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Is Chrome's HEVC Support a Game Changer for Browser-Based Streaming?

Chrome's announcement of HEVC support October last was a long time coming. But how impactful will it prove to be, given persisting DRM issues and device support? Experts from Warner Bros., Amazon, Bitmovin, and NETINT weigh in from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Are Hybrid Events the Future of Corporate Video?

Are hybrid meetings the new normal for corporate communications, presentations, and training? EY's Waseem Ahmad and LinkedIn's Dan Swiney discuss the future of hybrid events and the technical challenges involved in getting there in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Best Practices for High-Availability Streaming at Scale

How do you maintain five-nines uptime for tentpole event streams reaching hundreds of thousands or millions of users? CBS Sports Digital's Corey Smith, Bulldog DM's John Petrocelli, and EdgeNext's Joshua Johnson offer tips and best practices for successfully scaling up your streams in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

How to Distribute Workloads in Hybrid Streaming Environments

What are hybrid streaming environments and how do large-scale streamers and broadcasters manage workloads and divide tasks between cloud and on-prem infrastructure? Microsoft's Andy Beach and TV2's Loke Dupont discuss distribution strategies in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Are Hybrid Events the Future of Corporate Video?

Are hybrid meetings the new normal for corporate communications, presentations, and training? EY's Waseem Ahmad and LinkedIn's Dan Swiney discuss the future of hybrid events and the technical challenges involved in getting there in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

How to Serve Your Digital Audience Better in Hybrid Events

The biggest problem with hybrid events is focusing entirely on the on-site audience treating the online/digital audience like an afterthought. 090 Media's Alex Lindsay, who's been producing virtual and hybrid events since well before the pandemic, and Social180Group's John Porterfield provide indispensable tips on how to avoid falling into that trap, and fully integrating digital audiences into the event experience in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Is the Streaming Media Ecosystem Meeting the Demands of the Moment?

What do streaming and OTT viewers want? The best answer, according to The Television Will Be Revolutionised author Amanda Lotz, is, "It depends"--whether you're Netflix or Amazon or HBO or Peacock or Disney or Paramount, your viewers will always be a moving target, and finding that target will always require a mix of strategies that she discusses with Media Cartographer Evan Shapiro in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Does Ad Personalisation Really Matter to Streaming Consumers?

Streaming conventional wisdom tells us that targeted, personalised ads are not only what OTT users want--it's what gives streaming advertising a purpose-built precision that broad-brush broadcast TV advertising can't match. But recent data from Publishers Clearing House suggests that streaming consumers don't put the premium on personalization that we thought they did. Is the jury really out on targeted advertising? Publishers Clearing House's Smriti Sharma, NBCUniversal's Matt Farina, and Media Cartographer Evan Shapiro discuss in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Live Content Discoverability, Reliability, and FAST 2.0

How will consumers find content in the approaching FAST 2.0 era, and how will FAST providers maintain QoE with high-reliability performance as the platforms and their reach continue to grow? Fandango's Rema Morgan-Aluko, Zixi's Kevin Parks, and Best Ever Channels' Jonathon Barbato discuss the technical challenges Free Ad-Supported Television will face in the coming years and how to meet them in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

How to Secure Cloud Streaming Infrastructure

Securing cloud-based streams is a critical issue, largely different from securing on-prem streaming architecture. Fortinet's John Jacobs discusses the critical challenges and explains how it's done in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

How Premium Brands Can Better Leverage Live Event Streams

How can live video help advertisers meet the challenges of a media consumption ecosystem perpetually in flux, such as cord-cutting, brand safety, ad-blocking, and more? BulldogDM's John Petrocelli, who works with many of the biggest brands in the business, and CBS Sports Digital's Corey Smith discuss how to make streams work for brands so the streams thrive and the brands and viewers keep coming back in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Why Hybrid Events Aren't Working

What's wrong with today's hybrid events? Where is the QoE for remote attendees? 090 Media's Alex Lindsay and BC Live's Dan Houze diagnose the problem and prescribe the solution in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Netflix Discusses AV1 Rollout with Limited Hardware Support

Netflix's Andrey Norkin discusses challenges Netflix has faced rolling out AV1 support given persisting hardware and device issues in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

How Amazon and Disney Define the Edge in Content Delivery

Where is the edge when it comes to streaming? Experts from Disney Streaming and Amazon Web Services offer their take in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

Cloud Streaming Workflows for Encoding and Disaster Recovery

What streaming use cases work better in hybrid and cloud environments than on-prem? Microsoft's Andy Beach, TV2's Loke Dupont, and Fortinet's John Jacobs discuss in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

What Is Interactive Streaming?

What makes a stream interactive? What are the elements of interactive streams that audiences respond to most, and create the most engaging lean-forward experiences? Parks Associates' Jennifer Kent, 090 Media's Alex Lindsay, nanocosmos' Oliver Lietz, and LG's Brian Miller explain what makes streams interactive to them and streaming consumers.

deadmau5 Talks Twitch and the Richard Devine of Streaming

deadmau5 unloads on which Twitch influencers are breaking new ground on Twitch and whose approach is missing the mark in this exclusive interview from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

How to Monitor and Troubleshoot Your Live Streaming Workflow

End-to-end workflows for live streaming at scale are complex affairs, with troubleshooting challenges at each stage when delivery breaks down. An expert panel from Paramount, Amagi, TAG VS, and Nomad Technologies discusses key best practices for troubleshooting large-scale streams when the pressure is on.

Top KPIs for OTT UX Design

How do you measure what's working and what isn't in OTT user experience design? Vevo's Eileen Jackson, Hartbeat's Solan Strickling, and Philo's Thijs Lowette identify their UX KPIs of choice in this panel from Streaming Media West 2022.

Latency vs. Quality for Live Streaming at Scale

How much streaming reliability and quality are worth trading for ultra-low latency, and when is one at a premium over the others? Amagi's Brian Ring, Dolby,io's David Hassoun, Nomad Technologies' Adam Miller, Paramount's Corey Smith, and Norsk CMO Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen discuss in this panel from Streaming Media West 2022.