You can now set a Live Schedule to repeat over a date range, or select specific dates/days of the week you wish it to go live. Additionally you can seamlessly add caption support to your live schedules.

Automate Your Recurring Live Schedules

Imagine setting up a month’s worth of recurring training sessions or product demos in just a few clicks. Our new scheduling logic makes this a reality.

Here’s how it works: Simply set a start and end date (within a 30-day window), choose the time, and then specify which days of the week you’d like to go live (e.g., Tuesdays and Thursdays only). It’s set-and-forget scheduling at its best.

This is a great for anyone who wants to:

• Automate Targeted Broadcasts: Need to run a product demo every weekday morning for a two-week product launch? Simply select the date range, tick Monday to Friday, set the time once, and you’re done.
• Maximize Training Efficiency: Schedule a compliance training video to air every Monday and Wednesday afternoon for the next four weeks, ensuring all employees have multiple opportunities to watch live.
• Create Consistent Programming: Run your weekly “What’s New” segment every Friday morning for the entire month, all scheduled in a single action.

Now with Wider Caption Support

In our ongoing commitment to accessible streaming, we are introducing support for a wider range of caption formats, including WebVTT. This allows you to easily add captions to your live schedule, ensuring a better and more comprehensible experience for every viewer. In addition there is no language limitation, all languages CJK, Arabic, Hindi, etc are supported.

The benefits of adding captions to your live streams are clear:

• Increased Accessibility: Provide an essential viewing experience for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• Improved Comprehension: Captions are proven to aid understanding, especially for viewers in noisy environments, those for whom the broadcast language is not their first, or anyone who benefits from visual text reinforcement.
• Wider Audience Reach: Cater to the growing number of viewers who watch videos in sound-sensitive environments, like offices, libraries, or on public transit.

These new features are available to our enterprise customers currently using our Live Schedule feature. If you wish to test out Live Scheduling, just reach out to our sales team!

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Las Vegas, NV – April 6, 2025 – StreamShark, a leading provider of enterprise video streaming solutions, today announced the launch of its Intelligent Workflow for VR & Immersive Video at NAB Show 2025. This end-to-end solution enables seamless processing and streaming of VR, AR, and 6K/8K content, empowering organizations to deliver next-generation immersive experiences at scale.

“As demand for immersive content continues to rise, content and platform owners need a VR-native streaming solution,” said James Broberg, Founder and CEO of StreamShark. “Unveiling our Intelligent Workflow at NAB Show 2025 highlights our commitment to innovation and to helping enterprises deliver cutting-edge immersive video experiences.”

With this new workflow, StreamShark provides scalable and high-performance solutions tailored for immersive content. The platform’s advanced encoding, distribution, scheduling and playback capabilities ensure globally available high-fidelity multi-channel and venue streaming across a range of mobile devices and VR/MR headsets. 

StreamShark can serve as a turnkey video backend for dedicated VR/AR/MR streaming apps, social and metaverse destinations providing shared video experiences, as well as the immersive web. The workflow allows content and platform owners to schedule high-resolution, high-fidelity live, on-demand and VOD2Live streams to deliver fully immersive experiences. Enterprises and content owners have leveraged StreamShark’s technology for diverse applications such streaming of immersive concerts for multiple Top 10 Billboard acts, to action packed courtside live sports from Tier 1 national sports leagues, ensuring consistent video quality and global scale. With StreamShark’s advanced workflow, tools for distributing immersive video content across multiple devices, headsets and platforms is now accessible to any content or platform owner wishing to reach this new emerging audience.

A key feature of StreamShark’s Intelligent Workflow is its ability to seamlessly simulate live streams across multiple virtual venues and channels using pre-recorded video content, allowing organizations to schedule streams to go live at a specific time and date. This functionality ensures a smooth and controlled broadcast experience, targeting multiple timezones for audience maximization, without the complexities of real-time production.

StreamShark’s Intelligent Workflow for VR & Immersive Video is now available to content owners and enterprises looking to elevate their immersive video experiences.

Attendees of NAB Show 2025 can experience the solution firsthand at StreamShark’s booth W3316.

For more information, visit StreamShark.io.

About StreamShark

StreamShark is the trusted video platform that helps the smartest enterprises scale their communication. Built on a foundation of security and redundancy at every stage, StreamShark offers an end-to-end live and on-demand video streaming service including remote management, engagement analytics and company branded video portals. IT, unified communications and marketing teams at companies with a global reach depend on StreamShark to deliver a reliable and high quality viewer experience. Video with confidence at streamshark.io.

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For those already familiar with our Live Scheduler, you know it’s your secret weapon for orchestrating seamless and professional live event video streams. Now, we’ve taken it to a whole new level, incorporating your feedback and making game-changing enhancements.

