Rethinking Multiview Economics: When Server-Side Beats Client-Side - Streaming Learning Center
As you may have seen, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing multiview solutions and studying th| Streaming Learning Center
I recently interviewed Dominic Sunnebo, Commercial Director at Worldpanel by Numerator, for Streaming Media. We discussed new data from the Q2 2025 Entertainment on Demand report. Topics covered include: Sports driving nearly 1 in 4 new streaming subscriptions Why sports are a rented audience—loyal to teams, not platforms The rapid rise of women’s sports and … The post New Interview: Dominic Sunnebo on how Sports Programming Drives Subscriber Growth first appeared on Streaming Learning ...| Streaming Learning Center
Every streaming service runs on a business model which shapes everything from content acquisition to monetization. This PDF walks through the core models every professional should know: SVOD, AVOD, TVOD, FAST, vMVPD, and Hybrid. Each slide explains how the model works and highlights a key insight into its strengths and challenges. For a deeper look … The post The Business Models Powering Modern Streaming first appeared on Streaming Learning Center.| Streaming Learning Center
As you may have seen, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing multiview solutions and studying th| Streaming Learning Center
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Multiview, or the ability to view multiple live feeds simultaneously, is quickly becoming a must-have feature for sports and live-event streaming. The core technical question for providers is how to implement it. There are two main architectural options: client-side and server-side multiview. Both can display multiple games or camera angles on a screen, but they … The post The Future of Multiview: Client, Server, and Build Your Own (BYOMV) first appeared on Streaming Learning Center.| Streaming Learning Center
I recently sat down with Marc Todd, CEO of Skreens, to discuss how multiview has evolved from a niche feature into a must-have capability for sports and live-event streaming. Skreens has been at the center of this transformation, powering multiview deployments for millions of subscribers. What follows is a slide-by-slide look at Todd’s presentation, told … The post Building the Future of Multiview: Skreens CEO Marc Todd on Tessera and BYOMV first appeared on Streaming Learning Center.| Streaming Learning Center
Traditional and streaming content and service providers, MVPDs, and other rights holders that dismiss multiview as an unnecessary expense are leaving revenue on the table. Wherever it has been deployed, multiview has delighted customers, driven acquisition, and reduced churn. Just as important, it adds new ad inventory and formats, creating monetization opportunities that weren’t possible … The post Monetizing Multiview first appeared on Streaming Learning Center.| Streaming Learning Center
In a recent interview, Elecard’s Alexander Kruglov shared practical approaches for diagnosing and fixing common streaming problems. Alex, the product manager for StreamEye Studio, demonstrated this product, as well as Boro, a live QoS/QoE monitoring tool. This blog summarizes the discussion, which you can watch on YouTube here. As Alex explained, Elecard started out as … The post Practical Troubleshooting with Elecard: From Quality Loss to Ad Insertion first appeared on Streaming Learning...| Streaming Learning Center
Content and Service Providers, MVPDs, and other rights holders spend billions on sports rights. Without investing in the viewing experience, the return on those investments may shrink fast. For decades, all sports broadcasters —traditional and streaming —competed on a common platform with the same fundamental building blocks: live streaming sports to big-screen TVs, basic client-side application … The post What Is the Market for the Second-Best Sports Experience? first appeared on Stre...| Streaming Learning Center
Three years ago, Netflix asked a deceptively simple question: What would it take to stream live even| Streaming Learning Center
If you work in product, operations, or revenue at a streaming platform, you’re probably already tracking fill rates, CPMs, and demand quality. But the biggest revenue losses often happen elsewhere, quietly, invisibly, and without triggering a single alert. A growing body of technical guidance, operational reports, and publisher best practices reveal much quieter threats to … The post Where Ad Dollars Quietly Break: Beyond the Obvious in Streaming Monetization first appeared on Streaming L...| Streaming Learning Center
I recently interviewed David Ronca, who you probably know from his work at Meta and Netflix, but who’s now running his own company, RoncaTech. We discussed the upcoming release of VCAT (Video Codec Acid Test), a tool that benchmarks video playback performance on Android devices. By way of background, I reviewed an earlier version of … The post David Ronca Unveils VCAT: An Open Benchmarking Tool for Android Playback first appeared on Streaming Learning Center.| Streaming Learning Center
I just launched Streaming Monetization 101, a 50+ lesson, roughly seven-hour course created in partn| Streaming Learning Center
More than 80 media executives met in New York last week under the IAB Tech Lab banner to address una| Streaming Learning Center
Three years ago, Netflix asked a deceptively simple question: What would it take to stream live even| Streaming Learning Center
I just launched Streaming Monetization 101, a 50+ lesson, roughly seven-hour course created in partn| Streaming Learning Center
On July 3, I spoke with Hari Kalva and Velibor Adzic from Florida Atlantic University about Feature| Streaming Learning Center
AI video compression standards have moved from the research lab to the standards committee. This pos| Streaming Learning Center
Dan Rayburn recently published the video and slides from my NAB Streaming Summit session, where I wa| Streaming Learning Center
As third-party cookies fade into digital history, first-party data has risen to the top of every mar| Streaming Learning Center
I recently tested the Deep Render AI codec and issued a report, which you can read here. The bottom| Streaming Learning Center
Streaming Media recently published my article on VVC and AV1, Software Decoding and the Future of Mo| Streaming Learning Center
Recently, I reviewed the Deep Render AI codec and noticed a substantial disconnect between subjectiv| Streaming Learning Center
While many AI-based codecs are still making their first appearance in white papers, often with tortu| Streaming Learning Center
If you’re optimizing x265 for speed, enabling Wavefront Parallel Processing (WPP) looks like a no-br| Streaming Learning Center
Google just kicked the can down the road—again—on killing third-party cookies in Chrome. While much| Streaming Learning Center
I've been involved in a seemingly never-ending debate that started with the dubious (to me) concept| Streaming Learning Center
On March 11, 2025, I (Jan Ozer) from the Streaming Learning Center interviewed Yoann Hinard, COO of| Streaming Learning Center
For years, we've heard about the allure of HEVC, AV1, and even VVC, all new video codecs promising b| Streaming Learning Center
It started with a simple observation: Fox plans to upscale a 1080p HDR feed to 4K for the Super Bowl| Streaming Learning Center
I'm running some 1-pass vs. 2-pass comparison testing with x265. Unlike with x264 (see tests here),| Streaming Learning Center
Here are the free| Streaming Learning Center
Most people reading this post want new codecs to succeed as soon as possible, and I do as well. But| Streaming Learning Center
I'm updating my book, Video Encoding by the Numbers, which means lots of research into what other en| Streaming Learning Center
Announcing session 2 of Streaming Summer Bootcamp: Learn to Produce H.264 Video. Thu, Jul 11, 2024,| Streaming Learning Center
Creating batch files with variables is one of the more efficient ways to run FFmpeg. However, most p| Streaming Learning Center
I'm thrilled to introduce my newest course on LCEVC video enhancement! It’s designed to introduce ne| Streaming Learning Center
I just posted a new lesson to the Streaming Media 101 course on AI in encoding, production, and cust| Streaming Learning Center
