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Should You Build or Buy Video Observability? The TCO for Streaming Services and OEMs

Building video observability in-house sounds like the ultimate control play, until you factor in the real cost. This post breaks down the true TCO of building vs. buying a video analytics and observability solution, with tailored scenarios for OEMs, OVPs, broadcasters, SVOD, and AVOD platforms. From engineering overhead to scalability risks and revenue blind spots, discover which approach actually makes sense for your streaming operation.

Developers Innovation

Hackathon Spotlight: Visualizing real-time impression signals with Dashmovin Geo

As streaming platforms scale globally, development teams increasingly need to understand how playback activity is distributed and evolving in real time. However, impression data, one of the most direct indicators of player usage, is typically surfaced only after aggregation and processing through reporting pipelines. This makes it useful for analysis, but limits its value…

Developers Product Updates

From Error Noise to Clear Signals: Improving Streaming Debugging with Observability

Streaming teams rely on observability data to understand how playback performs across devices, platforms, and networks. Error metrics sit at the heart of this, helping engineering teams catch problems that affect startup time, playback stability, and overall viewer experience. But acting on those signals is not always straightforward.

Developers Product Updates

Strengthening playback observability with Bitmovin’s Observability collectors

Playback quality defines the success of every streaming service, shaping how viewers perceive the value of the content they consume. A single session can generate hundreds of signals that reflect performance, including start-up times, buffering events, and error codes. The challenge is that these signals are reported differently depending on the video player in use,…

Developers Product Updates

Advancing Error Reporting Across iOS, tvOS & visionOS with Bitmovin’s Player

For developers working on streaming apps across Apple platforms, error resolution has often felt like chasing shadows. Playback interruptions might show up as vague “Operation couldn’t be completed” messages, offering little guidance for debugging or pattern recognition. When every second of viewer downtime impacts QoE and revenue, these generic error codes don’t just slow teams…

Company News

Delivering Playback at Super Bowl Scale: FOX’s Streaming Success

Super Bowl LIX became the most-streamed NFL event in history, drawing over 15.5 million peak concurrent viewers on FOX’s Tubi platform. To deliver seamless playback at that scale, FOX deployed Bitmovin’s Player – optimizing startup times, adaptive bitrate streaming, and cross-device consistency. Combined with real-time telemetry that captured over 25 billion playback beacons, the result set a new benchmark for live sports streaming.

VidTech

7 ways Bitmovin’s Observability helps you get the most out of your encoding, player and ads

TL;DR Bitmovin’s Observability provides valuable insights that can take the performance and efficiency of your video streaming workflow to new levels. By leveraging Observability, you can optimize encoding profiles, improve player performance, gain deeper understanding of audience behavior, and ultimately, deliver a superior viewing experience while managing costs effectively. This blog post will explore seven…

VidTech

“Better Together” at IBC 2024: Elevating Streaming Experiences with Bitmovin Innovators Network

In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the importance of collaboration has never been clearer. At Bitmovin, we have long championed the belief that the best solutions emerge when industry leaders join forces. Our recent NAB 2024 showcase underscored this belief, and as we approach IBC 2024 in Amsterdam, we are excited to highlight how our…

Company News VidTech

The Bitmovin Innovators Network “Better Together” Award Winners!

The dust has now settled from NAB, and I am still looking back in awe at the success of the Bitmovin Innovators Network and the community that we’ve built, together. A personal highlight for me was our exclusive semi-annual Bitmovin Innovators Network Partner Executive Networking Event which had over 100 attendees who joined to learn…

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Developers

Video Platforms, Video Streaming APIs, and SDKs Explained

Building video into products and services is tough. Businesses need robust streaming infrastructure to store, encode, manage, deliver, and analyze video content. Plus, most dev teams have expertise in their company’s core competency rather than back-end video technology. 

That’s where online video platforms (OVPs), video streaming application programming interfaces (APIs), and software development kits (SDKs) come into play.

In this guide we take a look at each solution in turn to help identify the right approach for you and your team.

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