Wowza Offers Friction Free Flash

While Windows Media streaming service is a relatively widespread hosting offering, hosts seem to have been slower to adopt Flash streaming technology, even as it has become a major part of video content distribution.

A reason for that, suspects David Stubenvoll, CEO of Flash media streaming server developer Wowza Media Systems, might be the somewhat prohibitive cost of setting up full-featured Flash streaming servers. (read more...)

By Liam Eagle
November 19, 2008

Everything Changes In (A) Flash

Not to be outdone, Wowza Media Systems, a company that has given Flash Media Server a run for its money each step of the way, with its Wowza Media Server meeting or beating Flash Media Server's price points, has announced a novel new approach to its Pro version of the Wowza Media Server. (read more...)

By Tim Siglin
November 17, 2008

Wowza Launches Monthly Subscription Pricing

Wowza Media Systems is offering up a new, monthly subscription licensing model for content delivery networks (CDNs), streaming providers, and hosting providers that want to use its streaming servers. Monthly subscription prices start at $65 per month for one instance, and decrease with volume. Subscriptions include free software upgrades, configuration, and monitoring tools, and can be scaled up or down as needed. (read more...)

By Ryan Lawler
November 12, 2007

Tutorial: Wowza Media Server Pro

As Streaming Media’s editors pointed out when they picked it as one of the top products of 2008, "Wowza Media Server Pro flat-out exploded in 2007." This was no understatement — Wowza has firmly established its streaming server’s market presence in just over a year, garnering more than 7,000 licensees globally and racking up multiple awards. Wowza has attracted a broad industry following, from single-server licensees to CDNs and well-known enterprise and media companies. (read more...)

June 15, 2008

Streaming Media Podcast #15: NAB Day Two

Tim Siglin interviews two more companies at the National Association of Broadcaster's show (NAB) in Las Vegas: Akamai talks about its partnership with transcoding companies, while Wowza talks about competing with Adobe on a whole new price-point playing field. (listen now - MP3)

April 18, 2008

Filemobile Launches Canadian Idol's Last Chance Auditions!

CTV Digital has launched Canadian Idol's Last Chance online auditions. This program uses our user-generated white label product and Mediafactory to manage the incoming auditions received by upload or webcam. This is the first time in North America, any eligible contestant with access to a computer can have their chance at a Golden Ticket.

The webcam recorder has been developed using Wowza Media Sever and Amazon EC2. Wowza gives us the power we need for a fraction of the price of Flash Media Server. (read more...)

April 15, 2008

Riverbed Incorporates Video Traffic in Optimizer

WAN optimization specialist Riverbed added flesh to the bones of its services strategy today, unveiling a flash video-streaming solution for its Steelhead appliances.

Under the terms of the deal announced today, video specialist Wowza will offer its Media Server software as a module within the RiOS partition. The vendors claim that this could slash users' video traffic running across the WAN by as much as 98 percent. (read more...)

April 1, 2008

Case Study: Microbrewery Taps Flash For Live Coverage of Annual Cycling Event

More live video broadcasts over the internet are happening with the proven ability to reach new audiences, and the video quality of both live and on-demand broadcasts increase. One recent example is the New Belgium Brewing Company, which produced a successful live, mobile Flash broadcast for its Tour de Fat event in Ft. Collins, Colorado last fall.

New Belgium estimates that the choice of using the Wowza streaming server cut its costs in half...There were no technical problems to report, and the Wowza server handled the live streaming audience flawlessly... (read more...)

March 27, 2008

Alternative Flash Servers Follow H.264 Path

One of those alternatives, the Wowza Media Server Pro, staked a claim last week as the first Flash media server to support live H.264 encoding using, as Wowza puts it, "readily available H.264 encoders that support standard RTP/RTSP protocol." While the server won't be available for final release until April, the preview version has already begun to create interest. The Wowza Media Server Pro 1.5.0 preview release is available for download from the company's website and, according to the company's press release, has been tested for interoperability with Apple QuickTime Broadcaster, Vara Software Wirecast, and HaiVision SD and HD hai1000 series network video system. The last encoder mentioned, from HaiVision, is a high-definition H2.64 encoder, which means that Wowza also has provided a path to live HD H.264 streaming. (read more...)

