2013年10月3日
By Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen 会议主席，流媒体和CMO, id3as
专题文章

The 流媒体100:在线视频领域最重要的100家公司 in 2013

The 流媒体 100 list is only 3 years old, but it’s already undergone significant changes. 在第一期和第二期(2011年和2012年)之间, 分别), we decided to narrow the focus to exclude broadcasters that had made the move into online video, 相反，只考虑为谁服务的公司, 正如我在去年榜单的引言中所写的那样, “在线视频是他们的基因.”

今年, 我们进一步缩小了调查范围, for the simple reason that the industry has grown so much in the last 12 months that we found it difficult to narrow the list down to 100 companies. The solution was an obvious one: focus exclusively on the technology companies that enable content creators and publishers to innovate and build their audiences. So you won’t find any content companies on the list -- they deserve their own list, 我们正在考虑如何在2014年最好地纪念他们.

超出了这个范围, 虽然, the process for choosing the 100 remains the same: We began with a list of more than 250 companies, then asked 流媒体’s editorial and publishing staff to rank each one on a scale of 1 (doesn’t belong on the list at all) to 5 (absolutely must be on the list if the list is to have any credibility). 在投票结束后, 只有三家公司的平均得分是5分, 最后100家公司的平均得分至少为2分.5. To give you a sense of the spread, all of the companies in the top 50 scored at least a 3.3.

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While t在这里 were 17 companies that made the 2012 list that didn’t make the cut in 2013 -- mostly content players, 虽然 some technology providers fell away -- the narrowed purview actually resulted in a stronger showing by companies that live in the center of 流媒体’s editorial coverage and audience interest: encoding/transcoding and content delivery. So if you said that this year’s list is a “geekier” bunch than previous years’, you’d be right. Considering that the hottest topics of the last 12 months have been MPEG-DASH and HEVC/H.265，结果应该不足为奇.

最后, 如果你喜欢这个复杂的比喻, 越来越多的消费者接受流媒体视频, 特别夸张的, 把所有的船都抬到了幕后. 当那家人在客厅里, 或者火车上的通勤者, 或者宿舍里的那个学生, 通过广播或有线电视选择流媒体内容, 这里列出的公司让你的体验变得轻松有趣. When creators and publishers need their content delivered at the highest possible quality for the lowest possible cost, 这里列出的公司完成了这项工作. 当企业的利益相关者, 教育, and government verticals find themselves turning to online video to deliver and view the content they need, 这里列出的公司降低了壁垒.

祝贺大家, and thanks to the 流媒体 staff and contributors who joined me in taking on the daunting task of evaluating more than 250 possible entrants:

何塞-卡斯蒂略
特洛伊德雷尔
1月时
丹·雷伯恩
Dom罗宾逊
乔尔Unickow

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You can see many of these companies and their products and services in person at 流媒体西部下个月在洛杉矶流媒体东部五月在纽约，和流媒体论坛六月在伦敦.

的十月/十一月号 流媒体 magazine also includes sponsored 文章 written by some of the companies who landed in the 流媒体 100 list. 你可以找到我们的出版商对该部分的介绍在这里; participation in that section (or advertising of any kind) was in no way a criteria for inclusion in the 流媒体 100.