Open Caching is dead. Like it or not, that’s the truth. The idea of Open Caching made sense on paper, intending to allow ISPs to adopt an open standard| Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com
While the live stream of the Super Bowl broadcast receives a lot of media attention due to its high viewership, events that last longer and are delivered in multiple countries around the world have more complex streaming pipelines. Across 30 days, DAZN live-streamed 63 matches of the FIFA Club World Cup for free in 200 […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
At a press conference, MLS Commissioner Don Garber said MLS Season Pass is “averaging 120,000 unique viewers” per match and is “almost a 50%” increase from 2024. We don’t know if the provided number represents the peak concurrent viewers or the average minute audience (AMA). In 2022, ESPN reported that the 2022 MLS regular season audience […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Here’s a list of TV and streaming viewership stats for recent sports events and seasons across baseball, golf, tennis, car racing, hockey, soccer and other sporting events: ⚾ The MLB Home Run Derby averaged 5.73M viewers on ESPN, a 5% increase over last year (2024 game competed with the Republican National Convention. The MLB All-Star Game averaged […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
It was only a matter of time before Netflix shared more details on its live streaming infrastructure. Today, in the first of a series of tech blog posts, Netflix provides a detailed examination of the architecture behind its live streaming events and the lessons learned during their development. As Netflix rightfully points out, a unique […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Deltatre announced plans to acquire Endeavor Streaming in a deal expected to close this quarter. This was a long time coming for Endeavor Streaming, as the company had been on the market with a term sheet for a considerable period, with discussions among numerous vendors taking place for more than 12 months. Endeavor Group Holdings […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to review Bending Spoons' product roadmap for its Brightcove platform, providing the company with| Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com
Some want to suggest that the “success” of the F1 movie at the box office shows that Apple can and will make more movies of this scale for theatres. However, Apple’s interest in the F1 movie extends far beyond the content. Apple spent a year developing advanced camera technology to capture the sheer force of […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
This special CDN focused podcast details the latest on delivery pricing and industry trends. I discuss delivery commits, QoE measurement, DIY deployments,| Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com
My Q1 survey on CDN pricing is complete, with 704 customers disclosing the price they pay per GB delivered, as well as the decline in their pricing since| Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com
Phenix Real Time Solutions’ assets have been put up for public bidding by their VC firm, KB Partners. Phenix has been trying to sell the company for many months but has not been able to get the valuation they wanted. The company had approximately $5M in 2024 revenue and wasn’t profitable. By my last count, […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Netflix has just entered the live TV business and will add live TV channels to its service in France. In a deal with TF1, starting summer 2026, all| Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com
Following a series of layoffs and cost-cutting measures, Qwilt has appointed Vito Palermo as its new CEO, with former CEO Alon Maor transitioning to a board advisory role. During my conversation with Vito over the weekend, he mentioned that he has been working hard on rationalizing the cost structure for Qwilt, a task that has […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
I’ve condensed the key numbers from OTT platforms’ Q1 earnings into a list you can read in one minute. The data you need to know, without any fluff. If you are in the industry, you need to know the following: – Comcast 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝟱𝗠 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀, to end Q1 with 41M. Revenue of $1.2B, up […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Despite widespread recognition of streaming piracy, quantifying and combating it remains a significant challenge. Conversations and presentations during the recent 2025 NAB Show highlighted the industry’s ongoing concern, with many content owners talking privately about the problem. While few content owners are willing to speak openly about piracy’s impact on their bottom line and what […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
FOX has released new technical details on its 2025 Super Bowl stream, including the rebuffer rate (0.5%), percentage of viewership in 4K (28%), peak CDN capacity (135 Tbps), and where it invested in its video workflow architecture. At the 2025 NAB Streaming Summit, Mayur Srinivasan, SVP of Digital Video Platform at Fox Corporation, did a […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Google has been pretty quiet about its Media CDN offering, but that’s changing as the company has signed multiple large M&E customers and added more capacity and new functionality. The company has allowed me to disclose that Google Media CDN has over 100Tbps of egress capacity and growing. Not to be confused with Google Cloud […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
Varnish Software has launched a new private CDN offering called Ora Streaming with its long-time partner, Intel. Fully managed by Varnish, with direct access to the resources that develop Varnish Enterprise, the proprietary version of Varnish Cache that has enhanced performance, security and functionality. Ora Streaming Inc. (incorporated in Delaware) is 100% owned by Varnish […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
For the final NCAA March Madness game available on Max Saturday March 29th, I did a quick test of the stream across nine platforms and looked at the quality of the stream, encoding bitrates, key moments feature and CDNs used. It was an excellent experience with fast startup times, no rebuffering and a great picture […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
At the end of 2023, privately held Bitmovin allowed me to disclose that revenue was in the “Twenties Million” range for the year. Bitmovin says that at the end of 2024, the company reached free cash flow and grew revenue by 20%. This puts Bitmovin 2025 revenue in the $30M+ range and growing. Bitmovin’s collaboration […]| Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
