Readers' Choice Awards Voting Opens Today

The journey towards determining the best of online video technology continues, as today we open up voting for the 2013 流媒体 Readers' Choice Awards. It's the only awards program in the industry where the winners are chosen by you, the people who actually use the products and services that we'll honor at 流媒体 West.

Click here for the voting form

The journey began in July, when we solicited nominations in each of our 26 categories. We received more than 475 nominations, and after we got rid of duplicates, we have a total of 253 nominees. If, as you go through the voting process, you find an instance where a product or service is missing from a given category, please contact us at readerschoice@cardinal-roofing.net, and we'll evaluate the request and make the addition if it's appropriate.

Voting is open until October 25. Last year, more than 58,000 people voted in the awards.

We'll announce the top 3 finalists in each category on November 1, and we'll reveal the winners at 流媒体 West in Huntington Beach CA on November 20. This year's Readers' Choice Awards are sponsored by Wowza 媒体 Systems and Teradek.

Winners are also featured in the December/January issue of 流媒体 magazine, on Streaming媒体.com, and published in Streaming媒体 Xtra newsletter.

Also at 流媒体 West, we'll be announcing the winner of the first 流媒体 生产商 Challenge. 我们 提供一个 brand new Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital SLR Camera to the filmmaker who can deliver the most exciting, mind-blowing 15-second promo for the 流媒体 brand. The 流媒体 生产商 Challenge is sponsored by Limelight Networks and Teradek.

所以开始吧! To refresh your memory, here are the categories for this year's Readers' Choice Awards:

Cellular Bonding Solution

Closed Captioning Solution

Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Service

Content Delivery Network

Desktop Video Editing Software

DRM/Access Control Solution

Education Video Platform

编码软件

Enterprise Video Platform

场编码器

Hardware Encoder (On-Demand)

Hardware Encoder (Live)

Live Video Platform

媒体 & Entertainment Video Platform

媒体服务器

MPEG-DASH产品

Multi-Language Solution

Portable 在线直播 Appliance

报告 & 分析平台

搜索 & 发现平台

Transparent Video Caching Solution

视频广告 Management Platform

视频广告 Network

Video Switcher/Mixer

Webcasting/Presentation Solution (On-Prem)

Webcasting/Presentation Solution (Cloud)