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There are definite signs of improved delivery, said Dr. Hui Zhang of Conviva. Zhang said his company has technology that measures, second-by-second, the quality of the video experience.

The American Cancer Society broke ground on the Hope Lodge in Salt Lake City Wednesday afternoon. The lodge provides a supportive environment to cancer patients and their caregivers at no cost. It’s the first one in the Intermountain West.

The Salt Lake City Hope Lodge will be the 32nd of its kind in the country, but the first west of the Mississippi River and the second largest in size, at an anticipated 63,000 square feet.

Officials broke ground on the Hope Lodge Wednesday, which will make it the 32nd Hope Lodge in the country. These lodges provide no-cost housing for thousands of cancer patients and their caregivers who normally would have to commute daily to receive treatment.

A 2.2-acre piece of land at the corner of 100 South and 400 East was occupied by an LDS meetinghouse for about 63 years. On Wednesday, that junction took on a more holistic purpose.

The American Cancer Society proudly broke ground today to begin the construction phase of building a Hope Lodge in Utah, the first lodge of its kind to serve the Intermountain West.

Verizon’s acquisition of content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast is just one of several developments that will shake up the CDN sector, according to Heavy Reading research. That’s significant for an industry that has long been dominated by Akamai.

Verizon’s acquisition of content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast is just one of several developments that will shake up the CDN sector, which has long been dominated by Akamai Technologies, according to a report from Heavy Reading Insider.

“Business on the internet is complicated,” said Chris Carey, chief product officer for Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS). Carey delivered the first keynote address at today’s 2014 Content Delivery Summit, taking place at the New York Hilton Midtown. “Verizon, perhaps just a few years ago, may not have had a part in this conference,”

I’m pleased to announce that Bob Toohey, President of Verizon Digital Media Services and Jason Burgess Software and Systems Architect at Comcast, will both keynote next week’s Content Delivery Summit.

Conviva, the streaming video analytics firm used by many digital publishers including ESPN and HBO, is analyzing some 4 billion monthly video streams to help publishers manage the delivery of video from the ingestion points to the CDN to the “last mile” connection to the home or mobile device. For an overview on the challenges […]

Capped by more than 2 million live streams for UConn’s win over Kentucky in the National Championship game, NCAA March Madness Live closed the 2014 tournament with just under 70 million live streams in shattering the old mark for the tourney’s digital product.

The average online video viewer expects too much out of the online video viewing experience, says Conviva’s 2014 Video Experience Report. Even with new technologies, higher quality, and performance, those expectations still are not being met.

From Samsung buying up Boxee to multiple acquisitions by Verizon and Yahoo, the past year was loaded with M&A activity that reflected streaming’s ever-shifting landscape.

Video analytics, delivery optimisation and big data processing specialist Conviva has released its 2014 Viewer Experience Report, detailing the state of online video streaming performance across multiple devices.

It doesn’t matter how high the video quality is: Viewers don’t have a good streaming experience when the content buffers. Luckily, that frequent irritation is becoming a little less frequent.

In the new Conviva 2014 Experience Report, the company states that “The multiscreen future is now our television present.”

Picking up an additional 13 million live streams during the second week of the tourney, NCAA March Madness Live has posted a 31% gain over the entire 2013 event.

Conviva today released its 2014 Viewer Experience Report, detailing the state of online video streaming performance across multiple devices. The report is based on global data from45 billion video streams, seen across more than 1.6 billion individual devices and on more than 400 premium media video players, analysed throughout 2013.

Although the quality of streaming video may be improving at a modest pace, it’s not improving nearly fast enough for the majority of video viewers.