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Broadcast Over the Internet: The Audience of You

Now that OTT has put viewers in control, broadcasters are focusing on delivering personalized video experiences. But how did we get here? And how can broadcasters stay relevant in this new era? Explore OTT’s disruptive impact on the industry and the changing expectations of viewers.

Broadcast Over the Internet: The Quality Mandate

Instant play, sharp resolution, and no rebuffering — broadcast TV set the standard for video quality more than 50 years ago. Today, OTT providers who fail to meet this expectation are putting their business at risk. Discover surprising new research and insights on the impact of video quality.

Broadcast Over the Internet: The Innovation Mandate

Delivering the broadcast-quality video OTT viewers demand is a challenge that requires technical innovation at every stage. Find out what it takes to build a scalable, viewer-centric video solution that delivers the highest quality every time, from ingest through playback.

Economically Achieving TV Scale with Live Online

nScreen Media talks to Akamai’s Jim Ewaskiew about how to scale online live events to television-sized audiences. Find out how the company is co-opting client devices to share the load and helping service providers save money in the process.

Delivering Live OTT Video with No Latency — NAB Interview

Can you deliver broadcast quality with low latency? nScreen Media’s Colin Dixon talks to Akamai’s Shawn Michels about new solutions enabling broadcasters to overcome latency, rebuffering, and availability issues to deliver high-quality streaming at scale.

Game On! How Streaming Sports is Heating Up

Sports teams, leagues, TV networks, and players are all connecting with fans in cutting-edge ways through streaming. Where is live sports streaming now, what challenges does it face, and what exciting places is it heading to? Hear from eight industry leaders about trends, tactics, and transformations.

Alive Online: OTT Service Providers and Live Streaming Services

As live streaming grows beyond sporting events, discover how your video service can deliver more value to viewers, generate more ad revenue, and select a CDN to ensure the best quality viewing.

Building an Ecosystem: Transcoding for a 24x7 Live Linear Environment

Video transcoding has become increasingly complex in today’s diverse online media ecosystem. In this white paper, Streamingmedia.com shows you what it takes to build a high-performance transcoding system that enables 24x7 live linear streams and delivers exceptional, broadcast-quality experiences to viewers.

CDN Optimization for VR Streaming

Immersing your viewers in 360° VR experiences demands the highest-quality video. But streaming uninterrupted, high-bitrate video, with minimal buffering, requires a lot of network bandwidth. Discover how Akamai can help you overcome the challenge with innovations like tile-based adaptive VR delivery, content prepositioning, and dynamic ad insertion.

Embrace Failure: Build a High-Availability Streaming Architecture

In this article, you will learn the best practices on how to design a highly resilient delivery architecture, quickly bypass SPOF, and readily applying multiple, tested configurations to allow the event to continuous streaming uninterrupted.