Almost six months after Take 1’s acquisition by Unicorn company, Verbit, Take 1 CEO, Louise Tapia, provides an insight into how the team is collaborating with their fellow media and entertainment sector specialists at sister company, VITAC, to provide end-to-end accessibility services.
Content Choice and Sustainability
In recent years, the choice of video services has multiplied, as large media organisations add a plus symbol to their established brands and roll out new platforms. In addition, many incumbents in the VOD space are now supplementing their main subscription models with AVOD options. In some cases, these ad-funded tiers will be differentiated with new content, but at the very least they will require new versions of the original media files with markers for ad insertion. Linear TV has not been left behind, evolving its offering with more content choice, and diversifying with themed FAST channels.
Telestream: ARGUS
ARGUS is a new product from Telestream that represents the next step in centralized video monitoring management. It was developed in response to the needs of OTT service providers who require large scale comprehensive monitoring of their entire distribution network. ARGUS enables automated surveillance of each video transition point with data aggregation from monitoring probes across the video delivery chain and provides deep dive analytics data that enables service providers to quickly identify the source of video quality issues and their root causes. Without a system like ARGUS, service providers are effectively blind when locating problems across the delivery chain.
Ateme: BaM Shortlist – Publish
Ateme’s 5G streaming solution can take the video experience to a new level, by leveraging the high bandwidth, low latency, Mobile-access Edge Computing and programmability of the 5G network.
The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin): Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE)
Researchers in UT-Austin’s LIVE (UT-LIVE), Directed by Professor Al Bovik, have singularly pioneered the use of visual neuroscience to create picture and video quality measurement and monitoring tools that control the quality and bandwidths of a large percentage of all streaming videos, television, and social media. Their breakthrough inventions include the iconic Structural Similarity (SSIM), Multi-scale SSIM (MS-SSIM), and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) “reference” visual quality tools, which delivered dramatic leaps in performance when introduced, and are still dominant today. These tools are used today to control the quality of most streaming and social media pictures and videos in the US and beyond. Bovik and his team also disrupted the field by inventing the first accurate and practical “blind” visual quality models (BRISQUE and NIQE), using models of neuro-statistical distances, at the neural level, between distorted and distortion-free visual signals. These tools are also globally marketed and used in numerous industry applications, including inspection of streaming and social video uploads, control of cameras, and remote video transcoding in the Cloud.
Imagine Communications: Imagine Aviator
Aviator is a cloud-native platform that enables broadcasters, MVPDs and digital-first providers to plan, make and monetize premium-quality, ad-supported linear and Connected TV (CTV) content from a single, unified platform. This ground-breaking platform draws on Imagine’s broad experience in ad tech, video infrastructure and playout automation to create an entirely new approach to setting up, running and monetizing channels simply, quickly and cost-effectively.
FilmTrack: BaM Shortlist – Monetize
Accedo One: Hybrid Monetization for Video
Hybrid monetization has become a particularly hot topic as of late, fuelled primarily by macroeconomic uncertainty caused by major global events. Some of the big players, such as Netflix and Disney, have already announced the introduction of ad-funded tiers to supplement their existing subscription offerings. At the same time, reports show that an increasing number of users are willing to accept some advertising in return for lower subscription fees.
Accedo: Tata Play Binge Mobile App
Amidst India’s rapidly evolving video landscape it is becoming increasingly difficult for consumers to discover the content of their choice. Currently, in India there are many OTT apps, each with vast content libraries consumers have to download, register, subscribe, use and renew separately. Key features like content recommendations based on watching history, resume watching incomplete content etc are also specific to each app.
Net Insight: Nimbra Media Pro App family with IP Media Trust Boundary
The Nimbra Media Pro App family is a new solution suite for safe, reliable and flexible IP media workflows. Purpose-built for professional media workflows, the app family uniquely combines networking and media processing in one, granting significant operational and cost benefits. Including our award-winning IP Media Trust Boundary, the new solutions also provide protected data services, video compression and interface conversion.