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Live Video Streaming Services Comparison – IBM Cloud Video vs Brightcove vs Dacast

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  Online video is booming. Streaming video already makes up more than two-thirds of all internet traffic, and this is expected to jump to 82 percent by 2020 as consumers move en masse to online video. A generational shift is underway. For businesses, taking advantage of this is essential and will require live video streaming […]

Live Video Streaming: When Should You Be Using Facebook Live?

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  We talk a lot on this blog about the growing popularity of live streaming. Recently, perhaps nothing exemplifies this better than the ability to live stream using Facebook Live. With a user base of more than 1.75 billion and annual revenues of nearly $18 billion, the company is a behemoth. The Atlantic, in an article […]

Dacast Launches Self-Serve Live Video Streaming

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  Dacast is proud to announce the launch of its self-serve live video streaming platform. The service is “do it yourself”, allowing for quick live broadcasting. After years of work, Dacast is officially out of beta and released to the public. The platform offers self-service live streaming. Through using the do it yourself model, it […]

What Is HLS Streaming and When Should You Use It [2024 Update]

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With the decline of Adobe Flash Player, the HLS format has emerged as the new standard, offering high-quality streams. The HLS streaming protocol, which stands for HTTP Live Streaming, is widely used for delivering both live and pre-recorded video and audio over the internet. Combined with HTML5 video players, video streams using HLS provide the […]

6 Essential OTT Video Streaming Platform Features

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OTT stands for “over-the-top.” It refers to the broadcast of video content like TV and movies over the internet, rather than over the airwaves or via cable or satellite TV subscription services. This post will look at six essential OTT video streaming platform features. Today’s most popular video services, like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, […]