Be among the first to see it in action at NAB Show 2025! Join us in Las Vegas for an exclusive look at the enhanced Live Scheduler. Experience firsthand how our latest innovations are designed to elevate your live streaming workflow.

What’s New?

Launch Your Live Streams in a Flash
Say goodbye to lengthy setup times! Our enhanced Live Scheduler boasts near-instant readiness. Your VOD sources are pre-packaged ahead of time in live-ready formats such as DASH and HLS. This lets you spin up your scheduled live streams quickly and efficiently, allowing you to focus on what matters.

Scale Without Limits
Forget about the constraints of virtual machine-based scaling. Our new edge-based architecture allows you to scale your channels to near-unlimited capacity. Whether you’re hosting a small webinar or a massive multi-channel global event, our Live Scheduler can handle the demand, ensuring a smooth and reliable experience for every viewer.

Seamless Ad Insertion
Unlock new revenue streams with the ad insert capability. Now you can strategically place advertisements within your scheduled live streams, maximizing your monetization potential and delivering targeted content to your audience.

Embrace Cutting-Edge Codecs
Stay ahead of the curve with support for the latest next-gen video codecs. Deliver higher-quality video at lower bitrates, ensuring a superior viewing experience across a wider range of devices and network conditions.

Higher Resolutions Like Never Before
Prepare to captivate your audience with breathtaking clarity. The improved Live Scheduler will enable support for higher resolutions and immersive content, including 6K and even 8K. Deliver truly immersive and visually stunning live event experiences that will leave a lasting impression.

Future Ready
Embrace the future with immersive Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality & Mixed Reality support. Full support for 180° and 360° mono and stereo video, along with headset and browser playback.

See It Live at NAB Show 2025!

This upgrade to our Live Scheduler represents a significant step forward in our commitment to providing you with the most innovative and powerful live video streaming solutions. We’re confident these improvements will empower you to create even more engaging, scalable, and profitable live event experiences.

Want to Experience It for Yourself?

Attendees of NAB Show 2025 can experience the solution firsthand at StreamShark’s booth W3316.

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AI-Media Integration

We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with AI-Media, a pioneer in AI-driven captioning technology and solutions, aimed at enhancing your live streaming experience. This collaboration is focused on simplifying the process of incorporating captions into your live streams, making it more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. You can read all about the integration here.

LinkedIn Live Multistream Integration

We’re excited to announce that our LinkedIn Live multistream integration has officially been approved by LinkedIn. This means you will be able to natively stream to LinkedIn, along with our other native integrations, Facebook Live, YouTube, Workplace and Twitch. We’ll release a more detailed blog post about this integration at a later date, so stay tuned!

Video Observability

We’re excited to introduce CMCD support for our live stream analytics (for StreamShark Events and Live Schedules), enhancing your ability to monitor viewer quality of experience (QoE) across your broadcasts. Visit us at our NAB Show booth for an exclusive sneak peek of what’s ahead!

Large Scale Event Optimisation

Reliability and scalability have been two of our core methodologies since StreamShark’s inception. We’ve recently improved both of these things with the concept of ‘high concurrency streams’ which is an optimized Event configuration for mega scale events. With a single click to enable this feature, your live events can support even more viewers! Paired with our CMCD support, you don’t need to sacrifice observability for scale!

Book a meeting with StreamShark at NAB

Senior StreamShark leaders will be available at the StreamShark booth, including Founder and CEO James Broberg, and our Head of Software Engineering, Yudong Li.

If you’d like to schedule a meeting and/or demo with us during Expo Hall Hours, please click here to book.

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The Importance of Accessibility in Videos and Live Streams

The power of video lies in its ability to convey information, tell stories, and connect people across the globe. Live streaming adds another layer, offering real-time engagement that can bring communities together like never before.

However, without proper accessibility measures, a significant portion of the audience may be left out. Accessibility is not just about reaching a wider audience; it’s about creating an inclusive space where everyone has equal access to information, entertainment, and interaction.

Key Features for Accessible Videos and Live Streams

To create accessible video and live stream content, several key features need to be implemented:

1. Closed Captioning/Subtitles

Essential for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing, closed captions provide a text-based representation of the audio content. 

For live streams, real-time captioning can be challenging but is critical for inclusivity. Utilizing automatic speech recognition technology with human oversight can enhance the accuracy of live captions.

It’s also worth noting that closed captions are not only used by the hearing impaired. According to Netflix 40% of its global users have closed captions on all the time, while 80% switch them on at least once a month. There’s also studies conducted that show viewers retain information longer if they read and listen to it at the same time.

Finally, many of our younger generation of viewers don’t even turn on audio for content watched on their mobile devices. Essentially it’s a no brainer to include subtitles for your video content now!

2. Accessible Media Players

The media player itself must be accessible, supporting keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and customizable display settings like high contrast and text size. An accessible player ensures that all users can play, pause, and interact with the video content regardless of their physical abilities.

3. Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

Adaptive bitrate streaming optimizes the viewing experience across different connection speeds and devices. This feature ensures that viewers with limited internet bandwidth can still access the content without compromising on the quality, making your streams more inclusive to a global audience, no matter how fast their internet connection is.

4. Audio Descriptions

Perhaps the hardest accessibility feature to implement (especially for live streams). Audio descriptions offer a verbal representation of visual content, crucial for viewers with visual impairments. This narration includes details about the actions, characters, scene changes, and on-screen text that are not conveyed through the main audio track.

Implementing audio descriptions require a video player that can support multiple audio tracks, and a person to narrate what is happening visually in the video. For a live stream, all this needs to happen in real-time.

We have personally never encountered a live stream which supports this level of accessibility, but with the improvements in AI video (e.g Sora), it’s likely that in the future audio descriptions will be fully automated.

Conclusion

As demonstrated by the usage of subtitles by non-deaf viewers, you might find that implementing these accessibility features enhances the viewing experience for all viewers. A win-win for everyone!

If you’re interested in upping your accessibility game, then sign up for a StreamShark trial today!

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AV1 has a long and storied history designing and producing events, offering services across audio visual production, content creation and event technology across Australia. They are curators of premium event experiences, helping clients leave a lasting impression on their attendees, audience and stakeholders – whether that’s in a live, hybrid or virtual environment.

Like StreamShark, they are customer obsessed, and since they approached us in March 2020 just as Australia and the world was shutting down, we have worked together to ensure engaging and interactive events could be run virtually, and as restrictions eased, transitioned to hybrid and in person focused productions.

AV1’s Nigel Mintern and Tom Durand were kind enough to chat with James on their last working day of the year, as they collectively reflected on a busy and rewarding time, and considered what the future of digital events looks like in 2024 and beyond.

James Broberg: Today I’m sitting down with some of the folks at AV1 to chat about how they utilise StreamShark in their workflow and to learn more about their company as a whole.

To get things started why don’t you introduce yourselves, your role, and where your journey at AV1 started.

Tom Durand: Hi, my name is Tom Durand, I work with AV1 as a Technical Director. Day to day, I work with a production manager. We work as a duo producing events. 

Once the event has been confirmed, I then own the technical production. I make sure the equipment is spec’d correctly for the job, then dot the i’s and cross the t’s to ensure everything runs smoothly on the day.

Nigel Mintern: I’m Nigel Mintern, a Producer here at AV1. I started with the company almost 14 years ago now as a technical operator and worked my way up the ranks to Technical Director, and now Producer.

I work with the clients first to bring new ideas, help them define their creative vision and turn that into a production. Then working with our Technical Directors and production team, we deliver the event, encompassing countless hours of pre-production to make sure nothing is missed.

James Broberg: How long has AV1 been operating for? Were you part of the foundation team?

Nigel Mintern: AV1 will celebrate 20 years in business next year. I think I was employee number 12, back in 2010. So not quite the foundation, but not far off.

James Broberg: Yeah, wonderful. Can you talk at a high level in terms of the AV1 offering? Can you talk it through, what would be your dominant engagements with your clients? 

Nigel Mintern: We produce business events of all kinds, ranging from intimate boardroom meetings all the way to 5,000-person conferences, providing production services and equipment. Our typical type of work is in the corporate sector, you know, law, financial, medical those kinds of industries.

We really only got into live streaming when the pandemic started. Before COVID we ran maybe a handful of events each year, which we would actually live stream, and we onboarded an external provider to run those. That external provider used StreamShark, which we had great success with and that was how we learnt about the service.

James Broberg: Great to hear! Do you have your own studio spaces as well, doing events on-prem?

Nigel Mintern: We don’t have our own studio space anymore. During COVID, we had two dedicated studios. One was a converted warehouse which we cleared out and turned into a black box studio. And then we had a second one at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia set up in what’s known as the Harborside Room with the Sydney Opera House in the background.

James Broberg: So it wasn’t all virtual? You could bring in the talent there as well?

Nigel Mintern: Yes, we of course respected and adhered to the restrictions in place at any given time. So you could bring people in, at times, it may have been a single person, depending on restrictions. It was a combination of virtual and in person.

James Broberg: So we did touch on it briefly before, but what brought you to us? And perhaps you could give us an idea of the problems you were trying to solve?

Nigel Mintern: Yeah we worked with our production partner, Dennis Fernandez, for our first live streams, but obviously it wasn’t the most cost-effective way for us to do it. Ultimately we looked at how to do it ourselves, and whether we go down a hardware or software encoder route, and the different components that come with that.

Having worked effectively with the back end of StreamShark and having it do everything that we needed, we decided to jump in and go on the StreamShark journey. 

