By the time you read this, it just might own Sky, too. Comcast Corp.Ĭomcast has its hands in virtually every aspect of the video industry, from over-the-air and cable channels to movies, not to mention its Xfinity cable service. The new company, Synamedia, made its debut at IBC, but it was located in the Cisco booth. CiscoĬisco may not be on the Streaming Media 50 next year, as it is in the process of spinning off its Service Provider Video Software Solutions business to a company backed by Permira Funds in a deal rumored to be worth around $1 billion. The third-largest telco in the U.S., CenturyLink became a heavyweight in the video streaming market in 2017 when it acquired content delivery network Level 3 Communications, a perennial member of the Streaming Media 100. He and his company have been around from the start, and his tireless advocacy for DRM has been as important as the DRM services BuyDRM offers. BuyDRMĬhristopher Levy used to have “Stream OG” as his email user name, and with good reason. The first online video platform on the market, Brightcove seemed rudderless for a few years, but has found its way again with server-side ad insertion, context-aware encoding (also a Best of NAB winner), and video platform solutions that scale from small business to broadcast. Starting out as a video optimization player, Beamr has since introduced software encoders, and this year its Transcoder VOD won a Streaming Media Best of NAB Award. $1.58 billion from majority owner Disney goes a long way. When Major League Baseball decided to build its own streaming platform, few would have suspected it would grow into the juggernaut it is today, powering various professional sports streaming offerings as well as Hulu Live. AppleĪpple TV and the iPhone might not have the biggest shares of their respective markets, but Apple still sets the pace for the online video industry, from HLS to its early support of HEVC. Jeff Bezos wants to rule the world, and for our industry that means Amazon Prime Video, CloudFront CDN, Elastic Transcoder, and of course the various AWS Elemental offerings for video processing, packaging, and monetization. Products like the Broadcast Operations Control Center and Adaptive Media Player keep Akamai on the cutting edge. Sure, Akamai is the biggest content delivery network in the world, but the company doesn’t rest on its laurels. Plus, as Streaming Media contributing editor Robert Reinhardt says in his Skype signature file: “Flash lives until 2020, get used to it.” Akamai SHANTANU NARAYEN, CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEOĪdobe’s Creative Cloud is essential to video editing workflows, and Primetime is behind some of the biggest OTT and TV Everywhere services. ![]() We will announce our European Streaming Media list on our Streaming Media Europe site in November.) Adobe Systems (Note that the Streaming Media 50 list highlights companies with headquarters in the U.S. ![]() Read our introduction to learn more about how the list was created. Our panel of streaming media experts has spoken, and these are the 50 companies doing the most important and innovative work in online video today.
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