A new study from online video optimization firm Conviva offered a dose of good and bad news for streaming world – video buffering is on the decline, but consumers are less tolerant of it when it does occur.
Updated: Second-screen viewership of the NCAA March Madness tournament hit record levels in its first week, with more than 51 million live video streams. The enthusiasm for watching teams hit the boards on streaming devices meant that total viewing by Tuesday had already surpassed the online audience for last year’s entire tourney.
Turns out somebody can deliver a high-volume digital video event without any noticeable snafus. The web and mobile NCAA March Madness Live service, managed by Turner Sports, registered record video streams and engagement for the first three days (Tuesday-Thursday) of the 2014 basketball championship series, as several upsets and close games drove sports fans to […]
A comprehensive survey of the viewing habits of so-called “Millennials†–that is, those born from the 1980s to the early 2000s–conducted by Verizon Digital Media Services shows that as a group they are “are extremely sensitive to quality and performance†and they “expect to choose how, what and when they watch.â€
Hope is a very important word for cancer patients, and soon they will have a new place to stay with a loved one while going through treatments and recovery. Soon Salt Lake City will be the first city west of the Mississippi to have a Hope Lodge. Currently, 5,000 cancer patients undergo treatments at a […]
While it’s not surprising that Millennials (consumers in the 16-24 year-old age group) watch a lot of TV online, it might be more unexpected that the vast majority of them haven’t cut the cord, according to a new study (PDF) from Verizon Digital Media Services, the company’s cloud video unit.
Millennials are the center of attention in a new report from Verizon Digital Media. Among the findings: 50% post photos regularly to Instagram and spend 34% of total TV viewing time online. According to the Verizon report, 16-34 year olds are much more engaged with social media than their slightly older peers. 81% use Facebook […]
Verizon Digital Media Services has attempted to answer two key questions by undertaking a two-part research project about the entertainment habits of the millennial generation: What do millennials want when it comes to online viewing, and what should broadcasters know to improve their chances in this market?
Verizon, through its Digital Media Services unit, is the latest corporate giant/media entity to put its focus on millennials. In a new report being issued this morning titled The Digital Millennial, Verizon points out that the generation born roughly between 1981 and 2000 watches three times as much TV online as do non-millennials.
A former Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints meetinghouse has yielded the largest material donation that Habitat for Humanity has ever received in Utah, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. The site on which it once stood will be home to an American Cancer Society Hope Lodge where visiting cancer patients and their families can […]
Demolition began this week on an old meetinghouse for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in order to make way for a new Hope Lodge from the American Cancer Society. The Hope Lodge will be a home away from home for cancer patients that travel to Salt Lake City to receive treatment. Once […]
A demolition crew knocked down an old LDS church in downtown Salt Lake City Tuesday to make way for what the American Cancer Society calls a Hope Lodge. It’s a place for people with cancer to stay during their treatment. “Every year 11,000 Utahns are diagnosed with cancer. And every year over 4,500 patients come […]
With everything from the crown mouldings to the heating system to five tall pine trees removed and donated, a former LDS Church meetinghouse is being demolished this week to make way for a Hope Lodge. Cancer patients who travel to Salt Lake City for care will be welcomed at the 41-suite lodge free of charge. […]
Patients battling cancer either far from home or without family will have the option to be housed in the city and nearer to medical facilities sooner rather than later. The American Cancer Society this week is beginning demolition to prepare for its local Hope Lodge site, hoping to help up to 800 patients each year […]
Conviva’s Intelligent Control Platform (ICP) for video processed 45 billion streams in 2013. This represents a quadrupling of capacity in the last 2 years. The streams were seen across more than 1.6 billion devices – including PCs, tablets, smartphones and connected TVs – in 180 countries and on more than 400 premium media video players.
Video stream optimizer Conviva reported today that its Intelligent Control Platform processed over 45 billion streams in 2013, a 4x increase in the last two years. The streams were viewed across more than 1.6 billion devices, including PCs, tablets, smartphones and connected TVs, in 180 countries and through more than 400 premium media video players.
Video intelligence and big data processing specialist Conviva has revealed that it processed over 45 billion streams in 2013, increasing the size of its global intelligence base by more than four times over the last two years, and suggested that this growth is a strong factor in enabling its customers better to serve the Internet […]
