The 2023 Streaming Media Innovation Award Winners
The votes are in! After a frenzied voting cycle, we’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Streaming Media Europe Innovation Awards. This year’s 15th annual awards saw more than 1,500 voters cast more than 10,000 votes for products nominated in 13 categories.
As ever, defining the categories that encompass the streaming industry’s diverse range of products and services means choosing carefully which categories belong and which we consign to the cutting-room floor. Each year, we reassess the categories to make sure they represent as accurately as possible all of the companies that serve the streaming media market. Then we open up the call for nominations. We’re often surprised and always intrigued to see the categories take shape and how each group of products and services evolves year over year.
As with past editions of the Innovation Awards, in 2023 we’ve limited inclusion to companies with headquarters in Europe and the UK. (Our annual Readers’ Choice Awards, featuring the top vote-getters based in the US and the rest of the world, will be announced in the November/December issue of the US edition of Streaming Media.) If a company has two headquarters, we’ve asked it to pick one awards programme or the other and held it to its selection.
When all of the ballots are in, we review them carefully, discarding votes from illegitimate email addresses as well as those clearly cast by employees stuffing the ballot boxes for their own companies’ products, lest we give an unfair edge to operations with the largest and most loyal internal fan bases.
As in years past, we’ve recognised one winner and two runners-up in each category (with runners-up listed here alphabetically). Congratulations to one and all!
Winner—Streaming Innovation of the Year
—Media & Entertainment
Media Distillery—Topic Distillery
Runners-Up
24i—24i Broadcast Studio
Unified Streaming—Unified Virtual Channel
Winner—Streaming Innovation of the Year—Sports
HESP Alliance—High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP)
Runners-Up
RealSprint—Vindral
Synamedia with Native Waves—In-Stadium Experience
Winner—AI Solution
AccepTV—Video Quality Monitor
Runners-Up
Clevercast—AI-powered live captions
ThinkAnalytics—Personalised FAST
Winner—Cloud Workflow Solution
SimpleStream—Livestream Scheduler
Runners-Up
Agile Content—Agile Live
api.video—End-to-end video API
Winner—Content Delivery & Distribution
SmartLabs—Streaming applications
Runners-Up
Agile Content—Agile CDN Director
Gcore—Video streaming platform
Winner—Content Protection & Monetisation
Veset—Veset integration with Ad Insertion Platform (AIP)
Runners-Up
Dalet—Dalet Flex
Unified Streaming—Unified Virtual Channel
Winner—Corporate Video Platform
3Q GmbH—Video hosting and streaming
Runners-Up
G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky GmbH—Managed event streaming
THEO Technologies—THEOplayer
Winner—Encoding/Transcoding Solution
Jet-Stream—MaelStrom Live
Runners-Up
GCore—Video streaming platform
Open Broadcast Systems—OBE C-200 Encoder/Decoder
Winner—Live-Streaming Platform/Service
G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky GmbH—OTT live setup
Runners-Up
nanocosmos—nanoStream Cloud
THEO Technologies—THEOlive
OTT Video Platform
Radiant Media Player EURL—Radiant Media Player
Runners-Up
MwareTV—MwareTV platform with WYSIWYG app builder
Accedo—Accedo One
Winner—QoS/QoE Platform
AccepTV—Full Reference Video Quality Monitor
Runners-Up
Accedo—Accedo Health Check
Witbe—Remote Eye Controller
Winner—Real-Time Streaming Solution
Synamedia—Fluid Edge CDN application tailored latency
Runners-Up
Ant Media—Ant Media Server
Nokia—CDN for live over any access
Video Advertising Solution—Winner
Witbe—FAST Channel Monitoring
Runners-Up
Codemill—Accurate Video: ad-breaks workspace
ThinkAnalytics—ThinkAdvertising
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