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.
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.
As consumers shift their viewing to online from traditional TV, they bring along expectations of the seamless experience, so the Conviva data is critical to understand how well these expectations are being met. In fact, Conviva found that online viewers expectations are actually rising as they shift to online.
In the typical way video industry reports just become a blur of often-stunning numbers in this biz, here’s one in Conviva’s new 2014 Viewer Experience Report that caught my attention.
Consumers have high expectations for video quality, and they don’t differentiate or make exceptions for the delivery mechanism, according to a slate of new research. What’s more, viewers are increasingly less tolerant of any video problems they encounter.
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 […]
