Inc. magazine recognizes iStreamPlanet

iStreamPlanet was named one of the fastest-growing, privately held companies in the country.

Author:: Ned Soseman
Publish date:: Aug 29, 2012

Thanks to significant year-over-year growth, iStreamPlanet, a leading provider of live and on-demand streaming video solutions, has been listed on the "2012 Inc. 5000," Inc. magazine's prestigious ranking of America's fastest-growing, privately held companies. The company was also ranked among the top 50 media companies on the list.

iStreamPlanet counts among its customers some of the world's leading sports, entertainment, and technology brands, including NBC, Turner Broadcasting, the United States Olympic Committee, AT&T and Microsoft. In the decade since its inception, iStreamPlanet has become the managed-broadcast provider behind the biggest live and on-demand events, including the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open, Tour de France, Sunday Night Football, TNT Overtime, PGA, NASCAR, and UFC on Xbox.

Thanks to significant year-over-year growth, iStreamPlanet, a leading provider of live and on-demand streaming video solutions, has been listed on the "2012 Inc. 5000," Inc. Magazine's prestigious ranking of America's fastest growing, privately held companies. The company was also ranked among the top 50 media companies on the list.

iStreamPlanet today announced that its CEO, Mio Babic, was named the 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Technology Business Alliance of Nevada (TBAN) at its annual TechNevada Honors event on February 27. The event is designed to celebrate the people -- and by association, their companies -- who have greatly enhanced the growth and prestige of Nevada's technology community.

iStreamPlanet, a leading provider of live and on-demand streaming-video solutions, is moving its portfolio of media workload products and services to the cloud. The move is meant to help the company and its customers meet the growing demand for live events, live linear channels, and on-demand media assets across an ever-increasing number of IP-connected devices, offering scalability and cost reduction that do not exist with today's video workflow technologies. iStreamPlanet's portfolio includes a cloud-based workflow platform for live and live linear video; transcoding for video on demand (VOD); an advanced metadata framework service for authentication, authorization, and ID federation; and media encryption and license-clearing services.

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iStreamPlanet, a leading provider of live and on-demand streaming video solutions, announced today that the company is adding new RTMP-based global acquisition, ingest, and publishing capabilities to its portfolio of live streaming video services. These new capabilities enable broadcasters of all sizes to target a rapidly growing audience tuning in to live content on IP-connected devices. The new services include the ability to acquire a live video source via single-bit-rate RTMP and output multiple-bit-rate RTMP streams, along with the ability to package RTMP streams in Apple(R) HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for targeting iOS devices.