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Jacob Arends

Product Manager | Playback

Part of the Product team for Bitmovin Playback, Jacob comes from the high pressure world of live sports which fuels his ability to focus on optimizing the quality of experience for both developers creating streaming platforms and the viewers consuming their content.

Developers Product Updates

Why Android Set-Top Boxes Are Critical to the Future of OTT (and How Bitmovin Helps Get Them Right)

Set-top boxes (STBs) remain central to streaming strategies for broadcasters, telecom operators, and OTT providers globally, providing for viewers who value a consistent TV experience with a familiar remote control interaction. These devices span multiple operating systems, including Android, RDK, and Linux, each with unique technical characteristics and user-experience considerations. Among these, Android-powered set-top boxes…

Innovation

Deploying Scene-Level AI in VOD Workflows to Improve Ad Targeting, Discovery, and Experiences

Bitmovin’s AI Scene Analysis is the latest addition to a suite of offerings that help streaming services maximize the value of their existing and upcoming content. AI has been influencing streaming for years, from powering recommendations to optimizing encoding, but its role is now expanding deeper into the video workflow. One of the most impactful…

html5 video players - ultimate guide
VidTech

The Ultimate Guide to HTML5 Video Players [2024]

Developers know that a lot goes into video streaming. The content must be produced, encoded, transcoded, and distributed globally. For this reason, delivering seamless over-the-top (OTT) video experiences often requires piecing together a handful of technology components. In this Ultimate Guide to HTML5 Video Players, we cover what to look for when choosing a player, when to go with a free or open-source option vs. a premium paid solution, and the best HTML5 video players to build on.

Innovation

Completing the WebRTC Playback Experience – Enabling Rewind During Real-Time Live Streams

Live streaming has solidified its role as a pivotal component of modern video workflows, enabling platforms and media companies to captivate audiences with that sense of witnessing events as they happen. This trend has gained even greater momentum during and after the pandemic, as users craved live experiences that spanned a variety of interests –…

Product Updates

Bitmovin Launches Support for React Native

React Native has become one of the most popular UI frameworks for mobile development and continues to see widescale adoption. Over the past year, we have seen rapidly growing interest from companies looking to stream video in their mobile applications with the Bitmovin Player. This topic has also been trending in the Bitmovin developer Community…

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