Category: Media Services

With the announcement of the AWS for M&E Monetization solution area, Amazon Web Services (AWS) demonstrates new monetization solutions at IBC 2023 that enable media companies to maximize advertising revenue and drive customer engagement across platforms and channels. Ten AWS and AWS Partners feature solutions spanning the end-to-end media advertising lifecycle on stand 5.C90 at […]

This blog was co-authored by Julián Fernández-Campón, Chief Technology Officer, Tedial. Tedial, a validated software partner, has been creating applications tailored for the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry since 2001. The company focuses on solutions for companies with Media Asset Management (MAM), workflows orchestration, and systems integration. Several years ago, Tedial recognized that business operations […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Elemental Link UHD now supports AWS Elemental MediaConnect. Combining Link UHD with MediaConnect is a simple and cost-effective way to create live video workflows in the cloud, saving time and resources compared to traditional on-premises, satellite, or fiber infrastructure. Customers have more flexibility in how they process […]

AWS is pleased to announce expanded feature support for Key-Length-Value (KLV) metadata processing in AWS Media Services and AWS Elemental Appliances & Software. While KLV has long been supported in AWS Elemental products and services, we’ve recently added new ways to carry KLV information in video workflows. If you are not already familiar with KLV, […]

Over-the-top (OTT) streaming is on a trajectory to becoming the biggest form of media consumption in the world. In the US alone, 65%1 of the population consume media digitally, through smart devices, connected TVs (CTV), game consoles, and streaming media players. Digital video ad spending in the US in 2022 was estimated at $2392 billion […]

This blog was coauthored by Michael Prendergast, CTO and Co-Founder, Spalk. Introduction A compelling sports broadcast is built on storytelling and commentators are the guides to these stories, helping viewers experience the narratives playing out on screen. Only recently have commentators enjoyed the flexibility of working remotely, allowing them to broadcast for leagues around the world […]

Introduction RTMP stands for Real-Time Messaging Protocol. It’s a live video streaming technology that lets you transfer data over the internet and is a widely used protocol for streaming video. Customers may want to create interactive experiences with video originating from specialized live cameras or drones that do not support RTMP streaming. A workaround is […]

Customers taking advantage of the elastic, on demand nature of the AWS Media Services have the ability to spin up and tear down live streaming pipelines on demand and on an event by event basis. Entire media pipelines can be deployed from a template, for a single live event. Once the event is complete the […]

This blog post was co-authored by Hetal Bhatt, Writer/Researcher at Spectrum Labs, and Dave Matli, Chief Marketing Officer at Spectrum Labs. Amazon Interactive Video Service Stream Chat (Amazon IVS Chat) enables live chat to accompany your live IVS video streams. It’s fully scalable and customizable. Content moderation goes hand in hand with live chat implementation […]

This post was co-authored by Giovanni Galvez, VP of Business Development and Strategy, SyncWords. Introduction Adding captions to live streaming events is not something new to the industry. There are well-established workflows to add captions to video feeds by using specialized hardware encoders to embed the captions. These workflows can create challenges for live event […]