SME: Paul Sagan Keynote

In the opening keynote at Streaming Media East today Akamai CEO Paul Sagan provided a brief history of video on the web over the past decade and pointed to the ability to scale adaptive streaming technology as the tipping point that will enable online video to reach a TV size audiences. According to Sagan [...]

YouTube LIVE, Worth It?

I’ll just say this. YouTube LIVE reached a reported 700K concurrent. A solid, very respectable viewership number to be sure, but there’s little in the way of innovation that came with it. The event was streamed by CDN Akamai, YouTube paid a substantial amount for that, and it proved that they are miles away from [...]