Our panel of streaming media consultants has spoken, and these are the 50 firms doing the most vital and revolutionary work in on-line video immediately. Read our introduction to be taught extra about how the record was created. (Note that the Streaming Media 50 record highlights firms with headquarters in the U.S. We will announce our European Streaming Media record on our Streaming Media Europe web site in November.)
SHANTANU NARAYEN, CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO
Adobe’s Creative Cloud is crucial to video modifying workflows, and Primetime is behind some of the greatest OTT and TV Everywhere providers. Plus, as Streaming Media contributing editor Robert Reinhardt says in his Skype signature file: “Flash lives till 2020, get used to it.”
TOM LEIGHTON, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
Sure, Akamai is the greatest content material supply community in the world, however the firm doesn’t relaxation on its laurels. Products like the Broadcast Operations Control Center and Adaptive Media Player preserve Akamai on the innovative.
JEFF BEZOS, PRESIDENT, CEO, AND CHAIRMAN
Jeff Bezos needs to rule the world, and for our {industry} meaning Amazon Prime Video, CloudEntrance CDN, Elastic Transcoder, and of course the varied AWS Elemental choices for video processing, packaging, and monetization.
TIM COOK, CEO
Apple TV and the iPhone may not have the greatest shares of their respective markets, however Apple nonetheless units the tempo for the on-line video {industry}, from HLS to its early assist of HEVC.
MICHAEL PAULL, CEO
When Major League Baseball determined to construct its personal streaming platform, few would have suspected it might develop into the juggernaut it’s immediately, powering varied skilled sports activities streaming choices in addition to Hulu Live. $1.58 billion from majority proprietor Disney goes a good distance.
SHARON CARMEL, FOUNDER AND CEO
Starting out as a video optimization participant, Beamr has since launched software program encoders, and this 12 months its Transcoder VOD received a Streaming Media Best of NAB Award.
JEFF RAY, CEO
The first on-line video platform on the market, Brightcove appeared rudderless for just a few years, however has discovered its manner once more with server-side advert insertion, context-aware encoding (additionally a Best of NAB winner), and video platform options that scale from small enterprise to broadcast.
CHRISTOPHER LEVY, FOUNDER AND CEO
Christopher Levy used to have “Stream OG” as his e mail person identify, and with good motive. He and his firm have been round from the begin, and his tireless advocacy for DRM has been as vital as the DRM providers BuyDRM presents.
JEFF STOREY, CEO AND PRESIDENT
The third-largest telco in the U.S., CenturyLink turned a heavyweight in the video streaming market in 2017 when it acquired content material supply community Level 3 Communications, a perennial member of the Streaming Media 100.
CHUCK ROBBINS, CHAIRMAN AND CEO
Cisco might not be on the Streaming Media 50 subsequent 12 months, as it’s in the course of of spinning off its Service Provider Video Software Solutions enterprise to an organization backed by Permira Funds in a deal rumored to be value round $1 billion. The new firm, Synamedia, made its debut at IBC, however it was positioned in the Cisco sales space.
BRIAN L. ROBERTS, CHAIRMAN AND CEO
Comcast has its palms in nearly each side of the video {industry}, from over-the-air and cable channels to films, to not point out its Xfinity cable service. By the time you learn this, it simply may personal Sky, too.
BILL DEMAS, CEO
Quality of service (QoS) and high quality of expertise (QoS) are buzzwords immediately, however when Conviva got here on the scene in 2006, it was one of the first quality-measurement platforms on the market. Today, its prospects embody CBS, HBO, Sling, and Hulu.
STEPHANE ROULLAND, CEO
DaCast has just a few big-name prospects, however that’s by no means been its bread and butter. Instead, it focuses on greater than 2,500 smaller accounts, together with native U.S. broadcasters, European TV stations, and event-based accounts.
KEVIN J. YEAMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO
Dolby Vision helped deliver HDR content material to the lots, and you possibly can argue that alone warrants the firm’s inclusion on the record. But its acquisition of cutting-edge cloud encoding firm Hybrik, simply earlier than this subject went to press, clinched it.
GREGGORY HEIL, FOUNDER AND CEO
Before Encoding.com got here alongside, virtually everybody did their encoding and transcoding with on-prem software program and/or {hardware}. But Encoding.com introduced cloud encoding and transcoding to the lots in 2008, and immediately it claims to course of tens of millions of recordsdata every month.
CHRIS WALTERS, CEO
Since 2010, Encompass has expanded to supply all kinds of providers, together with channel playout, content material administration, digital media processing and transfers, and manufacturing and post-production. Along the manner, it’s garnered a who’s who of leisure purchasers from A&E Networks to the WWE Network.
