The 2024 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards

We’ve counted all of the votes in the 2024 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards, and—drumroll, please—it is now my pleasure and sworn duty to present winners and runners-up in each of our 17 categories.

The Readers’ Choice Awards program recognizes our readers’ selections for the industry’s top products from companies based outside of Europe. Check out the 2024 Streaming Media European Innovation Awards to see what readers of Streaming Media Europe chose as the top products from European tech companies.

This year’s awards garnered more than 100 nominees, which were then voted on by StreamingMedia.com readers. More than 1,200 readers cast more than 9,000 votes in categories that run the gamut of Streaming Media’s present purview. After discarding votes from obviously phony email addresses, as well as votes by employees casting ballots for their own companies’ products, we identified the top three vote-getters in each category. Many of the names are familiar, even expected, but you’ll find more than a few surprises in the list that follows. And if you’re surprised that a company isn’t represented, well, all we can say is that it either wasn’t nominated or didn’t get enough votes.

Congratulations to all of our winners and runners-up! (Runners-up are listed in alphabetical order in each of the following categories.)

The readers have spoken! Here we present the top non-European tech solutions of 2024, as chosen by the readers of Streaming Media.

Analytics/Quality of Experience (QoE) Platform

Winner: TAG Video Systems—Realtime Media Platform

Runners-Up: Bitmovin—Analytics, Elecard—Boro

Closed-Captioning Solution

Winner: Telestream—CaptionMaker

Runners-Up: TAG Video Systems—TAG Language Detection, Videolinq—GenAI automated captions and subtitles for live broadcasts

Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Solution

Winner: Haivision—StreamHub

Runners-Up: Amazon Web Services—Amazon Elastic Encoder, Ateme—Ateme+

Cloud Video Production Platform

Winner: Amagi—Tellyo Studio

Runners-up: Akta—FLEX Channels, Vimeo—Vimeo Platform

Content Delivery Network (including Edge)

Winner: Akamai—Akamai Connected Cloud

Runners-Up: Amazon Web Services—Amazon CloudFront, Google—Cloud CDN Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Solution

Corporate Video/Enterprise Video Content Management Platform

Winner: Vimeo—Vimeo Enterprise

Runners-Up: Muvi—Flex, Telestream—Sherpa Stream

CTV/OTT Ad Platform

Winner: Amagi—ADS PLUS

Runners-Up: Amazon Web Services—AWS Elemental MediaTailor, Roku—Roku Advertising

DRM/Content Protection

Winner: EZDRM—Universal Complete

Runners-Up: MicrosoftPlayReady, Widevine—Widevine DRM

Encoding Hardware for Live Production

Winner: NETINT—Quadra T2A

Runners-Up: Ateme—KYRION DR5000, Haivision—Makito X4 Encoder

Linear Channel Creation Platform

Winner: Zixi—ZaaS for FAST Channels

Runners-Up: Amagi—Channel Creation, Backlight—Live Studio

Live Streaming Service

Winner: Resi Media—Resi

Runners-Up: Akamai—Adaptive Media Delivery, Wowza—Wowza Streaming Engine

Meeting/Collaboration/Webcasting Solution

Winner: Zoom—Zoom Events

Runners-Up: LiveU—Air Control, Microsoft—Microsoft Teams Webinars

On-Prem Encoding/Transcoding Solution

Winner: Telestream—Vantage Media Processing Platform

Runners-Up: Ateme—MV-HEVC, Harmonic—XOS Advanced Media Processor

OTT Video Platform

Winner: Endeavor Streaming—Vesper

Runners-Up: Harmonic—VOS360 Media SaaS, Quickplay—Curator Assistant

Winner: Bitmovin—Per-Title Encoding

Runners-Up: Ateme—TITAN File, Telestream—Encoding.com

Video Mixer

Winner: Blackmagic Design—ATEM Constellation 4K

Runners-Up: Magewell—Director Mini, Telestream—Wirecast Gear 4K

Thanks to everyone who voted in this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards, and congratulations to our winners and runners-up. See you next year!