Advantages of 5G for the mobile app development industry
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 by Austin Harris
In an era where the internet is integral to our daily lives, from finding the nearest grocery store to having those groceries delivered to our doorstep, the role of mobile applications is more crucial than ever. With the advent of 5G technology, the mobile app development industry stands on the brink of a transformative period. This new generation of wireless technology...
AWS Elemental MediaLive differences between AWS MediaConvert
Sunday, November 3, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
In today's digital age, video streaming has become a pivotal component of global communication and business strategy. Companies worldwide are increasingly embracing video content to enhance their outreach and engagement. However, not all organizations find it straightforward to integrate video streaming into their operations. The challenges often stem from the need ...
Web3 golf metaverse Play Today streaming NSW Open Championship
Monday, March 20, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Web3 golf company Play Today has launched a world-first golf metaverse that will be used to live stream the upcoming NSW Open Golf Championship inside an entire 3D virtual golf world, complete with avatars of pro players including the reigning champion, Harrison Crowe.
The "Play Today Metaverse" was built by golf players for golf players and will allow...
Real time engagement solution predictions for 2021 from Agora Inc
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
The need for enterprises big and small to take on a hybrid, custom-built brand identity – one rooted in the digital and the other in the physical – will continue to grow. Beyond the pandemic, it is crucial that businesses are able to maintain business continuity no matter what dive or turn the business landscape may take. More so, those still relying solely ...
Amazon Interactive Video service announced
Thursday, July 16, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced the general availability of Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS). Amazon IVS uses the same technology that powers Twitch, one of the most popular live streaming services in the world with nearly 10 billion hours of video watched in 2019, giving customers live content with latency (the time video takes to go from the camera to...
Developer ecosystem insights for Q2 2019 report
Monday, November 18, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
The data from the Developer Economics survey give all the answers in the recently published State of the Developer Nation Q2 2019 report, which - as always- is now available for free download!
What’s new in the developer ecosystem?
The report highlights the latest insights from the developer ecosystem, based on responses from 19,000+ softwar...
Edge computing adoption secrets for IIoT
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 by Ramya Ravichandar
Over the past year, many industry players increased their focus on edge-based solutions, and organizations are now beginning to understand the value edge computing can bring to their Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) projects. According to a recent Spiceworks survey, 86% of companies with more than 5,000 employees plan to adopt IoT soluti...
How to make testing apps easier using HeadSpin
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
New device launches are exciting for consumers, but a lot happens behind the scenes. New devices mean new device-OS configurations. App developers have to scramble to understand how their apps will perform under new circumstances. This cannot be taken for granted, because a few seconds of additional app load time means millions of lost revenue. New device launches put a...
Top ranking mobile games earn 10X what other games do
Monday, October 29, 2018 by Richard Harris
A report from Mobvista-owned GameAnalytics has shown yet again just how competitive the mobile games industry is, with a minority of top-performing titles capturing a disproportionate slice of the $70 billion forecast to be spent on mobile games in 2018.
The report, titled "Mobile Gaming Benchmarks", is GameAnalytics’ second global anal...
Changes to the way notifications work in iOS 12 you need to know
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 by Mike Herrick
iOS 12’s public release has brought about key changes to the way we do notifications. With these changes, Urban Airship urges app publishers to adopt customer-centric messaging best practices to accommodate new user behavior, improve notification visibility and maximize the value that their app can deliver. Granular user controls over notifications, new Grouped No...
PC gaming developer fund launches from Intel and Overwolf
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 by Austin Harris
Overwolf announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to expand development opportunities for the PC gaming community. Through the collaboration, a development fund is being created for developers working on game applications, modifications, or game services that enhance the experience of PC games.
“We continuously look for opportunities to help developers ...
Integrate video into apps easier using new tech from Cloudflare
Thursday, August 9, 2018 by Richard Harris
Cloudflare announced the general availability of Cloudflare Stream, a new way for content owners and app developers to integrate video into any application or website.
Prior to Cloudflare Stream, if businesses wanted to move beyond just uploading videos to a consumer service like YouTube, they had to use at least three different services: one to encode video into a s...