James Broberg: Did clients know what to ask for at the time? Did they just want their in-person events replicated? Or were they just looking for you to think about how you would creatively solve the problem we were all facing?

Nigel Mintern: Definitely, you know, I reckon the phone rang, multiple times from people just asking, OK, we want to hold a virtual event. What do we do? What’s needed? Nobody had an idea of what was required for a virtual event or what was needed. 

Nigel Mintern: And so they were calling on us as their technology production company for our advice on how best to deliver events. Nobody really knew what to spin up at that point in time. We were quite lucky, we’d built our first studio, in its first format pretty quickly. I think we did our first event there at the end of March 2020. We were ahead of the curve in that sense, and we executed the events from there.

James Broberg: And what was your memory of the time, Tom, any curly technical challenges that you had to solve or you’re comfortable with the tools you had at hand and to bend them to your will?

Tom Durand: A lot of the time, we’re just building from the ground up. So trying to get all the networking together, the latency, the sync. It was all pretty similar, but different at the same time. So I just feel, since we had only a couple of spaces, the amount of events going through it, you are always kind of fixing a problem and trying to do something else in time. So it’s pretty fast and furious. But yeah, in the end, I think we got there and everything is much easier now. 

James Broberg: Yeah, it was a chaotic, but a busy and rewarding time. A lot of challenges to be solved and a lot of fires to be put out concurrently is my memory of the time. 

Nigel Mintern: A lot of learnings from our crew in terms of new skills as well. We hadn’t previously used things like vMix or other software, but then we had to learn how to use them.

And that side of it is very different to an in-person event. With the in-person events we ran, as the show finishes you play the music nice and loud and there’s usually a buzz in the room. But for virtual events, it kind of just finished and they went ‘thanks’ and off they went. It can really miss the hype at the end of an event.

James Broberg: Yeah, yeah. 

Nigel Mintern: Let’s just turn the power switch off and walk out ourselves. 

James Broberg: Haha, yeah, job done. It was a bit like that, wasn’t it?

That leads me into my next question, what sort of insights and reporting were clients asking for you at the time. In terms of moving from that physical space to virtual, whether they wanted immediate feedback to know how it’s gone.

Nigel Mintern: I think the biggest thing that people wanted was just the analytics of who dialled in and how long they watched for. I think that was one of the most important data points that people were just trying to understand.

In the early days, you’d have 100 people registered to watch something, and then you’d probably end up with 95 to 100 actually attending. Whereas now you put on an event with 600 people registered and you might only get 200 people watching. So the data on who watched the streams is crucial.

James Broberg: Yeah, absolutely. I guess stepping back a little bit, obviously things have changed a bit in the last three years in terms of the tools we have available now versus early 2020 and we all overcame a lot of challenges and did things on hard mode. I think the experience has driven a lot of innovation, certainly in the virtual production space and industry wide.

So what for you has been the most material change or improvement in terms of running these events?

Nigel Mintern: I think it’s just the ease of it now. It’s very easy to add a virtual component now in some shape or form to any event as an add on.

On the flip side of that, we see a lot of virtual presenters dialling into events. That’s probably more common now than the hybrid version. Whether it’s Reese Witherspoon dialling in from Paris for an event on the Gold Coast, to a GM who’s sick at home, but still wants to present. Obviously, it’s generally cost-saving, because you don’t have to pay for travel and things like that. I’d say that’s probably the main thing.

James Broberg: And Tom, anything on the tool side? Has there been one thing in particular that you’ve been impressed by in the last sort of 12 to 18 months with the rapid improvement of the tooling that we’re all using? 

Tom Durand: I guess just the use of computers that are powerful enough to throw in application edits. Now it’s no longer one dedicated machine that does a dedicated task. Most computers are powerful enough to jump between a few different programs. You can have all virtual lines that tie it all together. So if you’ve got enough screens or are good at alt-tabbing, there you go, it’s all in one station.

James Broberg: Yeah, I definitely agree with that one. I think pre-COVID, our most risk-averse corporate clients would always want to use hardware encoders. And that at the time was using very expensive Elemental boxes, or Epiphan Pearls, which could be setting you back five to tens of thousands of dollars.

There just wasn’t the comfort level to use a consumer PC and a software encoder like Wirecast or whatever was current at the time. So I’d agree with that, Tom, it’s definitely evolved. The comfort level is much higher now to run a high-end production with vMix or even OBS. If you’ve got a good enough PC and you’re comfortable with the stability of it. And as you say, you can bring in virtual presenters. You can stream it out from the same box and be pretty comfortable that it’s mostly going to work. And if you’ve got a backup, you’re feeling pretty good about it.

We’ve seen a maturation of tools and gone are the days of pinning machines for each virtual presenter on a Zoom or a Meet, like a literal $3,000 PC just to capture some terrible quality video conference.

