A New Authoritative Glossary for the Streaming Industry
Let's All Get On the Same Page
Solving challenges in any industry requires an agreed-upon lexicon. If there isn’t agreement on the terms and meanings which define the problems, it makes it significantly more challenging to solve them. Click on a term to load it below the list.
Filter by term category. Just select the categories to display the relevant terms. Multiple categories supported.
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3G
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4G
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5G
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Ad ID
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ALID (MDDF)
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Bad Actor
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Bandwidth
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Broadcast
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Business metadata
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Cache
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Cache efficiency
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Cache hit
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Cache miss
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Catch’up TV
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CDN Configuration
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CMAF chunk
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CNAME
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Conditional Access System
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Content
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Content Delivery Network
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Content ID (MDDF)
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Content Management System
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Content operation
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Content versioning
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Cosmo
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Data schema
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Delay line
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Descriptive metadata
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Digital Rights Management
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Domain Name Server
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Dynamic Ad Insertion
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Edge Server
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EDNS
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EIDR
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Encryption
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Entity Relationship Model
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Extensible Markup Language
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Forensic Watermarking
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Geo-blocking
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Geo-content replacement
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GOP
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High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
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House ID
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HTTP redirect
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IGMP
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Ingest
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Internet Protocol Television
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internet Speech Audio Codec
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ISAN
