edge network makes content delivery capabilities readily available and scalable for VOD deployments of any size. Customers can optimize playback quality based on a viewer’s available bandwidth, helping to provide the highest-possible quality streaming experiences.”
Bitmovin’s VOD Encoding includes hundreds of integrations with other popular third-party SaaS products, including digital rights management (DRM), captioning & subtitling, graphic overlays, content management systems, workflow orchestration, just-in-time packaging, manifest manipulation and server-side ad insertion (SSAI), Akamai CDN and more than a dozen content delivery networks (CDNs) for secure delivery, and Akamai cloud storage for live-to-VOD clipping and highlights.
“Our partnership with Akamai has reached another milestone with the immediate launch and availability of Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder on Akamai Connected Cloud.” said Stefan Lederer, CEO and co-founder of Bitmovin, “Our partnership aims to provide powerful video streaming solutions, and we’re building on the huge success of our Live Encoder running on Akamai Connected Cloud, by ensuring customers can also leverage our VOD Encoding too. Teaming up with Akamai once again ensures customers optimize their VOD workflows, reduce delivery costs and deliver experiences that push the boundaries of video streaming.”
Bitmovin will demonstrate its VOD Encoding on Akamai Connected Cloud at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam, September 13 - 16 (Bitmovin exhibitor stand 5.H48, Akamai Hall 13 [Elicium], third floor).