Webinar: Winning the Battle for OTT Audiences


Date: 28th July 2018, 16:00 BST

This webinar brings examples from Leading OTT operators and providers describing how they drive audience growth through quality and user experience. Of course, great content alone is not enough to sustain a successful on-demand internet-delivered OTT service.

The speakers will reveal the risk factors that can destroy audience engagement, including poor streaming performance and data privacy and security fears and as OTT becomes inseparable from live broadcast, solutions for streaming time-sensitive, high-value live events and sports are assessed.

Whether it’s broadcaster catch-up, special-interest content or producers like HBO and Disney going direct, the pressure is on for platforms trying to compete with the big beasts Netflix and Amazon. With the announcement of Salto as a joint venture of broadcasters in France, and UK channels investing in updating Freeview Play, OTT is centre-stage once again.

Audiences have huge expectations of user experience, video image and quality-of-service – regardless of the network or device they are using. Delivering and managing a consistently-high quality of experience is crucial for media companies wanting to deliver a popular, engaging and profitable OTT service – whatever the content and business model.

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Speakers:
Guilherme Saraiva, CTO, Rede Telecine
Steve Miller-Jones, Senior Director of Product Management, Limelight Networks

Webinar: The State of Data


Date: 26th June 2018, 18:00 BST, 10am PDT

Register for a look at the current state of the media industry ― which means the expanding state of data. They will talk about:
• Data-driven changes in platforms and social
• The rise of savvy, demanding audiences ― and how producers are responding
• How data is bringing back profits to news and other media businesses

Speakers:
Ooyala’s Paula Minardi, Head of Content Strategy,
and Jim O’Neill, Principal Analyst.

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Webinar: AWS Innovate2018 Online Conference

Starting today, 19th July 2018 at 11:00BST, there are all sorts of topics covered in this online conference from databases to AI to IoT. But of particular interest is a step-by-step guide to building your own VoD architecture. Teaching you how to:

  • Ingest your data
  • Schedule and Transcode
  • Deal with Content Delivery and Scaling
  • Do Search & Recommendations
  • Bring smarts to your media player including analytics
  • Understand best practices

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Lots to see here so register quickly!

Video: Choosing B-frame Interval and Reference Frames


Jan Ozer from Streaming Learning Center takes us through the basics and ways to use B-frames in MPEG encoding. Covering:

  • Common B-Frame settings
  • Choosing the right B-Frame interval
  • What reference frames do
  • Understanding quality/encoding-time trade-off
  • Choosing the number of reference frames.

Great for remembering what you once knew or learning MPEG in a bit more depth, anyone who knows a little about MPEG encoding can benefit from this recorded webinar.

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