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Watermarking: Securing Sports Streams & Protecting Profits
Watermarking helps to protect what is perhaps one of the most precious assets of streaming service providers. Premium sports content requires significant investment and is a key subscriber acquisition and retention tool. And with sports fans demanding access via a range of device types, OTT streaming services are today’s norm. Yet unfair competition from pirate […]
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News
30 years of Ateme
It was with some latency that Ateme celebrated its 30th anniversary in July 2022 – one year late due to the health crisis. And what a party it was ! Employees from North and South America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe flocked to Paris for a cruise on the Seine with a view on the […]
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OTT
Audience-aware Streaming – Part I: ABR Ladder on Demand
France, Spain, Italy, and even parts of the UK have experienced early heat waves this year. France saw the earliest-recorded heatwave (June), and three towns in France broke all-time temperatures in June, with Biarritz, once appreciated for its mild summers, reaching 42.9° C. This is, of course, just one tiny example of the effects of […]
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Monetization
DAI: Captivate your audience and Catapult profits
Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) is one way to catapult your profits and increase viewers’ engagement when faced with increasing competition. It enables new revenue streams by monetizing your OTT, FAST, NEXTGEN TV and HbbTV audience. However, several considerations need to be accounted for while deploying DAI architectures. First off is the risk of turning off […]
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News
Meet Ateme’s CDN solution
Are you ready for the unexpected? It happens every so often. Like the World Cup finals, when everyone watches the same show, at the same time. Can your private CDN cope? Does it deliver the high quality that people expect? If it doesn’t, you might have a problem. And if it does, you also have […]
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Atemian Team-Buliding in Thailand
By Femin John, VP Business Development & Solutions – APAC, Gautier Vandomme, VP of Asia Pacific & Julia Hamdan, Financial Controller. When a team of 32 Atemians descended on a small fishing village in Phuket Island’s Rawai beach, on the afternoon of June 23rd, they were not there to soak up the sun or splash […]
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VOD Transcoding in the Cloud
If we went back 20 years ago, we would find ourselves in a different era. The social media platforms that we take for granted today, that are so much part of many people’s everyday lives, had not yet been invented back then. Mobile phones were used only for making phone calls and texting. And video […]
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Partner Spotlight
Fighting Piracy With Contribution Watermarking
Piracy is a billion-dollar problem. A study by the Global Innovation Policy Center for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that global online piracy costs the U.S. economy at least $29.2 billion and as much as $71 billion in lost domestic revenues each year. In 2022, the cost of online video piracy is expected to reach […]
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Partner Spotlight
Taking catalogs to the next level with a personalized user experience
Accessing the best content has become the main differentiating factor for viewers looking to sign up for a TV service. But as more and more operators worldwide have caught up with this trend and turned SVoDs and content providers, once their foes, into allies with super-aggregation of content strategies, they have started to realize that […]
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