Use of Public Cloud in Live Streaming Disaster Recovery Live Streaming for event-based or 24/7 simulcast can be notoriously difficult to deliver faultlessly. Customers expect their OTT platform to perform at least as well as their cable or satellite service and are expecting more and more features on top too.   The frustration caused by loss or degradation of service during a big event is soon aired by disgruntled customers on social media platforms and even

What is the Future for Sports Broadcasting? This week the great and the good of the sports media world will descend on Madrid for SportsPro OTT Summit.  High on the agenda of many meetings during the summit will no doubt be the question, ‘how should sports rights owners and holders best adjust their business models to make the most of emerging new technologies?’. The OTT revolution has rocked the entire broadcast industry, but nowhere has

M2A Media grows its team of cloud video experts Just in time for IBC, the broadcast technology event of the year, M2A Media has bolstered its growing team with key new hires.  Combining valuable experience in live OTT services, adaptive media delivery research, media management and business development, M2A Media is excited to welcome the following cloud video experts to the team. Valentijn Siebrands, Solutions Architect Valentijn Siebrands began his career in the radio business in 1991,

Sports Live Streaming: keeping ahead of the game The OTT revolution has dramatically changed the delivery and consumption of every genre of video content; from live entertainment with formats such as Love Island making the most of advances in streaming technology, to drama series and kids’ programming – think Netflix and Amazon Prime and the boom in blockbuster international series.   The way sport is delivered and consumed, however, has until quite recently adhered to the model of

Time to meet the M2A team Having grown rapidly in the past couple of years from a group of three senior software engineers to a team of over 20 expert media operators, developers and account managers we thought it was time to introduce the M2A Media team. While headquartered in London, we’re a pretty international bunch, hailing from the US, Brazil, Portugal, Peru and the UK.  Our team brings a wealth of experience from some of the