Streaming is now a core part of how people consume content, but delivering it at scale is not simple. Media companies must support a wide mix of devices, maintain quality across every screen, and control costs while audiences demand seamless experiences. Building everything in-house or stitching together too many vendors often creates new problems and…
In February, Bitmovin launched the AI & Beyond Internship Incubator program designed to promote young talent in AI. The program is open to students from HTLs and technical universities to gain practical experience with AI-powered software solutions. For the past few weeks, the six students joining the inaugural AI & Beyond Internship Incubator on July…
Bitmovin regularly hosts two-day hackathons, held quarterly, to give engineers the chance to step away from their daily work and focus on creative ideas they would like to see become reality. In our latest hackathon, which was supported by Google, teams explored new technologies, collaborated across departments, and built working prototypes in just 48 hours….
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…
Video has become the dominant medium for entertainment and information so effective advertising strategies have never been more important. This is exacerbated by Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies for Chrome which is now expected to happen in early 2025. For over 20 years cookies have been the backbone for targeted advertising campaigns…
Streaming has the power to connect diverse audiences, but making video content accessible for all remains a challenge. Accessibility must be a priority, especially for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers who face unique barriers. While helpful for some, traditional subtitles (both audio and visual) lack the richness and expressiveness of sign language, limiting access to…
This post will summarize the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for video in 2024, including recent progress and announcements. We’ll also take a closer look at AI video research and collaboration between Bitmovin and the ATHENA laboratory that has the potential to deliver huge leaps in quality improvements…
AI has been the hot buzz word in tech the past couple of years and we’re starting to see more and more practical applications for video emerging from the hype, like automatic closed-captioning and language translation, automated descriptions and summaries, and AI video Super Resolution upscaling. Bitmovin has especially focused on how AI can…
Globo’s content and reach When it comes to content scale and audience reach, Globo is on par with Hollywood and the big US broadcasters with over 3,000 hours of entertainment content being produced each year. The viewership numbers are equally impressive with forty-nine million Brazilians watching the daily, one-hour newscast and Globo’s Digital Hub attracting…
Encoding a feature-length film used to take hours, sometimes days. Split-and-stitch encoding changed all of that. By breaking a video file into smaller chunks, encoding them simultaneously across parallel cloud compute resources, and reassembling the final output, Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder can achieve speeds of over 92x real-time, and was the first in the industry to reach 100x.
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