Barry Diller’s OTT Service Aereo Is Dead On Arrival
February 16, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
On Tuesday, Barry Diller introduced a new company and service called Aereo that will offer consumers in the NYC area the ability to get live broadcast TV stations via the Internet, with DVR in the cloud, for a subscription fee of $12 a month. Unfortunately for Barry's IAC/InterActiveCorp, who invested $20.5M in the company, this is going to be another…
Yottaa Launches New CDN For Dynamic Site Acceleration, Targeting SMB Market
February 13, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
Boston based Yottaa (pronounced “Yo-ta”) has announced a new dynamic site acceleration service aimed at the small and medium sized business (SMB) market. For those who have never heard of the company before, Yotta was founded in 2009 and for the last year, has primarily been offering a website performance monitoring service. The company raised $4M in a Series A…
Sources Say Akamai’s Next Acquistion Could Be Tag Management Platform BrightTag
February 12, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
Over the past two months, Akamai's been on a buying spree and it sounds like it may not be over. After agreeing to buy Cotendo for $268M and acquiring Blaze for what is rumored to be a $12-$15M evaluation, multiple industry sources say Akamai is in negotiations to buy Chicago based and privately held BrightTag. If true, this would be…
NBC Failed In Their Execution Of The Super Bowl Webcast, But Wants Us To Believe It Was A Success
February 8, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
NBC completely failed in their execution of streaming Sunday's Super Bowl on the web, yet they want us to believe that it was an engaging and successful webcast. Do they think we're stupid? Instead of coming clean and saying they had technical issues, especially with the quality of the video and re-buffering, the company is trying to blame these issues…
Limelight Launches Managed CDN Offering For Carriers, Is A Deal With F5 Next?
February 6, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
This evening, Limelight Networks announced their new managed CDN offering, called Limelight Deploy, aimed at helping telcos, carriers and service providers build and deploy CDN services inside their network. While this is a new product line for Limelight, they aren't new to the carrier space and have already built out networks for Bell Canada, starting in 2009, and Asia's largest…
Video Optimization Company Conviva Raises $15M: Is There Enough Of A Market For These Services?
February 6, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
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
February 5, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
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
January 15, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
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
January 11, 2012 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
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
December 20, 2011 by streaming video · Leave a Comment
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….