If the talent is remote, whether it’s a CEO that’s sick or Reese Witherspoon in another country, as long as she’s got a good mic and camera and knows how to use Teams or Zoom, you can get something pretty good out of it too. That used to be a challenge, not impossible, but challenging and inefficient. Now it’s a very integrated part of most of the virtual production tools we see out there.

That’s all super positive in our books in terms of a good trend that lowered the bar, but uplifted the quality as well.

Looking beyond that, is there anything that is the missing piece? A lot of the hard problems have been solved, but is there something out there that you still think, I wish worked better or I wish this was more compatible or coherent, or is there something out there that can save you guys time? 

Obviously, AI is a very buzzy thing right now, but is there anything in your mind in the AV space where that could enhance anything in terms of extracting metadata or summarising or shot selection or anything like that? 

Tom Durand: I think the biggest problem we often run into is just internet bandwidth. So, if you want to do something a bit ritzy, high resolution, high bit rate, you can run into problems pretty fast. Because live streaming still definitely seems to run by the rule of test when you start and test often, and if you don’t, it’s going to get stung pretty hard. 

James Broberg: And test where you’re running the event from. 

Tom Durand: Which I always thought was a nice feature of StreamShark when you can test before you go live for an unlimited amount of time. It does make everyone pretty sure of how everything’s going to work. Because a few of the other providers just cut you off 10 minutes after you start.

But yeah, I think the internet is always the biggest crutch. Everything else you can kind of spec out because you have some form of ultimate control over it. But sometimes you go to someone’s building, and you just can’t connect to their network. So you’ve got to bring in all these wireless temporary solutions and they’re just not as robust. 

James Broberg: Yeah, absolutely. I’m out at the coast at the moment and 4G’s worked quite well down here until recently. It’s starting to really get over subscribed. So, I’ve been hooking up a Starlink today. It can provide some interesting possibilities for a remote event where you could literally be anywhere with a view of the sky and be able to get an uplink at least within reason. So, I guess there’s options on that front. There’s bonding and other enhancements that haven’t solved all the problems, but have made things a little bit better.

We are also seeing more efficient codecs coming into play, like HEVC 265, AV1 (the codec) and SRT. HEVC 265 is not exactly new, but there’s in the order of 30% savings there if you’re using that as a contribution mechanism.

AV1 (the codec) is becoming mature and the hope is you could, in a constrained environment, push out a high quality signal with less bandwidth. 

We’ve recently supported SRT as well, which is secure, reliable transport, and that gives you a little bit more rope, to try and get a reliable signal out of a challenging environment. It doesn’t solve all your problems, like if your internet goes down for two minutes, it’s not going to help you. But it can at least remove some of those hiccups and gives you a bit of buffer so your event is not impacted.

Tom Durand: It would be much easier with SRT than RTMP. 

James Broberg: Yes, especially with the rise of 2K and 4K content, 50 to 80 megabit streams. We’ve seen great success with SRT and adjusting the buffer depending on how far from the ingest you are.

The other thing we’ve seen is the rise in the importance of accessibility. Depending on the country there’s all sorts of obligations coming down the pipe from a regulatory perspective. Is that something you’re being asked for in terms of, closed captioning, supporting multiple languages, ASL, that sort of stuff? 

Tom Durand: I think close captions come around frequently. Sometimes it can be kind of hard to do roundabout. Do you send your signal to someone that gets a human to do it so you can make sure that it’s going to be good, it’s going to be pretty latency heavy there, or do you trust the computer AI system that quite possibly, on a key line, will display a typo and it’ll just look a little bit rough? 

James Broberg: Yeah, we’ve had streams that make the papers because of the quality or lack thereof of the captioner for high profile streams. It can happen. I think people are pretty forgiving, but it can definitely happen.

Tom Durand: I remember the first time I ever used close captions inside an encoder, I think it was Wirecast, it would literally spit back garbled nonsense, like they weren’t words.

Obviously, it’s easier to close captions on an uploaded video, but doing so on a live stream would be a great asset. 

Also having multiple channels of audio in different languages. Not that we do that very often, but if someone ever has the question, it always does seem a little bit tough.

James Broberg: Yeah, I think that’s definitely meeting the Holy Grail in the corporate space. I’d have to check how far progressed it is, but I know we have a POC for the multi language option, because I think that’s kind of the dream for a lot of corporate events. Having a single player with switchable text captions, and audio languages.

We certainly support multiple captions for text-based captions for 608/708 within the same player. Yeah, it is, as you say, quite hard to do live. In particular with human captioners or depending on the accuracy of AI or ML based ones, which to be fair has gotten a lot better in the last three or four years we’ve noticed, but still quite hard to do live. 

All right, I’ll start wrapping up this conversation. Are there any final thoughts you want to share?

