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Vote for Wowza in the 2014 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards
Voting just opened for the 2014 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards and we are pleased to announce that we are nominees in the Media Server category for Wowza Streaming Engine™, and the Encoding Software category for Wowza GoCoder™. Wowza Media Server®, now Wowza Streaming Engine, won the Media Server category in 2013 and we hope to repeat this year. Please take a moment to cast your vote for Wowza here.
Read MoreWowza helps CERN celebrate 60th anniversary
September 29, 2014 marks CERN’s, European Organization for Nuclear Research, 60th anniversary as an organization and they had a celebration worth remembering. An official ceremony was held which included politicians from 35 countries all around the world to come together and honor this milestone. CERN is known for bringing scientists together from all over the globe to collaborate and research some of physics most complex and important issues and discoveries.
Read MoreTop Five Things to Look Forward to at IBC
The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) is just a few short weeks away! I look forward to this show because of all the different activities, new products, and general excitement there is on the show floor. Here are the top 5 things I’m looking forward to this year. I hope to see you there!
1. IBC Cloud Solutions area
This new IBC attraction features free sessions that explore the latest cloud solutions offered today. The 25-minute presentations will highlight top tier companies that are shaping the way that the industry thinks about and utilizes cloud technology. Wowza Media Systems’ VP of Product Management, Mike Talvensaari, and S
Read MoreFive Reasons You Should Implement Live Streaming Now
What was the last event you streamed in real time? Perhaps it was a free stream from one of your favorite bands. Maybe it was live-action video gaming. For many, it might have been watching a World Cup game on a work computer or mobile phone. Whatever it was, you were participating in the growing trend of live streaming.
Over the last few years, on-demand video has become ubiquitous. Numerous reports, including recent global research from Sandvine, have shown that an ever-increasing proportion of our time has been spent watching content from on-demand video sites
Read MoreAs you may have noticed, streaming 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ soccer matches is all the rage this summer. Fans are discovering that it is easier than ever to stream a game to their phone, tablet, computer or TV, so much so that even the biggest sports broadcasters in the world are having a hard time keeping up!
Wowza customers have helped many viewers watch their favorite teams by utilizing Wowza Streaming Engine. NGENIX, the leading Content Delivery Network (CDN) service provider in Russia and the CIS, is live streaming the
Read MoreWowza Streaming Engine Named Best Streaming Innovation
We are pleased to announce that Wowza Streaming Engine won the European Readers’ Choice Award for Best Streaming Innovation 2013 at Streaming Forum 2014 in London on June 24, 2014. This marks Wowza’s seventh consecutive Readers’ Choice win. Wowza VP and Streaming Industry Evangelist, Chris Knowlton was on hand to accept the award.
Read MoreLast week, we released some interesting survey findings revealing consumer and business preferences and expectations for video streaming. According to our survey, conducted at the 2014 NAB Show in Las Vegas, 68 percent of respondents use 4 or more devices a day and expect access to high-quality video streaming experiences on any device. The survey also highlighted that more organizations are turning to live video streaming as a critical business tool.
Read MoreStream Live Events with Wowza and Rackspace Cloud
Have a live event that needs to be streamed to a small audience or to the world? Or setting up recurring live events to broadcast via your site?
Join our next Works With Wowza™ webinar series to get great live event streaming tips. We will be highlighting a real case example of how TourGigs.com set up their streaming infrastructure to get new business. Read more.
Read MoreLeveraging Wowza and AWS for live streaming success
Jeff Barr, chief evangelist for Amazon Web Services, wrote a great post on how joint customer BIMvid uses Wowza Streaming Engine on Amazon to deliver live streaming solutions for broadcasters, publishers, and events.
BIMVid is a great example of a customer utilizing industry leaders, Wowza for streaming software and Amazon for cloud services, to create and control their own streaming workflow to provide almost instantaneous scaling for optimal viewer experiences around the world and on any device to deliver high-quality content to any device.
Read MoreWhy Wowza Streaming Engine?
Wowza has always been about creating technology that improves streaming. The latest version of our flagship product, Wowza Streaming Engine, carries on that tradition.
Formerly known as Wowza Media Server, our streaming server software has broken new ground many times. In the first version, released in early 2007, it provided a lower-cost, more fully-featured alternative for Flash media delivery. Version 2 saw the industry-first introduction of support for multiple traditional and adaptive streaming formats, allowing you to consolidate parallel infrastructures and reach any screen with a single, simplified video workflow. Version 3 expanded the architecture to
Read MoreFive Trends from CES 2014 That Will Impact Streaming Media
As always, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week gave us a look ahead at many exciting new products. While Carlos Perez and I were there, we explored the show floor to find innovative technologies that could impact streaming media this year. From all that we saw, five technology trends stood out to us as ones that will make it easier to capture, deliver, or experience streaming media in 2014.
Read MoreMPEG-DASH: A bold new world for streaming?
MPEG-DASH, the new standard for adaptive streaming, has gotten a lot of attention lately. Does it deserve it? I think so, and here are four reasons why.
1. DASH is an international standard
2. DASH has all the features you love
3. DASH is on TV
4. DASH will “play nice” with HTML5
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