More and more small and medium businesses (SMBs) are using online video. And for good reason. An online video hosting platform is an incredibly powerful tool for marketing, sales, communication, and more. The statistics readily underscore the importance of video for your businesses. For example, video content makes online purchases 1.6x more likely. Likewise, marketers who […]

Do you remember the early days of Google Video and YouTube? More than a decade later, by 2019, so much has changed. For example, YouTube has long been a multi-billion dollar business. And today, the majority of people in the U.S. stream live video on their phones regularly. Relatedly, the streaming industry has experienced a […]

Let’s imagine that you plan to produce video content for online distribution via multiple channels. You now face a crucial question around video distribution: What’s the best way to get your content in front of the maximum number of viewers possible? And that‘s where a live streaming CDN comes in! Nowadays, there are many possible live […]

Times are changing in the world of online video. Flash, which dominated online video for decades, has already experienced a terminal decline. Meanwhile, HTML5 video player options and formats continue to expand. This is great news for the security and speed of the internet. At the same, it’s caused a shakeup for an industry in […]

Are you in search of a powerful video streaming solution for delivering OTT content? If so, you’ve come to the right place. This blog post will look at the top 7 CDN providers in 2019 for mobile-compatible, HTML5 live video streaming. Over the past decade, young millennials (ages 14-25) began watching more video on digital devices […]

Global OTT subscriptions are expected to hit 473 million in 2018, an 18 percent growth from 2017. More and more people are relying on internet video as the primary source of their entertainment. This article will look at how businesses are leveraging OTT platforms to manage, host, and deliver OTT content at scale. Specifically, we’ll […]

Any entrepreneur or developer may reach a time when they must make critical decisions. These decisions that can shape their business or product moving forward. Choosing a Video Streaming API is one of these important decision points that should factor into your streaming solutions. The API you choose to integrate live video streaming will influence your […]

Still a relatively new video distribution approach, Over The Top video (OTT) continues to push the big dogs—cable and broadcast TV—towards the fringes. With Netflix an early adopter of this trend, OTT video providers have exploded in numbers in recent years. Amazon, Apple, and dozens of other major companies have explored this approach. For example, […]

Video has a reputation for being difficult. And live streaming video is no different. After all, it’s a complex topic. I’m an expert, and it still sometimes seems like magic to me. In essence, photons hit a tiny digital sensor and are converted into digital signals. Those signals then pass through cables and via radio […]

Modern media companies are adapting to a rapidly changing landscape. In just a few short years, we’ve seen the decline of traditional and cable TV and a corresponding explosion in online video. Today, live broadcasting, also called live streaming, now plays an important role for many media businesses. In our video-dominant world, streaming live video […]