The Competitive Landscape in Real-Time Streaming


Getting Real About Real-Time Interactive Streaming (RTIS)


A Deep Analysis of the Top Companies in the WebRTC Streaming Market


Market analysis reveals massively scalable RTIS platforms are upending the status quo, but there’s still much work to be done. Which WebRTC streaming companies rise to the top?




Reimagining Conventional Streaming


GPAC UltraMedia Technology Breaks Barriers to Next-Gen Video Streaming


On the 21st anniversary of this groundbreaking open-source project, GPAC - renowned for its powerful capabilities in multimedia packaging, streaming and processing - is finally stepping into the spotlight. This white paper offers an in-depth analysis of the current challenges in the streaming industry and how Motion Spell's GPAC UltraMedia is uniquely positioned to address them.


What You'll Learn:

  • Cost Savings and Operational Efficiency:
    Learn how GPAC UltraMedia enables streaming services to significantly reduce operational expenses. From lowering storage and distribution costs to optimizing live and on-demand streaming processes, this white paper provides real-world examples of industry giants like Netflix and Instagram who have harnessed GPAC to streamline their operations and boost efficiency.

  • Future-Proof Technology:
    As the streaming landscape evolves, so too do the demands on service providers. GPAC UltraMedia offers a future-proof solution that supports ultra low latency, dynamic ad insertion, personalized user experiences, and much more. This white paper explores how GPAC can help you stay ahead of the curve, ensuring your streaming services remain competitive in the years to come.
  • Seamless Integration with Expert Support:
    Motion Spell's professional services are designed to help companies of all sizes integrate GPAC UltraMedia into their existing workflows. Whether you're a startup looking to scale or an established provider seeking optimization, our team of experts is here to guide you every step of the way. This white paper details the benefits of working with Motion Spell to fully realize the potential of GPAC.
Discover how to drive down costs, optimize efficiency, and future-proof your streaming services with Motion Spell's first-ever white paper, authored by industry veteran Fred Dawson.




Beyond the Silos


The New Paradigm in Video Channel Scheduling


Beyond the Silos: Automating Content Scheduling Across All Linear Scenarios This white paper on the Content Scheduling Challenge explores essential strategies for broadcasters seeking to optimize content scheduling across platforms with greater speed and agility.


Why read this white paper?

  • Boost programming speed and agility: Understand how AI-driven automation enhances scheduling across all linear streaming channels, not just FAST.
  • Overcome service silos: Discover how fully automated workflows unify live and stored content for AVOD, subscription, and pop-up channels.
  • Ensure compliance & flexibility: Learn how automation vets content for regulatory needs, manages ad breaks, and adapts to business changes seamlessly.
  • Tailor content with metadata-driven precision: See how metadata-aware searches streamline asset selection and personalization.
  • Adapt to real-time programming changes: Find out how to handle live events, variable programming lengths, and interruptions.




The New Perspective on Advertising


Keys to Efficient Ad Management in the New Television Marketplace




As new trends in television advertising pose unprecedented challenges for operations teams responsible for successful ad management across the production, postproduction, and distribution ecosystem, there’s never been a greater need for care in choosing the technical solutions that are essential to keeping pace. Distribution outlets and device formats are proliferating. Cross-platform campaigns are becoming the new norm. And addressable advertising is gaining traction in legacy linear as well as VOD and OTT service monetization.

Topics discussed include:
  • Trends Driving Transformation of Television Ad Management  /li>
  • The New Technical Challenges in TV Ad Management 
  • Ad Management & QC Requirements for the New TV Marketplace Solutions for Ad Management in the Multiscreen TV Era




Smart-Pipe Strategies for Network Service Providers


The Cloud-Orchestrated Path to CSP Ascendancy in the Emerging Metaverse


Communications service providers (CSPs) have unprecedented opportunity to reposition themselves as Experience Providers who support the quality, convenience, & breadth of internet engagement that customers will require in the Metaverse era.


