Post by tioamazon on Jun 29, 2020 22:07:04 GMT
AbemaTV (アベマティーヴィー) is a Japanese video streaming website owned by the entertainment company, AbemaTV, Inc. (Kabushiki gaisha) that provides over-the-top media services to customers in Japan. The website primarily acts as an online television network, with multiple channels including news, sports, entertainment, anime and more. Users can watch most channels for free with the option to become a premium member, allowing them to view past programs on demand. AbemaTV is owned by AbemaTV, Inc., which itself is 55.2% owned by CyberAgent and 36.8% owned by TV Asahi, with the remaining ownership by various other companies, most of them in the media and entertainment industry.
HISTORY
TV Asahi CEO's Hiro Hayakawa and the CEO of CyberAgent Susumu Fujita is, and hit it off with Shuseki 2015 established the Fujita on April 1 as a representative. It calls "all free Internet TV stations" and distributes many specialized channels in parallel like CS digital broadcasting . It is free to use and operated by advertising revenue. When the joint venture was established, a flat-rate billing was planned.
The opening of the station was April 11, 2016, but some channels were pre-delivered from March 1. TV Asahi participated in the production of various original programs led by "Abema News", and since April 2016 the "Please! Ranking" of the station has been linked to the distribution of AbemaTV. In April 2017, the video-on-demand service "Abema Video" was opened.
For the infrastructure, Google's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is used for the system itself, Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services (AWS) -GCP/private cloud for the system that links advertisements, etc.- Akamai for video data of programs distributed by GCP -Uses Akamai CDN from Technologies. As of 2017, AbemaTV mainly uses GCP and FRESH! uses AWS. In terms of costs, as of May 2017, "the infrastructure cost is about tens of millions of yen a month, and the ratio to the total cost is only about 3%," it says that the service scale is low.
CyberAgent have traditionally used "Ameba" as their brand name for their services, but "AmebaTV" is being used on another site by a Canadian company, which is different from "Ameba" "I want to convey that it is an extension of "Ameba" despite its uniqueness." In order to change it from "Abema" to "AbemaTV". The name "To be honest, we regret about half" "The three-piece set easy to make a mistake, it is difficult to pronounce hard-to-remember," said Fujita wrote in a blog. After that, he said, "I adopted it because it becomes Abema when I read it upside down".
In April 2020, the service brand was changed to "ABEMA" due to the diversification of services such as on-demand distribution as well as TV-type streaming in addition to the 4th anniversary of the opening of the service
HISTORY
TV Asahi CEO's Hiro Hayakawa and the CEO of CyberAgent Susumu Fujita is, and hit it off with Shuseki 2015 established the Fujita on April 1 as a representative. It calls "all free Internet TV stations" and distributes many specialized channels in parallel like CS digital broadcasting . It is free to use and operated by advertising revenue. When the joint venture was established, a flat-rate billing was planned.
The opening of the station was April 11, 2016, but some channels were pre-delivered from March 1. TV Asahi participated in the production of various original programs led by "Abema News", and since April 2016 the "Please! Ranking" of the station has been linked to the distribution of AbemaTV. In April 2017, the video-on-demand service "Abema Video" was opened.
For the infrastructure, Google's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is used for the system itself, Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services (AWS) -GCP/private cloud for the system that links advertisements, etc.- Akamai for video data of programs distributed by GCP -Uses Akamai CDN from Technologies. As of 2017, AbemaTV mainly uses GCP and FRESH! uses AWS. In terms of costs, as of May 2017, "the infrastructure cost is about tens of millions of yen a month, and the ratio to the total cost is only about 3%," it says that the service scale is low.
CyberAgent have traditionally used "Ameba" as their brand name for their services, but "AmebaTV" is being used on another site by a Canadian company, which is different from "Ameba" "I want to convey that it is an extension of "Ameba" despite its uniqueness." In order to change it from "Abema" to "AbemaTV". The name "To be honest, we regret about half" "The three-piece set easy to make a mistake, it is difficult to pronounce hard-to-remember," said Fujita wrote in a blog. After that, he said, "I adopted it because it becomes Abema when I read it upside down".
In April 2020, the service brand was changed to "ABEMA" due to the diversification of services such as on-demand distribution as well as TV-type streaming in addition to the 4th anniversary of the opening of the service