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  • How broadcasters and studios can harness ERP, innovative tech to run content biz

    How broadcasters and studios can harness ERP, innovative tech to run content biz

    MUMBAI: India’s Prime Focus, which was in news in connection with the leak of an upcoming episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ to be broadcast by its partner Star India’s Hotstar, recently signed technology deals with prominent traditional and digital broadcasters. Now, its technology arm Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) will be unveiling a host of industry-first upgrades to its flagship product, CLEAR Media ERP Suite, at IBC 2017.

    CLEAR now offers a brand new functionality for end-to-end Work Order Management, pre-integrated with its Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Engine and Video Tools.

    This further elevates CLEAR’s promise of enterprise digitization to the next level, by enabling users to manage all of the following on ONE system:

    * Assets, with associated metadata and essence.
    * Resources, including internal and freelance resources, as well as 3rd party vendors.
    * Tasks, including generation, timeline estimation, scheduling, assignment and execution (using tools within or outside CLEAR)
    * Orchestration of content workflows across the content supply chain.

    While users have been able to track business processes in previous versions of CLEAR, the new Work Order Management now allows the tracking of every incoming work request including all of its associated processes, tasks and deliverables, through completion. Additionally, its Resource and Task Assignment modules enable assignment of manual tasks to best-fit resources based on skill, availability and cost. Users can assign tasks across their pool of internal, vendor and freelance resources, thus ensuring optimal resource utilization in alignment with business objectives.

    With BPM driven tasks, due date based Work Order monitoring dashboards, in-depth data analytics and reporting, Work Order Management is a vital ingredient that helps Media and Entertainment enterprises improve quality and maintain on-time delivery alongside increases in scale. It lays the foundation for streamlining content operations and helps M and E players enhance efficiencies across core processes like acquisition, review and approval, cataloguing, QC, mastering, distribution, promos and localisation.

    “To lead in the industry, broadcasters and studios have to move beyond managing just content and focus on successfully running the business of content by harnessing the power of enterprise software and innovative technology,” said Prime Focus Technologies founder and CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan.

    “For the first time ever, media and entertainment organisations can have both assets and work related details for the entire supply chain on one system. This will usher in extreme transparency across the content lifecycle, and reduce manual effort drastically to help M and E enterprises lower their Total Cost of Operations,” he added.

    PFT will also be showcasing the latest additions to its Hybrid Cloud-enabled CLEAR Media ERP Suite at IBC 2017. These include:

    DAX® Production Cloud: ONE Software for Dailies and Post Workflows that enables all stakeholders within the production supply chain to collaborate, service and distribute media, all on the same software

    Promo Operations: A never-before functionality that provides end-to-end business process orchestration for promo creation including versioning automation.

    Mastering Automation: An efficient and cost-effective way to create masters for domestic and international syndication
    Interoperable Master Format (IMF):

    * World’s first IMF Media Player for playback over streaming proxy
    Future-ready solution for IMF content exchange, with support for SMPTE’s upcoming Applications (beyond 2 and 2e).

    * Technology to transform IMF Packages into deliverables for DPP and iTunes.

    When both, assets and work-related details, for the entire supply chain would be on one system, life would certainly be much easier for the media and entertainment organisations.

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  • STBs, VoDs & IPTV will soon have high-end TV content via Tata-V-Nova tech

    STBs, VoDs & IPTV will soon have high-end TV content via Tata-V-Nova tech

    MUMBAI: V-Nova Ltd., a leading provider of video compression solutions, and Tata Elxsi, a leading provider of specialised broadcast and communications engineering services, have announced a partnership that enables operators to deploy V-Nova Perseus technology at an accelerated pace.

    – Strategic partnership offers broadcasters and operators unique solutions and know-how for TV delivery to connected devices and set-top boxes.

    – Joint offering leverages Tata Elxsi’s system integration expertise to enhance performance, simplify deployment and reduce operating costs.

    – Customers will benefit from faster time to market with V-Nova Perseus-based solutions.

    Tata Elxsi has already integrated V-Nova’s award-winning technology within the set-top-box (STB) of a satellite TV operator in Europe, enabling rapid deployment and immediate benefits.

    V-Nova Perseus offers the benefits of next-generation codecs, on available encoders and decoders, at the same time providing substantial reductions in processing power requirements. Compatible with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware, including both legacy and the latest generation of STBs, PERSEUS provides optimum performance at the operating points that are key for service delivery.

