Comments on: Industry Moves: NBCU's Feher Leaves To Head Conviva http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/ The economics of digital content Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mrs. Alexandria http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73659 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:35:11 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73659 Are you kidding me? Mr. Darren Feher is a successul buisness man with a wonderful family.Everyone at NBCU should be dissapointed Mr. Feher left. And for everyone else who is “bashing” Mr. Feher left and right I am dissapointed in you. He was a faithful collegue.I am happy he left NBCU.

]]> By: kryan http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73658 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:45:06 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73658 From what I understand, Conviva is not going up against the likes of CDNs like Akamai and Limelight. They offer a SaaS for big media companies who use CDNs like Akamai and Limelight and who need in-depth tracking and analytics to get a better ROI from these services. I believe Conviva initially announced they were going to be a CDN back in 2008, but then realized they had the technology for a SaaS that would prove more valuable to content owners.

]]> By: wrong http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73657 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:50:37 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73657 @nobody

Conviva is not a P2P provider.

]]> By: nofaith http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73656 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:33:28 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73656 @nobody:

That is what I understood from a few years ago; flat out a LOT OF PEOPLE do this specifically Move Networks & Swarmcast to name a few. If their entire model is screwing over the CDNs in terms of their delivery economics then they will find themselves hard pressed to win any accounts.

]]> By: nobody http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73655 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:34:53 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73655 @nofaith,

Without getting into details, it uses others CDN to distribute its content. A thin client is downloaded onto your computer so that the central server can tell other clients where they can get bits of their data (ala P2P). Real time data is also reported since everything is talking centrally.. As far as business model, how you would purchase products, price point, etc I have no clue.

I assume the value you gain is simply the cost savings of bandwidth.. But because of the nature of P2P obviously your content can't be guaranteed unlike Akamai??

]]> By: nobody http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73654 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:26:55 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73654 Conviva was a sorry company before and now its an even worst place. 3 CEOs, lack of customers, and they canned most of the engineers. Now this. Sounds to me like a last ditch effort to save whatever money they have left. I think they layed off more then half the company including some vp's last year.

]]> By: Brandon Cahill http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73653 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:08:34 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73653 Hopefully Conviva has a good backup plan, They could not have found a worst person to run their company.

They should also ensure they have enough real estate to house his ego.

The most self centered person I have ever met.

]]> By: NoFaith http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73652 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:26:33 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73652 @Stacy:

I get the marketing message, how does any of that help them compete or increase value? It's still unclear what try actually do. If they go up against Akamai, watch out.

]]> By: Staci D. Kramer http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73651 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:07:19 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73651 @NoFaith Conviva offers a "real-time media control platform" that is supposed to help "simply management and delivery of media online." It's also supposed to allow real-time stats during live streaming, help with scaling, etc.

]]> By: NoFaith http://paidcontent.org/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73650 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:15:20 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/09/03/419-industry-moves-nbcus-feher-leaves-to-head-conviva/#comment-73650 Would someone please tell us what the hell Conviva does??? Anyone????

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