The Streaming Media 100 is back—welcome once again to Streaming Media’s annual list that foregrounds the industry’s most innovative and influential technology suppliers, service providers, platforms, and media and content companies, as acclaimed by our editorial team. Some are large and established industry standard-bearers, while others are comparably small and relatively new arrivals that are just beginning to make a splash. All set themselves apart from the crowd with their innovative approach and their contribution to the expansion and maturation of the streaming media universe.
In past years, we’ve focused exclusively on technology vendors, rather than content companies. This list has traditionally been entirely about recognizing the companies that enable video services to deliver great content to consumers reliably at the highest possible quality on every device and hopefully to make money from it.
Back in 2018—a pre-pandemic previous lifetime for most of this industry—we narrowed the list to 50 worthy honorees drawn entirely from the ranks of companies supplying products and services on the technological side of the aisle. But when we speak of the streaming media universe (it’s not quite a multiverse yet for most of us, but it’s getting there), content companies inevitably come into play. Is there really a streaming universe without Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Apple, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, or the dozens or hundreds of next-tier, independent, and niche platform and channel suppliers that flood that universe with the content that all of the tech companies combine to ingest and transcode and monitor and secure and support and deliver at innumerable stages of the journey from source to destination? The picture is, arguably, far from complete without including the providers of the content that fills our screens.
So we’ve expanded the list back to 100 to include two dozen or so companies from the content side of the equation (recognizing the best of the best from the elephants in the room almost down to the roaring mice that are giving them a good scare) and to make extra room for a number of great tech innovators that got squeezed out when the list was scaled down to 50 (including, of course, quite a few innovative up-and-corners that hadn’t appeared on the scene or shown up on our radar the last time we published a triple-digit list). A lot of more-than-worthy companies have failed to make the list in recent years as we trimmed it to a lean and mean 50, and this year’s re-expansion gives us a chance to recognize a number of deserving honorees that might have just missed the cut in recent lists.
Once again, this year, we largely excluded the video production segment of the market (with the exception of a few companies whose technology innovations transcend the product-specific and wield their influence in the broader streaming scene), the one covered by Streaming Media Producer, with an eye to giving that genre its own list. Look for the 2024 Streaming Producer 25 to make its triumphant return next spring.
Also, the Streaming Media 100 focuses exclusively on companies with headquarters in North America. In March of this year, we published a similar list, the Streaming Media Europe 51 (go2sm.com/sme51), focusing on companies with headquarters in Europe. Of course, some companies have headquarters in both the U.S. and abroad; in those cases, we ask the company (or they forthrightly tell us) which list they want to be considered for.
So how do we arrive at the list? We invite members of the magazine’s editorial inner circle to look at a master list of all of the vendors in the online video marketplace and assess their importance in the industry. We pool and average out the results, and the top 100 make the list.
Without further ado, here’s the 2023 Streaming Media 100. Congratulations to all.
Agora
Chief Officer: Tony Zhao, Co-Founder and CEO
AiBUY
Chief Officer: Randy Bapst, CEO
AI-Media
Chief Officer: Tony Abrahams, Co-Founder, Director, and CEO
Akamai
Chief Officer: Frank Thomson Leighton, Co-Founder and CEO
Amagi
Chief Officer: Baskar Subramanian, Co-Founder & CEO
Amazon
Chief Officer: Andy Jassy, CEO
AMD
Chief Officer: Lisa Su, CEO
Apple
Chief Officer: Tim Cook, CEO
Applicaster
Chief Officer: Jonathan Laor, CEO and Co-Founder
Ateliere
Chief Officer: Dan Goman, Founder and CEO
Backlight
Chief Officer: Ben Kaplan, CEO
Bitcentral
Chief Officer: Steve Petilli, CEO
Bitmovin
Chief Officer: Stefan Lederer, Co-Founder and CEO
Brightcove
Chief Officer: Marc DeBevoise, CEO
BuyDRM
Chief Officer: Christopher Levy, CEO
Castr
Chief Officer: Govinda Sunil, CEO
CBS-Paramount
Chief Officer: Tom Ryan, CEO
Comcast Technology Solutions
Chief Officer: Ken Klaer, President
comcasttechnologysolutions.com
Conviva
Chief Officer: Keith Zubchevich, President and CEO
Crackle
Chief Officer: Philippe Guelton, Chief Revenue Officer
Datazoom
Chief Officer: Diane Strutner, CEO and Founder
Digital Element
Chief Officer: Rob Friedman, Co-Founder, Vice Chairman, and EVP
Disney Streaming
Chief Officer: Robert Iger, CEO
Dolby Laboratories
Chief Officer: Kevin Yeaman, President and CEO
Dropp
Chief Officer: Sushil Prabhu. Chairman and CEO
EdgeNext
Chief Officer: Robert Sha, CEO
Edgio
Chief Officer: Bob Lyons, CEO
Eluvio
Chief Officer: Michelle Munson, CEO and Founder
Endeavor Streaming
Chief Officer: Fred Santarpia, President
Evergent
Chief Officer: Vijay Sajja, Founder and CEO
EZDRM
Chief Officer: Olga Kornienko, Co-Founder and COO
FASTchannels.tv
Chief Officer: Russell Foy, CEO
Fastly
Chief Officer: Todd Nightingale, CEO
Float Left
Chief Officer: Tom Schaeffer, CEO
FreeWheel
Chief Officer: Katy Loria, Chief Revenue Officer, U.S.