Mobile game advertising partnership between Google and Unity announced
Friday, August 3, 2018 by Richard Harris
Unity Technologies and Google’s mobile advertising business, AdMob, have announced a strategic partnership that will be aimed at changing the way advertisers reach gamers on-the-go and help mobile game developers monetize their apps. With more than 50 percent of all new mobile games made on Unity, this partnership gives Google advertisers access to Unity’s e...
Game streaming and the live streaming movement according to LiveCamp
Friday, July 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
Betaworks launched their 4th accelerator program, LiveCamp, which is now accepting submissions. This year, Camp will focus on companies looking to advance the "live" participation gaming and streaming ecosystem.
Here's how it works. Betaworks will choose 5-10 companies to build into culturally significant brands, similar to what they've ...
Mobile ad creative help from Tapjoy arrives
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tapjoy has announced the launch of the Interplay Studio, an in-house creative team and design studio dedicated to helping brands, agencies and marketers deliver mobile ad creative optimized for in-app environments. Campaigns designed by the Interplay Studio have demonstrated average click-through rate that are 3-5X greater than traditional mobile video ads and deliver a...
For gaming companies data unification is critical
Monday, March 19, 2018 by Dan Schoenbaum
When it comes to understanding the entirety of player behavior, one thing that often gets in the way is data fragmentation. Gaming companies often have customer data stored across multiple systems, platforms, and software, resulting in a “siloed” model that fails to create a complete picture of the player journey.The good news is that behavioral analytics technology is ...
Talguu launches live casting video service
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 by Austin Harris
Caspio has announced that Talguu launched its new multi-channel video service, entirely built on Caspio's low-code development platform. Talguu, a Silicon Valley startup, allows television stations, professional performers and individual content providers to connect directly with audiences via a multi-platform pay-per-view video streaming service. Operating in a time- a...
Live streaming your game to get paid
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mobcrush has unveiled its new ‘Go Live, Get Paid’ platform, a set of free tools and features that enable any mobile gamer to reach and grow an audience, where they can earn anything from $15 to $2,500 an hour for live streaming their gameplay. A new survey conducted by an analyst firm DFC Intelligence and commissioned by Mobcrush found that while only 14 percent of game...
ABBYY announced their new realtime recognition SDK
Monday, December 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
ABBYY has announced the release of the new version of the ABBYY Real-Time Recognition Software Development Kit (RTR SDK) with added livestreaming video data capture functionality on iOS and Android mobile platforms. The Real-Time Recognition technology is capable of instantly pulling text information from on-screen objects and automatically converting it into digital da...
Poker Night in America bets on KamaGames to make their mobile app
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
The KamaGames Group, have announced their partnership with Poker Night in America, the high stakes poker television show, that premieres every Monday & Sunday on CBS Sports Network in North America.The partnership will see the release of a standalone branded Poker Night in America app which will leverage the KamaGames technology platform and global liquidity of play...
Place your bets with some of these betting apps from the UK
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
A fully regulated and well-organized betting landscape in the UK has allowed betting operators to flourish and make important steps forward towards keeping up with the advancing mobile technology. One particular way which stands as the most prominent example and testament to UK sport betting dominance in recent years is via fully-fledged betting apps or mobile sites. UK...
All eyes on Mobile World Conference 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
As all eyes turn to the Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Barcelona this month (27 February - 4 March, 2017), Ovum’s analyst team have gathered their views regarding what they expect to see at the world’s largest and most highly regarded mobile industry event.A key theme, which recurs throughout the report is the belief that MWC 2017 will mark a further shift in the evol...
Kanvas SDK availability for developers means more face tracking apps are coming
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 by Richard Harris
Kanvas SDK to offer developers Plug & Play access to a suite of mixed media technology.
AOL announced plans for Kanvas, its mobile platform for creativity, to open its platform with a new software development toolkit. The SDK will serve as a creative suite for the masses, offering four unique products to the developer community.
The...
Next Entertainment closes $25M series A
Thursday, December 15, 2016 by Austin Harris
Next Entertainment, a global live broadcasting platform company founded by Internet entrepreneur and FunPlus founder Andy Zhong, has announced a $25 million Series A investment to enable the company’s global expansion, including hiring talent in San Francisco, Tokyo, Taipei, and Beijing. It was incubated by Inke, a Chinese mobile live streaming company, and the investme...
