Buyers’ Guide to Live Streaming Platforms
By Adam Noyes
This buyers’ guide identifies common live-streaming use cases and suggests the features to look for and the services to consider for those use cases. I’ll be focusing on services that transcode for traditional adaptive bitrate (ABR) delivery via HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) or DASH and not low-latency services for WebRTC or similar technologies. If your use case is not listed (we couldn’t get them all), find one that’s close in scale and the required feature set.
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