The broadcast landscape has fundamentally changed. Where broadcasters once managed content for a handful of distribution channels, today’s operations span dozens of platforms, each with unique technical requirements and format specifications. This expansion brings a particularly complex challenge: closed caption quality control.
Agama – From Reactive to Proactive: How Unified Analytics Ensure Fast, Smart and Competitive Video Service Assurance
The video industry is drowning in data. Every device, app, stream, ad, and network connection generate a ton of metrics. In theory, this data should be a goldmine for smarter decision-making and competitive advantage. In reality, the data is often siloed, measured in inconsistent ways, and acted upon too late to deliver a real impact. As media services evolve, a key differentiator will be the ability to unify, interpret, and act on data instantly. That’s the next step in video analytics.
IABM Technology and Trends Roadmap – 2025
The IABM Technology and Trends Roadmap isn’t just for industry technologists to use as a reference. IABM has discovered industry execs using it as a starting point for their keynote speeches: product line managers are using it to plot their own products; and corporate board members get a better understanding of where the company’s products sit on the adoption curve, hence a better grasp or risks vs gross margins. This also assists marketing activities by giving an indication of how best to promote products within M&E and adjacent/vertical market areas.
Quickplay – Democratizing OTT performance: unlocking concurrency for all
In the rapidly evolving world of Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming, access to cutting-edge technology should not be limited to industry giants. Democratizing TV technology means empowering every content provider, regardless of size, with the tools and knowledge to deliver exceptional user experiences. A crucial aspect of this democratization is understanding and managing user concurrency – the number of viewers accessing your platform simultaneously. This article breaks down how to derive this vital metric, making advanced performance analysis accessible to all.
AlvaLinks unveils AI-powered network observability
It happens all too often. A high-profile live broadcast is in progress, millions of viewers are tuned in, and suddenly—buffering. The screen freezes. Panic sets in. Engineers scramble to identify the cause, only to be met with the all-too-familiar response from network providers: “It’s not on our end.”
For years, media and broadcast companies have battled invisible network disruptions, struggling to pinpoint whether the issue stems from their infrastructure, a third-party provider, or somewhere deep within the network maze. Traditional monitoring solutions fail to provide real-time, end-to-end visibility, leaving teams playing an endless game of blame and guesswork.
GrayMeta – Video QC in the media supply chain goes beyond pass/fail
Traditionally, Quality Control (QC) processes required substantial hardware setups and dedicated physical spaces within studios or production facilities to determine if a program could be broadcast. The prevailing methods used in these suites were relatively simple measurements. An asset was measured and could be over or under specific video or audio values. If the values fell into range it was thumbs up, if the limits were exceeded then it was thumbs down.
It airs or it doesn’t.
TAG Video Systems – Streamlining media workflows: the role of unified monitoring in achieving efficiency
The media landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Consumer expectations have evolved, demanding diverse content, accessible anytime and anywhere, on a multitude of devices. This surge in demand, coupled with advancements in technology like cloud infrastructure and edge computing, has revolutionized how media is produced and distributed. While these changes present exciting opportunities, they also pose significant challenges for content providers striving to balance high-quality viewer experiences with operational efficiency and sustainability.
Skyline Communications – dataminer.MediaOps
The revolutionary dataminer.MediaOps product seamlessly blends media technology and workflows with information and communication technology (ICT), introducing a new era of data-driven, automated, and simplified media operations. Central to its architecture is the concept of the digital twin of the media operation—housing all network statistics, metrics, counters and configurations, coupled with vital business information like event schedules, asset inventory, playlists, electronic program guide (EPG) data, and more.
Imagine Communications – From concept to reality: a year in live HDR production
This time last year, there was a strong expectation that by 2024, live HDR production would be poised to take the broadcast industry by storm. This forecast has indeed materialized, with HDR production being used more and more, but with a twist. Within the industry, there has been a common tendency to conflate UHD and HDR — a presumption that live productions would predominately feature UHD with HDR. However, as the broadcast community delves deeper into consumer preferences and factors that drive consumer behavior, it has become evident that HDR stands out as the driver of consumer sentiment.
Bridge Technologies – The essence(s) of monitoring
There is a human instinct to distil things down into neat packages. Even the biggest questions that face us are posed in the singular; what is the meaning of life? We aren’t happy when people suggest there might be multiple meanings; operating either in isolation or in parallel. We want a coherent, simple, distilled, unifying and singular response. It’s what makes Douglas Adams’ pithy responses of ‘42’ so wonderful; it satisfies all of our desires in terms of what we want from the answer to life, the universe and everything (except of course the really crucial one: meaning).