Yahoo explains what communitainment is and how it's mobile's killer app
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 by Simon Khalaf
Last August, in Flurry’s app usage report, we declared that “Content is King: Again.” That report showed U.S. users’ time spent consuming media in apps had grown from 46 mins/day in 2014 to 96 mins/day in 2015, a whopping 108% year-over-year increase. Curious to clock this year’s usage, we ran the numbers again and found that time spent con...
CEO of Manage Mike Ng Discusses the Evolution of Mobile Advertising
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently chatted with Mike Ng, CEO of Manage, to discuss the mobile advertising marketplace and the changes undergoing the industry.ADM: I understand Manage has been around for about 5 years as a mobile DSP. How has the company evolved over the years? Ng: When Manage was founded 5 years ago, we decided to focus primarily on mobile in-app marketing. We were one o...
Didn't Get a Ticket to WWDC Check Out These Alternate Events in San Francisco
Friday, May 27, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Apple’s annual WWDC developer conference is a notoriously hard ticket to get. And if you are one of the lucky ones, congratulations! For everyone else, you can still immerse yourself in all things Apple with other events that are being in San Francisco held during the week of June 13 - 17. While you might not be able attend the actual event, you can still network a...
Stream Conf 2016 Will Tackle Data Streaming Technologies in September
Thursday, May 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
Stream Conf 2016, which covers the technologies, architectures and business strategies for the streaming web, will be held in San Francisco on September 28, 2016, at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco. The event provides insights into learning how always-on data streams can be managed, scaled, secured and monetized.The agenda for Stream Conf 2016 includes tracks, ...
Presidential Campaigns & SMS Best Practices
Monday, May 2, 2016 by Brian Heikes
According to a poll, 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone, and a convincing 97% of them use text messaging. In fact, text messaging is the most frequently used feature of smartphones, and remains very popular among younger audiences. Presidential candidates are targeting a broad demographic to ensure they don’t lose edge over their rivals in any aspect. Electio...
App Publishers Can Now Easily Add Mobile Live Video Streaming to iOS and Android Apps
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
The quickly growing mainstream popularity of Twitter’s Periscope App, Facebook Live, YouTube Live Streaming, and Meerkat has certainly heightened the interest of many in the app publishing community who are interested in learning more about how to leverage live streaming. We visited with Carlos Perez, Chief Revenue Officer for Wowza Media Systems, to learn how app devel...
LEAD Technologies Releases New Media Streaming Server SDK
Friday, August 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
LEAD Technologies has released its new Media Streaming Server SDK as part of its LEADTOOLS Multimedia product line that provides a library for building professional audio/video multimedia streaming applications for playback on any device.The LEADTOOLS Media Streaming Server provides developers using .NET (C# & VB) and C/C++ with everything they need to build profess...
Amazon Updates Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV is an open source project intended to help developers get up to speed on creating simple media-oriented apps for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The Starter Kit provides a basic media app template that is designed for the 10-foot user experience and includes UI controls, support for the Fire TV remote, sample UI compon...
The best app marketing channels that actually help
Thursday, January 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
At the beginning of each year, we all read articles with predictions on pretty much any subject - mobile is no exception. Famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky once said, “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
As a guy who has been a part of an app marketing agency for the last 5 years...
Google IO 2014 Set to Kick Off Tomorrow Live Session Streaming Available
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google I/O 2014 is set to go live tomorrow, June 25 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Of course, if you already aren’t traveling to the 2 day event and you don’t live in Northern California, you probably aren’t planning on being there in person.And that’s ok, because there will be I/O extended events include live streaming sessions from I/O as well as coordinated l...
Dropcam Announces API Beta Program
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Dropcam is a cloud-based Wi-Fi video monitoring service with free live streaming, two-way talk and remote viewing. There are two devices available to use the service, the Dropcam and Dropcam Pro.The system works with the Dropcam camera sending encrypted video to the cloud. The cloud then securely streams video to mobile devices. With the optional Cloud Recording feature...
