Brazil has officially launched its TV 3.0 (DTV+) standard, which integrates 4K VVC video encoding, immersive MPEG-H audio, and internet-based interactivity for free-to-air broadcasting. The rollout for this next-generation terrestrial television system is planned in phases, with national coverage targeted by 2030, necessitating new hardware converters for existing television sets.

In the 2026 State of Video Encoding Survey report, you'll discover where encoding professionals are placing their bets and where they're stalling. You'll learn how the GPU monoculture is cracking, why cost and quality are no longer a tradeoff, which codec has a 231% planned implementation growth rate, which organizational types are most likely to adopt key technologies, why TCO is a blind spot for 30% of the market, and more.

Fastly has joined Experian's Agent Trust ecosystem, allowing businesses to verify autonomous AI agents and authorize transactions at the network edge. This integration enables organizations to apply identity-based access and pricing policies to automated traffic before it reaches origin servers.

Cloudflare has open-sourced pvcli, a command-line tool designed to simplify the debugging of privacy-preserving protocols like Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) and MASQUE. The tool automates binary HTTP encoding and encryption steps that are typically error-prone when handled manually during incident response.

Akamai Accelerated Compute instances, powered by NETINT Quadra Video Processing Units (VPUs), provide specialized, high-density cloud transcoding for AV1, HEVC, and H.264 up to 8Kp60. These instances offer 15–30x better encoding performance than traditional CPUs, with pricing starting at $0.42/hr for 32 live HD channels.

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) has announced that the 2028 Los Angeles Games will utilize a fully virtualized, cloud-based production infrastructure. The strategy includes AI-assisted workflows and advanced camera technologies to deliver 4,000 hours of content to global rights-holders.

iWedia has launched Teatro Factory, a comprehensive platform designed to assist pay TV and telecom operators in managing the lifecycle of digital TV devices. The solution integrates software delivery frameworks, automated validation, and device telemetry to streamline operations across fragmented Android TV and smart TV ecosystems.

BlendVision AI watches your content so your team doesn't have to. It auto-tags scenes by topic and motion, clips highlights, generates shorts for every social ratio, transcribes in multiple languages, and even dubs audio, all in real time. The result: your content team shifts from manual post-production to creative strategy. Semantic search makes your entire media library instantly queryable, and AI-powered recommendations keep audiences engaged longer. Production costs go down. Content output goes up.

NVIDIA has formed the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), a 40-company coalition aimed at developing open-source defensive AI tools following an autonomous cyberattack on Hugging Face. The initiative seeks to provide security teams with self-hostable tools for forensic analysis, addressing the limitation where closed commercial AI guardrails often block incident response efforts.

Microsoft has announced Project Perception, an agentic AI cybersecurity system designed to secure programmatic ad-supply chains and automated bidding algorithms. The system utilizes a closed-loop architecture featuring red, blue, and green specialized agents to proactively identify threats and execute defensive actions at machine speed.

Live production is hitting an AI bottleneck: too many pixels, too many proxies, too much delay. This piece shows how VC-6 and smart multicast networks can feed models only what they need, cutting bandwidth, latency, and cost while turning every live frame into real-time intelligence for broadcasters and streaming platforms.

TAG Video Systems has announced new platform updates for IBC2026, including containerized deployment of its MCM and MCS components via Docker and enhanced support for the MXL standard. The release also introduces expanded quality control features and performance optimizations for high-density, IP-based production environments.

CBC/Radio-Canada is transitioning its production facilities to a software-defined Universal Production Platform based on the EBU's Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) architecture. The initiative focuses on decoupling hardware from production areas using COTS servers and IP routing to support flexible, remote, and cloud-augmented production workflows.

With the NETINT Quadra Mini Server, you can bypass expensive cloud transcoding services and cellular uplinks from the stadium. This compact powerhouse sips power while encoding 20 live HD AV1, HEVC, and H.264 streams, or 5 live 4K streams. Drawing just 138 watts, the Quadra Mini Server is perfect for live sports streaming services looking to reduce latency and cut OPEX.

NBCUniversal and Google have entered a multiyear agreement to bundle Peacock Premium with YouTube Premium in the U.S. beginning in 2027. The deal also includes expanded distribution for international services, a renewal of YouTube TV carriage agreements, and a deepened collaboration on advertising technology stack integration.

TF1 reported an 18.6% increase in digital advertising revenue to €109 million for H1 2026, driven by growth in its TF1+ platform. The broadcaster attributed success to its partnership with Netflix and distribution integration within operator set-top boxes, which helped offset declines in the linear television advertising market.

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This industry analysis examines the misalignment between television's cumulative nature and the performance-based metrics increasingly applied to CTV. It argues that industry players are aggregating ad-tech, identity, and measurement tools to build proprietary gardens while relying on flawed data for audience targeting.

WBNX Cleveland-Akron has transitioned its broadcast signal to the ATSC 3.0 standard using signal-signing certificates provided by Silicondust USA and infrastructure design by Heartland Video Systems. The deployment utilizes a cloud-based OCSP system for certificate validation, aiming to maintain signal reliability without requiring A3SA contracts.

The UK's Communications and Digital Committee has launched an inquiry into the effectiveness of the Online Safety Act 2023 and regulator Ofcom's enforcement efforts. The committee is seeking evidence on whether current legislation is sufficient to address evolving online harms and hold tech platforms accountable.

This report compares royalty calculations between Access Advance's VDP Pool and Avanci Video across eight streaming service templates, including Netflix. Avanci's royalties run 1.9× to 30.3× higher than Access Advance's with current discounts applied. Key drivers include Avanci's inclusion of ad revenue in its royalty base, higher flat rates than Access Advance's tiered structure, and the absence of a fee cap. The Access Advance–sponsored study was independently researched and calculated by Jan Ozer, with full transparency for verification.