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April 08, 2020

Online Video News

LiveU Publishes 'State of Live' Report on Streaming During the Pandemic Crisis

Today, video streaming solutions provider LiveU unveiled a new "State of Live" report, documenting increased "demand for live streaming, mobile apps, and live IP video sharing solutions" during the last five weeks of pandemic mitigation measures.

Blackbird's Moment Arises as Video Industry Embraces Cloud-Based Collaborative Editing

As business professionals, educators, and others around the globe rely on web conferencing solutions like Zoom to communicate under current conditions, post houses, broadcasters, and video rights holders are either acquainting themselves with cloud video editing solutions like the popular Blackbird platform, or moving once-peripheral distributed production workflows to the center of their operations.

Brightcove Introduces New Video Tools for the Enterprise

Continuum targets regulated industries like banking, healthcare, and government, while Engage is designed for HR and other managers to keep employees engaged wherever they are

Global Streaming Up More Than 20% in March, Says Conviva

Viewing in the U.S. is up almost 27%, and daytime viewing is up most of all—a massive 39% rise since the first week of March.

Jan Ozer Introduces "Streaming Media 101" Online Course

The 8-hour course covers the fundamental concepts and technologies of online video and includes hands-on exercises featuring some of the most commonly used tools in the industry

Featured Articles

Review: iSize BitSave Video Preprocessing

iSize claims that BitSave can deliver a 40% to 60% bitrate reduction while keeping the same video quality. We put those claims to the test.

The State of Streaming 2020 Research Report

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Blog

Take Back Control of Your Content

One of the challenges many companies face is regaining control of content that sits in multiple formats on multiple systems. Effective cloud-based workflows offer a solution.

How Cable Incumbents Are Transforming to Compete with Netflix, Hulu and Disney+

In the world of cable TV, the locus of power has been inverted. The hegemony of the bundle has been replaced by the particulate value of the individual.

Industry News

Telestream Releases OptiQ Monitor

Radically different approach to video monitoring & analytics now commercially available

Facilis Releases Version 8 of HUB Shared Storage System And Version 3.5 of FastTracker MAM with Proxy Encoding To Cloud for Remote Workflows

Version 8 features dynamic bandwidth prioritization, SSD mirroring & enhanced data protection

OTT Platform to Stream Live Sports Faster than Cable and Satellite

Zingo TV announced today that it will partner with Streaming Global in order to increase scalability and reduce costs for its platform after acquiring the rights of For The Fans/Eleven Sports US.

Topic Streaming with 24i

First Look Media launches new OTT streaming video service for ‘culture cravers’ on topic.com, Apple TV and iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV and Roku.

Videolinq Helps House of Faith

Videolinq Helps Church Expand Audience In Time of Crisis

Healthcare Organizations Worldwide Turn to Mediasite Events to Create Virtual Meetings In Lieu of Cancelling

Large-scale health education is primary need amid COVID-19 outbreak; one dermatology organization saw 20 percent of U.S. dermatologists watch event live with Mediasite

Zixi releases poll on media industry readiness in the face of the current Coronavirus pandemic

81% of media executives believe they require permanent remote capabilities