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Live Streaming Gets Another Boost As Brightcove Rolls Out New Live Module

VideoNuze.com Analysis - Wed, 05/15/2013 - 06:18

Live streaming is continuing to get a lot of mind share these days from both content providers and technology companies. The latest example in the latter category is Brightcove, which yesterday introduced in beta the Brightcove Video Cloud Live, a module to support live streaming across multiple devices.

A key part of Video Cloud Live is the recently announced Brightcove Zencoder Live Transcoding service, which provides live transcoding as a scalable API. This obviates the need for content providers to purchase and maintain their own hardware for encoding live events. This in turn reduces cost and complexity of running live events, making them far more feasible to offer to viewers. The Zencoder service also produces multiple adaptive bitrate streams so that users on various devices get the right stream for them.

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At Least Two Pay-TV Operators Circling Hulu

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324767004578485540239858024.html

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YouTube live-streaming now available to channels with over 1,000 subscribers

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/15/youtube-live-streaming-now-available/

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Turner to offer online streams of TNT, TBS

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-tnt-tbs-live-stream-20130515,0,6371728.story

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Netflix Sees Surge In Tablet Viewing

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/200412/netflix-sees-surge-in-tablet-viewing.html#axzz2TSlFonlo

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Law Firm Manatt Taps Csathy to Head Digital Media Venture Arm

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/law-firm-manatt-taps-csathy-to-head-digital-media-venture-arm-1200481283/

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Aereo Goes for the Big Win in Legal Battle

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/aereo-goes-big-win-legal-523420

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Netflix stops third-party apps from tracking when streaming titles expire

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4332506/netflix-stops-third-party-apps-from-tracking-when-streaming-titles-expire

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Belkin announces availability of Dyle mobile TV receiver for iPhone & iPad

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://9to5mac.com/2013/05/15/belkin-announces-availability-of-dyle-mobile-tv-receiver-for-iphone-ipad/

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On-demand movie streaming service Redbox Instant is now available on LG Smart TVs

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://thenextweb.com/media/2013/05/15/redbox-instant-launches-its-on-demand-movie-streaming-service-on-lg-smart-tvs/

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Morgan Stanley Thinks YouTube Will Be a $20 Billion Business

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://allthingsd.com/20130515/morgan-stanley-thinks-youtube-will-be-a-20-billion-business/

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YouTube Sends Cease-And-Desist Letter To Microsoft Over Windows Phone App

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/15/youtube-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-microsoft-over-windows-phone-app/

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Maker Studios Planning to Own More Content

VideoNuze.com News - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 22:00

http://www.adweek.com/videowatch/maker-studios-planning-own-more-content-149518

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Content Preparation And Transcoding For Multiscreen Delivery

The Business Of Online Video - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 14:24

With the introduction of adaptive streaming formats, a growing number of IP-enabled streaming boxes, and the proliferation of handheld devices, content owners face increasing challenges for multi-screen content preparation. At the Streaming Media East show, taking place next week, May 21-22 in NYC, we’ve got a session that will analyze the key components of file-based transcoding and will talk practically about converting content for multi-screen delivery. Learn how to encode content for each device, the algorithm choices/trade-offs, codec settings, and the particular requirements of various distribution platforms. Confirmed speakers include:

Moderator: Tony Lapolito, Director, Product Management, Cisco
Kevin Louden, Product Manager, Telestream
Tatum Lade, Head of R&D, Boxee
Jeff Malkin, President, Encoding.com
Gonzalo de la Vega, CEO, NicePeopleAtWork

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

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Early Bird Discount Ends This Friday for June 4th Video Ad Summit in NYC

VideoNuze.com Analysis - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 08:15

Early bird discounted tickets are only available until this Friday for the VideoNuze 2013 Online Video Advertising Summit on Tues, June 4th in NYC. In addition to the early bird, for startups/students, there's a special $195 ticket to make the event more affordable. Contact me for the discount code. Also as an extra bonus to sign up by Friday, all early bird registrants will be eligible to win a Samsung 40-inch Smart TV, presented by VideoHub.

