SOLUTIONS
Gcore | February 02, 2023
On February 1, 2023, Gcore, a global cloud and edge solutions provider, revealed a new billing plan for its Streaming Platform. With the introduction of the simplified pricing plan starting at $0.001 every minute, startups and small businesses across a variety of industries, including online education, entertainment, e-commerce, fintech, events, and video gaming, can provide streaming services to end users with more predictable costs and exceptional performance.
Globally streaming online content requires overcoming several technical challenges, such as ensuring sufficient scalability to handle heavy traffic volumes, offering smooth streaming, and preserving the quality of video and audio streaming across all types of devices and connections. As a renowned provider of streaming infrastructure services and Content Delivery Network, the platform's customers benefit from the company's vast experience addressing these challenges.
The streamlined billing facilitates video streaming for as many as 100 million viewers, with Gcore's Streaming Platform handling all technical stages, such as uploading, recording, storing, delivering via CDN, and playing.
The solution enables low-latency streaming and live global broadcasting of both vertical and horizontal videos. The adaptive bitrate function allows viewers with unstable internet connections to view live streams. Prospective clients can try the Streaming Platform for free, and Gcore provides a user-friendly pricing calculator so they can compare the fees of competing services.
Head of Gcore's Streaming Platform, Alexey Petrovskih, shared, "The Gcore Streaming Platform offers free transcoding and a video streaming price as low as $0.001 per minute. This is possible thanks to several Gcore capabilities: first, we have our own infrastructure, including storage for video hosting and a CDN with over 150 points of presence; second, Gcore has its own transcoding technology, which means that, unlike competitors, we don't have to pay for third-party services."
(Source – PR Newswire)
About Gcore
Founded in 2011 and based in Luxembourg, Gcore delivers powerful cloud and edge solutions for the entertainment and media industry. It provides infrastructure for global leaders across sectors, including TEDx, the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Agence eSanté), Wargaming, and Avast. In addition, the company administers its own global IT infrastructure spanning six continents. Its network comprises more than 150 points of presence located in Tier IV and Tier III data centers. It aims to develop global, innovative, secure, and user-friendly edge computing solutions.
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SOLUTIONS, INDUSTRY MARKET
Brandlive | February 01, 2023
One of the top video-led marketing events companies, Brandlive, recently announced two new solutions for event professionals and marketers. The two new solutions include Greenroom for iOS and Greenroom Recording Studio. Brandlive is a company that makes video-based webinars and events more interesting. It is already empowering presenters with its suite of event and creator platforms. The company's newest solutions expand on its video production studio in the cloud, Greenroom.
Brandlive's integrated production software Greenroom now brings cinematic power into the presenter's pocket. One of the two new solutions added, the Greenroom app for iOS takes advantage of the world's most well-known and powerful camera, the iPhone. Before, the native Greenroom iOS app, the solution was only available on desktop browsers. It has better video quality than webcams, and presenters can use it whenever convenient. Greenroom for iOS takes away the fear that speakers will mess up their technology and gives them more confidence so they can focus on providing a powerful and impactful message. Using iPhone's cinematic mode, Dolby Vision technology and ProRes, the solution supports 24-frames-per-second, 4K resolution, live streaming, recordings, and multi-cam setup.
Greenroom's new cloud-based Recording Studio feature set by Brandlive helps marketers easily make agency-quality content for webinars, events, and important work moments. The Recording Studio helps to streamline the recording process and make it easy to mix recorded and live content for the perfect show creation on a shot-by-shot and segment-by-segment basis. The solution simplifies with the help of powerful presenter tools, including a teleprompter, scripts, and visual cues. The presenters can now present at their best and deliver the right message without flaws. The solution eliminates the upload and downloads and makes it a simple drag and drop in a click. Organizers can layer graphics, overlays, titles, animations, and music to transform boring webinars, product launches, and marketing events into something memorable for the people.
About Brandlive
An enterprise software platform and service provider, Brandlive helps marketing events that bring elevated engagement with the help of high-quality video, which is from webinars to customer summits to internal town halls. Brandlive is a highly preferred platform for many Fortune 500 customers and has supported over 25000 events reaching 20+ million viewers since 2020. In addition, Fast Company magazine puts Brandlive at the top of the list of the 10 Most Innovative Live Events Companies of 2021 because of the launch of its easy-to-use video-making tool, Greenroom.
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TECHNOLOGIES, MEDIA AND BROADCASTING
VIZIO | January 27, 2023
On January 26, 2023, VIZIO launched a suite of updated features in its TV and mobile app interfaces to make them more user-friendly.
VIZIO's Auto-update 2023 offers easy navigation, shortcuts to the Quick Menu, recent apps, and WatchFree+ Mini Guide for selected VIZIO TV owners. Similarly, the new VIZIO mobile app, accessible over Android and iOS, provides a time-saving feature with quick access to simple content discovery, voice control, WatchFree+, and subscription-management tools.
Kaitlyn Collins, Vice President of Product Marketing for VIZIO, stated, "At VIZIO, the customer experience has been and always will remain the primary focus of everything we do." She adds, "We are dedicated to providing exceptional value with our products, even beyond the original purchase. By delivering new features and capabilities to VIZIO users with our free AutoUpdates, we amplify the value of our TV lineup."
(Source – Business Wire)
Steve Yum, Vice President of Product Management at VIZIO, remarked, "The redesign of our highly rated VIZIO Mobile app is a direct reflection of our commitment to deliver the best user experience for millions of users who start their entertainment journey with VIZIO on their smartphones." He added, "VIZIO Mobile has everything you need to control your VIZIO TV, plus additional features that extend the value of VIZIO products across the board."
(Source – Business Wire)
About VIZIO
Headquartered in Orange County (California), VIZIO has been one of America's leading TV and sound bar companies since 2002. The company's goal is to provide consumers with products that serve as the nerve center of the connected home through its ability to deliver exciting lifestyle enhancements and immersive entertainment. With its innovative Smart TVs and robust SmartCastTM operating system, the company is shaping the future of television. It also has a variety of cutting-edge sound bars available to provide its customers with a more immersive listening experience.
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