DAVID EISENBACHER, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
The key to EZDRM’s providing (and its success) is that it presents a hosted DRM resolution combining Google Widevine and Microsoft PlayReady by way of Common Encryption over DASH. That means it’s straightforward for rights holders and content material providers to remain on the innovative of content material safety.
SUNDAR PICHAI, CEO
YouTube alone could be sufficient to benefit Google’s inclusion on this record, however of course the firm has its palms in all the pieces from content material supply (Google Cloud CDN) to promoting (Google Marketing Platform).
MIRKO WICHA, CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT, AND CEO
Haivision’s obtained a formidable record of enterprise and broadcast prospects and has lengthy boasted myriad low-latency installations in the medical and protection fields, however simply as vital has been the manner the firm has open-sourced its Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) and led an industrywide consortium to make the protocol extensively out there.
PATRICK HARSHMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO
From its encoding/transcoding {hardware} to its VOS 360 cloud media processing service, Harmonic presents an entire vary of merchandise and options that focus on pure-play OTT providers, broadcast, cable, and all the pieces in between.
GINNI ROMETTY, CHAIR, PRESIDENT, AND CEO
Through a sequence of acquisitions, IBM has grow to be a significant participant in video, and it’s leveraged its Watson synthetic intelligence (AI) platform at tennis’ US Open and golf’s Masters event for some of the most spectacular AI purposes anyplace.
SUNIL JAIN, CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, AND CEO
By providing high quality management options for each step of the video supply chain, Interra has grown right into a one-stop store for QC, and earlier this 12 months introduced its integration with AWS Elemental Media Services.
MALCOLM LOTZOF, CEO
From inside firm city corridor conferences to public-facing advertising and marketing, INXPO presents options for each attainable enterprise video want. What’s extra, the firm presents a slew of assets to assist non-experts get comfy with creating video and presenting on digicam.
MIO BABIC, FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, AND CEO
From its begin streaming weddings in Las Vegas in 2000 to its acquisition by Turner Broadcasting in 2015, iStreamPlanet has grow to be a live-streaming powerhouse, delivering marquee occasions like the Olympics, BlizzCon, and March Madness.
DAVE OTTEN, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
The JW Player video participant was lengthy one of the best-kept secrets and techniques in on-line video, in use on tens of millions of web sites in nearly each {industry}. Over the previous couple of years, the firm has expanded its providing from participant to platform, introducing new options all the time.
RON YEKUTIEL, CO-FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN, AND CEO
Kaltura was there at the starting of the on-line video platform explosion, and it’s one of the few that also stays. Its groundbreaking open supply Community Edition continues to be out there, however the firm has moved into enterprise and OTT, and only in the near past introduced a partnership with Yospace and SpotX for focused promoting.
ANDREAS KISSLINGER, MANAGING DIRECTOR
“End-to-end resolution” is a phrase so overused it’s virtually meaningless, however Lightcast truly delivers, from media administration and publishing to promoting and social media.
ROBERT A. LENTO, CEO
Limelight Networks is occurring 18 years in the enterprise, and its longevity might be credited to a crew that’s at all times targeted on innovation fairly than scale. These days, it’s main the cost amongst CDNs for decrease latency.
JONGIL KIM, CHAIRMAN AND CTO
Media Excel doesn’t make so much of noise. But look behind the scenes at telcos like AT&T, Verizon, and Level 3, or networks like Viacom, Disney, ESPN, and UFC, and also you’ll discover Media Excel {hardware}.
KUMAR SUBRAMANIAN, CEO
While everybody’s eyes are on next-gen codecs like AV1, MediaMelon has been serving to companions and prospects get the most out of H.264 and H.265 immediately with its QBR Smart Streaming video optimization.
MIKE NEWMAN, CEO
Companies like Abbott Laboratories, Ericsson, and General Motors use MediaPlatform’s WebCaster platform for inside and exterior dwell streaming, and the firm has gone out of its solution to not simply promote, however to additionally educate, the market about the prospects for enterprise streaming.
SATYA NADELLA, CEO
We need to be trustworthy: Microsoft hasn’t precisely been waving the flag for its video divisions, however that doesn’t imply it’s not innovating. Plenty of OTT providers are constructed on its Azure platform; Stream is in use in numerous enterprises; and Video Indexer is making enormous strides in AI-based video insights.
