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The 2016 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Winners
It's the most prestigious honor in the online video industry, because it's decided by thousands of StreamingMedia.com voters. Read on to see which companies are taking home a Readers' Choice Award.
What Is A Video Encoder? An Introduction To 8 Technology Options
Remember that Willy Wonka scene where the chocolate bar time travels from one side of the room to another after being broken apart? Well, that’s the basic (and gloriously oversimplified) function of a video encoder!
SVG College: Alabama: Event Gathers Local Industry to Network at Bryant-Denny Stadium
More than 40 industry professionals gathered for the latest edition of the SVG College Regional Event series, SVG College: Alabama at the University of Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium on Wednesday.
WebRTC for Low-Latency Streaming: CDN77 and Wowza
WebRTC is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications (e.g. Chrome, Opera, and Firefox) with real-time communication capabilities over peer-to-peer networks, using simple APIs and without plugins or apps. Here, we detail two innovative integrations and use cases of WebRTC to enable low-latency streams.
Facebook’s livestream had one big advantage over everybody else
It's up for discussion who won the final debate of the election, but there was a clear winner Wednesday in the battle of live-streaming services.
Fortune: Best Small & Medium Companies
Wowza Media Systems™, the leading software and cloud-based services provider that continuously simplifies the complexities of high-quality video and audio streaming, creates disruptive technologies for delivering video and audio streams to any screen, from computers to televisions to mobile devices. At Wowza Media Systems, 98 percent of employees say their workplace is great.
IBC2016: NewTek and Wowza Partner on Video Delivery Platform
IBC 2016 is bringing companies together, or at least NewTek and Wowza Media Systems, as the two have announced a collaboration on the MDS media encoding and live streaming video delivery platform. A fully integrated hardware and software system, the MDS merges NewTek’s live production technology with Wowza’s streaming software in a 1RU footprint.
eWeek: Wowza Updates Media Server
From eWeek:
“With the latest release of Wowza, enterprise users are able to publish video directly to Facebook Live from within the Wowza Streaming Engine.
It's a really good thing Wowza Media Systems doesn't have a corporate ego. It does an awful lot of work behind the IT scenes that few people ever realize.”
Bizety: Who Is The Super Giant Of The Global Video Streaming Industry
From Bizety:
“The video streaming industry is rich and diverse, with companies from different verticals introducing dozens of business models. Some business models are born out of necessity to stay relevant in a highly competitive space. Others are highly commoditized, whether its the CDN sector, encoding, OTT, OVP, and so on.”
But who's the Super Giant? Find out!
Church Production Review: Wowza Streaming Cloud
Church Production Magazine recently reviewed Wowza Streaming Cloud.
“Over time, most tech directors have learned to avoid entry-level products and services, as they tend to require a complete re-learning when it’s time to graduate to the “professional” version. Wowza Streaming Cloud turns that idea on its head—it’s a world-class professional solution with entry-level accessibility.”
SVG On Demand: Wowza Media Systems’ Chris Knowlton on the Power of Instant Live Streaming
SVG’s Brandon Costa caught up with Chris Knowlton, the company’s VP and Streaming Industry Evangelist at the 2016 NAB Show to discuss the latest, including Wowza’s new GoCoder – which allows users to go live with a tap of the screen on a mobile device using Wowza Streaming Engine or Wowza Streaming Cloud – and new developments in Facebook Live and VR/360-degree video.