Topic: content delivery
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5 Streaming Strategies to Boost Your OTT Quality of Experience
The global OTT video market is projected to reach $347.11 billion by 2025, making Quality of Experience (QoE) crucial for viewer retention and revenue growth. Achieving high QoE requires a seamless technical workflow from ingestion to playback, with modern systems relying on automated quality con...
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2025 Streaming Media Readers' Choice: Meet the Industry Champions
The 2025 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards recognized top products and services in 19 categories, with winners selected through over 9,000 votes from industry professionals, ensuring integrity by excluding suspicious or biased entries. Notable winners included Haivision for Streaming Innovat...
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OSN & Harmonic Launch Targeted Video Monetization for Streaming
OSN and Harmonic have partnered to introduce targeted advertising on OSN's streaming platforms in the Middle East and North Africa, aiming to boost viewer engagement and revenue. Harmonic's VOS360 Ad SaaS platform enables personalized, high-quality ad insertion with seamless integration and advan...
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AJA Unveils BRIDGE LIVE 12G-4 for Professional Video Workflows
AJA Video Systems has launched the BRIDGE LIVE 12G-4, a compact IP video workflow solution that supports multi-channel UltraHD video with four bi-directional 12G-SDI ports and flexible encoding/decoding across various protocols. The device addresses modern broadcast challenges by enabling secure,...
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Marketers Stuck in AI 'Pilot Purgatory'
Marketing teams face a significant gap between AI ambitions and implementation, struggling to move beyond testing to full-scale deployment despite rising content demands. The content demand-production gap has reached 81%, with most leaders reporting increased expectations but nearly half unable t...
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Can AI Truly Personalize at Scale?
Consumers demand personalized content, with 71% expecting brands to anticipate their needs, yet only a third feel companies deliver this effectively. Brands struggle with fragmented content systems, manual tasks, and disconnected tools, which hinder personalization at scale despite rising content...
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2025 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards: Finalists Announced
The 2025 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards finalists have been announced across 19 categories, with winners to be revealed on October 8 and featured in an upcoming magazine issue. This year's awards highlight products from companies headquartered outside Europe, reflecting a global perspecti...
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Macau Teledifusão Upgrades to Harmonic's Advanced Playout Solution
TDM has upgraded its media operations with Harmonic’s advanced playout and production technology, enhancing broadcast efficiency and content delivery in Macau. Harmonic’s Spectrum™ X and MediaGrid® systems provide TDM with scalable, high-performance storage and seamless workflows, supporting real...
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SAP Concur & Amex GBT Forge New Business Travel Alliance
SAP Concur and American Express Global Business Travel have formed a strategic alliance to launch Complete, a unified platform integrating AI for streamlined corporate travel and expense management. The collaboration combines both companies' technologies and data to offer enhanced marketplace acc...
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Zapping Time & Personalization: The New Keys to Viewer Retention
Viewer retention in streaming now depends on fast content access and deep personalization, shifting the competitive focus from content libraries to superior user experience. A high-performance backend is essential for minimizing latency and meeting user expectations, with key metrics like zapping...
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Stop CarPlay From Hijacking Your AirPods With This iPhone Setting
Apple's latest iOS update introduces a "Keep Audio with Headphones" setting to prevent audio from automatically switching to CarPlay when using AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones. Users can enable this feature in Settings under General > AirPlay & Continuity, ensuring music, calls, and podcast...
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Ricoh Unveils a Camera Made Just for Black and White
Ricoh is launching the GR IV Monochrome, a camera designed exclusively for black and white photography with a specialized monochrome sensor, expected in Spring 2026. The camera features a high ISO range up to 409,600 for superior low-light performance and includes custom Image Control settings to...
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AI Companies Now Face a New Web Payment System
The Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard is a new framework that allows web publishers to specify and enforce compensation terms when their content is used for training AI systems, with support from major platforms like Reddit and Yahoo. RSL builds on the robots.txt protocol by adding financial...
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Insta360 X5 Action Cam Drops to All-Time Low Price
The Insta360 X5 360-degree action camera is available at a record-low price of $499.99, with a free hardshell case included when purchased directly from Insta360. It features significant upgrades including enhanced image quality, 4K video at 120fps, and user-replaceable lenses for creative flexib...
