BLAST teams up with EVS for complete Esports production environment

Latest EVS VIA and Media Infrastructure solutions underpin BLAST’s new mobile esports production flypack BLAST the global esports media network delivering world class entertainment experiences, has selected EVS’ market-leading VIA and Media Infrastructure solutions as the backbone of its new esports production flypack. The mobile solution is designed so that BLAST can produce its own live gaming events in-house. With the Covid-19 lockdown impacting mass gatherings, the flexibility of the EVS live production workflow is enabling the esports giant to put on online-only events instead.

Verizon Media: Protecting your OTT streaming service from cyberattacks

The global video streaming industry is a multi-billion-dollar market that’s enabled streaming services of every size to succeed. Yet, with great success comes new risks and responsibilities. The rapid growth of streaming services means that they are now not only home to high-value content but, in some cases, data from millions of customers. Cybercriminals now see streaming services as a treasure trove and are eager to mine premium content and users’ data including, customer payment details, email addresses, physical addresses, and names. Inevitably, the more successful a streaming service is, the more personal data it has, which makes it an increasingly attractive proposition to cybercriminals because they have a greater surface area to attack. Growing pains in these organizations can lead to an increase in cyberattacks that take advantage of the vulnerabilities specific to OTT platforms and technologies.

Eluvio – Streaming Re-Imagined: A Novel Approach to Asset Management, Low-Latency Delivery & Personalization

This talk will discuss evolving areas of emphasis for today’s premium video content owners, novel approaches to manage and publish video, and the implementation of a next-generation video supply chain. Specifically, it will discuss the latest innovations in managing and delivering ultra-low latency, programmable media assets that enable personalization (ads, content, channels, and more) at scale.

Axinom – Decoupled Yet Integrated – Microservices For Digital Content Platforms

Digital content has grown exceedingly in the last decade, both in size and type. With streaming taking the lead, consumption habits and the level of intricacies in content management have also grown complex. The legacy methods to backends always ended up in monoliths, which allowed little to no interoperability or expandability. Modern service-oriented architectures further pose unique challenges, commercially and technically. Let's look at how to develop, manage, orchestrate, and deploy an ideal service-oriented architecture.

Bridging the gap between content and audience with cloud-based solutions

Broadcasters, digital streamers and even advertisers are looking for new ways to deliver a captivating experience that engages with the audience and viewers at home. In this session Scott Davies, CEO of audience engagement specialists Never.no, will explore the latest technological innovations in cloud-based content management solutions and delve into how content providers can react to new audience trends and regulations, by using digital and social media platforms to extend programming beyond the primary screen.

How cloud and IP are transforming media operations and productions

The COVID 19 pandemic has accelerated the ongoing transformation of the media landscape and its new modes of consumption and businesses are constantly under pressure to meet end-user needs that are becoming more and more demanding. Consumer’s expectations today include a larger choice of content, a personalized viewing experience, broadcast-grade video quality and ubiquitous availability – consume everywhere, anytime, on any device and connection. Learn more about the acceleration of cloud and virtualization for media production.

How to effectively predict and increase your trial-to-paid user conversion rates

With increasing competition in the OTT and Pay TV space, customer acquisition has become a more challenging and expensive proposition for video services. As it becomes harder to win new customers, it becomes even more important to retain those customers you already have. The right conversion strategy is a growth accelerator and will have a significant impact on your business profitability. In this white paper we will explain how Artificial Intelligence algorithms allow video service providers to build and automatically run more accurate trial conversion prediction models, which predict future conversion rates based on past audience behavior.

Personalization for Video: What This Means for Broadcasters and OTT Content Providers

Competition for viewer “eyeballs”, to use the industry term, has never been more intense. Part of this is due to the proliferation of viewing channels and distribution mechanisms, as well as increasing pressure on the entire economic model for content creation, distribution and monetization. On the other side of the coin, viewers expect high quality in creation, output and delivery. They want that content delivered whenever and wherever they want, and they want to minimize how much they pay for it. Simply put, viewers’ expectations are at an all-time high, at a time when they have a staggering amount of choices.

BLAST teams up with EVS for complete Esports production environment