    The benefits are particularly suited to (VoDs) video-hungry services, from HD and UHD TV to social media applications, across all delivery networks. V-Nova Perseus is compatible with existing h.264/HEVC workflows irrespective of DRM, streaming protocol such as HLS and DASH, ad-insertion and other processes.

    Perseus has been deployed in a number of applications, from contribution to IPTV and OTT delivery in multiple countries worldwide.

    V-Nova CEO Guido Meardi said: “Together with Tata Elxsi, we can help operators turbocharge the performance of their services with the rapid deployment of V-Nova Perseus 2 on custom integrations across a wide range of client devices, including legacy and new cable, IPTV and satellite STBs.”

    Using its extensive domain depth, product design and integration expertise, Tata Elxsi will provide fast and reliable delivery of V-Nova PERSEUS-based solutions for broadcasters, Pay TV operators, content owners and video service providers. With a backing of over 25 years of experience in technology, systems integration and consulting, Tata Elxsi can maximize the benefits of the deployment of V-Nova Perseus within operator specific head-ends, ad-servers, cloud environments and set-top-box middleware, while minimizing time to market.

    Tata Elxsi VP and head of broadcast business unit KP Sreekumar said: “V-Nova Perseus 2 is a natural fit for our broadcast and communications clients, and we look forward to work closely together to maximize existing services and enable new use cases.”

    The joint offering, combining the performance of V-Nova Perseus with Tata Elxsi’s know-how, will be readily available to operators and broadcasters looking to maximize the potential of video services across connected devices and set-top boxes.

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  • Hotstar tech partner Prime Focus signs deals with Turner & sports broadcasters

    Hotstar tech partner Prime Focus signs deals with Turner & sports broadcasters

    MUMBAI: India’s Prime Focus, which was recently in news for admitting and plugging the leak of an upcoming episode of Game of Thrones to be broadcast by its partner Star India’s Hotstar, has signed technology deals with prominent traditional and digital broadcasters.

    A link to view Episode 4 of Season 7 of Game of Thrones bearing a Star India watermark appeared online three days before its airdate as an outcome of an illegal breach of obligations by PFT’s current and former employees. Following PFT’s forensic investigations, Mumbai Cyber Cell arrested four accused on 14 August.

    Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of Prime Focus, recently signed an agreement with Turner Latin America, where PFT’s CLEAR™ Broadcast Cloud will provide work order and supply chain management along with end-to-end process monitoring of critical tasks, with reports and dashboards. “CLEAR was built as an ERP system tailor made for M&E and is well-poised to help Turner improve efficiencies across their supply chain with lowest TCOP, while enabling them to be the first to publish their content to multiple destinations,” said Prime Focus Technologies CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan.

    PFT also manages the content operations for sports broadcasters. Also, the Sports Video Group recently welcomed PFT as a corporate sponsor. PFT creates CLEAR enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) software for the media and entertainment (M&E) industry.

    Apart from Star, PFT is working with Disney, Warner Bros., Hearst, CBS Television Studios, 20th Century Fox Television Studios, Lionsgate, Showtime, A+E Networks, Tru TV, HBO, IFC Films, FX Networks, Miramax, CNBC Africa, TERN International, Sony Music, Google, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Hooq, Viacom’s Voot, Cricket Australia, BCCI, and The Associated Press and Indian Premier League.

    “We chose CLEAR for three reasons: it is cloud native, multi-platform and easy to integrate through a solid Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach”, said Turner Latin America VP – technology & operations Luis Esparza.

    Operations at Turner Latin America’s main content processing hub in Buenos Aires (Argentina) will be seamlessly connected with all other supply chain locations through the CLEAR hybrid cloud architecture. This will support multi-location distributed workflows such as subtitling and dubbing, compliance mastering, promo operations, archival, playout delivery as well as schedule driven distribution for OTT and VOD.

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  • Irdeto’s Cloakware to safeguard tech brands

    MUMBAI: Irdeto, a leader in digital platform security, has announced the launch of its next-generation Cloakware™ Software Protection solution. Designed for the world’s largest and most innovative brands, the solution provides resilient and durable protection against cyberattacks.

    Cloakware combines cutting-edge cybersecurity technologies, libraries and tools that enable organizations to customize the protection of their valuable digital assets. The solution, which is used by some of the world’s biggest technology brands, now offers Irdeto’s unique combination of program code and data protection, a customizable architecture and new language-independent support (currently JavaScript, Web Assembly, Objective C and Swift). Combined with binary protections, function and control flow transformations, runtime application self-protection (RASP), application shielding as well as whitebox cryptography, the solution protects code and data from hackers attempting to nullify security and alter program functionality. These techniques provide security-savvy organizations with the very best in renewable software security designed to adapt quickly as industries evolve.

