In Conversation with VisualOn

In this IABM TV interview, Yang Cai (President & CEO, VisualOn) discusses the major trends and disruptors in video.

1) Please introduce VisualOn and let us know your focus.
2) Who are VisualOn’s customers and what products and services do you provide for them?
3) Based on your experiences helping build major streaming services, what are the unexpected challenges to reliably stream video?
4) How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted your company and the operations of your customers and how are you coping with it?
5) What are the major trends and disruptors in video that you see coming?

In Conversation with Digital Nirvana

In this IABM TV interview, Russell Wise (Senior Vice President, Digital Nirvana) talks about how Digital Nirvana is heading in new directions from the monitoring and closed-captioning services market.

Q1) Digital Nirvana has been a long-term vendor in the monitoring and closed-captioning services space. I understand that Digital Nirvana is heading in new directions?
Q2) Are you introducing new products to the market?
Q3) That seems to be a very ambitious level of technology development. Is there a common theme among these?
Q4) Where do you see Digital Nirvana going over the next few years, especially as it relates to AI?

In Conversation with the Vendors

A panel of IABM member vendors share their views and experiences of the industry – current trading conditions, ongoing and future priorities, opportunities for growth, and blue-sky thinking for what might lie ahead.

Lisa Collins, Head of Membership Engagement, IABM – Chair
Darren Lepke,Head of Video Product Management, Verizon
Joe Fiveash, Vice President of Strategy, The Weather Company, an IBM Business
Ben Vandenberg, CEO, Skyline
Dan Castles, CEO, Telestream

Mediaproxy Whitepaper: Exception-based IP broadcast monitoring using penalty boxes

Broadcast engineers are faced with an increased number of digital television channels that they must monitor. Adding to this complexity are OTT services each with multiple profiles being streaming across CDNs to multiple edge points.

The explosion in broadcast and OTT streaming services coincides with increasing pressure to reduce operating costs and do more with less. Though broadcast and OTT playout systems are scalable, a person’s ability to manage multiple streams of information simultaneously is not...

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Mediaproxy Whitepaper: Next Generation Content Monitoring

Today, broadcasters and facility operators have a choice of how to find and monitor content passing through the distribution and playout chains. While traditional detection methods such as time and date searches and predefined metadata are still valid and used widely, newer and more sophisticated techniques such as digital watermarking and fingerprinting, combined with the increasing use of computer-based automation are making inroads into the market and have to be considered viable alternatives.

The challenge is to harness the potential of machine learning and decide what is the best model for specific operations, whether based locally at the user's premises or remotely on cloud- based platforms...

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Mediaproxy Whitepaper: Take Control of OTT Monitoring

OTT has become increasingly popular with viewers and is an important form of distribution and revenue generation for broadcasters. As these trends continue, content owners and regulators alike are looking to apply the same standards for video, audio, and captioning to OTT as with traditional television.

For OTT services, broadcast engineers need to ensure compliance and quality of service for live content viewed on multiple devices that rely on multiple ABR formats each with several profiles. Keeping up with this complexity can be daunting, which is why having a unified system for monitoring compliance and identifying issues across all traditional and OTT playouts is critical...

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Mediaproxy Whitepaper: The Evolution of Compliance Logging

In just over a decade, broadcast logging has evolved from a narrow compliance role to a much broader range of applications encompassing monitoring, analysis and revenue generating functions for broadcasters, MVPD and OTT providers. The humble logging system has become a valuable tool not only used by compliance officers, but also provides broadcast engineers with a means to review and track down on-air incidents.

Software-based logging facilitates not only the quick turnaround of advertising verification, caption and loudness compliance, but also provides rapid media extracts and instant publishing to online and social media platforms. High level functions such as full transmission monitoring, analysis and multi-channel viewing are now included as features...

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In Conversation with Grass Valley and Black Dragon Capital

Following the recent acquisition of Grass Valley by Black Dragon Capital, IABM CEO Peter White sits down with Tim Shoulders (President, Grass Valley) and Louis Hernandez Jr (CEO and Managing Director, Black Dragon Capital) to find out how this bold move will impact the company and its future strategy and direction during the industry’s ongoing digital transformation.

In Conversation with Netflix

Having spent the majority of her career in the UK, she left 18 months ago to join one of the biggest growing streaming services in the world. In this video with Rise, we chat to Donna about her career, the challenges she has faced and her current role at Netflix.

In Conversation with VisualOn