Cloud and remote production workflows have changed the game for live streaming, enabling significant CapEx and OpEx reductions, making it possible to achieve the same results with smaller and more eff...

Streaming runs at a scale and speed where errors often appear just as the ad reaches a viewer, making the 'last mile' the most vulnerable stage for both compliance and revenue. Understanding and addre...

The most important AI systems in sport may end up being the ones fans never see. Not the tools ge

The knock against streaming for live sport has always been higher latency than broadcast, and the agony of hearing your cable-watching neighbor cheer a goal before it happens on your screen. One could argue that live-streamed sport isn't really live in this scenario. But given the costs and challenges of lowering latency, is it really worth the investment, or should sport streamers be prioritising other engineering challenges or elements of the fan experience? MTech Sport's Matt Stagg, DAZN's James Pearce, BT Group's Ian Parr, and TATA Communications' Corey Smith discuss the current business case for lowering sport streaming latency at Streaming Media Connect 2026.

UK pay TV service Sky's announcement of a 'world-first' grouping of streamers under one belt could fire the starting gun on further super bundles - though this particular union does not embrace either...

The patent pool offers three billing options and aggressive discounts for platforms signing by July 5, with rates ranging from 1.6-2.0% of revenue or $0.12-$0.15 per user per month.

Olympic-scale streaming delivery is often framed as a capacity challenge, but in practice it is a systems-engineering problem driven by complexity as much as volume. In this context, 'good enough' str...

The increasing likelihood of a Netflix-Warner Bros. alliance inevitably leads one to speculation of how the resulting juggernaut might impact global and regional SVOD markets where superbundles alread...

Is the Olympic Committee's host broadcaster warming to the notion of transitioning to virtual or REMI production for this winter's fast-approaching Milan Cortina games? Speaking as part of a roundtabl...

In this year's Streaming Media Industry Directory you'll find premium vendors offering products and services to serve your needs for Online Video.

Vevo's Natasha Potashnik, TVIQ's Sara Sinclair, NPAW's Bruno Giner, and Reality Software's Nadine Krefetz discuss the key data points publishers demand to understand their audiences better and where a...

What the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal means for sport if it goes through. And why it is not simple.

Streaming Media Connect 2025 registration includes access to our series of free online webinars taking place December 9 - 11, 2025.

Contributing Editor Jan Ozer recently spoke with Alex Davies, senior analyst at Rethink Technology Research, about Rethink's new report, 'The Media and Entertainment Transcoding Workload and Device Ro...

News of Paramount's successful bid for the Champions League and the weeks of rumours that preceded it have set the industry buzzing. It feels like a natural next step. Fans are global. The game is glo...

Live streaming is rapidly emerging as the primary destination for major sport events, but not without significant challenges. For sport streamers, three imperatives are emerging as critical priorities...

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has confirmed it's in early-stage talks about a possible sale of its broadcasting business to Comcast, which already owns pay-TV broadcaster Sky in the UK.

When it comes to algorithm-based sport coverage, from capture to cuts to commentary by synthetic voice, much of the tech required to remove humans from the equation already exists. AI can recognise go...

Millions of people are abandoning linear for streaming, with live sport causing the biggest shift of all. As audiences embrace streaming, advertisers follow. Here are the six major trends that will de...