Nigel Mintern: One thing I will say, James, is that we really appreciated how early on in the piece was StreamShark’s willingness to put into place new features and changes to our benefit. Your team very quickly developed elements to help us service our clients. We very much appreciate that responsiveness and how open to new ideas your team is.

James Broberg: I’ll say, I appreciate that positive feedback. They were all good suggestions that we could see value in. Our mindset’s always been to build things for the operators and make workflows that save you time and give you insights to help measure your ROI.

Nigel Mintern:  Yes, your adaptiveness has been great!

James Broberg: Well I’ll wrap up the interview now, it was great having a chat and learning more about yourselves and AV1.

Tom Durand: Thanks James.

Nigel Mintern: Great to chat James.

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After previewing this integration at NAB Show 2023, we are officially taking the wraps off this capability now it is generally available to all eligible StreamShark Enterprise and Broadcaster customers. 

“We are incredibly excited to officially launch our StreamShark EZDRM integration, and partner with EZDRM on seamless DRM enablement for our Enterprise Video Platform” said James Broberg, Founder & CEO, StreamShark. “Working with the team at EZDRM was an easy decision given their long track record in the space, constant appetite for innovation and commitment to ease of integration. With growing customer demand from use cases as diverse as corporate comms wanting to level up their security and compliance, to the most challenging protection and delivery of 4K 3D sports and Hollywood studio content to the latest VR/AR headsets – it’s integral to have a turn-key DRM solution for content owners.”

“This partnership is a terrific example of the way we approach novel and forward-thinking streaming technologies,“ commented Olga Kornienko, COO and Co-Founder at EZDRM. “New user experiences that include a seamless approach to security are those most likely to rise to commercial leadership. We applaud the work that StreamShark is doing in this space, and we look forward to a long collaboration.”

A Seamless Integration for Enhanced Video Security

The partnership between StreamShark and EZDRM represents a significant step forward for customers needing turn-key video workflows to protect and monetize their valuable content. With this integration, customers will benefit from a seamless, end-to-end enterprise video streaming solution that combines the strengths of both platforms.

Here’s what you can expect from this integration:

1. Unmatched Video Security: EZDRM’s powerful DRM technology is seamlessly integrated into StreamShark’s Live Event and Live Scheduler platforms, providing robust content protection for your video content. With one-click EZDRM enablement and direct integration with StreamShark’s existing robust Access Control capabilities (including SSO, Viewer Management and Privacy Profile), you can say goodbye to unauthorized access and piracy concerns.

2. Effortless Content Delivery: StreamShark’s intuitive multi-CDN, multi-platform video delivery system will remain at your service, ensuring that your videos are seamlessly onboarded from file and live based sources, transcoded and are delivered to your audience with the same ease and speed you’ve come to expect via StreamShark and third party players.

3. User-Friendly Experience: The integration is user-friendly, allowing you to manage your DRM settings directly within the StreamShark platform. No more complex, time-consuming configurations.

4. Comprehensive Analytics: Gain insights into how your protected videos are performing. StreamShark’s player and CDN analytics and reporting tools will continue to provide valuable data on viewer engagement, while EZDRM’s analytics will give you a deeper understanding of your content security and license usage.

5. Full Compatibility: This integration is designed to be compatible with various streaming protocols, devices, and platforms, thanks to EZDRM and StreamShark’s broad standard and platform support, ensuring that your content reaches a wide and diverse audience.

6. Enhanced Customer Support: Our team is working to provide outstanding customer support, answering any questions and assisting you in optimizing your video content protection strategy.

As the digital landscape continues to evolve, so do the challenges of content security. With StreamShark and EZDRM, you can stay ahead of the curve, ensuring that your video content remains secure and accessible to your intended audience.

Learn more at https://streamshark.io/, or email sales@streamshark.io to schedule a meeting with StreamShark to discuss how the platform can help power your video content protection strategy.

StreamShark: Your Trusted Enterprise Video Platform

StreamShark is the trusted video platform that helps the smartest enterprises scale their communication. Built on a foundation of security and redundancy at every stage, StreamShark offers an end-to-end live and on-demand video streaming service including remote management, engagement analytics and company branded video portals. IT, unified communications and marketing teams at companies with a global reach depend on StreamShark to deliver a reliable and high quality viewer experience.

EZDRM: Digital Rights Management. Simplified.

As a service operator or content owner in today’s competitive world of video services, you feel driven to look for improvements and efficiencies in every area of your business. There’s no need to compromise when it comes to security. EZDRM gives you the competitive edge of a highly effective DRM service – as content is encoded, packaged, and delivered to each and every device in your network.

