July 29, 2020

Online Video News

Pocket.watch Premieres "Smiles & Smarts" Enrichment Content Package on Hulu

Series features 100 episodes of learning-themed kids entertainment, including Jillian's Mystery Craftbox and Ryan's World specials.

Etisalat Goes Live with Cloud OTT Service Using Synamedia’s Infinite Platform

Synamedia announced today that its Infinite cloud TV platform and award-winning Video Network portfolio were selected by Etisalat, the largest operator in the UAE and leading telco for emerging markets

Featured Articles

Revry Takes the "Tribrid" Approach with its LGBTQ OTT Network

Revry is the first global LGBTQ video service, and it's growing like crazy. This year, it expanded with Brightcove's Beacon to offer a three-pronged approach to programming and monetization: live linear, SVOD, and AVOD.

How To Stop CTV Fraud Schemes Like ICEBUCKET, DiCaprio

If you ask any marketer what keeps them up at night, chances are high that ad fraud is at the top of that list. And can you blame them? Last year digital ad fraud cost advertisers more than $23 billion globally. Now, these same problems are coming to a TV near you.

Short Cuts

Benefits of CMAF for CDNs

Limelight's Neil Glazebrook and Akamai's Peter Chave discuss the current progress toward a single universal streaming container format and what it means for CDNs in this clip from Content Delivery Summit 2020.

Where Does QoS Demand Come From?

Steven Tripsas discusses how Zype approaches quality of service (QoS) to improve response times and to meet the expectations of different types of clients--live and VOD--in this clip from Content Delivery Summit 2020.

Blog

How to Think About VVC

TL;DR: The right way to think about VVC is to put off thinking about it at all until actual decoder deployments are announced on platforms that matter to you. Here's why.

Industry News

Kaltura Selected by CETIN to Power Multi-National Super Aggregator Cloud TV Solution

Highlights: - Czech Republic’s CETIN, a member of PPF Group, to offer the central Cloud TV service, powered by the Kaltura TV Platform, as a single, cloud-based multi-national service. - Service intended to be launched across some of CEE Region’s most

10ZiG® and Zoom Come Together for Best Video and Best Audio Performance in Virtual Desktop Communication Solutions

10ZiG Technology’s cutting-edge endpoint hardware & software joins forces with Zoom’s unique architecture for optimized video and audio meeting solutions in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Index Exchange and JW Player Partner to Unlock High Quality Video Supply

Video Player Bidding now available to all of Index Exchange’s publisher partners, signaling continued omnichannel growth for leading Exchange