Billy Phillips

How does Peer5 work? How do we choose peers for each viewer consuming a stream? These are two of the questions that we’re most frequently asked. To understand the answer, we need to start at the beginning. Basic Streaming Overview - Experts Feel Free To Skip This Section Modern

Peer-to-Peer (p2p) network architectures have been around for decades and are a robust field of study in many computer science departments throughout the world. Commercial p2p content delivery services are a relatively new phenomenon, especially those powered by WebRTC which don’t require end users to install client software. But,

We are thrilled to announce that we have teamed up with Bitmovin for a strategic partnership in video streaming. This partnership was born out of a common goal shared by the companies: to improve video streaming systems for publishers and bring better streaming experiences to viewers. Peer5 and Bitmovin are

We’re gearing up for another incredible NAB Show in Las Vegas, complete with the most innovative companies and influential minds in the Media Technology industry. As always we expect an exciting show and would like to take this opportunity to invite friends of Peer5 and the hls.js community

Come meet Peer5 at NAB 2017 (April 24th-27th) at the Las Vegas Convention Center! Our exhibit will feature key members of our team and a demonstration of our groundbreaking serverless content delivery network (CDN) for live and on-demand video streaming. You can find us in the South Upper Hall at

I tried to write a quick post, but as I was writing, I realized too much happened this year to keep it short. Sorry! :) Overview 2016 was another great year for video streaming. All segments of the industry, from subscription video on demand to the video CDN market, continued to

The Throttling Participants When you talk about video streaming, two letters come to mind: HD. I used to believe that everyone wanted HD video. As it turns out, this is actually not the case. Though viewers want to watch the highest resolution streams, many providers don’t want to have

In the modern world, analytics are an essential driver for almost all business decisions. Before you build anything, you need to first figure out how you’re going to measure your work and define what success would look like. I’ve been asked numerous times about live streaming stats. What

Live streaming is taking over. Video streaming is everywhere. New content and services seem to be announced everyday. But as more and more content moves from the cable box to the Internet something else is happening too: OTT is blowing IPTV out of the water. Starting in 1995, when IPTV

Earlier today, we announced a partnership with Dailymotion which will see them leverage our peer-to-peer Content Delivery Network (CDN) to improve delivery of Live and VOD streams to their users throughout the world. Because press releases and news articles have to be concise for lots of good reasons, we wanted

The Multi-CDN architecture, once an approach reserved only for the largest broadcasters and events, has gone mainstream. While this has happened quickly, its evolution is not surprising when considering the Content Delivery Network (CDN) industry and the world of video streaming. CDNs originated in the 1990’s as a response

From a technical standpoint, live streaming is hard. If you don’t believe me, just watch Mark Zuckerberg try (and fail) as he introduced Facebook Live to the world. This was just another example of a major company struggling with live streaming - something that happens more often than not.

It seems like we’re finally going to see real TV, everywhere! For what seems like years, we’ve been warning people, “live streaming is coming.” This live streaming barrier, as well as the premium content market, have been holding OTT and cord cutters back for years. But no more.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, I’ll take a second to remind you: video is taking over the Internet. Everyone remembers ROI (Radio On Internet), but what’s the future of VOI? Video streaming continues to explode, but the magnitude of its rise is still incredible.

Smartphones are everywhere, but what users are doing with them is changing everyday. According to Cisco’s 2015 Mobile Data Traffic report, mobile video traffic grew to 55% of all mobile data traffic in 2014. Mobile video traffic is expected to grow by 66% a year from 2014 through 2019,

It will come as no surprise that over the last several years, smartphone adoption has increased dramatically. Forrester Research predicts there will be approximately 3.5 billion smartphone users by 2019. But what you might not know of is the quiet rise of ROM. Approximately 37% of all Android smartphones

Bringing content to an Internet connected device near you. As the Internet grows and changes, so does the CDN, the system responsible for serving much of its content to users. What’s next for this booming industry? The State of the CDN The CDN market is growing, and fast. This

It’s the year of video streaming! As companies like Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video solidify their dominance, the question is no longer, will video streaming take over, but rather, which sites will dominate the new world? Video Streaming: Adopted As TV viewing continues its prolonged decline

In 1995, RealNetworks broadcasted the audio of a baseball game over the Internet. Now, in 2015, 20 years later, we still don’t have the technology to live stream videos well. Could a P2P CDN solve the problem? Maybe, but for now, as Dan Rayburn of Streaming Media recently wrote,

YouTube just announced that it’s defaulting to HTML5 for video streaming in what YouTube engineering manager Richard Leider is calling, a “critical step forward.” This is another huge win for HTML5 and related technologies, like WebRTC. As the need to improve content delivery grows, thanks in part to richer

A few days ago, at the 2015 AT&T Developer Summit, held the day before CES, panellist and Qualcomm CEO, Steve Mollenkopf, said, “The architecture of the Internet will have to change.” And then it did. Just a few minutes later, AT&T became the first U.S.

The Internet has been buzzing with the news that BitTorrent recently released about Project Maelstrom. As they mentioned, the program is in Alpha, and will likely not be completed for quite some time. But what is Project Maelstrom, why is BitTorrent building it and why is it important? Project Maelstrom’

This week, HBO announced plans to launch a stand-alone video streaming service. The interesting part of the announcement was that instead of building the technology for this internally, HBO decided to outsource the content delivery to MLB Advanced Media. HBO’s CTO, Otto Berkes, resigned promptly after this news was

Last week’s blog post on choosing a CDN walked through what really matters to the industry's clients. For those who haven’t read it, ultimately, it came to the conclusion that what customers really want is a CDN that delivers their content well, 24/7. But how can you

The CDN industry has changed a great deal over the last several years. As more and more independent companies enter the market with wildly different types of infrastructure, I think it's important to go back to the basics. I recently saw a set of surveys created by Limelight about CDNs,