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Garmin eTrex Touch: Nearly a Month of Battery Life
The Garmin eTrex Touch is a rugged GPS navigator with a 3-inch touchscreen and preloaded maps, designed for reliable outdoor use at a price of $449.99. It features exceptional battery life, lasting up to 130 hours normally and extending to about 650 hours in expedition mode for nearly a month of ...
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Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Now Last Twice as Long
The new Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses double the battery life to eight hours and feature an improved charging case for extended use. Enhanced video capabilities include 3K recording and upcoming software updates for hyperlapse and slow-motion modes. Audio improvements add conversation focus and expa...
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Anbernic's DS Clone Costs Less Than Nintendo's Original
The Anbernic RG DS is a budget-friendly dual-screen handheld priced under $100, designed to emulate Nintendo DS and 3DS games, offering nostalgic gaming at an accessible cost. It demonstrates smooth performance with stylus-based and 3DS titles, though specific technical details remain undisclosed...
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Lenovo Legion 5: Fast OLED Gaming Laptop for $1,050
The Lenovo Legion 5 offers exceptional gaming performance with an OLED display and RTX 5060 graphics at a competitive price of $1,050, representing significant savings. It features a high-resolution 165Hz screen, upgradeable RAM and storage, and is available in both AMD and Intel configurations f...
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Fandom CEO Exits Company in Surprise Move
Fandom's CEO Perkins Miller has unexpectedly stepped down after six years, prompting an interim leadership structure while the company searches for a permanent replacement. Users have criticized Fandom for its heavy advertising, which disrupts page stability and usability, despite the company's e...
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Amazon's 2025 Event: Top 8 Reveals You Need to See
Amazon unveiled a major refresh of its hardware ecosystem, featuring smarter devices with enhanced AI capabilities, including upgraded Echo Show smart displays with improved cameras and the new Alexa Plus assistant. The company introduced premium audio options like the Echo Dot Max and Echo Studi...
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Unmissable Deals: Save 50% on Paramount Plus, Legos & More This Week
Paramount Plus is offering a 50% discount on annual subscriptions for both its Essential and Premium plans until September 18, with prices starting at $29.99 for the first year. Several other notable deals include discounted Lego sets, a dash cam with solar power, and price drops on video games l...
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Amazon's NFL Thursday Night Football Gets an AI Upgrade
Amazon is introducing AI-powered features like Pocket Health for its Thursday Night Football coverage to provide real-time, interactive insights during live NFL games. New End of Game AI tools for the 2025 season will heighten suspense by evaluating possession scenarios and predicting comeback po...
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Spotify Adds Video Podcasts & Music Videos to Apple TV
Spotify has launched a major redesign for its Apple TV app, introducing video podcasts and music videos for a faster, more engaging experience, though music videos are not yet available in the U.S. or Canada. The update includes intuitive features like switching from audio to video for songs and ...
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AWS Outage Cripples Fortnite, Alexa, and Snapchat
A major AWS outage is causing widespread service disruptions for platforms like Fortnite, Alexa, and Snapchat, primarily affecting the US-EAST-1 Region and other global areas. The outage has rendered services non-responsive, impacting smart assistants, scheduled routines, and applications from co...
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CNN All Access: Stream Cable News for $6.99/Month
CNN All Access is a new $6.99/month streaming service launching on October 28, 2025, offering an annual subscription for $69.99 and a discounted introductory rate for early sign-ups. The service does not include a live simulcast of the main CNN cable channel but provides curated live programming,...
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Xbox Series S & X Price Increase Hits Tomorrow - Last Chance to Buy
Xbox console prices are increasing significantly starting October 3rd, 2025, with the Series S rising by $20 and the Series X by $50-$70 depending on the model. The Xbox Series X offers more power with 4K gaming and 1TB storage, while the Series S is designed for 1440p gaming and lacks an optical...
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Imgur Blocks UK Users in Surprise Geo-Ban
Imgur has blocked all access for UK users, preventing them from logging in, viewing, or uploading content as of September 30, 2025, following a warning from the UK's data protection authority. The UK's Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating Imgur over its handling of children's data a...
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