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How to do Video Monetization on your Website OTT or eLearning platform

According to Statista, sales by OTT platforms and streaming providers will globally see 11% growth. eMarketer estimates nearly half of the video ads served on video platforms. The most significant chunk of this ad spend happens on YouTube. Marketers report videos to have the best ROI and help in getting better customer retention rates. With videos having the highest penetration rate, you should not miss the opportunity to monetize them. As technology is evolving, the methods of online video monetization have increased. Implementing the right video monetization strategy will maximize the revenue and make the most out of your video…

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Setup And Install FFMPEG On Windows [Bonus: FFMPEG Commands]

If you are looking for a library to help you out with video compression and processing, FFmpeg is certainly the best open-source library you'd find out there. It can be used for blurring, color conversion, rotation, extraction of frames. As well as offer an interface to various video codecs like  H.264/AVC, HEVC, AV1. Here in this tutorial, I'll discuss briefly what FFmpeg really is and how you can install it on windows. On top of it, there are a few basic commands for FFmpeg to get you started. What is FFMPEG? FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting…

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Video APIs to Automate your Video Workflow – API Version v3

This blog suggests a workflow for automating the video workflow for your website using VdoCipher API v3. Complete details and Sample Codes for the API can be found in the Server API Docs. Our APIs are designed to give you programmatic access to VdoCipher's service, so that you can scale your service by automating the video streaming workflow on your site. Our APIs make it possible for you to create programmed pipelines to automate your business operations. In this blog, you will find APIs covering most important video actions. While the video upload and video management operations can be performed…

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A Business & Entertainment History of Streaming Media

With video increasingly becoming the medium of communication over the internet, it is a sobering thought that many of the technologies now being used seamlessly were tried out, at enormous usage costs, in the early-to-mid 90s. Some of the first uses of internet streaming media in this period were: The first major live sports webcast on the internet on September 5, 1995 - a Major League Baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees. A Rolling Stone Live Concert was broadcast live from Cotton Bowl in Dallas on 18 November 1994. Knowing the broadcast channel to be live…