Video Optimization Company Conviva Raises $15M: Is There Enough Of A Market For These Services?

This morning, California based Conviva, a video quality optimization and analytics platform, announced a series D round of funding totaling $15M, lead by Time Warner Investments. Founded in 2006 as Rinera Networks, the company changed their name to Conviva in 2008 shortly before Darren Feher, former CTO of NBC Universal took over as CEO of the company.

Transparent Caching & CDN Merging: Juniper Licenses BitGravity’s CDN Technology

A few weeks ago Juniper announced they had licensed BitGravity's CDN technology and plans to add the functionality to their transparent caching Media Flow solution. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but I hear that there is a revenue sharing component between Juniper and Tata Communications, which owns BitGravity. Juniper does not plan to re-sell any of Tata Communications…

Akamai Now Has A VP/GM For Their Licensed CDN Initiative

Over the past few weeks, I've been getting many questions from Wall Street analysts as to when Akamai will hire a VP/GM for their licensed CDN (LCDN) initiatives. Normally I don't highlight when vendors fill job openings unless they are at the C level, but in this case, since I'm being asked so often I'll share what I know. While…

Akamai Lowering CDN Pricing In Effort To Be More Competitive

About 45 days ago, I noticed Akamai was being more competitive when it came to pricing CDN deals and around that same time, Akamai's sales reps were highlighting this pricing reduction in emails to potential customers. One of the emails I received from an Akamai sales rep said, “as we are at the end of 2011, I wanted to keep…

NFL and NBC Announce Plans To Stream The Super Bowl Online, For Free

Earlier today, NBC and the NFL announced that the 2012 Super Bowl will be be streamed live online, for free, using the same platform (Silverlight) that NBC uses to stream the Sunday Night Football games (SNF Extra). No authentication will be required and the Pro Bowl and NBC's wild-card playoff games will also be streamed live on NBCSports.com and NFL.com….

Transparent Caching Market $142M This Year, Growing To Over $400M By 2014

In addition to my role at StreamingMedia.com, I'm also a Principal Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. We do a lot of private research for companies in the industry and we also produce quite a few reports each year that focus on the size of different products and services in the digital video ecosystem. One of the reports new to our…

Amazon Says It Has 20,000 CDN Customers; But What Does That Really Mean?

On Tuesday, Amazon announced via their AWS blog that the company now has 20,000 active customers for their CloudFront CDN service. In addition, Amazon believes that their 20,000 customers would make Amazon CloudFront “the largest global CDN according to published customer counts”. The problem is that while the 20,000 number sounds impressive, without more granular details, there is no way..

Enterprise Video Webcasting Market Size $133M, Growing To $500M By 2017

In addition to my job at StreamingMedia.com and running my blog, I'm also a Principal Analyst at Frost & Sullivan in their Digital Media Group. We do a lot of private research for companies in the industry and we also produce quite a few reports each year that focus on the size of different products and services in the digital…

Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry

Over the past five years, very few companies have single handily help jump-start the streaming media industry and propelled the market forward as a whole. Looking back, companies like YouTube, Adobe, Netflix, Akamai and others have impacted the market in ways that most companies will never be able to.

Startup Qwilt Raises $24M To Develop Video Delivery Platform For Service Providers

Looking to cash in on the expected growth of over-the-top video being delivered across service provider networks, last week Qwilt announced that they have raised $24M in two rounds of VC funding, with one of the investors being RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser as well as some of the original VC's that invested in Facebook and Netflix. Qwilt has spent the…

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