Top Three Reasons Why Quality Monitoring is Critical for Cloud-Native OTT Streaming

With the sharp rise in cloud migration and the increasing unwillingness of viewers to tolerate video streaming quality issues, Joel Daly of Telestream outlines the top three reasons why quality monitoring is critical for cloud-native OTT streaming.

The Video Captioning Conundrum

James Broberg of StreamShark discusses why video captioning is essential for accessibility to video content and increasing viewer comprehension.

Digitization Has Increased the Scope of Online Video Platforms in Businesses and Education

In the past few years, the widespread use of live streaming and online video content in the professional space has created a great need for online video platforms (OVPs). Especially during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic when the whole world moved to digitization, the demand for online video platforms experienced significant hype.

Peacock and Google TV to Forecast Future of Premium TV and the OTT Experience in Streaming Media East Morning Keynotes

Two can't-miss keynotes will map out streaming's future as it appears to companies poised to bring it to life: Peacock and Google TV.

What Does It Mean To Be 'Better Than Broadcast?'

"Better than broadcast" has been much discussed among those in the business of providing broadcast and streaming media technologies. It is a call to action that asks how we can improve over the traditional expectation of how broadcast looks, feels and operates. It is a redefinition of what—or who—even qualifies themselves as a broadcaster anymore. It is an effort to get creative, easy-to-use, "broadcast-quality" tools in the hands of more creators.

The 2020 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Winners

26 categories. 220 nominations. More than 25,000 votes. Who took home the big prizes in this year's Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards? Read on.

New Opportunities: 2020's Top 5 Shifts for Videoconferencing Consumption

The pandemic has put videoconferencing and webcasting platforms for distance learning, religious services, government video, and more, and they're likely to stay there permanently.

Post-Pandemic Storytelling: The New Fault Tolerance

Using remote production, houses of worship, schools, concerts, and creative individuals can utilize their flexible, software-backed systems to keep their messages moving out to the world during the pandemic and beyond.

Become Your Own Broadcaster

IP-based media production takes down barriers to entry and opens the door to innovations in quality and creativity.

Preview: Content Delivery Summit 2020

Content Delivery Summit Chair Dom Robinson previews Content Delivery Summit 2020, the leading conference for CDN, edge delivery, and distributed computing, which Streaming Media is hosting as a free full-day webinar on June 1.

Announcing Robert Reinhardt's FFmpeg Workshops at Streaming Media East Connect

Robert Reinhardt will be presenting two in-depth FFmpeg workshops--the first for novice and the second for advanced users-May 27 & 29 at Streaming Media East Connect 2020.

The Top 10 Reasons to Attend Nadine Krefetz' "Cloud Streaming Media Tools" Workshop

10 key reasons why you won't want to miss Nadine Krefetz' in-depth online workshop at Streaming Media East Connect, Tuesday, May 26, 3 pm ET/12 pm PT.

Announcing Jan Ozer Encoding Workshops at Streaming Media East Connect

Jan Ozer will be presenting two in-depth workshops on encoding for streaming and on-demand video, the first for novices and the second for advanced users, May 26-27 at Streaming Media East Connect 2020.

Survey: Conference, SMB, Media Events Going Virtual Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

91% of our respondents said they are planning to put on one or more virtual events in the next 6 months, and 59% plan one in the next 30 days. Those are just two of the eye-opening findings in Streaming Media's virtual events survey.

5 Ways the Coronavirus Business Impact Permanently Changes Live Video Streaming

The changes that COVID-19 are bringing to the live streaming industry will have lasting effects, and streaming providers who focus on latency and scale will thrive

Take Our Event Virtualization Survey

With the immediate shift to social distancing and restrictions on in-person events in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are increasingly turning to streaming and virtual events. Please take a few minutes to participate in our survey and share your event virtualization plans and needs.

New: Streaming Media Connect

Streaming Media's "Who To See at NAB" marketing program evolves into "Streaming Media Connect"

Want to Speak at Streaming Media East? Here's How.

The call for speakers is open until February 3, so get your speaking proposal in today for the OTT Summit, Video Engineering & Technology Summit, Esports & Sports Streaming Summit, or Enterprise & Education Video Summit

Discover In-Depth Pre-Conference Training at Streaming Media West

In just two weeks, Streaming Media's Jan Ozer will lead SMW attendees through advanced sessions on ABR production, video quality metrics, and more.