The 3rd annual Video Ad Summit is a must-attend event for anyone in or around the online video / advertising industries. We have over a dozen sessions with nearly 40 speakers from agencies, publishers and technology providers including YouTube, GroupM, CBS Interactive, Nielsen, NBCU, Digitas, Viacom, LG, Scripps, Time, AOL and many others who will share insights on all of the key industry topics. As with prior Video Ad Summits you can expect to come away with valuable insights and data, plus lots of new relationships. The past 2 years we've had 300+ attendees.

Thanks to all 18 industry-leading companies that are supporting this year's Video Ad Summit: Premier Partners Adap.TV, Adobe, Akamai, TubeMogul, ValueClick and YuMe; Headline Partners Altitude Digital, AOL, BlackArrow, Collective, Innovid, LiveRail, VideoHub and Videology, plus Branding Partners EXPO, Extreme Reach, Mixpo and Real Media. All of them will have representatives at the event and it will be a great opportunity to meet them and learn about their products and services.

Learn more and save on early bird registration!

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Study: Click-Through Rate for In-Stream Video Ads is Four Times Higher Than for Rich Media and Mobile

VideoNuze.com Analysis - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 07:21

The click-through rate for in-stream video ads served by PointRoll in 2012 was .62%, four times higher than for mobile ads (.15%) and rich media ads (.14%) served. The data is part of a new benchmark study comparing 2012 ad performance to 2011. The interaction rate for in-stream video ads was 5.7%, compared with 4% for rich media and .96% for mobile.

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See Amazon’s Latest Dynamic Site Delivery Product In Action at The CDN Summit

The Business Of Online Video - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 05:08

On Monday May 20th, at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, (#cdnsummit) Amazon will show off the latest developments with their Dynamic Site Delivery offering. Amazon will demonstrate how you can use Amazon CloudFront to help architect your site to deliver both static and dynamic content. Attendees will also learn how they can configure multiple origin servers for their Amazon CloudFront distribution; use query string parameters to help customize their web pages for each viewer and how content owners can configure multiple cache behaviors, based on URL patterns on their website. Amazon’s goal is to make dynamic site delivery affordable, easy to configure and manage and provide more options for content owners looking for reliable delivery of dynamic assets.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

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Sandvine report confirms: video makes bandwidth hogs of us all

NewTeeVee - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 03:00

The story below was updated on Wednesday May 15 to reflect a correction in the original Sandvine report. Apple manufactured devices consume over 35% of all streaming audio and video on North America fixed access networks.

Despite the love people have for email, Twitter and even Facebook, the real star of the web in terms of sheer traffic is video. And not only is all this real-time video streaming possibly rotting our brains, congesting our broadband networks and threatening our pay TV businesses, it’s driving wholesale changes in how we pay for broadband and the future of television.

A great illustration of these changes comes from Sandvine’s Global Internet Phenomena Report: 1H 2013. Sandvine provides deep packet inspection and networking management tools to wireless and wireline ISPs, which is how it gets some of its data. While, many people already knew that Netflix traffic comprises about a third of the web traffic in the U.S., they might not know that YouTube is gaining rapidly with 17.11 percent of web traffic downloaded on wireline networks, up from 13.8 percent a year ago.

Video makes bandwidth hogs of us all

Few people are immune to the siren song of cat videos or Arrested Development. In fact, it’s changing the profile of what broadband usage looks like to the point where it’s normal to be a bandwidth hog. According to the Sandvine report in North America, the top 1 percent of subscribers who make the heaviest use of the network’s downstream resources account for 10.1 percent of downstream traffic.

However, those top 1 percent of users don’t look too much different from the top 30 percent. At the bottom, the network’s lightest 50 percent of users account for only 6.4 percent of total monthly traffic. In fact it’s those laggards at the bottom we should be worried about. Did they somehow miss Gangnam Style?

