Video Encoding and Video Distribution (Youtube VS Akamai)
This piece reflects my opinion about encoding and distributing on-line video. Akamai provides a great way for distributing media using their content delivery network. Akamai is really nice because your marketing people can jump for joy because they can brand their own content. The downside to Akamai is the technical guy gets to field all the questions why HD video does not stream smoothly.
Youtube is better than Akamai for streaming video content, because YouTube:
- is free
- is a CDN
- has great video quality
- works on all PC and mobile devices
- encodes video
If you can not commit the resources to making multiple bit rate versions of a video and different resolutions do not use Akamai, use Youtube.
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