![]() The company has done so while maintaining its foothold in AVOD and D2C, with a SaaS offering, a fully managed service, or a unique "bring your own license" model. The rise of free ad-supported TV (FAST) has been the biggest story of the year, and Amagi has been behind some of the biggest platforms on the market. And even as it's expanded its purview to focus on ecommerce, healthcare, banking, and security for all industries, Akamai remains the go-to CDN for large-scale live events, like the delayed Euro 2020 tournament, which peaked at 34.9Tbps of traffic in July. Akamai TechnologiesĪkamai was doing edge delivery before anybody called it edge delivery, but it's done anything but rest on its laurels. ![]() Over the last18 months, the rest of the world caught up, and now the company claims its technology is used in more than 50 billion (!) minutes of human connection online each month. AgoraĪgora's real-time engagement platform is built on the simple premise that voice and video is the next best thing to being there (apologies to ol' Ma Bell). Without further ado, here’s the 2021 Streaming Media 50. Some of them just aren't innovating or expanding their offerings, while others, frankly, are being outpaced by the companies that replaced them. Notably, 15 companies that were on the 2020 list didn't make it this year. So how do we arrive at the list? We ask our regular contributors to look at a master list of all of the vendors in the online video marketplace and rank them on a scale of one (doesn’t belong in the Streaming Media 50 at all) to five (no list of the most important companies would be complete without it). Of course, some companies have headquarters in both the United States and abroad in those cases, we ask the company which list they want to be considered for. Later this year, we will publish a similar list, the Streaming Media Europe 101, focusing on companies with headquarters in Europe. Also, the Streaming Media 50 focuses exclusively on companies with headquarters in North America. Look for the 2022 Streaming Producer 25 next spring. Once again, this year, we took the video production segment of the market, the one covered by Streaming Media Producer, and gave that its own list. This list has always been about recognizing the companies that enable video services to deliver great content to consumers reliably at the highest possible quality on every device and hopefully to make money from it. ![]() Before we get to the list, a few qualifiers: As usual, we’re focusing almost exclusively on technology vendors, rather than content companies. It’s the fourth year we’ve capped the list at 50 companies, because as the online video industry continues to grow, it’s more important than ever that this annual list highlights both the veterans whose staying power remains strong and the startups that we think have what it takes to stick around for the long haul. Welcome to the 2021 Streaming Media 50, our annual list of the most important, most innovative, and most interesting companies in the online video space. The Most Important Companies in Online Video Tech ![]()
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