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Cybersecurity Challenges Streaming Providers Face
The global video streaming services industry is a multi-billion-dollar market that includes renowned brands such as Disney and Netflix alongside smaller, more niche players. Due to the pandemic, many of these services ...
Keeping Emissions in Check During Unprecedented Internet Use
As I reflect on 2020 and the way in which the pandemic affected the business world, what stands out to me is the incredible increase in streaming content consumed on the internet ...
Why Our Furniture Will Face the TV for Years to Come
Before the invention of the television, the focal point of any room was the fireplace. In fact, the word "focus" derives from the Latin word for "hearth." However, the invention of the ...
Making the Edge Come Alive
In April 2019, Netflix viewers streamed 164 million hours of on-demand content per day. Fast forward a year. In April 2020, Twitch streamed 55 million hours per day. The vast majority of ...
Finding the Right and Secured Video Platforms for your Business
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Akamai Outlook: Optimizing Edge Delivery Performance and Monitoring
Media and entertainment companies, including content owners and over-the-top (OTT) service providers are living in an era symbolized by a dramatic increase in content consumption fueled by the widespread availability of online ...
New OTT Service Changing How New Zealanders Watch Sports
Communications service providers are looking for new ways to gain an edge in today's competitive market. In sports-crazed New Zealand, one of the country's largest telecom providers just launched an all-sports video ...
The Financial Implications of Online Video Quality
A single instance of video rebuffering could result in more than $85,000 in lost revenue. That's one of the key findings in Understanding the Value of Consistency in OTT Video Delivery, a ...
Do High Vanity Bitrates Choke Your Live OTT Service Out of the Gate?
Live video isn't a video on demand (VOD) or game download where congestion hiccups may have minimal impact. Congestion at any point in the over-the-top (OTT) distribution chain can ruin the experience ...
CDN Tuning for OTT – "Why Doesn’t it Already do That?"
When you initially onboarded your OTT traffic to a CDN, you probably went with default settings. And to be honest, why wouldn't you? A standard media configuration is designed for the short ...
