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Umphrey’s McGee Fall Tour Streamed by TourGigs
TourGigs is an in-house production and distribution company that makes live concerts available to viewers on the day of or a few days afterwards. They bring the concert experience to you, when it’s convenient for you. During a time when instant access is everything, this ability to watch your favorite artist or band when and where you want is crucial.
TourGigs’ latest feature includes the Umphrey’s McGee Fall Tour. The streams will include high-quality HD camera angles and a crisp sound that will make it feel like you are live in the audience. The tour includes eleven shows, all of which will be streamed on the Read More
Wowza Corporate Counsel Elliot Miller will speak at the 2014 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, held this year in New Orleans from October 28-31. The ACC Annual Meeting is the largest annual gathering of in-house attorneys from all over the world, and offers a wide range of corporate legal education and insights.
Read MoreWowza makes the list for innovation in online video streaming
We are pleased to announce that we have been named to Streaming Media’s “Streaming Media 100” list for the third consecutive year. This year’s list is very diverse and recognizes the leading companies in the streaming media space. The judges for this list include Streaming Media’s editorial and publishing staff and use a ranking system to determine the final list of companies.
It is a great honor to be recognized in this space and will be a huge motivation to continue to grow and lead in the online video streaming industry.
Read MoreVote 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.
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