In a fast-evolving market driven by consumers’ freedom to tap the internet for whatever entertainment, smart home, and other services they need, there are significant upsides for network operators who can expand monetization beyond compensation for ever higher fixed and mobile access speeds. The key lies in their ability to leverage managed fixed and mobile broadband access networks together with cloud-based Wi-Fi connectivity in the home to set a new standard for quality of experience (QoE) in cyberspace.




Smart-Pipe Strategies for Network Service Providers


The Ultimate Guide to Automated, Multi-Domain Service Orchestration


At long last communications service providers (CSPs) are escaping the restraints that have impeded ARPU growth in an era of soaring capital and operations costs.


In today’s competitive market, service agility is critical to leading-edge communications service providers (CSPs). However, getting new services to market faster across multi-vendor fixed and mobile infrastructures is an enormous challenge. With the DZS Xtreme multi-network orchestration and automation, CSPs can create and deliver new carrier-grade services fast, accelerating the speed of deployment from months to days.

Learn how DZS Xtreme can help:
  • Reduce time to market
  • Expand revenues with services tailored to the specific needs of even the smallest user groups and individual customers
  • Trim operating expenses




Latency Is Far More than Just an Inconvenience


The True Cost of Video Latency




The cost of video latency is rapidly growing. Revenue lost to slow streaming on CDNs will soar into the 10s of Billions without widescale access to Real-Time Interactive Streaming (RTIS).




A Future-Oriented Approach to Broadband Everywhere


A Fast & Affordable Path to Bridging the Digital Divide




Given the unprecedented government and private funding for broadband initiatives, Communications Service Providers have a generational opportunity to help bridge the digital divide for unserved and underserved communities and open the door to multi-gigabit, low latency services to them. A strategic approach with a long-term view to the choice of network solutions is imperative for the build-out.

Learn how the DZS FiberWay solution can help:

  • Reduce time to market for multi-gig services to unserved/underserved communities
  • In-place migrate to 50G PON and beyond when ready
  • Save significantly on temperature-controlled building costs
  • Establish high-capacity connectivity and extended reach to communities using coherent optics in the Middle Mile




Fighting Piracy against Live-Streamed Content


Combating the Latest Threats to Live Streaming – Part 1


The rapid rise of live-streaming sports and other high-value online content is bringing new challenges in combating piracy.  


Sophisticated piracy efforts are disrupting this surging, lucrative market, and a major refocus of anti-piracy measures is needed. Understand the challenges and what anti-piracy measures are most effective for protecting your financial interests in this thriving marketplace.

Download our white paper for a deep dive into live streaming, where we examine–by the numbers–the rise in live content consumption, monetary losses due to piracy, and the challenges posed by today’s high-powered piracy tactics.




Fighting Piracy against Live-Streamed Content


Combating the Latest Threats to Live Streaming – Part 2


The cost-effective path to meeting all eSports security requirements


Today’s eSports service providers are subject to piracy threats similar to those plaguing live-streamed sports. The time has come for wide-scale use of eSports content protection to combat revenue-draining pirate operations.

Part 2 of this two-part white paper series provides a comprehensive overview of the eSports content protection solution service providers need to secure the successful outcomes that lie ahead. Discover how the innovative use of cloud technology embodied in the ExpressPlay Media Security Suite protects content and revenue and cost effectively fulfills all eSports security requirements.




Fighting Piracy against Live-Streamed Content


Mitigating Live Sports Streaming Piracy




Live sports streaming is surging to a new and dominant role in sportscasting with major implications for how license holders go about monetizing and protecting their assets. In a nutshell, as ever more sports producers move to live streaming, the potential losses to thriving, ultra-sophisticated online piracy is growing exponentially.

In this paper, we explore the risk implications, the piracy techniques, and consumer appetite for stolen content underlying pirates’ success. We conclude by describing the steps that can be taken to maximize the effectiveness of anti-piracy measures.

While the types of solutions are well known, the nuances that distinguish more successful approaches are less well understood. With so much at stake, it’s time to take far-reaching actions enabled by the best anti-piracy tools available to ensure maximum returns on producers’ efforts to deliver what consumers want.