    “Businesses today are living in a software-defined world,” said Jaco Du Plooy, Vice President of Cloakware, Irdeto. “While the implementation of software and IoT technologies provide organizations with the flexibility to innovate, they also introduce a number of vulnerabilities that are exploited by hackers on a daily basis. It is critical for businesses to have a robust and dynamically renewable cybersecurity strategy that protects software and endpoint devices from tampering or reverse engineering. Cloakware Software Protection provides the very best deep layer software security in the industry and is used by some of the largest organizations on the planet to protect their core assets and data day after day.”

    Businesses today rely on software to conduct day-to-day operations. However, software is inherently vulnerable, providing hackers with an easy entry point to execute various attacks, including ransomware, malware injections, Man-in-the-Middle attacks, Man-at-the-End attacks and others. From media & entertainment organizations, to the automotive industry and any business with IoT devices, each rely on optimal security to protect their brand, revenue and intellectual property from these attacks. Cloakware Software Protection secures digital assets by concealing proprietary algorithms and secrets, including cryptographic keys. Once protected, these applications can be safely deployed on untrusted hosts and in hostile environments such as mobile and IoT endpoint devices.

    Cloakware’s security techniques provide application protection through sophisticated data, function and control flow transformations, anti-debug, whitebox cryptography and active integrity verification. Cloakware Software Protection integrates these security techniques into the customer’s software build process, thereby embedding application protection directly at the source code level.

    Irdeto was recently named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s June 2017 Market Guide for Application Shielding, “Protecting applications that run within untrusted environments is ever more crucial as mobile and IoT become ubiquitous, and as web applications modernize, bringing more intelligence to the client,” according to Gartner Research Directors, Dionisio Zumerle and Manjunath Bhat. “Security and risk management leaders must apply shielding selectively to close security gaps. Application shielding refers to a set of technologies that modify an application’s source, byte or binary code, to make the application more resistant to intrusion, tampering and reverse engineering.”

    Combining patented technologies and services, the Irdeto Cloakware suite of products enables brands and developers to protect their application code against reverse engineering, tampering and automated attacks. Irdeto’s Cloakware solutions provide a highly effective, multi-layered and tunable approach to software protection that is future-proof and relies on 20 years of proven success. Cloakware technology forms the basis for several innovative Irdeto solutions like Cloaked CA and ActiveCloak that are currently being used by multiple Irdeto customers, including Stofa, HorizonSAT, GOBX, ORS, RCS & RDS, MEDIA BROADCAST and many others.

  • TV channels get unique AI: Zone TV & Ooyala partner Microsoft

    MUMBAI: ZoneTV, taking a quantum leap forward in the linear TV experience, will utilize media logistics tools from Ooyala, a global provider of video monetization technology and services, plus Video Indexer, part of Microsoft Cognitive Services, to automate the curation of content of a first-of-its-kind, customizable suite of linear TV channels which launches this fall. ZoneTV has licensed digital-first content which it will curate into specialized channels delivered to pay-TV subscribers. For consumers, these channels will initially appear like any traditional linear channel. But ZoneTV’s unique service allows consumers to do more, combining linear, ondemand and customized choices into a new offering called ZoneTV Dynamic Channels. The company’s ability to curate 6,000 hours of videos on the fly in these channels creates a unique and personalized experience for the consumer.

    “We’re building the next generation of pay-TV services, so we need next-generation tools. With the combination of Ooyala’s platform and Microsoft Cognitive Services, the ZoneTV Programming Studio delivers an unmatched capability to enhance the TV ecosystem and translates into a one-of-a-kind viewer experience,” said ZoneTV CEO Jeff Weber.

    The content in the specialized channels will be presented in a consumer-friendly, easily discoverable way to viewers. ZoneTV will achieve this using the ZoneTV Programming Studio, which is integrated with Ooyala’s Flex CMS and with Video Indexer, part of Microsoft Cognitive Services, to curate fine-tuned specialized channels.

    The combination of these tools features advanced algorithms that characterize content; the platform automatically extracts and analyzes metadata to identify video genre and content sentiment, pulls topics from speech and text, translates captions into multiple languages and integrates subscriber analytics. This provides quick scalability for ZoneTV as it adds additional content, and reduces manual processes that can slow content curation and introduce errors in metadata translation and application.

