Online Video Industry Forecast 2012, Wowza Media Systems, Exceeding Expectations

The streaming media industry continues to evolve. I said that last year and it is just as valid this year. Once we think we know how things will settle out, another change hits. Promises of
a single codec, transport and player to address every device have a way of falling short. First it was Flash everywhere, now HTML5 is the new kid on the block. Will it be ubiquitous with a single standard for all? Maybe. When? I don't know.

By David Stubenvoll

Even Small Organizations Can Send Video     Over IP to Multiple Devices

The effect of the online ministry on this particular church’s growth is told in the numbers. Adam Hilton, senior pastor of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, floated the idea in 2007, and live webcast of Easter services that year attracted online viewership of about 200. Weekly streamed services began in November 2008, and by Easter 2009, the census was up to 1,600. By Christmas of the same year, the region was hit with a blizzard that made it impossible for many people to get to church. As a result, the webcast audience grew to more than 3,500 people.

By Alex Dobrushin

Wowza Media Server 3 coming in Q3

I recently got an email from Wowza Media Systems mentioning that they’ll be at the Streaming Media East show, which happens to only be 2 weeks away. With that, they’ve pointed out that their new version of Wowza Media Server, v3, will be out in Q3. That’s not far away at all. Most notable item is that anybody who has v2 right now gets a free upgrade to v3. Holy crap.

By Graeme Bull

Wowza Media Server 3: Any-Screen Delivery Done Right

Wowza Media is on a roll: Not only has the company been profitable from day one, with no outside funding, but it's also passed the 70,000 license mark. Today, the company hopes to extend its lead by introducing a full-version release, Wowza Media Server 3.

By Tim Siglin

Hot Companies To Watch: Wowza Media

Wowza Media: For nearly six years now, Wowza Media has been in the market offering streaming server software that does just about everything. Customers I speak to love that Wowza's server has streaming support for all of Apple's iDevices, Microsoft Silverlight and Apple QuickTime formats, Android and BlackBerry support as well as working with IPTV and set-top boxes.

By Dan Rayburn

Wowza Media Systems a ‘Key Factor’ in Launching the Dragon

Wowza Media Systems has announced its product was determined to be 'a key factor' in the recent launch and subsequent recovery of SpaceX's Dragon. Specifically, the Wowza Media Server 2 software was 'a key component' in supporting the first-ever commercial company to launch and recover a spacecraft from orbit successfully.

By David Sims

Wowza Media Server Wows ‘em

Wowza Media Systems has been making headlines for its media server products more than usual lately. More recently, it has been demonstrating Google's WebM live streaming with the Wowza Media Server on its company’s website. WebM is an open, royalty-free media file format designed for the Web.

By Stefanie Mosca

The three-screen promise

One result of the interplay of evolving technology and evolving consumer behavior is redefinition of the Web. In its early years, consumers thought of the Web in a limited way — Internet accessed via PC. Today, the Web has literally escaped the bounds of the PC screen and has reasserted itself on the screens of mobile phones, mobile tablets, television sets and game consoles, as well as on the speakers of Internet radio.

By Alex Dobrushin

TV Technology Europe Announces Recipients of STAR Awards at IBC2010

The STAR Award (Superior Technology Award Recipient) is designed to celebrate and showcase the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. TV Technology Europe's editors and writers reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, and then chose 21 winners.

Top Story: Wowza Media Server 2

Video highlights of Wowza Media Server 2 from IBC2010 Show featuring Dave Stubenvoll, Wowza CEO and co-founder on IBC's official multmedia channel.

Review: Wowza Media Server 2

If only all servers could be this easy to configure. When I started the review process, I set aside several hours to configure the server for basic video on demand (VOD). Yet, once the software was downloaded and installed, and a licence key added, I was able to get the entire VOD setup running for multiple simultaneous devices in less than an hour.

By Tim Siglin

Mirror Image, Wowza Media Systems Team to Announce Expanded Streaming Capabilities

Provider of content delivery solutions (CDS) Mirror Image Internet has announced expanded streaming capabilities with partner, Wowza Media Systems, boosting per-server performance to 10 Gbps for high capacity video streaming.

By Anshu Shrivastava

Wowza Media Server or Adobe Flash Media Server, which one?

I frequently see on mailing lists and forums people asking about Wowza Media Server and how it compares to Adobe's Flash Media Server. Up until recently I couldn't actually say with any experience at all how they would compare and would instead have to fall back on what other's say even though some of those too would sometimes be a third person's perspective on it all.

By Graeme Bull

The Tech Behind Chatroulette

Internet sensation Chatroulette uses Flash Player 10's peer-to-peer ability and Wowza Media Server to power its random, anonymous video chatting. From international newspapers to television shows, plenty has been said about what goes on on Chatroulette —some of which is funny, some of which is bizarre, and some of which is, well, perverted. But what about the technology behind the site, which allows anyone with a webcam to randomly and anonymously interact with a never-ending series of people?

By Troy Dreier

Online Video Today: How We Got Here and Where We Need to Go

The recent introduction of Apple's iPad has re-opened discussion around Flash and Flash support, or rather, Apple devices' lack thereof. While this discussion brings to light the conflict between the two corporate agendas of Adobe and Apple, it isn't really about Flash or a methodology that Apple picked for video delivery. What it does begin to lay out, however, is a much larger discussion about online video. The discussion widens even further as supporters of alternative technologies and approaches like Silverlight, HTML5, and others begin to chime in with their thoughts on the current and future states of online video. 

Dave Stubenvoll, CEO,Wowza Media Systems

That’s Flexibility, Baby!

On Friday, Jan 21st, 2010, something unprecedented happened: at 11:38 AM CST, Lily the Black Bear, in Minnesota, gave birth LIVE on the internet! Thousands of people rushed to WildEarth.TV to watch this wonderful event. Peaking at a maximum of about 27,000 concurrent viewers, it was streamed across the zaplive.tv dynamic system.

Luckily for WildEarth, they were using Zaplive's highly scalable infrastructure for load balancing live streams from different locations. The infrastructure is based on Wowza Media Server and Amazon EC2.

Simone Brunozzi, AWS Technology Evangelist

500 Institutions Deploy WMS [Wowza Media Server] for Video Streaming

Wowza Media Systems said 500 universities and colleges have adopted its Wowza Media Server to deliver live, on demand, and interactive content to students and faculty, much of it driven by greater demand for lecture capture. Among Wowza clients are the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

By Dian Schaffhauser