In a world where there are nearly 100x more streaming services than consumer TV brands, it’s more important than ever that streaming services maintain their edge over the competition. The production of Hollywood-grade content is meaningless if your play-out infrastructure can’t sustain traffic spikes, multiple device types, or bandwidth inconsistencies. Thus, it’s imperative to properly…
The OTT and video streaming industry is a fast-paced environment with countless variables that can and will affect your performance, viewer experience, and bottom-line. Perhaps most commonly – a video streaming platform might get hit with an unexpectedly viral piece of content, from breaking news to user-generated content (consider any trending “video challenge”) to a…
When it comes to back-end video app management, there are five primary metrics that can make or break your business at any stage once your service has launched: Today we’re covering the only metric that everyone in the video streaming industry will agree is A) the most important metric you need to monitor at all…
In our content-driven world – it’s of utmost importance to deliver consistent and high-quality content within reasonable budget limitations. A factor that most content creators and distributors may not consider is the high price potential of encoding. When uploading a video, it’s encoded into a collection of renditions, each suitable for a typical range of…
Bitmovin Player and Analytics: Better Together! Unlock the power of Bitmovin Analytics data across every Bitmovin Player instance, with just one click! Yes, it’s that simple. Watch this quick video to learn how to test both the Bitmovin Player and Analytics products with a free, 30 day trial. We’ve always believed in data driven development,…
Google Data Studio is a great and free tool to create interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that fit your business intelligence needs – no code or database knowledge required. With the new Bitmovin Analytics Data Studio Connector it’s a breeze to bring your video analytics data to Google Data Studio, even without having a background…
Advertising is a controversial topic for most people, but the reality is that today’s internet wouldn’t be the same without advertising and how it impacts our daily lives. Compared to traditional advertising, online advertising has huge benefits for advertisers and consumers alike. Targeting a specific audience to ensure your ad dollars are wisely spent is…
I imagine when Apollo 13 called Earth with their famous message: “Houston we have a problem”, a lot of NASA engineers rushed back to the mission control room to get a clearer picture of what was going on so they could assist with the impending rescue mission.The control room presented the critical information and data…
Finding and communicating meaningful and actionable insights about your video delivery workflow and user experience just got a lot easier In an effort to make Bitmovin’s powerful analytics components even more accessible to our clients, we are happy to introduce our all new Analytics Dashboard, an out-of-the-box solution to view key metrics on your video…
The Bitmovin Player is now equipped with facial recognition software that allows the player logic to adapt to viewers behavior. A Little About User Interfaces Ever since the world’s first computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), went online in 1946, computers have been designed to respond to human input. ENIAC’s human interface was a…
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