The OTT and video streaming industry is a fast-paced environment with countless variables that can and will affect your performance, viewer experience, and bottom-line. Perhaps most commonly – a video streaming platform might get hit with an unexpectedly viral piece of content, from breaking news to user-generated content (consider any trending “video challenge”) to a…
Streaming Wars: Someone’s bound to win…right? The search term “Streaming Wars” took off in late 2015 with the near-simultaneous announcements that Hulu (currently owned by The Walt Disney Company) was under consideration for purchase by Time Warner (now owned by WarnerMedia and operating the name WarnerMedia) – who was also investing heavily in the development…
How to gain maximum operational flexibility As most people already know, a strategy based on “on the fly” or “just-in-time” releases is one of the first stepping stones to a failing business model. Successful organizations aim to create repeatable, measurable, and (somewhat) flexible strategies. As video technology engineers will tell you – this is even…
Super-Resolution: What’s the buzz and why does it matter? Super-resolution has been gaining steam recently. Many companies, secretly and not-so-secretly, have been incorporating this technology into their workflow. Most notably: Samsung has started advertising this feature in their latest flagship phone camera’s – boasting 64MP cameras that use super-resolution for zooming in during the photo…
This post is a follow-up to our Video Technology Trends 2020 blog post from early February. View the original post here The early months of 2020 have quickly faded into a blur behind the reality-shattering global crisis that was (and continues to be) the COVID-19 pandemic. In January, very few individuals would have predicted how…
When it comes to back-end video app management, there are five primary metrics that can make or break your business at any stage once your service has launched: Today we’re covering the only metric that everyone in the video streaming industry will agree is A) the most important metric you need to monitor at all…
Where our journey to Encoding Excellence began Many of the basic concepts of video coding such as transform-coding (transcoding), motion estimation and compensation were developed in the 1970s and 1980s. MPEG-1, the base coding standard was developed and implemented industry-wide in the early 1990s. Today, compression and decompression mechanisms are the drivers behind the delivery…
Before diving into the new decade, our product managers rounded up their favorite features of the year 2019 for our Encoding, Player, and Analytics products. Looking back, it made us realize how many cool and useful features were released. Let us know if you agree with our selection and which features you’d like to see…
As we’re approaching the end of 2019 one may have noticed various articles describing predictions for media, entertainment, and video tech in 2020. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of the most valuable trends in Video Tech we anticipate for 2020 rather than just another set of predictions. Hopefully, this will…
At Bitmovin’s Southeast Asia Internet Video Debate 2019, video executives shared hot OTT topics ranging from AI to multi-codec and low-latency As the orange sun set over the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, senior executives and video engineers from India’s leading Internet video streaming companies gathered together at our first APAC Internet Video Tech Social…
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