Will Waters, Director of Product Marketing for NewTek explains the MediaDS, launched jointly by NewTek and Wowza on January 5th, 2017. The MediaDS is a revolutionary real-time media encoding and live streaming video delivery platform—the first integrated production system establishing a direct link between the producers who create the content and the viewers that consume it. MediaDS is a fully integrated hardware and software solution merging NewTek’s industry-leading live production technology with powerful Wowza streaming software, democratizing video encoding and streaming for producers of live and linear programming, introducing a myriad of new opportunities for distribution, expansion, and content monetization.