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Tired of those interruptions with spinning wheels and progress bars while you’re watching online video? You aren’t alone: Videos without buffering are watched twice as long as videos with unwelcome breaks, and viewers are 54 percent less likely to return if they experience video buffering. Read more »

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Content companies are dealing with an influx of viewers tuning into live video online, with the number of livestreams growing more than 600 percent over the last year. To help ease the pain of delivery, Conviva has raised another $15 million for its management platform. Read more »

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Comcast-NBC Deal Lets FCC Seek Web-TV Concessions; U.S. regulators may use their veto power over Comcast Corp.’s planned purchase of NBC Universal to demand concessions that help Web startups. (Bloomberg) FiOS To Offer YouTube, Net Radio; Verizon’s FiOS TV service has signed new deals that, it […] Read more »

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Adobe is announcing a strategic partnership with Conviva today that aims to improve Flash video streaming through advanced analytics and CDN optimization. Conviva’s technology works by offering a real-time view into how certain video streams are performing and adjusts those streams as necessary, enabling media companies […] Read more »

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3Crowd Technologies, the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, has come out of stealth with new products that the company believes will help revolutionize the price structure of streaming video online, making it affordable to video publishers to deliver content to massive audiences. Launching with […] Read more »

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How about this for jumping straight from the frying pan into the fire? After working with Conviva on a number of live-streaming events at his old employer, former NBC CTO Darren Feher has joined the startup as its new president and chief executive. NBC Sports has […] Read more »

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Music Videos Back Online on YouTube in the UK; video site reaches agreement with the PRS for Music rights collection society; premium videos to return in the next few days. (YouTube Biz Blog) Speaking of online music videos, Vevo is reportedly in talks with NBC and […] Read more »

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The Indianapolis 500 was streamed for free domestically for the first time this year. But it didn’t see quite the demand that other major sporting events have received for their free online offerings, in part because of efforts not to undermine broadcast TV rights agreements. Indy […] Read more »

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Conviva has scored a non-exclusive multiyear deal to provide video distribution services to NBC Universal. The companies wouldn’t say which NBC properties would be involved or when, but an emailed press release had Darren Feher, NBCU executive VP and CTO, using the network’s web streaming of […] Read more »

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So far, the secretive startup Conviva has done little more publicly than announce it’s raised a bunch of funding — $29 million from UV Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Foundation Capital. But the San Mateo, Calif.-based company, which aims to power live streams for media companies, […] Read more »

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Tuning into live online video is often an exercise in frustration. So even though Conviva is being somewhat secretive about what it’s doing, I’m inclined to give the startup — which simply says it’s building a live video platform — a pass for the time being, in the hopes it will some day prevent me from tearing my hair out. Conviva is announcing today it has raised $20 million in second round funding. The investment came from UV Partners, New Enterprise Associates, and Foundation Capital, and brings Conviva’s total funding to $29 million since being founded in November 2006. Read more »