The average and median usage on both wireline and wireless networks in North America is on the rise. On wireline networks mean usage was 44.7 GB, a 39 percent year-over-year increase from 32.1 GB. Over the same period, median monthly usage increased at an even by 56.5 percent, jumping from 10.3 GB to 18.2 GB. On mobile networks mean monthly usage increased by 25 percent from 312.8 MB to 390.1 MB. Yet, median usage more than doubled from 25.5MB to 58.7 MB over the past year, driven in part by more people buying smartphones.

And mobile is even bigger than these numbers make it look like (or something like that). One out of every five bits — or 20 percent of the traffic on wireline network is generated by a smartphone or a tablet. And as Wi-Fi expands and is easier to connect too, that number should continue to increase.

Yes, video traffic will always be big, because videos are big

Before people accuse me of being unfair, let me note that sending video is one of the most data heavy options around. A two-hour HD movie file can contain 4GB of data or more, while a book that might also take two hours to read would top out at several megabytes.

The sheer volume of data is one reason video strikes fear into the hearts of both wireless and wireline network operators, while the loss of revenue from pay TV subscriptions keeps wireline providers up at night. Unfortunately for those implementing usage-based billing plans perhaps in hopes of influencing subscribers to keep their pay TV subscriptions, Sandvine shows that real-time entertainment usage goes up on networks with usage-based billing. In fact, the only thing reduced appears to be file-sharing traffic.

The rest of the report is chock full of great data such as this tidbit that confirms North America’s love of Apple products:

So what single home roaming device consumes the most Real-Time Entertainment traffic at over 10percent? It’s the iPad. In fact, Apple devices as a whole play a large role in the consumption of Real-Time Entertainment. If you add up all Apple manufactured devices (which includes iPads, iPhones, iPods, AppleTVs, and Mac computers), they consume over 35% of all streaming audio and video on North America fixed access networks.

There’s also some good data from Europe that shows that the lowered availability of over the top options like Netflix or the BBC’s video player cause the amount of real-time streaming traffic to drop. Additionally the report shows that in Europe file sharing is higher than in North America, something the report’s authors attribute to a lack of access to certain popular content because of geo-blocking.

But taken in its 40-page entirety, the data and case studies show how our love of video is causing both wireline and wireless ISPs to get creative to boost revenue and meet the challenges posed by the demand for video. Just like we said it would.

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That’s a lot of videos: YouTube now responsible for 17% of home Internet traffic

NewTeeVee - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 03:00

YouTube is now responsible for 17.1 percent of all residential fixed-line downstream traffic in North America, according to Sandvine’s latest global internet phenomena report.

The traffic management specialist’s report for the first half of 2013 still lists Netflix as the most popular bandwidth consumption pastime — 32.3 percent of all residential downstream traffic was caused by Netflix viewing. But YouTube’s share has been growing, and is up from 13.8 percent a year ago.

That in itself is notable, because most other services, including Netflix, HBO Go (0.34 percent) and Amazon Instant video (1.31 percent) have seen their share of traffic decline over the same period. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that people watch less Amazon Instant than a year ago; the company’s total share of a growing bandwidth pie is just smaller. But YouTube seems to be growing faster than any of these other services, at least on wired networks.

One reason for this kind of momentum could be the company’s emphasis of premium content as well as channel subscriptions. YouTube relaunched its site in late 2011, and gave sizeable advances to a number of content producers in 2012 to encourage more quality serialized content on the site. However, Sandvine seems to think that there’s another reason for the uptick. From the study:

“We believe the increase is attributed to the continued growth of smartphone and tablet use within the home (i.e. “Home Roaming”); as observed in this study, such devices consume over a quarter of all streaming audio and video on fixed access networks.”

YouTube did release its iPhone app in September, and followed up with an Pad app in December.

For more on Sandvine’s report, check out Stacey Higginbotham’s story Sandvine report confirms: video makes bandwidth hogs of us all