Telecine: MediaMelon SmartSight QBR Case Study

This post highlights the details of the Telecine customer experience deploying the SmartSight QBR solution to address a number of business critical issues that arose due to service growth. The recording of the webinar that the MediaMelon team delivered in conjunction with Telecine is available, but we also have included a number of the key […]

Integrating SmartSight QBR Within Your Video Workflow

As covered in the previous post here Saving Bandwidth Costs & Improving QoE, the key to SmartSight QBR run-time operation is the set of iMOS hintfiles generated by the iMOS Content Analyzer. The hintfiles contain quality measurement data for each video asset at the various ABR presentation bitrates. QBR enhanced players use this data to […]

How SmartSight QBR Saves Bandwidth & Objectively Improves QoE

  MediaMelon’s SmartSight QBR (aka SmartPlay) is a streaming optimization solution that reduces bandwidth use by 35% or more and improves QoE while working with your existing ABR content without re-encoding. As you’ll read in this post, SmartSight QBR works by analyzing the quality of every segment in an ABR package using a objectively researched […]

MediaMelon Partners with Nowtilus’ Serverside.ai to Provide Comprehensive Ad Optimization

  MediaMelon, a leader in online streaming video intelligence and automated experience improvement today announced their partnership with Nowtilus, a pioneer in AI-driven video personalization services and provider of the open ad insertion platform www.serverside.ai. MediaMelon also announced the immediate availability of an integrated solution developed in collaboration with Nowtilus, providing greater measurement transparency and […]

How Consumers Actually Perceive Video Quality and How to Measure It

  At the heart of the debate on how best to improve the quality of video streams for viewers is a discussion on how to measure video quality. As Peter Drucker famously said “If you can’t measure it how can you improve it?” Several approaches to measuring quality have been developed, but it is right […]

Telecine Deploys MediaMelon SmartSight QBR Video Optimization

MediaMelon, a pioneer in content-aware streaming optimization, today announced Brazil’s Telecine streaming video-on-demand (SVOD) cinema hub has deployed the SmartSight QBR OTT streaming optimization platform to help their service deliver an improved video QoE (Quality of Experience) with lower content delivery costs despite an unprecedented surge in new subscribers and viewing hours.

Are AVOD OTT Services Ready for Primetime?

The OTT business continues in hyper-growth, and we continue to consume content when, how, and where we want at our convenience.  Monetization of the OTT AVOD service has therefore never been more important for OTT service providers than it is now with many asking the question of whether the AVOD service is ready for primetime, […]

MediaMelon’s IBC 2019 Highlights

The International Broadcaster’s Conference (IBC) is the world’s most influential media, entertainment, and technology show, and MediaMelon Inc. has been proud to be a part of it for the past few years now. This year, we hosted over 150 customer meetings, product demos, analyst meetings, and more, with many interesting trends in quality of experience […]

Beyond Analytics: SmartSight QoE & SmartSight QBR

MediaMelon is the only streaming intelligence analytics solution . Why settle for analytics that only report or alert, and then provide diagnostics that require your tech ops team to act? MediaMelon’s SmartSight QBR solution actually improves video playback quality automatically for both video-on-demand (VOD) and live playback.