Posts written by Dror Gill

360-degree Videos Bring a New Cinematic Experience, but Create Delivery & Viewing Challenges

The movie industry has been around for over 100 years, but the cinematic experience hasn’t changed much: Basically, you watch the action happening on a screen in front of you.  This is true from the earliest silent movie theatres to the latest iPad tablet apps and OTT streaming to Smart TVs. 3D movies give some […]

Effects of a Crowded Net on Streaming Service ARPU

Do we have any hope of surviving the multi-screen, place shifting consumer? If you are reading this post then you already know that video has taken over the Internet, so I will spare you a paragraph of needless recitals from the latest industry polls stating as such.  Instead I wish to discuss an overlooked solution, […]

Introducing Beamr Blogger – Mark Donnigan

Hi, my name is Mark Donnigan.  As the Vice President of Marketing at Beamr, I am responsible for the corporate communications, market development and commercial success of Beamr products. My formal education is in computer science and music, a combination which lead me to Cornell University where I completed MBA Certificate courses, and in the […]

The #1 Challenge Content Providers, Studios, Web Publishers and Media Companies Share

The first and foremost challenge today for anyone delivering video is meeting customer expectation for a perfect viewing experience. I’ll explain why: As more and more cord-cutters are dropping their cable and satellite TV subscriptions in favor of OTT online streaming services, they expect the same high-quality image they used to get from their traditional […]

Introducing Beamr Blogger – Dror Gill

Hi, my name is Dror Gill, and in the coming months you’ll be hearing quite a lot from me on this blog.  So I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself.  I’ve been with the company since day one, back in 2009, and I wear two hats: CTO and VP Marketing.  The […]

Optimization Begins Here

It all started in March 2009.  Beamr’s Founder and CEO, Sharon Carmel, was on a plane back from a meeting with a top executive at one of the world’s largest technology companies.  In the meeting, Sharon outlined his vision for storing photos in the cloud and delivering them to any device.  The executive thought it […]

Learn How Beamr Helped M-GO Enhance User Experience

It’s no secret that customers today demand the best possible viewing experience when streaming videos online. You can offer the best shows, but if the streaming isn’t smooth, customers are going to lose their patience and leave. If there’s a company out there who understands this, it’s M-GO. Their goal is to provide a premium […]

NAB 2015, Here We Come!

The Beamr team will be at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 13-16, and we would love to meet you! Check out the top 5 reasons to stop by Beamr’s main booth #SU10425, South Upper Hall: 1) Experience first-hand how Beamr Video optimization improves user experience for streaming video while reducing delivery costs. […]

Jan Ozer: “Beamr Delivers The Benefit of HEVC/VP9 Without The Implementation Hassles”

Jan Ozer, one of the world’s top experts on video compression and streaming and Contributing Editor of Streaming Media Magazine, has done a thorough evaluation of Beamr Video using test clips that he encoded.  The evaluation included analyzing the quality of the resulting clips using objective measures such as PSNR, SSIM and VQM, and conducting extensive viewing […]

M-GO Upgrades Streaming UX With Beamr Video

It is with great joy and excitement that we announce a new member to the Beamr Video family: M-Go, a premium over-the-top VOD service that is a joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. M-GO is leveraging strategic partnerships with tier-one media companies to grow its vast premium content catalog, including 4K UHD titles, and […]