Category: Direct-to-Consumer & Streaming

Inclusivity, camaraderie, and opportunity collide with fierce competition in powerchair football. This month, the sport’s most talented athletes are gearing up for the 2023 FIPFA Powerchair Football World Cup, which takes place October 15-20, 2023, in Sydney, Australia. For athletes and fans who can’t attend, FIPFA will deliver five days of live and on-demand video […]

Introduction Many organizations are seeking ways to control and secure their live media streams, which often contain sensitive information or intellectual property, within their corporate networks. At the same time, companies also want the flexibility to grant controlled access to these private streams. Accessing media services, or media assets stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service […]

Free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) is taking off as consumers look to minimize content subscription fees. While Paramount, Roku, and Fox have already launched FAST offerings, getting one off the ground can be expensive and time-consuming, proving a barrier to entry for most content owners. Boston-based technology startup TVCoins is disrupting the market with its […]

Transforming the way people work, intelligent productivity platform Slack was built with transformation at the forefront. The product team at Slack constantly evaluates areas for improvement based on customer usage and the desire to launch distinguishing features. One such feature, clips, allows users to record and send audio and video files directly with other people, […]

At IBC 2023 in Amsterdam, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners showcased cloud solutions that are transforming the media and entertainment (M&E) industry. With over 40,000 attendees from 170+ countries, IBC provided an opportunity for AWS Partners to demonstrate how they help M&E companies reinvent workloads in the cloud to a large in-person audience. The breadth […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Elemental Link UHD now supports AWS Elemental MediaConnect. Combining Link UHD with MediaConnect is a simple and cost-effective way to create live video workflows in the cloud, saving time and resources compared to traditional on-premises, satellite, or fiber infrastructure. Customers have more flexibility in how they process […]

Take your business to the next level with the help of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners as they demonstrate new solutions for media and entertainment built on AWS at IBC 2023. From 15 to 18 September at the RAI: Amsterdam, learn more about these media and entertainment solutions designed to simplify how industry […]

Demonstrations, customer presentations, and a variety of panel discussions illustrate the power of the cloud in creating, delivering, and monetizing compelling content experiences As professionals across the global media and entertainment (M&E) industry prepare for the annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2023 in Amsterdam September 15–18, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is unveiling an exciting lineup […]

Over-the-top (OTT) streaming is on a trajectory to becoming the biggest form of media consumption in the world. In the US alone, 65%1 of the population consume media digitally, through smart devices, connected TVs (CTV), game consoles, and streaming media players. Digital video ad spending in the US in 2022 was estimated at $2392 billion […]

Introduction RTMP stands for Real-Time Messaging Protocol. It’s a live video streaming technology that lets you transfer data over the internet and is a widely used protocol for streaming video. Customers may want to create interactive experiences with video originating from specialized live cameras or drones that do not support RTMP streaming. A workaround is […]