Creative. These companies can help you produce your video, whether that’s in a studio or at an event.

Encode. These hardware and software companies can help you transform your broadcast or source content into something usable for web delivery.

Transcode. These hardware, software, and cloud-based companies can take your encoded content and re-encode it for delivery to other devices, such as personal computers, mobile phones, and Internet-connected devices.

Content management system. These cloud-based software companies can help you manage the content, menus, documents, and images that make up your website.

Online video platform. These software companies provide services that help you manage, publish, and host your online videos or video channels.

Hosting. These companies provide dedicated, shared, or virtualized hosting in private data centers around the globe.

Security and DRM. These companies provide hardware or software services to help protect your video assets from unauthorized viewing or distribution.

Live events. These companies can provide soup-to-nuts services to help capture, encode, and deliver your live event.

Player development. These professional service companies can help you build a custom player for your unique video needs, incorporating specialized code or user experiences.

Web development. These professional service companies can build your website.

Mobile. These software and service companies provide tools or other means to help get your content to the wide variety of mobile handsets and devices.

Audio ad insertion. These companies can help you monetize your audio content via ad insertion through specialized technologies or relationships with ad networks and advertisers.

Video ad insertion. These companies can help you monetize your video content via ad insertion through specialized technologies or relationships with ad networks and advertisers.

Ad network. These companies represent brands and other advertisers, giving you the opportunity to monetize your own content.

Payment processing. These software and service companies can provide you everything you need to process payments, accept credit cards, and comply with industry and federal regulations for electronic transaction processing.

Subscription and pay-per-view. These software and service companies can help you monetize your content through subscription or pay-per-view systems.

Performance. These software companies can help you understand how well your videos are performing by providing metrics about such things as download times and buffering.

Reporting. These software and service companies can ingest your CDN and player logs to provide holistic views about how your content is performing.

Experience. These software companies can provide code or specialized players that enable you to gain insight into your customer’s experience with your video content.