Frequency
Chief Officer: Blair Harrison, CEO
FuboTV
Chief Officer: David Gandler, Co-Founder and CEO
Furtree Systems
Chief Officer: Yury Udovichenko, Co-Founder
Google
Chief Officer: Sundar Pichai, CEO
Gracenote—A Nielsen Company
Haivision
Chief Officer: Miroslav Wicha, President, CEO, and Chairman
Harmonic
Chief Officer: Patrick Harshman, President and CEO
IBM Weather Company
Chief Officer: Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO
id3as
Chief Officer: Adrian Roe, CEO
Interra Systems
Chief Officer: Sunil Jain, President and CEO
JW Player
Chief Officer: Dave Otten, Co-Founder and CEO
Kaltura
Chief Officer: Ron Yekutiel, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO
LG Ad Solutions
Chief Officer: Michael Hudes, President and CEO
Lightcast
Chief Officer: Chris Kibarian, CEO
LiveU
Chief Officer: Shmulik Wasserman, Co-Founder and CEO
Lumen Technologies
Chief Officer: Kate Johnson, President and CEO
LTN Global
Chief Officer: Yousef Javadi, President, CEO, and Co-Founder
Magnite
Chief Officer: Michael Barrett, President and CEO
MediaKind
Chief Officer: Allen Broome, CEO
MediaMelon
Chief Officer: Kumar Subramanian, CEO
Meta
Chief Officer: Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Chairman, and CEO
Microsoft
Chief Officer: Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO
Muvi
Chief Officer: Anshuman Das, Founder and CEO
Mux
Chief Officer: Jon Dahl, Co-Founder and CEO
MuxIP
Chief Officer: Thomas H. Link, Founder and CEO
NBCUniversal
Chief Officer: Frances Berwick, Chairman
Netflix
Chief Officer: Greg Peters, CEO
NETINT
Chief Officer: Joshua Zhu, CEO
PallyCon
Chief Officer: James Ahn, CEO
Panopto
Chief Officer: Jason Beem, CEO
Penthera
Chief Officer: Michael Willner, CEO and Chairman
Phenix Real Time Solutions
Chief Officer: Roy Reichbach, CEO
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Philo
Chief Officer: Andrew McCollum, CEO
Plex
Chief Officer: Keith Valory, CEO
Quickplay
Chief Officer: André Christensen, CEO
Qwilt
Chief Officer: Alon Maor, CEO
Recurly
Chief Officer: Dan Burkhart, CEO and Co-Founder
Revry
Chief Officer: Damian Pelliccione, Co-Founder and CEO
Roku
Chief Officer: Anthony Wood, Founder and CEO
Samba TV
Chief Officer: Ashwin Navin, Co-Founder and CEO
Scripps Networks
Chief Officer: Adam Symson, President and CEO
Signiant
Chief Officer: Margaret Craig, CEO
Simpli.fi
Chief Officer: Frost Prioleau, Co-Founder and CEO
Sling TV
Chief Officer: W. Erik Carlson, President and CEO
SSIMWAVE, an IMAX Company
Chief Officer: Abdul Rehman, CEO and Co-Founder
STARZ
Chief Officer: Jeffrey A. Hirsch, President and CEO
SymphonyAI
Chief Officer: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO
TAG Video Systems
Chief Officer: Tomer Schechter, CEO
Telestream
Chief Officer: Rhonda Bassett-Spiers, CEO
TikTok
Chief Officer: Shou Zi Chew, CEO
Trusted Media Brands (TMB)
Chief Officer: Bonnie Kintzer, President and CEO
Tubi
Chief Officer: Anjali Sud, CEO
Tulix
Chief Officer: George Bokuchava, CEO
Videolinq
Chief Officer: Eyal Menin, CEO
ViewLift
Chief Officer: Ted Leonsis, Founder and Chairman
Vimeo
Chief Officer: Adam Gross, Interim CEO
Vizrt
Chief Officer: Michael Hallén, CEO
Warner Bros. Discovery
Chief Officer: David Zaslav, CEO and President
Whip Media
Chief Officer: Carol Hanley, CEO
Wowza Media Systems
Chief Officer: David Stubenvoll, CEO
Wurl
Chief Officer: Ron Gutman, CEO
Xumo
Chief Officer: Colin Petrie-Norris, CEO
Zenlayer
Chief Officer: Joe Zhu, Founder and CEO
Zixi
Chief Officer: Gordon Brooks, Executive Chairman and CEO
Zoom
Chief Officer: Eric Yuan, CEO
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