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Akamai notes streaming record of 7.3 Tbps during Euro 2016 championship 29 July 2016

The UEFA Euro 2016 championship game between Portugal and France pushed football’s popularity among the streaming crowd to record heights once again, with CDN provider Akamai recording peak traffic rate of 7.3 terabits per second, along with 3.3 million concurrent streams, … Continue reading

Faith based Preach The Word Worldwide Network TV (PTWWN TV) Launches its Video Streaming Website powered by Muvi 21 July 2016

New York, 21st July, 2016 – Muvi (www.muvi.com), the popular cloud-based OTT Video Streaming Platform, today announced that it is the chosen partner to power the Video Streaming Website offering Live and on-demand content for Faith based service – Preach the Word … Continue reading

Cord-cutters to be shut out from NBC’s Rio live-video lineup. 14 July 2016

It’s the first Olympic Games that viewers be available to watch live on connected TVs, including Apple TV, Google’s Chromecast, Roku and Amazon Fire devices, and for the first time, NBC broadcast network content including the primetime show will be streamed … Continue reading

On-Demand Live Streaming could be the future 11 July 2016

Live streaming video is utterly changing media, and the world in general. Within the last three days, Facebook Live chronicled a man’s death from a police shooting during a traffic stop and a case of domestic terrorism. Most impressively, a … Continue reading

BetOlimp links up with ICS to launch live video streaming service for Euro 2016 17 June 2016

Online sports betting and e-gaming operator BetOlimp has linked up with UK-based Independent Content Services (ICS) to launch its Twitch inspired live video streaming service for the ongoing Euro 2016 national football team tournament. The in-play betting companion video streaming … Continue reading

Facebook is diving into live video game streaming 09 June 2016

People love watching other people play video games, a phenomenon which has flushed ad revenue to gamers and their streaming platforms alike, and this move shows that Facebook wants in on the action. Soon, people playing Blizzard Entertainment games like … Continue reading

VOD was the fastest growing segment but still accounted for only 6% of the market in 2015 08 June 2016

Linear programming accounted for 89.5% of global audiovisual services revenues, which totaled €409.7 billion, in 2015. According to Idate’s DigiWorld Yearbook 2016, this represented a respectable 2.5% increase on the previous year, with the market as a whole growing by … Continue reading

5 Live Streaming Business Ideas to build on 08 June 2016

Live video streaming is growing at an unbelievable rate; Facebook has been the recent however one of the most aggressive entrant into this space by launching Facebook Live to all users. Facebook is following YouTube and Periscope into Live video … Continue reading

Facebook trying out continuous live streaming 25 May 2016

TechCrunch reported that a new “continuous live video” API is coming to Facebook’s broadcast partners, allowing users to keep streaming beyond the 90-minute time limit, for 24-hour-a-day. Explore.org has been testing it with live puppy cams, TechCrunch said. Facebook Live … Continue reading

Live streaming: Will it take centre stage? 24 May 2016

Thousands of viewers around the world watched the very first moments of a human’s life in real time last week when a man based in California streamed the birth of his son. Facebook Live, as this live video streaming platform … Continue reading