This year marks our 8th annual Streaming Media Europe Readers’ Choice Awards, and what a change since 2009. For those first awards, we had 12 categories, for which more than 200 nominations were submitted. In 2016, we have 18 categories and a total of 381 nominees.
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Wowza Increases Scalability of Live Low-Latency Streaming with Updated Wowza Streaming Engine
General Availability of Wowza Player Provides HTML5 Alternative to Flash Playback Golden, Colo. — Nov 15, 2016 — Wowza™ Media Systems, the recognized gold standard of live video and audio streaming solutions for organizations worldwide, today announced the latest update to Wowza Streaming Engine™ software, version 4.6, and the general availability of the Wowza Player.…Read More
Why mobile journalism is a necessary investment for all newsrooms
The modern newsroom is facing growing challenges for how to cover conflicts around the world. Via Mashable.
Wowza Wins 2016 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award
Wowza Streaming Engine Recognized for Ninth Consecutive Year Golden, Colo. – Nov. 2, 2016 – Wowza Media Systems today announced that the Wowza Streaming Engine™ software was awarded the 2016 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award for media server technology. In addition, Wowza Streaming Cloud™ was further recognized as a runner-up for the leading live streaming…Read More
The 2016 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Winners
It's the most prestigious honor in the online video industry, because it's decided by thousands of StreamingMedia.com voters. Read on to see which companies are taking home a Readers' Choice Award.
Wowza Announces Winner of GoCoder SDK App Challenge
Spree by Above Rocks Awarded $5,000 Grand Prize for Best Use of Live Streaming to Create New Class of Mobile Apps Huntington Beach, Calif. – Nov. 1, 2016 – Wowza Media Systems™, the gold standard for streaming software and services, today announced the Spree application, created by Above Rocks, as the grand prize winner of the GoCoder…Read More
What Is A Video Encoder? An Introduction To 8 Technology Options
Remember that Willy Wonka scene where the chocolate bar time travels from one side of the room to another after being broken apart? Well, that’s the basic (and gloriously oversimplified) function of a video encoder!
SVG College: Alabama: Event Gathers Local Industry to Network at Bryant-Denny Stadium
More than 40 industry professionals gathered for the latest edition of the SVG College Regional Event series, SVG College: Alabama at the University of Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium on Wednesday.
WebRTC for Low-Latency Streaming: CDN77 and Wowza
WebRTC is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications (e.g. Chrome, Opera, and Firefox) with real-time communication capabilities over peer-to-peer networks, using simple APIs and without plugins or apps. Here, we detail two innovative integrations and use cases of WebRTC to enable low-latency streams.
Facebook’s livestream had one big advantage over everybody else
It's up for discussion who won the final debate of the election, but there was a clear winner Wednesday in the battle of live-streaming services.
Wowza Media Systems Releases Lower-Latency Workflows for Wowza Streaming Cloud
Service to Provide Industry Benchmark HLS Delivery; New Testing Environment for Developer Trials; Access to Wowza Player Preview Golden, Colo. — Oct. 18, 2016 — Wowza Media Systems™, the recognized gold standard of video and audio streaming, today released a number of updates for its Wowza Streaming Cloud™ service, designed to accelerate the delivery of…Read More
Fortune: Best Small & Medium Companies
Wowza Media Systems™, the leading software and cloud-based services provider that continuously simplifies the complexities of high-quality video and audio streaming, creates disruptive technologies for delivering video and audio streams to any screen, from computers to televisions to mobile devices. At Wowza Media Systems, 98 percent of employees say their workplace is great.