The 2018 Streaming Media European Readers’ Choice Award Winners
This year marks our tenth 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.
As with last year’s awards, this year 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 we list 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 you’ll find more than a few surprises in the list that follows. Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up.
ANALYTICS SERVICE
Winner: Accedo Insight
Runners-Up
Nice People at Work YOUBORA Infinity
SimpleStream Media Manager
BEST STREAMING INNOVATION
Winner: Conviva Ecosystem Module
Runners-Up
Matrox Video Monarch HD Video Streaming and Recording Appliance
Wowza Media Systems Streaming Cloud with Ultra-Low Latency
CLOUD VIDEO SERVICE
Winner: Axinom CMS
Runners-Up
Bitmovin AI Encoding
Norigin Media Cloudncoder.com
DELIVERY NETWORK
Winner: Streamroot DNA
Runners-Up
Broadpeak umbrellaCDN
TATA Communications CDN
DRM/ACCESS CONTROL
Winner: Cleeng Solutions
Runners-Up
Castlabs DRMtoday
Vualto vuDRM
ENTERPRISE VIDEO SOLUTION
Winner: Exterity End-to-End IP Video Portfolio
Runners-Up
Axinom CMS
Quadia Online Video Platform
MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT
Winner: Globecast Playout and VOD Packaging
Runners-Up
SimpleStream Media Manager
Axinom CMS
MOBILE VIDEO APP OR SOLUTION
Winner: Norigin Media Deutsche Telekom Sky Bundesliga App
Runners-Up
Accedo One
Yospace yospaceCDS
MULTISCREEN SOLUTION
Winner: 3 Screen Solutions 3READY Android Multiscreen Solution with Custom Launcher
Runners-Up
Accedo One
DOTSCREEN TV Everywhere Suite
ONLINE VIDEO PLATFORM
Winner: Bitmovin Adaptive HTML5 Player
Runners-Up
Quadia Online Video Platform
Vimond Media Solutions OVP
QoE/QoS SOLUTION
Winner: Nice People at Work YOUBORA Infinity
Runners-Up
Accedo Control
AccepTV Video Quality Monitor
SERVER HARDWARE/SOFTWARE
Winner: Unified Streaming Unified Origin
Runners-Up
Edgeware TV Server
Exterity Avedia Server
STREAMING SERVICES PROVIDER
Winner: Quadia
Runners-Up
Groovy Gecko
Vualto
TRANSCODING SOLUTION
Winner: Ateme Encoder Family
Runners-Up
Elecard CodecWorks Encoder
Norigin Media Cloudncoder.com
VIDEO ADVERT PLATFORM
Winner: Yospace Ad Insertion
Runners-Up
Rohde & Schwartz GmbH AdCaster
Unified Streaming Unified Remix
VIDEO PLAYER SOLUTION/SDK
Winner: THEO Technologies THEOplayer
Runners-Up
Kaltura Video Player
Norigin Media TV Apps Suite
WEBCAST PLATFORM
Winner: Kaltura Webcasting
Runners-Up
Matrox Video Monarch Streaming and Recording Appliance
Quadia Webcasting Services
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