The Shortlist: Streaming Media's 2022 Innovation Awards Finalists

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We've counted all the votes, and we'll be announcing the winners of the 2022 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 14th-annual awards saw more than 150 products nominated in 14 categories, and voters cast nearly 10,000 votes.

As ever, defining the categories that best capture the range of products and services in the industry means choosing carefully what to leave in, and what to leave out. Each year, we evaluate the categories to make sure they’re as representative as possible of all the companies that populate and serve the streaming media market, then open up the call for nominations. With these Innovation Awards, we’ve also included only companies with headquarters in Europe and the U.K. (Our annual Readers’ Choice Awards, featuring the top vote-getters based in the U.S. and rest of the world, will be announced at Streaming Media West 2022 in California and in the October/November issue of the U.S. edition of Streaming Media.) If a company has two headquarters, we’ve asked them to pick one awards program or the other, and held them to their selection.

When all the ballots are in, we cull the herd, discarding votes from illegitimate email addresses as well as those by employees casting ballots for their own companies’ products, lest we give an unfair edge to operations with the largest and most loyal staffs.

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.

Streaming Innovation of the Year — Media & Entertainment

  • 3 Screen Solutions (3SS) — 3Ready Control Center 3.0
  • Accedo — Accedo Play
  • HESP Alliance — High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP)

Streaming Innovation of the Year — Sports

  • H&C TV Limited — H&C+
  • Norigin Media — Norigin Spatial Navigation 2.0
  • Synamedia — Synamedia Immersive Live Sports Streaming in 8K

Cloud Workflow Solution

  • Jet-Stream — Jet-Stream Mix
  • MediaLab Online BV — MediaLab Enterprise
  • Simplestream — VOD2Live

Content Delivery & Distribution

  • 3 Screen Solutions (3SS) — 3Ready Control Center 3.0
  • Dalet — Dalet Flex
  • NPAW — Smart CDN Balancer

Content Protection & Monetisation

  • castLabs — DRMtoday
  • Irdeto — Irdeto App Watch
  • Unified Streaming — Unified Remix VOD2Live

Corporate Video Platform

  • 3Q — 3Q Streaming Platform
  • Empreinte.com — Video Platform
  • nanocosmos — nanoStream Cloud

Encoding/Transcoding Solution

  • Appear — X Platform — HEVC Multiscreen Transcoders
  • Jet-Stream — OnAir
  • Norigin Media — Cloudncoder

Live Streaming Platform/Service

  • Clevercast — Clevercast
  • nanocosmos — nanoStream Cloud
  • Quortex — Quortex I/O

Media Asset Management

  • Iconik — Iconik
  • Irdeto — Irdeto Media Manager
  • MediaLab Online BV — MediaLab Enterprise

Mobile Video Solution

  • 24i — 24i Mod Studio — Videostage
  • Blackbird plc — Blackbird — the cloud native video editing platform
  • THEO Technologies — THEOplayer

OTT Video Platform

  • Bedrock — Bedrock Core Platform
  • MwareTV — Mware TV platform
  • Synamedia — Synamedia Go

QoS/QoE Platform

  • AccepTV — Video Quailty Monitor
  • Codemill — Accurate.Video
  • NPAW — NPAW Suite

Real-Time Streaming Solution

  • Ant Media — Ant Media Server
  • Ceeblue — Ceeblue Cloud
  • nanocosmos — nanoStream Cloud

Video Advertising Solution

  • Ad Insertion Platform — DAIConnect SSAI solution
  • ThinkAnalytics — ThinkAdvertising
  • Unified Streaming — Unified Remix VOD2Live

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