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A lookback at 2016 in the world of Video Streaming. 29 December 2016
It’s been at eventful year of Video Streaming & Live Streaming – From LIVE Presidential Debates on Social Networks to Nat Geo’s 360° Video of Antarctica Journey everything was streaming instantly over the air. Video Streaming has been the talk of the year. We … Continue reading
Adobe Enables Dynamic Ad Insertion Across Linear & OTT Streams 08 September 2016
Dynamic ad insertion is easier with OTT but is less prevalent across TV and VOD platforms. Seeing this, Adobe has enhanced its Primetime solution to boost dynamic ad insertion for live and linear TV streams. This capability by Adobe Primetime can either be … Continue reading
55 million LATAM viewers watched Olympics on smartphone 30 August 2016
2016 Olympics has been the biggest mobile event ever with over 55 million smartphone users streaming the games. Additionally, 120 million videos for the Olympics were played through YouTube and 91 million played through a Video streaming Platform app called Claro. … Continue reading
2016 Olympics – Online Viewing Breaks all Records 17 August 2016
According to a recent report by Akamai, Olympics online video traffic will have 4,500 hours of live coverage by the end of seasons, up from 3,500 for 2012 London Games and 1,000 for 2014 Sochi Games. NBC Sports streams more … Continue reading
Rio Olympics Live Streaming topped 1 billion minutes 12 August 2016
According a recent study by Nielsen, 2016 Rio Olympics managed to gather 1.05 billion minutes of live streaming, along with the NBC Sports app contributing a hit of 232%. The one billion threshold has never been crossed for Olympics in … Continue reading
BBC to bring 360° live and on-demand video viewing of RIO 2016 for UK audiences 08 August 2016
Just as the Olympics are about to begin, BBC sports has announced to showcase live 360° video footage of the event each day starting Friday, August 5 as a trial app for iOS, android, and Samsung Gear VR platforms. The … Continue reading
NBC Olympics & Microsoft to bring Live and On-Demand Streaming of Summer Olympics 03 August 2016
NBC Olympics taps Azure once again to bring live and on-demand Summer Olympic Games. The streaming will be available on any device including smartphones, tablets, PCs, connected TVs and gaming consoles. In order to deliver authentic streaming coverage and seamless … Continue reading
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
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
