Stef van der Ziel is a longtime streaming industry veteran who continues to innovate. He invented live streaming in 1994. He built his first CDN in 1997. When Jet-Stream launched in 2003, the company grew 1800% in the first five years. Don’t feel like reading? You can also relax, sit back and listen to this […]
Read MoreGroningen Rock City With an average age below 35, the university city Groningen is one of the youngest cities in Europe. Of the 180.000 people back in the nineties, almost 80.000 were students. No closing hours made for a healthy rock scene. Almost every night, students played in bands in many of the hundreds of […]
Read MoreDutch company Jet-Stream will be unveiling a new broadcast-grade streaming platform on IBC in Amsterdam. The inventors of streaming introduce a user-friendly video platform, which reduces operational costs and time and increases control, uptime, quality, performance, and scale. New: Jet-Stream Cloud Jet-Stream Cloud is Europe’s broadcast grade streaming cloud with global scale. Thanks to deep integration […]
Read MoreRuling Blocks Use of American Cloud Services “To ensure that your data is actually protected, you have to check the entire chain to make sure that there isn’t still a U.S. link somewhere.” The German Vergabekammer, the official supervisory body for public procurement, has cancelled a cloud tender because it violates European privacy legislation. Anyone […]
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Streaming the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Jet-Stream is proud to be selected to stream the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022, after a very successful 2021 edition. In this article we’ll share insights about how we became the streaming facilitator for the world’s most famous music event. The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 will be held in […]
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Sports literally and figuratively move people: on the field and also at home. The more fans you can reach and get moving, the better for your club. Engaged fans are not only ambassadors of what your club stands for, they also create reach and revenue. Nothing comes closer to the experience of being at a […]
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Looking back and forward 2021 has been a busy year. Lockdowns forced many events to switch from offline to online. Live event streamingA great example was the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. Initially planned for 2020, it was postponed due to Corona. They asked us to stream the event live. The project was launched in a […]
Read MoreA Smarter Live Sales Strategy Tips for e-commerce live streaming There are great expectations for Live Sales, the latest trend among (online) retailers to advertise and sell their products via live streams. What is live sales? You can compare it to Tell Sell, but online. What will your live sales strategy be? You hear many […]
Read MoreFly above the clouds Jet-Stream Cloud is a new cloud platform to quickly build complex streaming workflows and deliver your media with the highest possible scale, performance and availability to a global audience. Broadcast grade streaming Video is one of the most demanding services on the web. Regular virtualized clouds perform fine for the web, […]
Read MoreWe are proud to announce that today we are upgrading Privacy Player for all Jet-Stream customers with these new features: √ Live Preview√ Enhanced HLS robustness√ Mid-Stream active CDN switching√ Continuous Playlist Playback Live preview Privacy Player now shows the current frame of a live stream before people hit play, if you haven’t provided a […]
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Jet-Stream nominated 3x forReaders’ Choice Awards 2021 Vote for us! √ Streaminar Nomination: Best Streaming Innovation Schedule and promote your live streams on social media, generate leads and produce professional broadcasts with the studio in your browser. streaminar.com √ Privacy Player Pro Nomination: Best Video Player Solution / SDK Dynamic Branding, interactive API, contextual advertising, […]
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Your streaming strategy If your ambition is to fly, you want to be free as a bird. There is no airline that develops its own aircraft. With Jet-Stream you are the pilot. And behind the scenes we are your autopilot. TL;DR If you want to stream professionally, you have three strategic choices: One stop shop […]
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Managing streaming security Many people think of video and audio streaming as publicly accessible content. In reality, almost any professional content publisher needs to protect their media. Two examples why media protection is important: If you offer or monetise free to air videos, you don’t want third parties to deep-link to your media from their […]
Read MoreIn short term, Apple will launch IOS 14.5 with active tracker blocking. This has far-reaching consequences for broadcasters and publishers. AdWeek says: ‘As many as 68 percent of iPhone users are expected to deny advertisers permission to track them thanks to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, in what is beginning to look like a significant blow to the […]
