Adaptive Media Player 2 overview

Adaptive Media Player 2 (AMP2), powered by Bitmovin, delivers multiplatform video SDKs with comprehensive analytics built directly into each player, providing unified insights across platforms your users are on.

AMP2 offers core playback functionality with advanced enterprise features, including analytics, content protection, advertising integration, and specialized streaming technologies. This streamlines the deployment by removing third-party dependencies and provides real-time performance data for faster decisions and better user experience.

Benefits

AMP2 offers these benefits:

  • Wider platform reach. Enhanced support for smart TVs, game consoles, set-top boxes, and major TV brands, including Roku®, Samsung®, LG®, Vizio®, and Hisense®, which expands your audience reach beyond traditional web and mobile platforms.
  • Real-time insights. Bitmovin Analytics provides deep visibility into quality of experience, viewer engagement, and advertising performance eliminating third party integration complexity while providing actionable data across every user session.
  • New features. Expanded feature set including multiview streaming, server-guided ad insertion, and advanced advertising workflows that drive monetization opportunities.
  • Streamlined development. Improved documentation, implementation guides, and new integrations with React Native and Flutter to accelerate deployment timelines while reducing development overhead.
  • Robust testing and support. Stream Lab automated testing on real-world devices and managed lifecycle support. AMP2 handles video player dependency upgrades, OS compatibility, and device support, freeing your team to focus on core business initiatives.
  • Support and guidance from video streaming experts. Combined expertise from ​Akamai​ and Bitmovin video streaming specialists to optimize viewer experiences and ensure successful implementations across your entire platform strategy.

About Bitmovin

Bitmovin is an Emmy Award-winning leader in the live streaming and video encoding space. The company was founded in 2013 by the co-creators of the MPEG-DASH video-streaming standard. It provides cloud-based video infrastructure for global media companies and service providers, helping them deliver high-quality video experiences to viewers across the world. Bitmovin’s solutions include video encoding, player, and analytics products that optimize video delivery and playback across all devices and platforms.

Bitmovin and ​Akamai​

​Akamai​ is partnering with Bitmovin to offer a new and improved version of our Adaptive Media Player product: Adaptive Media Player 2 Powered by Bitmovin.

AMP2 builds on a long-standing partnership between Bitmovin and ​Akamai​, combining Bitmovin’s best-in-class Player, Analytics, and Stream Lab technologies with ​Akamai​'s world-class content delivery and cloud compute infrastructure. The result is a powerful, future-ready media player with seamless migration support for existing Adaptive Media Player customers.

When paired with ​Akamai​'s distributed cloud, AMP2 supports Common Media Client Data (CMCD), unlocking advanced performance optimizations like prefetching and enabling log correlation between player and CDN. This enhances issue resolution and helps identify performance bottlenecks faster. Data from AMP2 is collected using ​Akamai​ Cloud and surfaced through Bitmovin’s Analytics for powerful, actionable insights.
Together, Bitmovin and ​Akamai​ are redefining what’s possible in video delivery, offering you a seamlessly integrated solution that combines deep expertise, global scale, and exceptional performance.