Johan Bolin Archives – The Broadcast Knowledge

Webinar: Why data-driven OTT will overtake the Broadcast TV model – The TV Data Revolution

Posted on 27th April 2020 by Russell Trafford-Jones

‘On demand’ must be the top reason people love streaming services. But for streaming providers, the motivation to deliver these services goes deeper than meeting market demand; The data that can be gathered as people watch is revolutionising business models.

Eyevinn Technology, the Swedish specialist consultancy firm focused on video and distribution brings this data into the spotlight tomorrow, Tuesday 28th, to discuss how different segments of the industry are using the data and why you should have a data strategy. This virtual panel brings together AWS, Braze, Edgeware, Eyevinn Technology, Jump TV, and Kaltura that will shed light on the
benefits you can get having a compelling data strategy.

“I believe we have gathered a very interesting combination of speakers and I can promise an insightful hour with a lot of good takeaways”
Magnus Svensson, VP Sales and Business Development at Eyevinn Technology

We see the evidence of the power of this data in the EULAs for Smart TVs which make it clear that they are watching you. Famously, North American TV Manufacturer Vizio was caught collecting “as many as 100 billion data points each day from millions of TVs,” according to the US FTC. This resulted in a class action suit and a judgement against Vizio.

This virtual panel looks at collecting data in the right way, discussing what data to collect and how to motivate subscribers to share their data. Importantly in today’s global society which needs to serve very privacy-conscious countries, there will be discussion about how to use the data that has been collected. They’ll be looking at how can data be used to understand how to scale your OTT solution, how can data be used to make the experience better and how can data be used to increase engagement and reduce churn.

Register now!

Speakers

	Johan Bolin Chief Product and Technology Officer, Edgeware
	Gideon Gilboa Marketing and Solutions – Media and Telecom, Kaltura
	Jerónimo Macanás CEO, Jump Data-Driven Video
	Warrick Godfrey VP, Industry Solutions, Braze
	Simon Frost Head of EMEA Media Marketing, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
	Magnus Svensson Media Solution Specialist, Eyevinn

Video: Reducing Stream Latency

Posted on 20th June 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Latency seems to be the new battleground for streaming services. While optimising bandwidth and quality are still highly important, they are becoming mature parts of the business of streaming whereas latency, and technologies to minimise it – as Apple showed this month – are still developing and vying for position.

Here, the Streaming Video Alliance brings together people from large streaming services to explore this topic finding out what they’ve been doing to reduce it, the problems they’ve faced and the solutions which are on the table.

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Speakers

	Kevin Johns Distinguished Network Architect, Content and Media CenturyLink
	Chris Sammoury Principal Engineer II, Charter Communications
	Richard Oesterreicher CEO Streaming Global/Hellastorm
	Patrick Gendron Director, Innovation Harmonic
	Johan Bolin Chief Product and Technology Officer, Edgeware
	Steve Miller-Jones Vice President of Product Strategy, Limelight Networks
	Jason Thibeault Executive Director, Streaming Video Alliance

Webinar: Video Delivery Trends

Posted on 27th February 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Thursday February 28th 2019, 10am PT / 1PM ET / 18:00 GMT

Streaming continues to grow, in amount streamed, in people consuming it and in importance within this and other industries. One things which has always been an enabler yet made streaming harder to deploy is its rapid evolution. Whilst this has been a boon for smaller, nimbler companies – both content producers and service providers – the streaming has now arrived at most companies in one way or another and this breadth of use-cases has kept streaming tech moving forward and showing no signs of abatement.

Some aspects are changing. For instance we are seeing the first patent-free MPEG standard proposals (EVC, which has basic patent-free functionality and a better performing patent-controlled profile) on the heels of AV1. We’re seeing low-latency efforts such as CMAF taking hold as an alternative to WebRTC. With CMAF being much closer to the ever popular HLS, this may well beat out WebRTC in deployments at the cost of a slightly higher, but much improved latency.

To bring all of this in to focus for 2019, Jason Thibeault from the Streaming Video Alliance is bringing together a panel of experts to look at the coming trends and to give us an idea of what to look out for, and how to make sense, of 2019’s year of video delivery.

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Speakers

	Guillaume Bichot Head of Exploration, Broadpeak
	Joshua Pressnell Chief Technology Officer, Penthera
	Pierre-Louis Theron CEO & Co-founder Streamroot
	Johan Bolin Chief Product & Technology Officer, Edgeware AB
	Steve Miller-Jones Vice President of Product Strategy Limelight Networks
	Moderator: Jason Thibeault Executive Director Streaming Video Alliance

Webinar: Transitioning Video Delivery to the Cloud – Best Practices

Posted on 15th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

The Streaming Video Alliance are back with a packed panel of experts discussing the move from broadcast channels to the cloud.

The real transition from traditional TV broadcast to online video is happening behind the scenes as incumbents and new providers embrace cloud resources to provide a scalable, distributed means to reach the widest possible audience. But the cloud is complicated. With a myriad of providers and a bevy of services available, providers need to understand both how the cloud can help streaming video workflows as well as the challenges involved with implementation and integration. In this panel, you’ll hear experts discuss a variety of challenges with cloud-based workflows, the growing importance of edge computing, and best practices for adopting cloud technologies in video delivery.

Register now!

Speakers

	Dror Gill CTO & VP Marketing, Beamr
	Raji Sankaran Software Engineer II, Concurrent Computer Corporation
	Michael McCluskey VP Product Management, Espial
	Petr Peterka Chief Technology Officer, Verimatrix
	Johan Bolin VP Products, Edgeware AB

Moderator: Jason Thibeault
Executive Director,
Streaming Video Alliance

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