March 25, 2008

2008 Streaming Media Editors' Picks

This is the fourth edition of the Streaming Media Editors' Picks, our annual list of the most notable products and services of the last year, and it was harder than ever to settle on which of the multitude of new products – and improvements to familiar ones – merited a spot on the list. As usual, we polled all of our regular writers for their input, but unlike years past, there was nothing resembling a consensus on more than one of our eventual picks.

We'd normally be hesitant to bestow the Editors' Picks honor on the same product 2 years in a row, but Wowza Media Server Pro flat-out exploded in 2007,... (read more...)

March 21, 2008

Wowza Media Server Pro On Amazon EC2

The unpredictable nature of the demand for rich media files, coupled with the amount of bandwidth needed to deal with a video that suddenly "goes viral" combine to create the circumstances for an event that I sometimes refer to as a "success disaster." This happens when you create something cool and hope that it will catch on (bringing with it at least a modicum of fame and fortune), but when it does catch on you are faced with a wall of traffic that you cannot hope to satisfy. It is expensive and impractical to have spare servers standing by in the off chance that you are faced with a sudden demand for one of your media products.

An on-demand, web-scale solution can help you to sidestep this particular problem. The Wowza Media Server Pro... (read more...)

February 4, 2008

Founder Story: Dave Stubenvoll of Wowza Media Systems

I interviewed Dave Stubenvoll late last November as a part of our Founder Story series. I first met him at the Streaming Media 2006 show and was immediately impressed by him. Sean invited him to be on a panel at Startup Epicenter on "Scaling Up Your Product Development" and Dave made some of points there that he expands on in this interview. What follows is an edited transcript with hyperlinks added to provide context and background for some of Dave's remarks. (read more...)

January 25, 2008

Wowza, Yowza &mdash How Wowza Wows the Web

The company name certainly catches one's eye – and that's partly why Wowza Media Systems chose it. "We want to get the 'wow' into video, not only from an eye popping perspective where you see great video but also from a price and performance perspective," says David Stubenvoll, CEO and co-founder of Wowza. "I've been speaking with someone and when I've mentioned our latest pricing, they've responded 'WOW - za!' so it's a perfect name." (read more and listen to the interview...)

January 15, 2008

Macworld 2008 Keynote Coverage and Mogulus Network Capacity

This morning more than 5 channels covered the Apple keynote live on Mogulus. Steve Job's keynotes have been amongst the most popular events on Mogulus. The Mogulus Network reached more than 6,000 concurrent viewers. (read more...)

January 15, 2008

Top 10 of 2007

What's a year end without a year-end list? After the success of 2006's rundown of the best and brightest, here's the 2007 edition, which we hope captures the excitement and rapid change that the industry has experienced over the past 12 months. Launched in February of 2007, Wowza Media Server Pro has since racked up over 3,700 global licensees and won numerous kudos from the likes of Streaming Media Magazine, while going head-to-head with streaming Goliaths like Adobe and Windows Media Server. (read more...)

December 26, 2007

Vendor of Flash alternative sees bright future for Silverlight

Microsoft Corp.'s Silverlight rich-media player, which the software vendor has been touting heavily since last spring, has yet to win many customers away from Adobe Systems Inc.'s market-leading Flash technology since it was released in September. But the CEO of a third vendor whose streaming video server software competes with both Flash and Silverlight said he expects Microsoft's product to become broadly popular by as early as next fall. (read more...)

December 19, 2007

Video: Dave Stubenvoll at a Streaming Media West Panel

With all the various means of distribution and protocols available for video today-CDN, P2P, streaming, progressive download-there is still no single solution that will meet all customers' needs perfectly across all platforms and devices. Panelists, including Dave Stubenvoll, CEO and Co-founder, Wowza Media Systems and the executives from Dow Jones Online, Brightcove and Ooyala provided guidelines and formulas for determining the best single and/or hybrid solution for your online video distribution needs. (watch the video...)