    ZoneTV, Ooyala, Microsoft Join Forces to apply AI to Linear TV Channels “Ooyala puts a premium on collaboration, which is what our Integrated Video Platform solutions are all about. To be the bridge bringing Microsoft AI innovation to ZoneTV, an exciting North American programmer, is putting us at the center of reshaping TV for tomorrow,” said Ooyala CEO Jonathan Huberman.

    In addition, ZoneTV will utilize Ooyala’s Flex Platform, the company’s versatile and customizable solution for video production and distribution workflows, for its end-to-end video workflow for both new specialized channels and its VOD assets. Flex runs on Microsoft Azure Media Services and can transform assets into any format for distribution to any device with Ooyala’s video platform; and it automates transcoding, packaging and syndication, which gets content in front of audience faster. Ooyala Flex is the only workflow tool which can be 100% cloud-hosted, freeing up space in an affiliate’s data center.

    The collaboration features a full-featured workflow solution with both operational dashboards as well as creative dashboards to allow efficient editing, content review and metadata entry. “ZoneTV shows what Microsoft Cognitive Services can do for TV programming. By integrating their content with Microsoft Azure, they can leverage Azure Media Analytics and Ooyala Flex for automated content indexing potentially driving more value for ZoneTV affiliates and subscribers,” said Microsoft Corp. GM – enterprise video Sudheer Sirivara.

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  • From lab to end-user: India launches TV, radio & FB integrated server ‘Sagar Vani’

    MUMBAI: The India government, in order to effectively disseminate ocean-related advisories from the lab to the end-user, has developed ‘Sagar Vani’.

    The union minister for science & technology, earth sciences and environment, forest & climate change Harshvardhan has launched the ‘India Quake’ app and ‘Sagar Vani’ at the Foundation Day of Ministry of Earth Sciences in New Delhi on 27 July.

    ‘Sagar Vani’ is a software platform where various dissemination modes will be integrated on a single central server. It ’ includes multi-lingual SMS, Voice Call / Audio Advisory, Mobile Apps (User / Admin modules), Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), Email, GTS, Fax, Digital Display Boards, Radio / Television broadcast units, IVRS, Cloud Channels, etc. The system also has facility to provide access to various stakeholders so that they too will be able to further disseminate information and alerts to the user community.

    ‘Sagar Vani’ system compares with the most advanced countries’ services in terms of speed of delivery, omni channel capabilities and diverseness of services. With this system, the services will be disseminated in local languages using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. For the first time in India, Sagar Vani is also using the power of television and cable network mediums for topical and alert dissemination services.

    ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) under Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) provides ocean information services for the benefit of various user communities in India. The services are more fruitfully utilized when the advisories reaches the end user in timely manner and in user readable format. Now-a-days ICT facilities in the country are accessible to large population of the country and that plays a major role in effective dissemination of information to the end user. ESSO-INCOIS has adopted the state-of-the-art technologies and tools available in the country for the timely dissemination of Ocean Information and Advisory Services that includes Potential Fishing Zone (PFZ) advisories, Ocean State Forecast (OSF), High Wave Alerts and Tsunami early warnings.

    Presently, the advisories are being disseminated to the stakeholders from different service sections and through various stakeholders and partners, which might cause delay in dissemination of the services. In order to timely disseminate the advisories, ‘Sagar Vani’ has been developed by ESSO-INCOIS through Gaian Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

    The ‘Sagar Vani’ will now serve the coastal community, especially the fishermen community with the advisories and alerts towards their livelihood as well as their safety at Sea.

  • AajTak topples Times of India as the top news video page on Facebook

    New Delhi, 13th July 2017: AajTak-India’s No.1 News channel- has also topped the rankings on the digital space  by  becoming the most popular on social network for continuous 3 months with over 29.7 million video viewership on Facebook in May, 2017. By crossing this monthly viewership mark, AajTak has stormed the digital platform with its exclusive content.

    Vidooly, the leading video intelligence software product suite for content creators, media companies and brands, had come up with the report  for MOST POPULAR FACEBOOK VIDEO PUBLISHERS IN INDIA – May 2017  which is categorized into six major genres – Health & Lifestyle, New age Entertainment, Traditional Entertainment, New age – News, Traditional News and Independent creators. The report highlights that the top 100 pages collectively clocked more than 2.8 billion viewership in May 2017.

