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Beamr Imaging Ltd. helps streaming platforms, studios and other media businesses reduce the cost of storing and delivering video and images. Its technology evaluates visual quality and adjusts video encoding to reduce data size while preserving perceived quality. Customers include Netflix, Paramount, Snapfish and TAG. Most revenue comes from software licenses, especially fixed-term licenses, with related maintenance and technical support. Most customers pay annually in advance. Revenue remains concentrated among a small customer base, with two customers supplying a substantial share.
Beamr is shifting its focus from its established high-end media products toward Beamr Cloud and GPU-accelerated compression for autonomous-vehicle video data. Certain newer offerings are moving to usage-based charges for processing. In the cloud service, Beamr pays for computing capacity to compress customers’ files; the economics depend on the storage and bandwidth savings it can deliver relative to processing costs. Its NVIDIA collaboration supports this technology but has no signed agreement.
The autonomous-vehicle offering is still in early commercialization, rather than an established major revenue source. Winning business requires customers to evaluate and integrate the compression into their systems. Deployment is also subject to applicable safety, privacy and security requirements, which can restrict how the solution is used.
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Beamr’s results hinge on winning and keeping compression-software customers; Harmonic and Ateme offer closer video-encoding alternatives than most companies in this list.
Beamr’s GPU-based compression depends on NVIDIA’s chips and video-encoding hardware, NVENC, whose integration the companies jointly developed. Watch whether cloud providers adopt NVIDIA drivers and firmware with Beamr’s capabilities: slow adoption can hold back Beamr’s customer growth, and the collaboration has no signed agreement.
Netflix pays to license Beamr’s compression software for its streaming-video business, making it a customer rather than a rival. Netflix earns most of its revenue from members’ monthly fees; its continued use of Beamr’s software is the relevant signal for Beamr, not membership revenue alone.
Amazon competes with Beamr for media companies’ video-processing business through AWS Elemental, which supplies video encoding and optimization services. For Beamr holders, the relevant competition is in those services, rather than Amazon’s retail business.
Kaltura and Beamr both serve demand for cloud-based streaming video: streaming businesses license Beamr’s compression tools, while media companies and telecom providers buy Kaltura’s software to ingest, manage and deliver video. Kaltura’s Media and Telecom results offer the closer read on that shared customer demand than its enterprise and education business.
NetFlix Inc earningsNFLX
Netflix’s report shows whether this customer of Beamr’s compression software still has reason to invest in its streaming business.
Look at Netflix’s member revenue and what it says about investment in streaming. A stronger business supports the case that this customer has reason to keep operating and investing in video, but does not establish that Netflix renewed its Beamr license. A weaker business or tighter cost focus could make Netflix more cautious about related spending; this report alone cannot show whether its Beamr contract changed.
Amazon.Com Inc earningsAMZN
If Amazon’s report shows stronger demand for AWS Elemental’s encoding and optimization services, media customers are buying more of the services that compete with Beamr’s.
Look at AWS performance and any discussion of demand for video-encoding or media services. Stronger demand for AWS Elemental’s offerings would mean media customers are spending more on video processing, while Beamr faces stronger direct competition. Weaker demand could ease that competitive pressure, but could also reflect tighter customer spending; it would not show that Beamr won the business.
Kaltura, Inc. earningsKLTR
Kaltura’s Media and Telecom results show demand for cloud video software among media companies and telecom providers, buyers who may also license Beamr’s compression tools.
Look at revenue and demand in Kaltura’s Media and Telecom business, not its enterprise and education business. Strength there would show media companies and telecom providers are still buying software to manage and deliver video, supporting the adjacent market Beamr serves. Weakness would point to tighter budgets or fewer projects among those buyers and raise concern about Beamr’s market; it would not be a measure of Beamr’s own sales.
Nvidia Corp earningsNVDA
NVIDIA’s report can show whether adoption of the GPUs and NVENC hardware Beamr relies on is continuing, but cannot prove cloud providers have adopted Beamr’s capabilities.
Look at NVIDIA’s data-center business and what it says about GPU demand and support for video-encoding technology. Strong demand with continued relevant support would make it easier for customers to evaluate and deploy Beamr’s solution built on NVIDIA hardware; weaker demand or unclear support could slow adoption. NVIDIA’s results do not prove cloud providers have adopted Beamr’s capabilities, and the companies have no signed collaboration agreement, so continuation is not assured.
