Category Archives: The video experts blog

Adaptive Bitrate vs Multi-Bitrate Streaming: A Guide For Broadcasters

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Quality of experience (QoE) is very important for broadcasters as competition grows tighter in the online content creation space. Luckily, video streaming technologies have been rapidly improving to keep up with demand. In fact, studies show that buffering issues have fallen 41% and picture quality has risen 25% year-over-year. Even with these improvements, companies often […]

Top 10 Video Hosting Platforms in 2022

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To connect with your audience, you need videos on your website. The only problem with videos is they are much larger than text-based content, increasing demand on your website servers. Videos take up lots of bandwidth and storage space, resulting in viewing errors and website glitches when you host the videos directly on your website. […]

Top 15 Video Hosting Solutions: Everything You Need to Know [2022 Update]

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For the past several years, the millennial demographic has consistently increased their consumption of digital video, now spending more time watching videos online as opposed to on TV. Today, the OTT video industry is flourishing with no end in sight. In 2020, global OTT revenue was projected to grow by more than $16 billion. Experts […]

Video Streaming API: Top 8 Things to Consider When Choosing a RESTful API

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Choosing a video streaming API is a major undertaking for professional broadcasters. It is one of the most important decision points to make and can be especially daunting for those who want maximum customization capabilities when it comes to optimizing the player in their online video platform. The API you choose to integrate with your […]

Akamai vs. AWS CloudFront: Which CDN is Best for Live Video Streaming? [2022 Update]

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By 2022, online video will comprise over 82% of all consumer internet traffic. Live video streaming, in particular, is exploding in popularity. Cisco predicts that live video will grow fifteen-fold by 2020, making up 17% of total video traffic. Today, content delivery networks (CDNs) exist to facilitate smooth content delivery by moving data across large […]