    AajTak has a video viewership of 297,645,571 on Facebook which is way ahead in comparison to the Facebook pages of ABP news and Times Of Indiawhich are ranked in second and third position with 184,526,769 and 114,406,951 viewership respectively.

    Commenting on the report, Ms. KalliPurie, Group Editorial Director (Broadcast & New Media), India Today Group said, “AajTak’s leadership on television and on the digital space can be attributed to the brand philosophy of staying true to the promise of being ‘SabseTez’. The consistent focus on speed, user experience and quality of content at Aajtak.in has made it the most preferred for news content”.   

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    AajTak has been instrumental in reaching out to its viewers on traditional media for many years now and this achievement shows the popularity of the channel in the digital world too. There is a constant engagement with the audience on AajTak Facebook page through Discussions, Satire, Backstage Conversations, News Capsules, Photo Blogs, Engagement Posts, TV Primetime Teasers, Primetime Promotions and a lot more.

    SubratKar, Co-Founder & CEO, Vidooly commented on the developments saying, ”Over the last 6 months, we have been closely tracking the tremendous growth in viewership of videos on Facebook in India. As expected, News related content dominates all the other genres since Facebook has been playing a pivotal role in shaping up the socio political opinions in the country. We are also seeing a steady increase in independent video creators utilizing the platform, catering to both the urban and rural population. It is a very interesting time in the online video business in India as both YouTube and Facebook are attracting content creators. However; given the fact that Facebook is yet to launch monetization for creators, YouTube still is the place to be if you’re looking to make a business out of it.”

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  • TiVo renews IP licence with Foxtel, deliver ultimate experience in Australia

    MUMBAI: TiVo Corporation, a leader in entertainment technology and audience insights, has announced that Foxtel, Australia’s leading pay-TV platform, has signed a multi-year intellectual property (IP) licence renewal. This agreement offers Foxtel ongoing access to TiVo’s industry-leading entertainment discovery patent portfolios.

    “Our relationship with Foxtel demonstrates how pay-TV providers around the world use TiVo’s intellectual property to reach consumers in more innovative ways,” said Samir Armaly, executive vice president, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Rovi Corporation, a TiVo company. “We are proud to continue working with Foxtel, one of Australia’s most innovative media companies, to enable the next-generation of entertainment discovery.”

    The TiVo companies have spent decades investing in research and development to create market-leading technologies for the media and entertainment industry. TiVo’s innovative solutions touch practically every aspect of consumers’ day-to-day interaction with their entertainment, enabling customers to build customized, next-generation digital entertainment solutions for users around the globe.

  • India tops in avg app downloads per month

    NEW DELHI: A new study shows that Indians led in the number of apps downloaded per month in the first quarter of 201

    The survey that covered 10 countries showed that Indians downloaded an average of just over forty apps per month, even though the number of apps available on a smartphone was just under eighty as against over 100 apps available in smartphones in Japan.

    In South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and India, the top 20% of smartphone users spent over four hours per day in apps.The emerging markets of Mexico, Brazil, and India had the highest time for users at the median and at the bottom 20%.

    The average user’s time spent varied widely between countries, from just over 1.5 hours per day in France to well over three hours in South Korea, where average Indian user’s time spend was 2.5 hours.

    Nearly 75% of users install at least one app per month, according to app data and insights provider App Annie. App Annie delivers the most trusted for your business to succeed in the global app economy. Over 800,000 registered members rely on App Annie to better understand the app market, their businesses and the opportunities around them. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with 450 employees across 15 global offices.

    In the ten countries analyzed, the users on average used over thirty apps per month and over nine apps per day. The other countries covered were Germany, China, France, United Kingdom and United States.

    In terms of time spent per user, mobile gamers in Japan and South Korea far exceeded those in the other countries.

    Users continue to download apps at a high rate. In all countries analyzed, over 65% of users installed at least one app in May 2017. In half of the countries analyzed, over half of all users installed two or more apps.

    On the whole, people are still looking for new apps to add to their arsenal. As mobile becomes more central to more industries, users will continue to be open to integrating new apps into their lives.

    This indicates strong adoption of apps even for the least-avid users in these countries, thanks to widespread adoption of apps such as WhatsApp and an emerging mobile-first lifestyle

    In terms of time per user, Travel & Local is an increasingly important category. In the United States, users now spend over two hours per month on average in these apps, and time per user in these apps is strongly growing across the board.

    The per cent of users who use these apps is already over 75% and increasing in most countries analyzed.

    The top 10% of mobile gamers are spending more time playing games. With these gains outstripping the increases at the median, the industry may be moving in a more core-centric direction.

