The team at Streaming Media has heard anecdotes of FTP and its security-focused sibling, SFTP, continuing to be used to transfer files between media companies. In fact, we've heard of a number of media companies continuing to ship hard drives from location to location via courier or international package carriers. Yes, sneakernet is still alive in 2022!

Streaming Media is researching how FTP, cloud storage-and-sync platforms, and other file-based transfer technologies are used in the broadcast and streaming industry, and we’ve launched the File-Transfer Workflow Challenges survey, which will be available to take—and potentially win a prize—until March 1, 2022. We encourage your participation to help inform the industry about the balance between free-but-ancient solutions like FTP versus paid and potentially more reliable file-transfer solutions that have emerged over the past decade.

Please complete this survey by the extended date of March 1, and supply your email address to be entered to win a DJI Mini SE drone. Only one completed survey per person will be accepted.

 If you've already taken the survey, thank you!

By participating in this survey and providing your email address, you will also receive an advance copy of the report generated from the survey responses. Data captured in this survey will only be used in aggregate form, and individual respondents will not be identified by name or organization. Your email address will only be used for the purpose of delivering the advance copy of the report, for the drawing, and notification of the winner.

Please note: in this survey, we use the terms streaming, streaming media, and over-the-top (OTT) interchangeably.