OTT and AI: What content providers must know

The great hook from the 1971 song by Gill Scott-Heron never felt so apt when we think of it in context to the streaming revolution that we are witnessing today. A phenomenon which was spearheaded by Netflix and Hulu about a decade ago has now gone mainstream. On-demand content has broken linear viewing schedules and led traditional broadcasters to rethink their business model around this change. With vast improvements in internet speeds and an increase in the number of video-supporting handheld devices, consumers have shifted their focus from traditional television broadcasters to over-the-top (OTT) media services that stream over the internet.

The Switch Case Study: Global Citizen

Organizing the first and biggest global event during the COVID-19 lockdown, Global Citizen needed the One World: Together at Home broadcast to faultlessly reach networks and channels in the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific and other markets...

Cost effective multi-DRM services for advanced video streaming

Intertrust was delighted to be part of Bitmovin Live: APAC Edition 2020, on June 17, with a particular focus on how to control costs, mitigate risk and manage your video workflow. The presentation, which is available on demand, covers these important topics for OTT video streaming operators: • Advanced OTT streaming security challenges • Weighing “buy vs. build” options for a multi-DRM solution • Minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) • CMAF and streamlined packaging workflow

Will The Return Of Sports Be The Collapse Of Internet?

This spring has been different, in many ways. To control and minimize the pandemic, lockdowns and social restrictions have changed how we live, almost instantly. It has changed how we consume TV and video. In fact, we’re watching more TV than ever. But what we watch and how we watch it is quite different as we spend our time in quarantine exploring the wide and deep catalogues of VOD services.

Connect – on the move

The Connect segment of the BaM Content Chain® encompasses the moving of content, whether real-time (live) or file-based, within and between facilities. This covers a wide range of products and services including IP (and SDI) infrastructure, routing, interfacing and conversion, file-based delivery as well as bandwidth and connectivity services including internet, fiber, satellite, microwave, and cellular. Connect was already one of the fastest growing segments of the BaM Content Chain®, and the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown has dramatically increased demands on connectivity; according to the most recent IABM survey, Connect is the only BaM Content Chain® segment that is still growing during the pandemic. We spoke to IABM members about the drivers of change and trends in this BaM Content Chain® block, what effects they have felt to their business as a result of the pandemic, how they are responding, and what we can expect next in this dynamic sector.

Remote Workflow Solution During COVID19: SRT Live Streams

In light of the recent health epidemic sweeping the globe, story production teams, journalists and broadcasters are adjusting to working from home. At the same time, management is now turning toward cloud-based solutions to promote efficient remote workflows with the objective of sustaining and ensuring high quality and quickly transferred deliverables.

Get More Out of Your Online Video Offering: B Live Explains What It Takes to Deliver the Ultimate Live, Multi-Camera Viewing Experience

Find out how Matrox enabled B Live to offer state-of-the-art, multi-camera viewing experiences to fans of high-profile clients like Vans and Tommy Hilfiger. Matrox and B Live will provide insight on how to build a powerful live webcasting solution that gives viewers the look and feel of being on the sidelines or in the front row of their favorite live events by allowing them to switch seamlessly between multi-camera-angle video streams using an innovative video player.

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...

Irdeto e-paper: The “Streaming Wars” give pirates the competitive advantage

Today’s consumers have an insatiable appetite for high-quality, on demand content. This hunger to watch what they want, when they want, and how they want, has fueled an explosion in new streaming services; the “Streaming Wars”. Now, in addition to the well-known players Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime, major studios and tech-giants such as Warner Media, Disney, NBC Universal, and Apple have all launched (or will launch) their own streaming platforms. As of March 2019, it’s estimated there were more than 300 over-the-top (OTT) video options in the US alone. That number only continues to grow.

iSize – raising quality, lowering bitrates

We spoke to Sergio Grce, CEO of iSize Technologies (www.isize.co), about the challenges the industry is facing with ever higher resolution content delivery, and his company’s innovative use of AI for pre-processing to deliver higher quality images at lower bitrates – whatever the codec.

OTT and AI: What content providers must know