December 7, 2007

Streaming Media West

Streaming Media West was held in San Jose last week and was more heavily weighted towards the delivery side of things than on content creation. Taking a stroll down the aisles, we ran across a number of companies that were showcasing faster streaming servers and easier WYSIWYG solutions for webcasts and sales presentations. The big dog in the market is Adobe with their Flash server but a company out of [San Jose] called Wowza has been voted Best in Show a few times this year and their Flash server costs 10% what Adobe charges. Considering the amount of video that current and future clients will use, finding a reliable streaming server is important. (read more...)

November 20, 2007

Charlie Good / Wowza CTO on Radio Star Radio Today!

We had the pleasure of listening to, and meeting some very brilliant people while there and this week we'll be sharing some of our discoveries. At the top of the list is a company called Wowza, or more specifically Wowza Media. This company was founded by two Adboe employees, Charlie Good and Dave Stubenval, who were disasstified with the Adobe Flash server and thought they could do a better job at a much more affordable price than Adobe. (read more...)

August 22, 2007

Profile: Wowza Streams Flash for Cheap

Wowza Media Systems says it is gaining traction in the market for Flash streaming by providing a small, cheap, and scalable alternative to Adobe's Flash Media Server.

Wowza's Media Server Pro was recently selected by European backbone provider and content delivery network Interoute to power its streaming Flash capabilities, and will be used as part of a new two-year content delivery contract with Virgin Megastores. (read more...)

By Ryan Lawler
August 22, 2007

Better Video Streaming From Wowza?

Adobe's Flash video format continues to enjoy tremendous use around the Internet for everything from animated Web sites to simple but addicting games. Flash is also gaining popularity as a video delivery vehicle. But some former Adobe employees have a startup company that's giving their former employer a run for its money. (read more...)

By Andy Patrizio
July 12, 2007

Wowza Media Continues to Grow

Approaching 1,500 licensees, the Wowza Media Server has become a bona fide competitor to Flash Media Server by offering solid performance at a reduced price. (read more...)

By Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen
July 10, 2007

NetMasters adds Wowza Media Server to its Service Offering

In a move that may send some warnings signs in Adobe's direction, NetMasters, a company that delivers high-end services for Flash video on-demand audio/video streaming, live webcasts and other rich media productions, today announced that it is adding Wowza Media Server to its service offering. (read more...)

By Stefan Richter
July 10, 2007

shealanforshaw.com

Still Alive… Just!

I have been working feverishly to launch the new fabricfirst members website… The improved streaming quality and support for live broadcasts is down to an implementation of the new RTMP server called Wowza, a competitor for Adobe's own FlashCom system which, although great, is overpriced and undersupported. Dave and Charlie at Wowza were invaluable in getting the new system up and running. (read more...)

April 8, 2007

nientenessuno.it

Adobe FMS alternatives

Wowza media server: this company is creating an alternative to FMS in java. Their in public beta phase now and the product seem to have all the features of Adobe FMS plus a set of API that give the possibility to expand it integrating external apps. The application is really smaller compared to Red5 code but more efficient and more stable. We are now working with the beta version, i hope this could be the right alternative i'm looking for. (read more...)

January 24, 2007

video-flash.de

Wowza Media Server: Vorlaufige Lizenzen und Preisgestaltung

Ab sofort wird die dritte Betaversion des Wowza Media Servers zum Testen bereitgestellt. Um die Software herunterzuladen, muss man sich im Wowza-Forum anmelden. (read more...)

January 15, 2007

Streaming Media West 2006 Wrap-Up: User-Generated Content is Serious Business

[Wowza Media Systems] is making great headway in completing the version 1.0 release of Wowza Media Server. They are now supporting shared objects in addition to recording and streaming. They've rewritten the core of the server from a Java servlet to pure Java, just since the Flash in the Can conference in Hollywood a month ago (do these guys ever sleep?). (read more...)

By Lisa Larson
November 6, 2006

flashmagazine

Wowza Media Server beta

The Wowza Media Server is a[n] upcoming, commercial alternative to Adobe's Flash Media Server with some unique features such as FastForward and Rewind. (read more...)

November 6, 2006

Flashforward Austin: Flash Enters Its Second Decade

All’s quiet on the Flash Video front, at least as far as Adobe’s public statements go. In fact, it was Sorenson Squeeze and newcomer WowzaTV that grabbed much of the attention at the latest Flashforward show. (read more...)

By Lisa Larson
September 19, 2006