April 22, 2020

Online Video News

Interview: PreK-12 Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Shutdown

Christ Episcopal School Director of Technology Bob Krieger discusses distance learning measures for early childhood to high school students implemented since the school shut down in mid-March in response to the spread of COVID-19.

AWS Elemental Bridges On-Prem and Cloud with Link

The remote-control device for real-time video transport is the size of a Kleenex box, completely silent, and requires no onsite configuration.

How to Keep Your Zoom Meetings Secure

Zoom meetings have become ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic, but so have concerns about the tool's security. Should you be worried? Not if you use the tools Zoom offers to make meetings more secure, say our experts.

How Legacy Church Launched Streaming Services in the COVID-19 Crisis

How does a church with no in-house streaming gear or on-staff expertise deliver live-switched, streamed services to hundreds of socially distanced parishioners on four days' notice? Legacy Church's Jeff Leach and Apache Rental Group's Zak Holley explain how they did it in this interview with Streaming Media's Steve Nathans-Kelly.

Verizon Media Introduces New Publishing, Advertising Features

Output Syndication makes it easy to publish directly to social media platforms, while Content Control simplifies the creation of live linear channels and Smartplay Prebid improves the ad bidding process

Featured Articles

5 Things You Need to Know About Vimeo Create

Vimeo is one of the most powerful video marketing platforms in the market today, and the Create tool has opened the platform up to a slew of team members across any organization.

Short Cuts

Has the Age of AVOD Arrived?

Dillon Media's Rob Dillon, Brightcove's Mike Green, Didja's Jim Long, Zendesk's Joe Jorczak & USC's Josette Bonte discuss the surprising resurgence of advertising-based VOD in this clip from Streaming Media West.

Optimizing OTT QoE in the Era of Personalization

Nice People at Work's Marc Maycas discusses how data and personalization can help OTT providers meet their users' QoE expectations in this clip from his presentation at Streaming Media West.

Blog

Cutting Bitrates, Keeping Quality

In the COVID-19 era, the right approach can check both boxes, and decisions made in response to the current demand on bandwidth can have long-term business advantages for OTT services

Industry News

Imagine Communications And Innovar Media Solutions Join Forces To Speed Next-Generation Ad Tech Deployments

Alliance will support global MVPD and broadcaster migration to next-gen solutions that grow revenues and reaggregate audiences across video platforms

V-Nova Collaborates with Amazon Web Services for On-Demand Low-cost High-quality Contribution over Commercial Internet

• Combination of V-Nova P.Link software with AWS Elemental MediaConnect and AWS Direct Connect provides intra-only grade contribution feeds without the need for leased dark fibre lines • P.Link is powered by SMPTE VC-6 encoding and decoding providing up

ACCESS partners with leading Chinese video service NewTV for in-car entertainment

Partnership will help the automotive industry deliver compelling, video-based in-car services to drivers and passengers across China

MediaKind delivers enhanced Advertising portfolio to unlock monetization potential of advertising and alternate content

MediaKind, a global media technology leader, today announced that its award-winning Advertising and Content Distribution Rights portfolio, PRISMA, has been reconfigured with a new flexible, modular feature set.

Intertrust and Fastly Deliver Integrated Solution for Protection of Direct-to-Consumer Streaming Content

Fastly’s Edge Cloud CDN Integrates With ExpressPlay DRM for the Highest Quality Streaming Experience With Hollywood-Grade Content Protection

Net Insight joins the Zixi Enabled Network facilitating interoperability with other partners

Zixi leads in enabling dependable, live broadcast-quality video over IP and Net Insight have been at the forefront of re-transmission-based IP and cloud delivery

Telestream Vantage IMF Producer Automates IMF Package Creation from Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline

Vantage Panel interface streamlines IMF delivery for editors