Category: Direct-to-Consumer & Streaming

Being able to provide high-quality encoding for a variety of content types can be a challenge. We’re providing a recommended baseline configuration that can be used with AWS Elemental MediaLive to deliver broadcast-grade video quality (VQ) output for all content types. We’ll also illuminate insights into the impact of varying encoding parameters so you can […]

This post was co-authored by Giovanni Galvez, VP of Business Development and Strategy, SyncWords. Customers have asked us how to best enable captions with low latency, especially for live sports and news, while taking advantage of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies in the cloud. AWS and SyncWords took on this challenge and enabled a secure, low […]

Enhanced story identification enables production team to create a more immersive fan experience. On a FORMULA 1® (F1) race day, the broadcast control room is pressure-packed as production personnel seek to keep pace with all the action on the track and behind the wheel to relay impactful stories to viewers around the world. On track, […]

See how NFL stars Maxx Crosby, Josh Allen, and DK Metcalf used AWS generative AI to design cause-focused cleats—and now you can too The National Football League’s (NFL) “My Cause My Cleats” initiative has fused sports and philanthropy since 2016, inviting fans to connect with players’ personal causes displayed on custom-designed cleats. This year, the […]

Architecting a highly resilient solution for streaming premium live sports events, concerts, or news is critical to delight viewers with a high quality of experience (QoE). Deploying your video delivery workflow in two different HAQM Web Services (AWS) Regions is one way to provide extra redundancy. Region failover can mitigate impacts to workflows and even […]

AWS re:Invent, the biggest HAQM Web Services (AWS) event of the year, is almost here! Attendees will hear from AWS leaders about the latest cloud and generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovations during keynotes throughout the event. They’ll also have the opportunity to dive deep with AWS subject matter experts, customers, and partners in breakout sessions […]

For race organizers and sports teams, providing near real-time participant tracking across vast distances has traditionally required extensive physical infrastructure. With HAQM Location Service, you can now deliver immersive fan experiences by tracking athletes from motorsports to marathons at scale in the cloud. Whether it’s motorsports, cycling, running, or sailing, knowing participants’ locations in near […]

Video platforms are increasingly using advertising for monetization, both in free-to-air and subscription-based services. The latter often now offer ad-supported pricing models, allowing users to access content at a discounted subscription price in exchange for viewing ads. Implementing ad insertion into a live streaming platform requires careful planning and integration with multiple systems (including video […]

When HAQM Web Services (AWS) launched HAQM Elastic Transcoder in 2013 it served an important role in providing customers with a managed service for video-on-demand (VOD) transcoding. Since the release of AWS Elemental MediaConvert in 2017, continued improvements and new features have made it the more performant, cost-effective, and feature-rich VOD transcoding service. MediaConvert offers […]

When HAQM Web Services (AWS) launched AWS Elemental MediaStore during AWS re:Invent 2017, it served an important role in augmenting HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) to provide robust live video origination. Over the last six years, HAQM S3 has made functional and performance improvements that make it more suitable as a live video streaming […]