JON DAHL, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
Mux takes an API-based strategy to video internet hosting, encoding, and streaming, and simply this 12 months launched a real-time streaming analytics dashboard. It’s additionally behind the annual Demuxed convention, the place the main video engineers collect to share insights into what’s new and what’s subsequent.
REED HASTINGS, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
What’s a subscription video-on-demand service doing on a listing of know-how distributors? Simple: By introducing video multimethod evaluation fusion (VMAF), Netflix set the new bar for video high quality evaluation, and the firm has been persistently forthcoming on its tech weblog, inspiring extra firms to teach the market.
JONATHAN HUBERMAN, CEO
Ooyala deserves recognition for sticking it out to be one of the few remaining from the authentic class of on-line video platforms, and for persevering with to be a related participant in that market regardless of its dad or mum firm Telstra writing it off earlier this 12 months. [Editor’s note: The print version of this article lists Telstra, but Ooyala management bought the company from Telstra in October 2018.]
ERIC BURNS, CEO
Panopto has focused its video platform to each the enterprise and schooling markets, understanding each the commonalities between the two markets and (extra importantly) the variations.
CLAUDIO LISMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO
Primestream’s FORK product line—which covers manufacturing, asset administration, livestreaming, logging, and social media—is obtainable to broadcasters, sports activities leagues, and information organizations both as an end-to-end resolution (there’s that phrase once more!) or à la carte.
VERN HANZLIK, PRESIDENT AND CEO
A constant chief in Gartner’s sorely missed Enterprise Video Content Management “Magic Quadrant,” Qumu presents company video options for webcasting, on-demand video, coaching, and digital signage, with purchasers like BT, AT&T, Dow, and Deloitte.
ED TERINO, CEO
SeaChange appeared to hit the doldrums just a few years in the past, however nowadays is driving a wave of curiosity in its cFlow providers and Panoramic platform as video publishers and repair suppliers attempt to ship a seamless expertise throughout viewing platforms and gadgets.
GARY WEIS, CEO
Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite set the tempo for lecture-capture home equipment, however the addition of a full-fledged schooling and enterprise video platform providing, in addition to skilled providers, has saved the firm at the forefront.
ABDUL REHMAN, CEO AND CO-FOUNDER
Along with the aforementioned VMAF and Moscow State University’s video high quality measurement device, SSIMPLUS (the “SSIM” stands for “Structural SIMilarity”) stays one of the main instruments in each video engineer’s toolbox.
PAT BYRNE, PRESIDENT
Our coverage is to record an organization’s chief officer, however credit score right here have to be given to Charlie Dunn, GM of Tektronix’s video product line, for taking an organization that’s been round since 1946 and whose scopes have been in use in broadcast for many years, and making it related to the world of IP-delivered video.
SCOTT PUOPOLO, CEO
From Wirecast (which is now out there in desktop, cell, and {hardware} variations) to Vantage media processing to Lightspeed video server to iQ Solutions (previously Ineoquest) high quality assurance, Telestream does all of it.
GEORGE BOKUCHAVA, CO-FOUNDER, CEO AND PRESIDENT
Tulix may not be the greatest or best-known CDN, however its continued progress and fixed innovation since its founding 14 years in the past—with a deal with serving to its prospects ship not simply content material but in addition monetize it—warrants recognition.
SHELLY HEIDEN, CEO
Some of us bear in mind when Vbrick was simply that—a brick-shaped video encoder—however immediately it leads with software program, significantly its Rev enterprise video platform.
TOM MUNRO, CEO
Though Verimatrix made its identify with its Video Content Authority System content material safety structure and watermarking, it hasn’t rested on its laurels, introducing Verspective Analytics to assist service suppliers higher perceive what’s happening in their networks.
RALF JACOB, PRESIDENT
VDMS for brief, this firm works hand-in-hand with its dad or mum firm Oath to supply video providers with Uplynk (based by Jacob), content material supply with its Edgecast CDN, and monitoring with its Volicon Media Intelligence division. Sound like one other end-to-end resolution? It is.
ANJALI SUD, CEO
While YouTube stays the greatest free video platform, Vimeo is the one to show to while you’ve obtained higher-quality content material and need to have extra management over how it’s seen and who sees it.
DAVID STUBENVOLL, CEO AND CO-FOUNDER
From its origins as a substitute for Adobe Flash Server, Wowza has grown into an organization that provides cloud streaming providers, cell streaming providers, and the ClearCaster Facebook Live streaming equipment—all with a watch towards ultra-low latency.
CHRISTOPHER NOE, CHAIRMAN
When media firms want low-latency, error-free IP contribution and transport inside their organizations, Zixi is nearly at all times at the prime of the record.
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