March 17, 2016

Featured News

BBC and ITV Revive Paid VOD Streaming Plans

Joined by NBC Universal, broadcasters BBC and ITV are working on a UK competitor to Netflix and Amazon Prime

BBC Closing Loophole, Requiring a License for iPlayer Viewing

Online viewers can currently access shows moments after they're broadcast without a license, but that will likely come to an end this summer.

Vimond Makes On-Demand Video Viewing Social With Connect

With Vimond Connect, comments are tied to a particular place within a video, only appearing when other viewers reach that same spot.

Featured Articles

Live Streaming Through the Cloud

This session explores how media companies can achieve long-distance ingest, remote playout, and even distribution of live video to playout systems via the cloud.

Periscope, Meerkat, and Facebook Live: The Future of Live Streaming?

The session looks at the rapid evolution of new streaming apps such as Periscope, Meerkat and Facebook Live and how they are changing both brand webcasting and video on social media.

Live Streaming the Football League: A Case Study

StreamAMG launched 89 video-based websites—one for each of the Football League's clubs. Over the following three months subscriptions to the site grew by over 30 percent.

Industry News

Sixty Signs Partnership Agreement with Altibox to Help Develop Next Generation Cloud-based STB/PVR

TV experience company Sixty has announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Altibox which will see Sixty apply its expertise and experience to support the development of Altibox’s latest generation set-top box (STB). The agreement further ex

Sky Media to use Yospace’s live ad insertion solution for Sky Go

Sky Media has chosen Yospace to provide a dynamic advertisement replacement solution for Sky Go, the leading ‘TV everywhere’ service in Europe.

Vimond Partners with FASTLY for High Speed CDN

Vimond Media Solutions has entered into a commercial partnership with Fastly, the real-time CDN that’s redefining content delivery. Vimond now offers the benefits of Fastly’s technology, enabling an end-to-end solution for customers.