OTT Video and TV Everywhere

As major content owners/distributors continue to bring more of their content delivery in-house, third-party CDN providers are being affected. In the case of Akamai, the key reason for the slowdown in traffic and revenue growth was a result of Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook moving a larger percentage of their traffic to their in-house delivery netwo...

Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Encrypted HLS are the most commonly used content protection technologies today. Both approaches have a strong track record in terms of securing proprietary content. However, content owners/providers that are focused on streaming media are  more likely to be interested in Encrypted HLS as it is simpler and less e...

Traditionally, server-side ad insertion has been aimed at tackling the problems of ad blocking and device fragmentation. Advances in technology are now emphasising the importance of ad stitching for live and catch up TV. Client-side ad SDKs have grown in sophistication while the platforms they run have become more capable, and the transition to nat...

Comcast launched its own commercial CDN offering in 2015 and added a new live linear streaming service that it announced at IBC 2015. The new platform provides customers the ability to easily turn-up, manage, and enable ad or subscription-supported live, over-the-top, full-time channel experiences. While a lot of vendors in the market offer platfor...

The North American Residential Multichannel Video Tracker has been reformatted to reflect feedback received from Stratecast's clients. The new format provides detailed information for several companies in the consumer communication services market for US and Canada. The aggregated data—delivered by country, technology, and company—includes subs...

Over-the-top (OTT) video services is considered a complementary entertainment option and is already widespread in Latin America; however, this industry still has growth opportunities, driven by the desire for a cheap service that is available anytime, anywhere, and on any device such as notebooks, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, and gaming console...

The North American Residential Multichannel Video Tracker has been reformatted to reflect feedback received from Stratecast's clients. The new format provides detailed information for several companies in the consumer communication services market for US and Canada. The aggregated data—delivered by country, technology, and company—includes subs...

Since their launch, content owners have raised concerns over how the iPhone 6 and 6+ have made it harder for some CDNs to deliver their content to these devices with good quality. Apple’s new phones challenge CDNs by creating a perfect storm of significantly larger images and a non-negotiable requirement to deliver images generated on the fly eve...

Following the growth in the sophistication of mobile applications, many congestion points have been identified. This in turn has given rise to several specialized solutions to resolve these congestion points. The primary solution for working around Internet congestion and slowdowns has long been the edge delivery and caching provided by content del...