October 29, 2018

Online Video News

5G Deployment Will Dramatically Increase Mobile Video Traffic

With higher resolutions and AR services coming to mobile, 90 percent of 5G traffic will come from video, predicts an expert council.

OTT Services Make Pay TV Look Like a Poor Value, Parks Finds

Consumers are comparing high-priced pay TV services with lower-priced streaming plans, and for many streaming wins out.

Apple OTT Service Coming to Over 100 Countries in 2019: Report

While a late entrant to the OTT space, Apple has big plans, taking its free service to over 100 countries shortly after launch.

Featured Articles

How to Choose a Video AI Platform and Evaluate its Results

Meet the big four players in the video artificial intelligence space, then learn how they can speed up time-consuming tasks like generating metadata or creating transcriptions.

25 Years of Internet Radio, Part 2

Back when online video was the size of a postage stamp, audio companies were changing the way the world heard radio. Here are reminiscences from RealNetworks and other pioneers.

Short Cuts

Video: SCTE 224 Primer, Part 4: What's Next

Comcast's Stuart Kurkowski completes his 4-part SCTE 224 Primer with a look ahead in this clip from Live Streaming Summit at Streaming Media East 2018.

Video: How Reinforcement Learning Enables Personalized Viewing Experiences

Microsoft Principal Product Manager Rafah Hosn makes the case for reinforcement learning as a machine learning paradigm for content personalization in this clip from Streaming Media East 2018.

The Producer's View

New Codecs Are Coming; Here's How to Evaluate Codec Evaluations

When comparing the video quality created by different codecs, consider the companies running the comparisons and the metrics they're offering.

Industry News

Streamlabs Collaborates With Intel to Power Integrated PC Platforms Optimized For Live Streaming

Hardware Partners And Manufacturers Assembling These Devices Include Shuttle, SimplyNUC, Zotac, And Acer

Telestream Vantage Helps Adstream Integrate Media Processing Within its AWS Cloud Platform

Global ad services network realizes greater scalability, flexibility and growth potential

SVOD Network Zeus Launches With Vimeo Technology

Vimeo’s OTT Technology Will Power the Enhanced Millennial-Focused Network