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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DAZN Powers FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Streaming with M2A Media & Unified Streaming
DAZN streamed the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 globally using M2A Media for primary headend services and Unified Streaming's Live Origin technology for video packaging and delivery. The technical setup featured adaptive bitrate dynamic packaging for smooth playback across devices, along with DRM, wat...
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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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Unlock SEO Success: Your Web Hosting Matters
Your web hosting provider critically influences SEO by affecting performance metrics like page load speeds, uptime, and Core Web Vitals, which Google uses to rank websites. Hosting infrastructure directly impacts Core Web Vitals scores, with features such as SSD storage, HTTP/3 support, and CDNs ...
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Bruno Giner on Insights-Driven Streaming at Streaming Media 2025
Bruno Giner of NPAW highlights the importance of data intelligence in optimizing user experiences and business decisions within the video streaming ecosystem. NPAW has evolved from monitoring data to generating actionable insights using AI and machine learning to understand user behavior and auto...
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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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Brendan Carr's Controversial Statements
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr's Senate testimony raised concerns over his use of veiled threats toward broadcasters and his potential application of outdated regulatory concepts to future internet governance. The competitive streaming landscape saw significant shifts, including YouTube securing t...
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Major Outage: Cloudflare Disrupts X, ChatGPT, and Downdetector
A widespread outage at Cloudflare caused significant disruptions to numerous popular internet platforms, including X, ChatGPT, and Downdetector, with services now showing initial signs of recovery. The disruption was triggered by an unexplained spike in unusual traffic targeting a core Cloudflare...
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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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Cloudflare Outages: Not If, But When
A widespread outage at Cloudflare disrupted major websites and services like X, ChatGPT, and Spotify, highlighting the internet's heavy reliance on a few key infrastructure providers. Experts warn that such outages are becoming more frequent and severe, urging companies to build redundancy and re...
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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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Layercake Integrates Norsk with Streamcake for Smarter Media Workflows
Layercake has integrated Norsk's video processing into its Streamcake platform, creating a unified solution for sophisticated live and on-demand video workflows with enhanced control and scalability. The integration merges real-time media processing with automation tools, allowing complex pipelin...
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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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Animal Crossing's 3.0 Update Arrives Early
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 update launched early, surprising fans with its free content and improvements ahead of the official January 15th date. This major update adds key quality-of-life features like expanded home storage and multi-item crafting, alongside new content such as a hote...
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Samsung's Freestyle Projector Gets a Brightness Boost
Samsung's new Freestyle Plus projector boasts significantly enhanced brightness of 430 ISO Lumens, nearly double its predecessor, marking a shift toward clearer industry-standard specifications. The device retains the original model's design, 1080p resolution, and streaming capabilities while add...
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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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Get Your ChatGPT Year in Review: See Your Chatbot Conversations Summarized
ChatGPT's new "Year in Review" feature provides users with a personalized summary of their annual chat history, including statistics, conversation themes, and a custom pixel art image. The review categorizes users with an archetype and a humorous award based on their interaction patterns, offerin...
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Black Friday Deal: Oura Ring 4 Hits All-Time Low Price
The Oura Ring Generation 4 is available at a record-low price of $249, with premium gold and rose gold versions discounted to $350 as part of a Black Friday promotion. It offers advanced health monitoring features, including detailed sleep analysis, heart rate tracking, and SpO2 sensing, but requ...
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Google's AI Now Visualizes Your Dream Vacation
Google has introduced a "Create with Canvas" feature in its AI Mode for search, enabling users to generate detailed, customizable travel itineraries with flights, hotels, and schedules based on their descriptions. This travel planning tool is currently available to desktop users in the U.S. who h...
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Get Apple's AirPods 4 for Just $85 - Lowest Price Ever
The fourth-generation AirPods are currently available at a record low price of $84.99, a $44 discount, from major retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. They offer improved audio quality with richer bass and new features such as Voice Isolation for clearer calls and head-gesture controls f...
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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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Black Friday Deal: Amazon's Entry-Level Kindle Hits Record Low
Amazon's entry-level Kindle is available at a record-low price of $79.99 for the ad-supported version, with discounts also on the ad-free model and the latest Kindle Paperwhite at major retailers. The basic Kindle features a 6-inch glare-free display, USB-C charging, 16GB storage for thousands of...
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Samsung Frame Pro TV Hits Record Low Before Black Friday
Samsung's Frame Pro TV is available at its lowest price ever, with the 65-inch model at $1,447.99 and the 75-inch at $1,897.99, offering significant savings just before Black Friday. The TV features Art Mode, which displays digital art on a matte QLED screen to mimic a canvas, but requires a $50 ...
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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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Meta Quest 3S Deal: Save $50, Get $50 Gift Card & Game
Major retailers are offering significant discounts on the Meta Quest 3S VR headset, including a $50 price cut and a $50 gift card, with additional bonuses like games or a subscription trial. The Quest 3S is a capable standalone VR system, featuring a powerful processor for smooth gameplay, compat...
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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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Ask Questions About Your Book With the Kindle App
Amazon has launched "Ask this Book," an AI tool in its Kindle app that lets readers ask questions about their current novel to clarify plot, characters, and themes without spoilers, based only on the content they've read. The feature is permanently enabled for all eligible books, with private, no...
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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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OpenAI Launches More Affordable ChatGPT Subscription
OpenAI has launched a new, more affordable global subscription called ChatGPT Go, priced at $8/month, to bridge the gap between its free and premium Plus tiers. The Go plan offers significantly enhanced features over the free version, including approximately 10x more messages with the fast GPT-5....
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Spotify Announces Another Price Increase
Spotify is raising Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, marking its third increase since 2023. Individual US plans increase to $12.99/month, with larger hikes for Duo and Family plans, while the company cites funding improvements and artist support. The anticipated move fol...
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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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TikTok Blames US Outage for Recent Service Issues
A major TikTok outage in the U.S. was caused by a power failure at a data center, disrupting core functions like video uploads and the content feed. The incident occurred shortly after a new U.S.-based entity, involving Oracle, officially took control to manage American user data and operations. ...
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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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