Read MoreWow! In 2020 your media with Jet-Stream were 100% available. CDNs often promise 100% availability, but this is marketing speak. At Jet-Stream, your content was available every minute of the entire year. CTO Joshua and CEO Stef made a (Dutch spoken) podcast on this topic. They discuss some examples of customers who experienced issues and […]
Read MoreAfgelopen maand veegde het Europese Hof in de zaak Schrems II het Privacyshield van tafel. Dit schild bleek geen waarborg te zijn voor bescherming van persoonsgegevens in de VS. Dit probleem is breder dan alleen Facebook en Google. Zo’n beetje alle mediabedrijven en internetbedrijven hebben hun hosting en distributie uit handen gegeven aan Amerikaanse bedrijven […]
Read MorePrivacy Shield invalid The European Court of Justice has declared the Privacy Shield invalid. This means that European data may no longer be stored with American clouds on the basis of this privacy shield, with immediate effect. Are you still allowed to use American suppliers for your streaming services? And what about European suppliers who rely on American […]
Read MoreTime for presents! 1) New: Jet-Stream Platform v11 Jet-Stream introduces a major new version of its award winning streaming media management platform for broadcasters, publishers and media professionals. This release introduces media metadata management, new statistics and even easier to use interfaces. Available per November 1st 2019, for free for all existing and new Jet-Stream […]
Read Morepress release Streaming video is 25 years old And it has a Dutch history Groningen, October 2019 – The very first live video broadcast on the internet in the world came from the Netherlands. This is the subject of a short documentary ‘Ready Set, Rock ‘n Roll’ by filmmakers Alex Pitstra and Koen de Koning, […]
Read MoreJet-Stream Platform: “What’s most impressive is its interface. They are intuitive and easy to use, but Jet-Stream hasn’t sacrificed functionality for simplicity.” – Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, Editor-in-Chief Streaming Media Magazine Wow! That was 2009 when we at Jet-Stream introduced our streaming media management platform. We are proud to take professional streaming platforms to a new level, again. We […]
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Videos boost sales and conversions Videos bring money to your business! By adding a product video on your landing page can result in an 80% increase in sales. Studies also show that 74% of users who have watched an explanation video about the product buy it. Start crafting your videos now! Videos result in 83% […]
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You may ask: why do I need to use a paid platform for hosting my video content if I can use a free service such as YouTube, Facebook, VIMEO, etc.?! That is a very good question! That is why I decided to write this blog post to share some benefits of using your own video […]
Read MorePress release – for publication Streaming companies are evading European privacy laws en masse Amsterdam 11 September 2019 – Streaming companies are evading European privacy laws en masse. Data is stored on foreign servers – even stored with third parties – and that is contrary to the European privacy guidelines. Dutch streaming company Jet-Stream (www.jet-stream.com) […]
Read MoreWhy Jet-Stream Player, why privacy. Hi, I’m Stef, the founder of Jet-Stream. I’m really proud of what our team achieved: a professional streaming media player, that respects the privacy of your viewers, yet offers more accurate analytics. And… it’s free. All of our customers who used our previous licensed player already switched over to the […]
Read MoreJet-Stream Player technologies Designing a modern video player for experts (hint: we took way more time than expected to build a really cool video player with expert features, is good for privacy and it is free, hooray!) Why use a video player? You can use the HTML5 <video> tag to embed videos into your website. […]
Read MoreDon’t pay to play! And how you can save money by switching to Jet-Stream Player. (hint: paying for traffic is much cheaper compared to paying for plays, you get better analytics and you’re not leaking data to third parties anymore). An introduction to streaming costs Besides media production costs, most of the costs in professional […]
Read MoreStop tracking people – don’t pay with your data! Why trackers in video players are bad. And how Jet-Stream Player helps you gain trust from your audience. (hint: we guarantee privacy, you get better analytics and a video player, to put privacy on the agenda in the streaming industry, we made it free) Privacy laws […]
Read More(hint: cloud side logging and analytics is 100% accurate, rich in details, privacy is guaranteed and comes free with every Jet-Stream account) Jet-Stream Analytics and Statistics Why cloud based logging and analytics are better than video player side tracking Video analytics: why? If you are a professional streaming company or expert, you want to know […]
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