Wowza
B2B video streaming infrastructure software for live and on-demand delivery.
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Company facts
- Official name
- Wowza Media Systems, LLC
- Entity type
- COMPANY
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- 7171 W Alaska Dr, Lakewood, Colorado 80226, USA
- Company size
- 50–200
- Market role
- B2B SaaS Provider
- Official website
- wowza.com
What Wowza does
Wowza sells video infrastructure software to organisations that need to build, run, and monetise streaming services. The business combines recurring software revenue from managed cloud streaming and streaming server products with usage-based consumption tied to streaming scale, plus professional services and paid support for complex or mission-critical deployments. It creates value by reducing the operational burden of building video delivery stacks while offering customers a choice between fully managed, self-managed, and hybrid deployment models.
Category differentiation
Wowza is not a consumer video streaming service like Netflix or Vimeo’s consumer-facing offerings. It is primarily a B2B video infrastructure and streaming software provider used by organisations building their own streaming experiences.
Strategic context
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Wowza is a private B2B video software company that provides infrastructure for live and on-demand streaming. Its core products include a managed cloud streaming platform, deployable streaming server software, and hybrid cloud streaming tools that let organisations ingest, transcode, deliver, secure, analyse, and monetise video across web, app, and CTV environments. It also sells implementation services and premium support for customers running business-critical streaming operations. The company makes money primarily from software subscriptions, usage-based streaming fees, licensing, and paid services. Its direct customers are businesses rather than consumers, especially media publishers, broadcasters, enterprises, developers, system integrators, and technical product teams that need reliable streaming workflows without building the full infrastructure stack internally.
Company news briefing
Briefing updated:
Wowza has expanded its enterprise video capabilities with the launch of its Video Intelligence Framework, highlighted by a live subsea video deployment with Oceaneering. Furthermore, the company integrated NVIDIA's Synthetic Video Detector to enable real-time detection of AI-generated content across deployments, alongside releasing Streaming Engine 4.11 to update WebRTC for production-scale, cloud-native streaming.
Business model & monetisation
Wowza monetises through a mix of recurring SaaS subscriptions, usage-based cloud streaming charges, software licensing, enterprise contracts, paid implementation services, and premium support plans. Wowza Video follows a consumption model linked to streaming usage and features, while Wowza Streaming Engine is sold via subscription and licence-based pricing. Additional revenue comes from professional services and SLA-style support packages for customers with production-grade uptime and integration requirements.
- Managed streaming platform
- SaaS subscription and usage-based consumption
- Streaming server software
- Subscription and licence fees
- Professional services
- Service fee / project-based services
- Premium support plans
- Recurring support subscription
- Enterprise custom contracts
- Negotiated software and support agreements
Products & capabilities
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Recent recorded signals
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How Oceaneering Runs Wowza Video Intelligence Framework on Live Subsea Video
Recorded impact score: 4/5
New blog post by Mike Vitale (Aug 28, 2026) highlighting a customer deployment of Wowza's new Video Intelligence Framework, indicating a product launch or major update.
Wowza Deploys NVIDIA Synthetic Video Detector
Advertising Quality / Brand Safety · Recorded impact score: 3/5
Wowza announced it will distribute NVIDIA’s Synthetic Video Detector (SVD) through the Wowza Video Intelligence Framework (VIF), enabling real-time detection of AI-generated video on live streams across on‑premises, edge, hybrid, or air‑gapped deployments. NVIDIA SVD is delivered as an NVIDIA NIM microservice and is TensorRT‑optimized to run on existing NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Wowza cites its footprint of more than 35,000 deployments across 170+ countries and positions the integration for sectors sensitive to synthetic media risk—including media/broadcast, government, public safety, financial services, and critical infrastructure. The article references prior research and incidents (Surfshark, Gartner, and a 2026 fabricated-crime case) to underscore the growing threat of synthetic video and notes SVD’s academic/competition recognition (2025 SAFE Challenge at ICCV; NeurIPS 2025 publication).
- Wowza announced plans to distribute NVIDIA’s Synthetic Video Detector (SVD) through the Wowza Video Intelligence Framework (VIF).
- Wowza’s media server powers more than 35,000 video deployments across 170+ countries.
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Questions about Wowza
What is Wowza?
Wowza is a B2B video software company that provides managed and self-managed infrastructure for live and on-demand streaming.
Who uses Wowza?
Its customers include broadcasters, media publishers, enterprises, developers, system integrators, and technical teams building streaming products or workflows.
How does Wowza make money?
It earns revenue from software subscriptions, usage-based streaming fees, licensing, professional services, and premium support plans.
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