Live Streaming Tech Blog

This article delves into the history and evolution of phone numbers, exploring their development from simple sequences to the complex global systems we manage today. It highlights the challenges of handling phone numbers internationally, emphasizing the importance of robust software solutions. Native Frame's offerings, such as Kotlin International Android, provide tools to manage these complexities efficiently.

Android dominates the global market, running on over 40% of devices worldwide, far outpacing any other operating system. While Apple may reign in the western world, Android's reach is truly global, placing a significant responsibility on developers. The Kotlin International Android (KIA) library offers crucial tools to help Android developers meet this responsibility, including internationalization features, country flags, and robust phone number formatting. As an Android developer, embracing this challenge means not just serving billions, but serving them in their language, country, and format.

Discover how livestreaming enables businesses to reach millions effortlessly. Dive into the crucial role of video ingesting, from capturing raw footage to seamless global distribution. Learn about the magic behind encoding, transmission protocols, and content delivery networks that ensure high-quality, real-time streaming experiences.

Take a look at some of the most mind blowing stats and trends in the livestreaming tech landscape in 2024. The livestreaming industry is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by shifting consumer behaviors and cutting-edge technological advancements.

In our mission to inspire and empower the livestreaming community, we've compiled a comprehensive list of the best livestreaming conferences for 2024. This guide highlights key events in the US, offering valuable opportunities for business leaders, technical team leads, and engineers to learn, network, and stay updated on the latest industry trends.

Live streaming has become one of the most effective ways of reaching and connecting with a large and diverse audience. Regardless of whether you are a content creator, a business, or an event host, expanding your live streaming processes effectively is highly important in terms of quality, costs, and viewers' satisfaction. We'll explain the basics of live streaming at scale, including the advantages and disadvantages of DIY and software as a service (SaaS) solutions, as well as the benefits of a private cloud solution for companies looking to scale with a great cost advantage.

We examine two strategies for implementing a pay-per-view feature within the realm of live streaming. Strategy one uses webhook auth and offers control over access permissions, while strategy two, employing client-side tokens, streamlines the access-checking process and reduces complexity and network traffic.

The transformative nature of integrating real-time video services comes with it's own set of challenges. We highlight some of the most important technical hurdles when integrating real-time video.

Live streaming is emerging as a powerful means for brands, publishers, and other content providers to monetize content in real time. We discuss a few different approaches that we’re excited about for 2024.

We discuss the steps involved in building a proprietary livestream solution that can create the community you want on your terms, without ads, algorithms, or limitations of the status quo social media platforms.

We outline five high level categories of livestreaming event production, each of which must be mastered in order for a livestreaming event to be successful.

Video livestream production ranges from solo streamers to teams with specialized roles like producers and engineers. We discuss the roles and their importance.

Learn more about the evolving trends the shape the live video streaming landscape, an area where Native Frame™ is actively engaged.

Someday in the future we will look back to 2023 as the tipping point for streaming on TVs. No matter when it happens, Barry and Eddie Hearn will be remembered as streaming TV innovators well ahead of the game.

Conditions are ripe for a revolution in watching sports online. We discuss the various online sports viewing categories.