The 2019 Streaming Media Europe Readers' Choice Award Winners
This year marks our 11th annual Streaming Media European Readers’ Choice Awards, and as always, the results offer a compelling (and sometimes unexpected) insight into which companies are making their mark not with advertising dollars or the biggest stands at NAB or IBC, but with the people who actually use their products and services.
Once again we highlighted 17 categories in the online video space. Defining these categories is always a delicate balancing act—make them too broad, and they’re meaningless; make them too narrow, and we’d need hundreds of them to cover the gamut. Each year, we evaluate the categories to make sure they’re as representative as possible of all the companies in the streaming media market, then open up the call for nominations. And while we accept nominations from companies outside of Europe (as long as they have a strong European presence), the vast majority of the companies are European-based.
When all the ballots are in, we discard votes from obviously phony email addresses as well as those by employees casting ballots for their own companies’ products. Here are the winners and two runners-up in each category, as determined by total number of votes (runners-up are listed alphabetically). Many of the names are familiar, but there may be a few that are new to you. Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up.
Analytics Service
Winner: Nice People at Work YOUBORA Infinity
Runners-Up:
Cleeng Subscriber Retention Management
Erstream Monitoring & Analytics
Best Streaming Innovation
Winner: Synamedia Smart Rate Control with Automation
Runners-Up:
CenturyLink CDN Mesh Delivery
Never.no STORY
Cloud Video Service
Winner: Norigin Media CloudnCoder.com
Runners-Up:
Bitmovin AI Encoding
Erstream Cloud Encoding
Delivery Network
Winner: Erstream Global CDN
Runners-Up:
Anevia NEA-LIVE & NEA-CDN
Edgeware TV CDN
DRM/Access Control
Winner: Cleeng Solutions
Runners-Up:
Axinom DRM
Castlabs DRMtoday
Enterprise Video Solution
Winner: Anevia Flamingo
Runners-Up:
Quickchannel Platform
Tripleplay Media Video Player
Media Asset Management
Winner: Axinom CMS
Runners-Up:
Ooyala Flex Media Platform
Vimond Control Centre
Mobile Video App or Solution
Winner: Accedo One
Runners-Up:
Muvi
Wowza GoCoder App & SDK
Multiscreen Solution
Winner: Net Insight Sye
Runners-Up:
DOTSCREEN Amazin' TV
Matrox Video Monarch EDGE 4K/Multi-HD Encoder
Online Video Platform
Winner: Bitmovin Adaptive HTML5 Player
Runners-Up:
Quadia Online Video Platform
Quickchannel Broadcast
Quality of Experience/Quality of Service Solution
Winner: AccepTV Video Quality Monitor
Runners-Up:
3 Screen Solutions 3READY Android TV Multiscreen Solution with Custom Launcher
Synamedia Low Latency ABR Solution
Server Hardware/Software
Winner: Unified Streaming Unified Origin
Runners-Up:
Edgeware TV Server
Matrox M264 S4 Codec Card
Streaming Services Provider
Winner: Quadia Streaming Services
Runners-Up:
Simplestream
Vimond Streaming Services
Transcoding Solution
Winner: Bitmovin Cloud Encoding
Runners-Up:
Anevia Genova
Ateme Encoder Family
Video Advert Platform
Winner: Yospace Ad Insertion
Runners-Up:
Edgeware Ad Enabler
Unified Streaming Unified Remix
Video Player Solution/SDK
Winner: THEO Technologies THEOplayer
Runners-Up:
Bitmovin Adaptive HTML5 Player
Norigin Media TV Apps Suite
Webcast Platform
Winner: Vimond Media Solutions
Runners-Up:
Quickchannel Webcasting Services
Vbrick Rev Enterprise Video Platform
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