Information Technology

Content services are most beloved when they offer delightful, consistent, cross-device OTT experiences, which are at par with conventional live, linear managed experiences. While Tier-1 services such as Comcast and others are coming closer to this idea in the US, the overall problem is far from solved. Even a decade after Netflix and Hulu first beg...

Server-side ad insertion has normally been about tackling the problems of ad blocking and device fragmentation. But the industry is now seeing platform shifts that change the sweet spot of ad stitching towards live and catch-up TV. Client-side ad SDKs have grown in sophistication, the platforms they run have become more capable and the transition t...

27 Jan 2020  |  North America  |  Market Research

Global Transport Layer Security (TLS) Certificate Market, Forecast to 2024

Turbulent Market Dynamics Point Certificate Authorities to New Revenue Opportunities and Business Models

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A Web site is the digital face of any business and, often, the first customer touchpoint. Cyber adversaries impersonate domain names and Web pages of digital brands to trick consumers into revealing their confidential data. As the frequency of such attacks increases, consumers look for ways to validate digital identities of businesses before en...

Disney Streaming Services knows what needs to be fixed and what it needs to do to improve the user experience. Disney should resolve all of these issues sooner than later and the next major build and release of Disney+ should include all kinds of new features and improvements. While Disney Streaming Services has been working on the Disney+ platform...

For customers looking for cheap video storage in the cloud, Amazon and Google offer some of the lowest prices. But for content owners that use Google and Amazon’s storage as origin, and then have another third-party CDN pull from it, their customers get hit with egress charges that in many cases no longer make Amazon and Google the cheapest for s...

To use a multi-CDN strategy, customers need an efficient way to route their site’s traffic to different CDN providers. The three routing methods that seem to be the most prevalent among recent multi-CDN survey respondents are Manifest, Player, and DNS approaches. For all of these methods, it’s important to implement business logic that defines ...

Multi-CDN strategies are quickly becoming a topic of interest for organizations in a wide range of industries. There are clear, tangible business benefits to deploying multi-CDNs around improving the user experience and controlling costs. And although some respondents hold the perception that operating multi-CDNs can be complex, companies are dispe...

The pay TV market has been in a state of disruption for the past few years. With many of these content services starting to mature, the streaming media market is about to evolve again, causing confusion for consumers. Many of these services started out pitching one main value proposition – being low cost. But now, with nearly every major streamin...

As video-based content services are now big business, with real revenue behind them, cloud-based ecosystems are now the difference between success and failure. Content owners can no longer afford to rely on self-hosted solutions that are more costly, harder to upgrade, and can't be scaled on-demand. Cloud services are opening new doors via platform...