The 2021 Streaming Media Europe Readers' Choice Award Winners
We've counted all the votes, and we're thrilled to announce the winners of the 2021 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards. This year's 13th-annual awards saw nearly 2,000 voters cast more than 9,800 votes for products nominated in 16 categories.
This year, we highlighted 15 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. This year, we also drew a line in the sand and only considered companies with headquarters in Europe and the UK. (We'll be announcing the winners for the U.S. and rest of the world in the October U.S. edition of Streaming Media.) If a company has two headquarters, we've asked them to pick which one they want to use to be considered for Streaming Media awards, and stick to it.
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—we don’t want to give an unfair advantage to larger companies just because of their size.
Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up!
Analytics/Quality of Service Platform
WINNER
RUNNERS UP
- Broadpeak – BkA100 V6.0 Video Delivery Analytics Solution
- Edgeware – Streampilot
Best Streaming Innovation
WINNER
- Ateme – Low Latency NEA-Live JIT Packager
RUNNERS UP
- 3SS – 3READY
- Cerberus Tech – IO
Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Services
WINNER
RUNNERS UP
- iSize Technologies – BitSave
- Norigin Media – Cloudncoder
Content Delivery and Distribution
WINNER
RUNNERS UP
- Jet-Stream – Jet-Stream Airflow MultiCDN
- NPAW – CDN Balancer
Content Protection
WINNER
RUNNERS UP
- Axinom – Axinom DRM
- castLabs - DRMtoday
Corporate Video Platform
WINNER
- nanocosmos – nanoStream Cloud
RUNNERS UP
- 3Q – Livestreaming solution
- Tripleplay – Tripleplay TV
Encoding/Transcoding Solution
WINNER
- G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky – Encoding services
RUNNERS UP
- Ateme – TITAN
- MainConcept – MainConcept HEVC/H.265 SDK
Hardware/software Server
WINNER
- Edgeware – Edgeware TV server
RUNNERS UP
- Exterity – AvediaServer
- Softvelum – Nimble Streamer
Live Streaming Platform/Service
WINNER
- Ant Media – Ant Media Server
RUNNERS UP
- G-Core Labs – streaming platform
- nanocosmos – nanoStream Cloud
Media Asset Management
WINNER
RUNNERS UP
- Cinegy – Cinegy Archive
- Media Distillery – Image Distillery
Mobile Video Solution
WINNER
- Blackbird plc – Blackbird
RUNNERS UP
- 3SS 3 Screen Solutions – 3READY
- 24i Media – Smart Apps
OTT Video Platform
WINNER
RUNNERS UP
- Agile Content – Agile OTT
- MwareTV – Cloud Based Mware TV platform
Video Advertising Solution
WINNER
- Unified Streaming – Unified Remix AVOD
RUNNERS UP
- Norigin Media – AdScan
- ThinkAnalytics – ThinkAdvertising
Video Player Solution/SDK
WINNER
- THEO Technologies – THEOplayer
RUNNERS UP
- Elecard – DirectShow Codec SDK
- nanocosmos – nanoStream Player, part of nanoStream Cloud
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