MediaKind

The adrenaline buzz is just about worn off. Yesterday at NAB’s Streaming Summit I was joined on stage by Joe Krell , VP Engineering at Comcast, and Cory Zachman , CTO at MediaKind , for Inside Comcast’s Multiview Revolution. In 2024, Multiview was just an idea for Comcast. A few months later it was in production. Since then it has changed the sports viewing experience in the US. Both Operator Editorialised & Create Your Own Multiview. An infinite number of combinations created in the cloud with technology & economics that are proven to work. Fans choosing how they watch their favourite sports and favourite players. Joe and Cory were honest about what it actually takes to make a service like this reliable and scalable. The lessons learned over 18 months are not the ones you find on a slide deck. The story has expanded beyond Comcast too. Rogers. Sky Germany. Sky UK, in a couple of weeks just in time for the end of the Premier League season. Want it for your platform? MK.IO . A few buttons or a few API calls. Full video coming in the next few days. Worth a watch.

I've co-authored a blog. On the AMD website. Which feels like the kind of sentence I would have dismissed as aspirational nonsense a few years ago. A few weeks ago I wrote about what the AI buildout has done to hardware economics. Server costs up. Memory expensive. Supply chain unpredictable. The operators most exposed are the ones running low density deployments, paying for idle compute across dozens of servers when they could be running on two. The AMD blog is the other half of that conversation. MK.IO Beam runs on AMD EPYC server CPUs, and it explains why MediaKind made that choice. When broadcasters and streaming operators need to do more with less. More channels. Less rack space. Lower power bills. COTS hardware. They all matter. If you're at NAB this week, you can see MK.IO Beam for yourself at the MediaKind booth W1743. Many thanks to Christopher Bellaci for the partnership on the Blog. https://lnkd.in/eYsKeY5t

It's NAB time and Multiview has nearly as much buzz as something called AI (you may have heard of it?) From Operator Orchestrated to Create You Own, Comcast has spent the last 18 months proving that Multiview works technically, operationally and commercially working alongside MediaKind to deliver an industry first in Multiview experiences and delighting consumers. I am excited to be joined on stage at the NAB Show Streaming Summit, Produced by Dan Rayburn , by industry experts Joe Krell from Comcast and Allen Broome from MediaKind with special guest appearances* from Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn!!! If you want to hear about the reality, not just see a tech demo, you'll be pleased to know I am just asking the questions and that the people who have lived it, Joe and Allen will be doing most of the talking. *Join us on Monday @ 2:45 to find out how we managed that !!