Successful formulas are about knowing which components are needed for the desired outcome. With the recent acquisitions of upLynk assets and EdgeCast, Verizon Digital Media Services has created its own unique formula for successfully delivering a quality video experience. The assets of upLynk and EdgeCast, together with Verizon’s global network, are the key ingredients to […]
MUMBAI: Verizon Digital Media Services has acquired the assets and operations of upLynk, a technology and television cloud company. The move is a part of Verizon’s expansion plans to efficiently and quickly deliver live events, linear television and video on demand.
Verizon has acquired a startup called UpLynk. UpLynk is a startup that makes video streaming easier. UpLynk is a software company that helps programmers and pay TV providers with “TV Everywhere†strategies.
Today, Verizon announced its acquisition of upLynk, a company with a unique cloud-based solution that uses adaptive bitrate technology to stream live and on-demand video. I wrote about upLynk earlier in the year when it first launched, as well as in a new TDG report, Live Linear Encoding – A Primer.
Verizon has been talking to Intel about buying the chipmaker’s Web TV business. But in the meantime, it is buying other digital TV tech: The telcosays it has purchased  upLynk, a startup that makes it easier to stream video on the Web.
Some companies hit the ground running. In January, 2013, UpLynk, which provides simplified live and on-demand HD adaptive streaming for premium partners, came out of stealth mode. It already had a giant win of a customer with Disney/ABC. Today, Verizon Digital Media Services announced that it has acquired UpLynk for an undisclosed amount, adding UpLynk’s technology to its portfolio.
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) said Wednesday that it acquired upLynk, the streaming video technology provider that Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) uses to manage video encoding and delivery for TV Everywhere apps such as Watch Disney Channel.
Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) announced this morning that it has acquired upLynk, which offers content providers an innovative cloud-based adaptive streaming platform for multi-device TV Everywhere distribution. upLynk gained wide visibility earlier this year when it announced that Disney was using it to power the Watch Disney apps, ABC player and ABC Family player.
Verizon Media Services (VMS) announced today that it has purchased upLynk, the cloud-based streaming video solution. upLynk is best known as the power behind the Watch Disney apps, and in particular the newest affiliate-driven Watch ABC. upLynk’s unique architecture and business approach was the reason Disney selected upLynk for the service, and the reason Verizon Media Services purchased […]
Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS), a division of Verizon Communications focused on cloud-based video service delivery, is looking to scale up its online video and TV Everywhere capabilities via the acquisition of upLynk, a startup founded in 2010 that is powering the suite of Watch Disney apps, as well as Watch ABC.
TV Everywhere? Hardly. Four years after Comcast Chief Executive Officer Brian Robert and Time Warner Cable CEO Jeff Bewkes introduced their concept of TV of the future at the Cable Show in Los Angeles, a service that would deliver a plethora of content to subscribers at any time anywhere, the initiative remains stalled.
“I think it’s really big,†says Ken Brueck, co-founder and CMO of UpLynk, a streaming service provider that’s powering ABC’s new Watch ABC app, which was released in May.
upLynk, a streaming technology platform, was selected as one of four vendors essential for all digital media businesses in the 2013 Gartner Cool Vendors report. Gartner recognized upLynk for finding a practical solution to help broadcasters monetize their content with a simple workflow for streaming video online.
Disney’s ABC network will become the first broadcast network to stream its shows live online through an ongoing service, starting with viewers of its TV stations in New York and Philadelphia on May 14 and expanding to its other stations by the end of the summer.
Just in time for Tuesday’s fall-schedule announcement, ABC is introducing its long-rumored Watch ABC app for live-streaming TV shows. Viewers in New York and Philadelphia will be the first to have access to the service
This week, ABC is taking the fight against Aereo to the New York-based startup’s home turf: the network will start streaming its entire programming schedule in real-time to viewers in New York and Philadelphia. This marks the first time one of the major broadcasters has streamed a 24-hour live feed online.
This week, ABC is taking the fight against Aereo to the New York-based startup’s home turf: the network will start streaming its entire programming schedule in real-time to viewers in New York and Philadelphia.
ABC is debuting an app for viewers to watch live television on computers and mobile devices. ABC-owned and operated affiliates in New York and Philadelphia will begin live streaming of its shows and local programming on Tuesday
This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.†Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live-stream all the programming from ABC’s local stations there, the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology.
