November 11, 2013

Online Video News

Mobile Video Shakeout: Viddy Changes Name to Supernova

What's Viddy to do after losing out to Vine and Instagram? Change its name and try, try again.

DaCast Announces Mobile Video Service, Partners With Akamai

Self-service platform adds iOS and Android streaming for live and on-demand rich video content.

Jinni Brings Content Discovery to Free App and Website

TV and online viewers can now get recommendations based on their moods or favorite plot elements directly from Jinni.

Featured Articles

The 2013 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards Finalists

Here are the top vote-getters in 26 categories; we'll be announcing the winners at Streaming Media West

How-To: Calculating Outbound Bandwidth Requirements for Live Events

Outbound bandwidth used to be easy to calculate, but with more and more streams and encoding/transcoding alternatives, today it can be a challenge. Here are some tips to figure out how much you need for your event.

Industry News

RLJ Entertainment Appoints Float Left Interactive to Develop Acorn TV Streaming Applications

Brevity unveils Desktop app, extending its patented super-accelerated transport, transcoding and compression to everyone

New Brevity Desktop app allows users to use the patented technology for simultaneous transport and transcoding and transfer files to and from any location

VIVOplay Selects Octoshape Infinite HD-M™ to Expand into the Global Hispanic Content Market

VIVOplay, a Hispanic OTT (Over-The-Top) television provider, announced today that they have selected Octoshape, an industry leader in cloud-based streaming technology, to deliver the highest quality content in the market to Spanish speaking consumers acro