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Streaming Video Workflows for User-Generated Content
Teachers, students, and employees increasingly need to create live and on-demand video content for internal audiences. Use cases can include capturing live presentations, producing video for a flipped classroom, sharing a video recording for online evaluation by teachers and classmates, or creating a training video to help colleagues be more productive at a given task. How can you embrace user-generated content with any-screen playback for your campus or workplace? Let’s dig in, looking first at the basic workflow, then focusing on five common scenarios and ways to address each.
Read MoreFacebook Declared Winner in Presidential Debate Streams
The final U.S. presidential debate is over, and we can declare a hand-down winner: Facebook. No, the platform didn’t throw itself into the ring as a candidate for office. But it did clearly display that it's able to deliver what the people want, when they want it—streaming that’s faster than cable or satellite broadcasts.
Read MoreThe Streaming Show Podcast: Let’s Talk Encoders!
Listen to this lively episode of The Streaming Show podcast, where we talk about encoders every which way with Wowza Quality Assurance Director Adam McDonald.
Read MoreThe Great Streaming Debate of 2016
We examine the potential for streaming success or a technical gaffe with the 2016 presidential debate live streaming.
Read MoreWowza Nominated as APEX Tech Company of the Year
It’s with great pleasure that we announce Wowza has been nominated as Company of the Year at this year’s APEX Awards. The awards recognize Colorado’s technology excellence, highlighting remarkable leaders and innovators. The 16th Annual APEX awards ceremony will be held November 9, 2016, in Denver.
Read MoreIntroducing The Streaming Show Podcast: Listen to Our First Episode
The Streaming Show is a podcast for anyone interested in the world of video streaming. We take commonly discussed terms, topics, and trends, and boil them down to easily understandable, and often humorous, conversations. In our inaugural episode, we're covering CDNs: how they work, why their locations are important, and more.
Read MoreTwitter in a Rebuilding Year: Streaming Content Is Now the QB
Football season is underway and we're just a few short hours from finding out if Twitter’s recent licensing deals to stream the NFL on Thursday nights will pay off. Twitter reportedly invested $10 million to get the streaming rights and make the game visible to its 800 million users—not to mention other deals with the NHL, Cheddar, MLB, MLS, Wimbledon, and several collegiate athletic conferences. Some have viewed the shift by Twitter as a signal that it’s flailing—grabbing at straws to find whatever advertising revenue it can to stay afloat, similar to what happened to Myspace many years ago. But I’m not so certain.
Read MoreAvoiding Obsolescence with Platform-Agnostic Streaming
Imagine: You groggily shuffle to your all-in-one coffee grinder/brewer/carafe, only to find that the grinder isn't working properly. It turns out the motor is shot and you can't get replacement parts, so now you have an obsolete component in your coffee-making workflow. You're stuck, and have to replace the whole system or buy a new grinder to keep next to your hobbled all-in-one machine. This same dilemma can affect any technology—even media streaming. Focusing on flexible and future-proof solutions will help you avoid the pain.
Read MoreAt IBC 2016, Wowza to Unveil New Products that Complete End-to-End Streaming Workflows
From stream encoding to delivery, APIs, and media-player options, Wowza will highlight new features and products next week at IBC in Amsterdam. If you'll be at the show, make sure to swing by the Wowza booth, 5.C42, for all the streaming action.
Read MoreLive-Streaming the Olympics: What Was Missing in Rio?
Flat—that's the word that comes to mind when I reflect on my Summer Olympics viewing experience, and I've heard the same from friends and colleagues. But why? What was so different this time around? Or maybe a better question is, What wasn't different enough?
Read MoreGrowing Your CDN Dynamically with Stream Resolver
One of the biggest hurdles that many people face when growing their own CDN is to dynamically scale production based on demand. Learn how the StreamResolver module helps by allowing you to dynamically determine the best-suited origin for a particular stream request.
Read MoreWowza Streaming Engine 4.5 Release
Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.5 is now available! From scaling to infrastructure integration, there are many great features in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5: Facebook Live streaming, Panasonic IP camera integration, and more. Read on to see why you should care (and yes, you should definitely care).
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