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Featured StreamShark Solutions in the StreamShark Booth at NAB

The StreamShark booth #W4053 at the Las Vegas Convention Center will spotlight an array of exciting new enterprise and broadcaster solutions, including demonstrations of the following:

Low latency support for StreamShark Events

StreamShark is pleased to announce the first release of Low latency support for the StreamShark Event platform. Make live events more interactive with lower latency streaming and real time chat to bring your event alive.

StreamShark integration with Slack channels A/V live event operations

StreamShark’s Slack integration keeps A/V Live event operations team members in the loop when collaborating on Slack with key metrics and real time statistics / analytics posted to their Slack channels of choice. This pulls live data from a Live Event from StreamShark’s native Real-time Analytics (RTS) system, as well as quality of experience metrics from our integration with PDN/QoE partner Hive Streaming.

CMCD support for StreamShark Event and Live Schedule players and CDNs

The emerging industry standard, Common Media Server Data (CMSD) seeks to define a standard means by which every media server (intermediate and origin) can communicate key data as video is consumed, and have it received and processed consistently by every component in the video workflow. CMCD metrics are now generated and recorded for StreamShark live Events, as well as our Live Schedule system, to deliver greater insights regarding multi-CDN performance and the global end-user experience. 

Improvements to VR and XR support for industry leading headsets (HMD)

StreamShark was instrumental in bringing VR support to the web video player ecosystem, being the key player behind supporting the latest (at the time) WebVR standards. As the WebVR standard has been superceded and sunset, StreamShark has picked up the baton again, and has added support for emerging standards around immersive VR, and refactored the plugin to fully leverage the latest standards including WebXR to ensure continued support of the most common VR headsets in the market.

Book a meeting with StreamShark at NAB

Senior StreamShark leaders will be available at the StreamShark booth, including Founder and CEO James Broberg, and VP of Sales (Americas) Daniel Gatto.If you’d like to schedule a meeting and/or demo with us during Expo Hall Hours, please click here to book. You can also add us to your show planner, here.

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LAS VEGAS, NV / April 14, 2023 / StreamShark, a secure, reliable and scalable enterprise video platform, is announcing that it has become a Zoom ISV partner and is introducing a turnkey zero-configuration application using Zoom’s Meeting SDK at the 2023 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. This app helps enterprises create high-quality interactive meetings, scale them organization-wide, and host meeting recordings.

During and post-pandemic, many enterprises struggled with the pivot to remote and hybrid work. In 2023, this style of work is now standard for many large organizations. Town Halls, All-Hands, and daily meetings, which were previously held (and produced) in person are now hybrid events, with a growing need to capture those participants in-room as well as to add interactive contributions from remote locations while maintaining tight control and high fidelity of event production.

Using StreamShark’s app, customers can utilize the familiar Zoom Meeting interface for both desktop and mobile clients When creating a meeting via the StreamShark app, StreamShark customers can select Zoom as the video source, which automatically provisions unique host and participant links. No additional logins or third party accounts are required for StreamShark customers to leverage this capability – the integration is seamless as meeting hosts and participants can access and control the embedded Zoom Meeting with a single click.

The video feed from the application can then be seamlessly streamed with a single click to StreamShark’s Enterprise Video Platform, with no additional configuration required. Users can access all existing StreamShark Enterprise features , including reliable and scalable delivery via its global Multi-CDN, peer assisted (PDN) delivery for complex corporate environments, protection and access auditing of a stream via integrated Single-Sign-On (SSO) support, archiving of a Zoom Meeting, storage in the StreamShark VOD system, scheduled replay via StreamShark’s Live Schedule feature, and long lived discoverability and playout via StreamShark’s fully brandable Enterprise Video Homepage and Channels.

“We are beyond excited to launch our StreamShark application with Zoom’s Meeting SDK and announce becoming a Zoom ISV Partner,”

James Broberg, Founder & CEO, StreamShark.

“For me, this feels like the major missing link for so many of our current and prospective Enterprise Video Customers. We have seen it all in the last 3 years, the good and the bad, as under-resourced A/V and UCC staff struggled with the challenges and searched for solutions demanded by their leaders and internal comms teams for our new collective hybrid working style. Homegrown solutions such as manually cropping or capturing participants from video conference feeds and dropping them into professional AV productions for hybrid or remote events no longer cuts it in terms of what leaders of Enterprises, and their employees expect from a high quality remote or cloud based production.” said James Broberg, Founder & CEO, StreamShark.

“At StreamShark, we’re always searching for ways to de-risk major remote and hybrid events so that each event is a guaranteed success. StreamShark’s app and partnership with Zoom lets enterprise teams seamlessly provision the interactive elements of an Enterprise event, natively bringing in remote participants and scaling it effectively to their entire global enterprise in a consistent and brandable fashion.”

StreamShark’s app with Zoom’s Meeting SDK is the latest feature debuted by StreamShark, as it continues to be one of the most trusted enterprise video platforms in the industry. 