    Even in Japan and South Korea, where time spent towers over the other countries, the top 10% increased its time spent in these countries. These gamers are spending roughly 3 hours per day in games.

    Especially in these countries, hardcore mobile games continue to be massively popular. In South Korea, Lineage II: Revolution exemplifies this. In Q1 2017, the online role-playing game had both the most total time spent and the highest time per user as any game in South Korea

    The total time spent in mobile apps will exceed 3.5 trillion hours in 2021.

    Exploding install bases in emerging markets will play a major part in this trend, and in APAC’s expanding lead

    Notably, Germany over performs in Shopping where it ranks as the number four country by average time spent, in contrast to its number seven position by average spent time spent overall. A significant portion of German mobile shoppers’ time comes from both eBay and eBay Kleinanzeigen, eBay’s local classifieds app in Germany.

    Brazil was the only country in the set whose users spent more time on average in Finance apps than Shopping.

    A large amount of this time was spent in banking apps. Six banking apps in Brazil, led by Banco de Brasil, exceeded 10% usage penetration. For comparison, no banking app in the United States achieved this.

  • VoD software market may expand to $ 7.5 bn by ’22, A-Pac leads

    MUMBAI: The global video streaming (VoD) software market size is expected to grow from USD 3.25 billion in 2017 to USD 7.50 billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.2%. The major factors driving the video streaming software market are increasing traction of VaaS in enterprises due to lower cost of ownership, extensive growth of online videos, and growing needs for on-demand streaming. However, network connectivity issues and the technical difficulties involved in video streaming are some of the major factors hindering the growth of the video streaming software market, according to ReportLinker study.

    Increasing traction of Video-as-a-Service (VaaS) in enterprises due to lower cost of ownership, the extensive growth of online videos, and growing needs for on-demand streaming are driving the video streaming software market.

    Video Analytics is expected to witness the highest growth rate during the forecast period: The video analytics solutions segment is expected to have the highest growth rate during the forecast period, as video analytics solutions offer a 360-degree view of enterprise viewer habits and behaviors, producing critical intelligence to support enterprise strategic goals. Through video analytics, enterprises can club Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and cognitive technologies to extract actionable insights from the video files.

    Broadcasters, operators, and media vertical is expected to have the largest market share in 2017: The broadcasters, operators, and media vertical is expected to witness the highest adoption of video streaming software, as the video streaming software helps broadcasters, operators, and media companies to maximize monetisation, minimize operational overheads, offer better services, and enhance viewing experiences.

    Asia Pacific (APAC) is expected to grow at the highest CAGR: The APAC region includes emerging economies such as China, Australia, Singapore, and India. In these countries, enterprises are rapidly deploying video streaming software solutions. APAC is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. This is mainly due to the increasing adoption of advanced technologies, growing usage of digital media among organizations and individuals, and the rising awareness about business productivity. In terms of market size, North America is expected to lead the video streaming software market in 2017.

    In-depth interviews were conducted with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), marketing directors, innovation and technology directors, and executives from various key organizations operating in the video streaming software market.

    The breakup of the profiles of the primary participants is given below:

    • By Company: Tier 1 – 24%, Tier 2 – 41%, and Tier 3 – 35%
    • By Designation: C-Level – 57%, Director Level – 36%, Others – 7%
    • By Region: North America – 49%, Europe – 28%, APAC – 16%, RoW – 7%

    The key video streaming software providers profiled in the report are as follows:
    Anvato, Inc. (Mountain View, US), BoxCast (Cleveland, US), Brightcove, Inc. (Boston, US), Contus (Chennai, India), DaCast (San Francisco, US), Haivision, Inc. (Montreal, Canada), IBM Corporation (New York, US), Kaltura, Inc. (New York, US), Kollective Technology, Inc. (Bend, US), KZO Innovations (Reston, US), MediaPlatform (Beverly Hills, US), Ooyala, Inc. (Santa Clara, US), Nuvola Media PTE Ltd. (Singapore), Panopto (Pittsburgh, US), Polycom, Inc. (San Jose, US), Qumu Corporation (Minneapolis, US), Ramp (Boston, US), Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Madison, US), StreamShark (Victoria, Australia), uStudio, Inc. (Austin, US), VBrick (Herndon, US), VIDIZMO, LLC. (Sterling, US), Vzaar (London, UK), Wowza Media Systems LLC. (Colorado, US) and YuJa (San Jose, US).