The Shortlist: 2020 European Readers' Choice Finalists
We've counted all the votes, and we'll be announcing the winners of the 2020 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards in the Autumn issue of the European edition of Streaming Media magazine (as well as right here in mid-September). This year's 12th-annual awards saw nearly 200 products nominated in 15 categories, and voters cast more than 6,000 votes.
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. This year, we also drew a line in the sand and only considered companies with headquarters in Europe and the UK. (We are accepting nominations for companies based in the U.S. and rest of the world in our U.S. Readers' Choice Awards until 20 August.)
In the meantime, here's the shortlist of the finalists—the top three vote-getters in each category, in alphabetical order. Check back next month for the winners, and make sure you're subscribed to our weekly Streaming Media Europe Xtra newsletter to make sure you get the news first.
Analytics/Quality of Service Platform
Nice People at Work – YOUBORA Suite 6
StriveCast - Video Analytics
ThinkAnalytics - ThinkInsight
Best Streaming Innovation
Broadpeak – S4Streaming
THEO Technologies - High Efficiency Streaming Protocol
V-Nova - V-Nova LCEVC
Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Services
MainConcept - MainConcept AVC SDK
M2A Media - VOD Workflow
Vidispine - VidiNet
Content Delivery Network
Anevia - NEA-CDN
Edgeware AB - TV CDN
StriveCast - P2P CDN
Content Protection
castLabs - DRMtoday
NAGRA - Multi-DRM
Vualto - VUDRM
Corporate Video Platform
nanocosmos - nanoStream Cloud
Quickchannel – Quickchannel Platform
Streamroot - Streamroot DNA Enterprise
Encoding/Transcoding Solution
ATEME - Encoder
MainConcept - MainConcept HEVC SDK
V-Nova - LCEVC
Hardware/Software Server
Broadpeak - Video Streaming Servers
Edgeware - Edgeware TV server
Unified Streaming - Unified Origin
Live Streaming Platform/Service
Flumotion - Live Video Platform
Groovy Gecko - Live Streaming Services
The Streaming Company - Live Video Services
Media Asset Management
iconik - Smart Media Management
Tedial - Hybrid Cloud
Vimond - Content Manager
Mobile Video App/Solution
castLabs - PRESTOplay for Android/iOS
Norigin Media - TV Apps
Veeplay - Mobile Video Solutions
OTT Video Platform
Accedo - Accedo One
Axinom – OTT Video Platform
Vimond - Media Solutions
Streaming Services Provider
Clevercast – Clevercast
Groovy Gecko - Streaming Services
StreamAMG - Streaming Services
Video Advertising Solution
Never.no - Bee-On
Norigin Media - AdScan
Yospace - Ad Insertion
Video Player Solution/SDK
Medialooks - MFormats SDK
Radiant Media Player - Radiant Media Player
THEO Technologies - THEOplayer
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