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Video Review and Approval Process
Looking to tap into a video review and approval process for your enterprise video platform? IBM has introduced a new workflow for IBM Enterprise Video Streaming that allows companies to setup an approval process. This includes having designated...
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Video Metrics: Generate PDF Report
Need a quick way to generate a report on your video metrics for a stake holder? IBM Video Streaming and IBM Enterprise Video Streaming accounts now have a way to generate PDF reports on their video metrics. This can be generated from viewership...
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Simulated Live: Creating Live Playlists
Need to create a simulated live experience for viewers? Interested in managing linear channels? IBM offers live playlists with functionality that can replicate a live broadcast. Using this feature, previously recorded video can be presented to...
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Closed Captioning Settings for Video Streaming
Viewers now have more options related to how closed captions are displayed for video streaming content. This allows end users to customize closed captioning settings inside the video player for live and on demand captions. As a result, viewers can...
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Audio-only Playback for Video Streaming
Ever dealt with a viewer you had to turn away because their connection speed was simply too slow, even at the lowest quality setting? Audio-only playback for video streaming can be a possible solution. It offers a low bandwidth option for an on...
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Video Uploading Through APIs
Looking for a faster method to upload videos? Need one that isn’t restricted to accessing the dashboard of a video streaming, enterprise video streaming or virtual events platform account? IBM is introducing video uploading through APIs. This...
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Replace Video on Video Streaming Platforms
Have a new version of a video but don’t want to lose analytics or redo embeds? IBM is introducing a replace video feature for its video streaming and enterprise video platforms. This allows organizations to update outdated videos with newer...
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OpenID Connect (OIDC) for Enterprise Video
Looking to offer your users a single sign-on experience from your video content? IBM now supports using OpenID Connect (OIDC) based identity providers with its enterprise video platform. This expands the options that organizations have for user...
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Server Cluster in Europe for Streaming Video
Located in Europe and looking for a video streaming solution that has a server infrastructure also located there? IBM Watson Media is introducing a concentrated, shared server cluster for the Europe region, located in Frankfurt, Germany. For...
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Data Privacy and Governance Update
IBM Video Streaming is a comprehensive solution that organizations can leverage as part of their video strategy. This can be for both external and internal facing assets, which might include marketing activities or corporate communication. Content...
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Ustream is IBM Cloud Video
As of April 1st, 2017, Ustream’s transition to becoming part of IBM is complete. Ustream was acquired by IBM back in January of 2016, and quickly became one of the pillars of the then newly created IBM Cloud Video business unit. This unit brought...
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Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2017 Winner
Winners for the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2017 have now been announced. Representing the online video industry’s shining stars as selected by users, categories ranged from cloud based solutions, like the Live Streaming Platform...
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Enhanced Professional Plans and Sunsetting Free Streaming
On September 17th, 2018, IBM Watson Media (formerly Ustream) will be sunsetting free streaming. As part of this change, your free account will no longer be able to broadcast or have viewers watch your content. To keep your videos and access to our...
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Content Innovation Awards 2018 Winner: IBM Watson Captioning
This week in Cannes, France, IBM Watson Captioning was honored in the Advanced TV Innovation of the Year category at the Content Innovation Awards 2018. The award highlights technology that has improved the TV experience, overcome challenges to the...
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CSI Awards 2018: Best Use of AI or Machine Learning in Video
Artificial intelligence is transforming industries, increasing efficiency and improving our ability to manage complex issues. That technology also has many benefits within the video space, ranging from language processing to metadata management and...
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Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2018 Winner
Winners for the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2018 have been announced. As selected by users, the awards represent the exemplary services and products in the industry, from platforms to hardware offerings. This year, IBM took home four...
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Advanced Imaging Society: Leadership Award 2018
With 2018 behind us, one final accolade for the year was sent IBM Watson Media’s way. This was the Advanced Imaging Society: Leadership Award 2018. Read on to learn more about the award and the Advanced Imaging Society, including their mission. For...
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IBM Cloud Video is IBM Watson Media
In an effort to provide all IBM video products and services under a single brand, as of 2019, all solutions formerly marketed under the name IBM Cloud Video are now part of the IBM Watson Media product family. As a result, IBM’s video streaming...
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IBM Watson Media Earns a 2020 Top Rated Award From TrustRadius
IBM Watson Media has been honored as a leader among video solutions. Today, March 18th, 2020, the customer voice and insights platform TrustRadius announced that IBM’s video streaming solutions was being recognized with a 2020 Top Rated Award in...
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History of IBM Watson Media
In late 2015 and early 2016 respectively, IBM made key acquisitions in the video space. This saw the 100+ year old company acquire both Clearleap and Ustream. The entities were joined to form IBM Cloud Video. This also gave birth to IBM Watson...
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Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2020: Vote IBM
The Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2020 are now open for voting. Held annually since 2007, the Readers’ Choice Awards has end users awarding exemplary solutions in the video industry. These solutions can range from physical ones, like PTZ...
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Live Streaming Meetings from Zoom
This article details how to live stream a meeting from Zoom to IBM’s video streaming services. As a result, the audience can be greatly expanded, as IBM’s delivery infrastructure can support huge audiences. This session will also be automatically...
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How to Live Stream from Your Smartphone or Tablet
Planning to live stream? Considering using your mobile device to do it? With a smartphone in your pocket, you’ll always have a video ready device close at hand. However, capturing great video for a live stream isn’t always as simple as pointing and...
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Tackling Broadcast Delays and Syncing Issues from Streaming
Buffering got you down? Looking for some tips to combat broadcast delays caused from streaming? Plagued by syncing issues and need some help? Join us as we tackle some of the most common dilemmas our broadcasters face while explaining what leads to...
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8 Different Types of Virtual Events
2020 was very much the year of virtual events, as previously physical venues began offering an online version of their event. Often times this would include interactivity among viewers or participants, letting them feel more involved. With people...
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Dead Air – The Live Stream Killer
Back in the 1950’s and 60’s, much (if not most) early broadcast radio and television programming was produced and broadcasted live. The skills of producing a live broadcast were refined and improved through the years. Early radio broadcasters like...
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Boost Virtual Event Registration in 6 Steps
Running virtual or hybrid events? Need some advice to help boost virtual event registration? These six steps will help you increase your virtual event attendance. They assume you are already using a virtual event platform to run the conference, as...
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CDN & Video: What is a Content Delivery Network?
Video streaming and delivery is a resource intensive process. This is attributed to the various networks a video stream must pass through as well as the quality of the video, as higher bitrates and resolutions require more information related to...
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White Label Video Platform: Live Streaming & VOD
Looking for a white label video player solution? Broadcasters can spend hundreds if not thousands on their setups, from top of the line cameras to hardware encoders that can allow for camera switching, only to have the end product touting another...
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Video Transcription: Automated Audio to Text
Transcribing audio can be a slow process. For those looking for a solution to scale or speed up video transcription, a solution is automated audio to text. This takes AI (artificial intelligence) and uses it to transcribe speech through combining...
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Interlaced Video & Deinterlacing for Streaming
Have you ever seen video content that looks like the image above, but weren’t sure of the cause? These overt horizontal lines, appearing as pixelation around movement like out of an old school Atari game, are an artifact created from presenting an...
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Keyframes, InterFrame & Video Compression
The default mental image of video compression involves unwanted video artifacts, like pixelation and blockiness in the image. This sells short, though, the complexity that actually goes into compressing video content. In particular, it overlooks a...
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