Learn more at https://streamshark.io/, or email sales@streamshark.io to schedule a meeting with StreamShark to discuss how the platform can help power your video communication strategy.

ABOUT STREAMSHARK

StreamShark is the trusted video platform that helps the smartest enterprises scale their communication. Built on a foundation of security and redundancy at every stage, StreamShark offers an end-to-end live and on-demand video streaming service including remote management, engagement analytics and company branded video portals. IT, unified communications and marketing teams at companies with a global reach depend on StreamShark to deliver a reliable and high quality viewer experience. Video with confidence at streamshark.io.

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Video is the king of all content, which is why every video marketing agency needs an Enterprise Video Platform.

What’s an Enterprise Video Platform?

An Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) manages and enables all video throughout an organization, including live streaming, video recording, video distribution, user experience management, data management, and video player device management.

A great Enterprise Video Platform delivers exceptional service and capabilities in three core categories: unparalleled reliability, uncompromising security standards, and detailed analytics and insights post-event. 

Focus on reliability

If you’re in the business of operating or producing live streaming events, you know how important reliability is to successful events. A crystal-clear, glitch free stream, at low-latency is critical to an enjoyable viewing experience.That makes an Enterprise Video Platform with global edge locations crucial, so content can be distributed to end users faster.

Beyond low latency, there are several other factors an Enterprise Video Platform should offer to video marketers in order to deliver the most reliable stream. First, be sure to look for EVP support during the stream. Running a live streaming event is stressful for the operator and delays in feedback or bugs can happen at any time. An Enterprise Video Platform that offers streaming video engineers to remotely monitor your Live Event helps relieve much of the stress off of stream operators and improves streaming events. 

Redundant ingests, to make sure your event never goes down is also important for reliability, as are dedicated servers, and performance load testing, to make sure live streaming is up to par.

In short? Make sure your Enterprise Video Solution aims to deliver the most reliable viewing experience for viewers and presenters alike, through the most modern technology. Not only will this make your events more enjoyable, it will make the lives of your stream operators better.

Get serious about security standards 

Another major factor to consider when choosing an Enterprise Video Solution for your video marketing company is the security of the EVP.

Security matters big time for your EVP. Security breaches and data leaks can cost companies millions of dollars, leak private customer information across the Internet, and cause massive loss of trust and confidence in your brand. Need proof? Check out these security breach horror stories at companies in varying industries, all around the globe:

• In 2022, the streaming platform Plex was hacked and approximately 20 million customers’ encrypted information, including passwords, usernames, and email addresses was leaked publicly. Users were not happy. 
• Ronin, a cryptocurrency website, was hacked in April of 2022, for $540 million USD, all of which was lost. Upset customers also had to be reimbursed for their lost funds.
• In 2022, Uber was repeatedly hacked multiple times, resulting in the leak of data on 57 million customers, as well as private company information. The total cost of this data is yet to be determined. But the Uber data breach in 2018 cost the company $148 million, so this cleanup cost is sure to be sky high.
• The average cost of a data breach in the United States amounted to $9.44 million USD and the global average cost per data breach was $4.35 million USD in 2022, according to Statista. 

The moral of these stories? The security of an Enterprise Video Platform is critical, no matter your industry or how boutique your video marketing company. 

When considering the security features of an Enterprise Video Platform be sure to see if your platform offers multiple levels of privacy, or multiple sign-ins, to make the platform the most secure. Encrypted live and on-demand streaming to the AES-128 standard, in transit and at rest, is also key if you want a reliable Enterprise Video Platform. Finally, be sure to ask about the EVP’s security certifications (e.g. ISO 27001 or SOC 2 Type 2), bug bounty program and vulnerability disclosure policies.

If you’re worried about security when it comes to live streaming and video management, you should be. Protecting your company information and the data of your customers must be a top concern. Make sure your Enterprise Video Platform also takes security seriously.

Mining data and analytics for insight

Finally, beyond offering a reliable, secure platform to produce and manage live streaming and recorded video, a truly stellar Enterprise Video Platform will deliver quality analytics and insights after an event. A great Enterprise Video Platform should allow stakeholders to understand:

• Who attended the event?
• How many attendees viewed the event?
• What browser did the viewer use to watch the live stream?
• How long did the viewer watch the live stream for?
• What time did a viewer start the live stream?
• When did the viewer pause the live stream? 
• When the viewer restarts the live stream?
• How many total sessions did the viewer take to watch the entire stream?
• When did the viewer end or leave the event?

Additionally, real time monitoring of important data and analytics during a live stream also allows you to understand how viewers engage with your content during a stream. 

As a video marketer, improving viewer engagement is critical to the success of your business and your clients. A good Enterprise Video Platform will allow you to dive deeper into your live stream or pre-recorded video to mine the most data from your viewers. 

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