In the current state of streaming video, the old adage is “content is king.” While content may still be king, the product—and the technology underpinning that product—is the castle. New research from ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Nobody likes buffering, but a recent report from Akamai puts a dollars and cents figure on just how much people dislike it. A key finding in Akamai’s “Understanding the Value of ...

In experiments, Pensieve could stream video with 10 to 30 percent less rebuffering than other approaches, and at levels that users rated 10 to 25 percent higher on key 'quality of experience' metrics.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—With people advised to stay at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, streaming has hit record highs in viewing, according to a new report from Limelight Networks. But to fully ...

Putting a dollar sign on the cost of rebuffering, a report from CDN Akamai and research and consulting firm MTM finds the costs are surprisingly steep. A single audience-wide instance could cost a ...

As streaming becomes more commonplace, viewer expectations rise. Content delivery network Limelight released its 2018 State of Online Video report today, and it finds rebuffering is the chief ...

Orban/CRL and Coding Technologies announced availability of a public beta version of a new AAC/aacPlus Player Plug-in. The free software, they say, will enable users of Microsoft’s Windows Media ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Netskrt Systems today introduced a radically new type of content delivery network (CDN) that ensures high-quality on-demand and live streaming video in ...

In February, Google announced that a billion hours of YouTube videos are watched every day. All of us have contributed to those billion hours at one time or another. Google didn’t announce how many ...

We've all experienced two hugely frustrating things on YouTube: our video either suddenly gets pixelated, or it stops entirely to rebuffer. Both happen because of special algorithms that break videos ...