Platform strategy now spans four business models at once: OTT, SVOD, AVOD, and FAST. This category covers recommendation engines, content discovery, CTV app experience, player SDKs, and the subscriber engagement data that tells you whether a feature actually worked.
Samsung TV Plus launched its first original scripted series, "Unlikely Romances," in partnership with Dhar Mann Studios, marking a strategic shift for the FAST platform to include creator-led original content. This move diversifies its offerings beyond catalog and licensed content to increase user engagement. The series is available across multiple countries on Samsung Television Network and the dedicated Dhar Mann TV channel.
YouTube held its first European Creator Premieres event in Berlin, showcasing five exclusive German creator shows to brand decision-makers and agency partners. This initiative positions creator content as a prime-time alternative to traditional television, aiming to foster brand integration and advertising opportunities for the creators. YouTube highlighted data on its Smart TV viewership in Germany to emphasize its competitive standing.
The FIFA World Cup 2026 announced its broadcast and streaming partners across over 120 countries, including major platforms like Zee5 (India), BBC/ITV (UK), Fox Sports/Telemundo (USA). This provides insight into key content rights acquisitions and distribution strategies for a major global live event involving numerous streaming platforms.
Vbrick offers a data sheet detailing its solution for enabling SCORM 2004 packaging of video content for LMS, LXP, and enterprise platforms like ServiceNow. This allows training teams to publish and track video learning without duplicate uploads, providing centralized governance and data for compliant learning across systems.
Vbrick has introduced a new Video Retention Service for its EVP Cloud environment. This service automates video lifecycle management and governance by enforcing retention, archiving, and expiration policies at scale. The goal is to ensure compliance, reduce risk, and eliminate manual cleanup of video content.
Vbrick has integrated its video content platform with ServiceNow's AI Search functionality, allowing intelligent video results to appear within ServiceNow's pages, portals, knowledge articles, and workflows. This integration aims to empower employees and customers with self-service video content to reduce case volume and accelerate incident resolution. The solution centralizes video management within Vbrick for seamless integration across ServiceNow.
Peacock will stream Telemundo's FIFA World Cup 2026 Spanish-language coverage in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos with Dolby AC-4, marking a streaming first for immersive live sports experiences. This collaboration between Dolby Laboratories and NBCUniversal also represents the first commercial deployment of Dolby AC-4 by a video streamer, highlighting significant advancements in audio codec efficiency.
The Video Streaming Software Market is projected to reach $26.13 billion by 2031, growing at a 13.6% CAGR, driven by OTT growth and demand for live streaming. AI video workflow tools are seeing the fastest growth, alongside advancements in low-latency and ultra-low latency streaming technologies. North America is expected to lead the market, with mobile/handheld devices predicted to have the largest market share in consumption mode.
The global video streaming software market is projected to reach USD 26.13 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 13.6% from USD 13.80 billion in 2026. This growth is driven by increasing demand for scalable and secure platforms, the rise of live streaming, mobile consumption, and the integration of AI-powered features. North America is expected to maintain its leadership in this market.
The article highlights Tennis TV as the official live streaming service for the ATP Tour, detailing its availability across various platforms including iOS, Android, Apple TV, and Roku. Tennis TV provides live streaming and video on demand of ATP tennis matches, showcasing the ATP Tour's direct-to-consumer streaming technology strategy for distributing its content.
YOM has launched its Beta Mainnet, enabling decentralized cloud gaming and 3D rendering. The DePIN protocol aims to significantly reduce streaming costs and latency by utilizing a distributed edge computing mesh composed of crowdsourced idle consumer-grade hardware and localized enterprise edge nodes. YOM is also partnering with a Tier-1 telecom operator to expand its infrastructure globally, targeting deployment across 19,000 base stations.
NBCUniversal and Dolby collaborated for over a year to bring Telemundo's World Cup coverage to Peacock in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. This technical integration aims to enhance the immersive viewing experience for streaming audiences, leveraging advanced audio and visual technologies.
Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote is expected to focus on updates to Siri and Apple Intelligence, potentially also hinting at future hardware. CNET's Bridget Carey detailed expectations, specifically mentioning updates related to Apple TV, smart home controls, and Siri's integration with wearable technology and the Camera app. While primarily consumer-focused, the discussion touches on the underlying technology that powers Apple's ecosystem, including its streaming platform.
Peacock announced it will stream Telemundo's Spanish-language coverage of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. This initiative provides subscribers with a premium, immersive viewing experience for live sports, requiring compatible devices for access. Telemundo Deportes highlighted the commitment to setting a new standard for live sports consumption through these advanced audio and video formats.
FIFA has moved its FIFA+ streaming platform to DAZN, creating a new "Global Home of Football" with 8,500 annual live events. This partnership aims to leverage DAZN's global distribution capabilities to broaden reach and optimize content delivery for FIFA's digital offering. DAZN will host FIFA+ content, making matches, iconic moments, and original content accessible for free.
Peacock will broadcast the World Cup in Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos, utilizing the AC-4 streaming format for the first time. This initiative aims to provide a higher-quality live sports streaming experience for its subscribers.
Mediacorp will broadcast 28 FIFA World Cup 2026 matches free-to-air in Singapore on Channel 5 and mewatch, significantly increasing its free coverage from the 2022 tournament. All 104 matches will be available live and on demand through mewatch and pay-TV partners Singtel and StarHub, offering a hybrid distribution model. This shows how rights holders are leveraging their own streaming platforms and partnerships for premium sports content, which affects how platform vendors might package services.
Fifa is expanding its digital distribution strategy for the 2026 World Cup by partnering with DAZN and Netflix. DAZN will now operate the Fifa+ streaming service, integrating 8,500 live events annually and providing access to its tech stack and audience data. Separately, Netflix has launched an exclusive licensed video game, "Fifa World Cup: Launch Edition," and will host World Cup-related programming, further establishing Fifa's multi-partner approach to content and gaming after its split with EA Sports.
Ateme, BCE, and Scaleway have formed a strategic partnership to launch a cloud-based media supply chain, fully designed and operated in Europe. This collaboration aims to provide a sovereign European option for media companies, covering content ingest, processing, encoding, packaging, distribution, and monetization. The joint offering combines Ateme's video technology, BCE's operational expertise, and Scaleway's cloud infrastructure.
FIFA and DAZN have announced the exclusive launch of FIFA+ on DAZN, integrating FIFA's content portfolio into the DAZN sports platform. This collaboration, building on their work at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, aims to centralize global football content, offering approximately 8,500 live events annually, plus archival and original programming in selected territories.
YoloLiv outlines its YoloCast live streaming analytics suite, integrated across its platform plans, encompassing both audience metrics and technical diagnostics. The platform highlights the importance of data ownership for businesses over social media alternatives to improve ROI and content quality. YoloCast offers real-time diagnostics and post-event reports including viewer count, retention, geo-analytics, bitrate, and frame rate.
Kibo121 CEO Barbara Lange argues that green production practices alone are insufficient for media sustainability, advocating for a holistic industry-wide approach. The article highlights that modern content workflows, including post-production, encoding, storage, and distribution, carry significant energy demands often overlooked. It promotes the Media Climate Accord (MCA) framework, which considers sustainability across green production, efficient digital factories, sustainable distribution, and conscientious consumption, impacting engineering decisions and infrastructure strategy.
Apple is actively recruiting for a wide range of roles, including hardware and software engineers, as well as a Creative Director for Apple TV marketing. These job postings indicate Apple's continued investment not only in its consumer-facing streaming service (Apple TV+) but also in the underlying technology and hardware that powers its ecosystem. Key roles include Software Engineer for Analytics & Data Engineering for ASE (Apple Services Engineering) which powers services like Apple TV+, as well as various hardware engineering roles impacting devices like Apple TV.
Agora published a detailed guide on integrating its Voice SDK for Unity to enable cross-platform voice chat in multiplayer mobile games. The tutorial uses the Unity Tanks!!! reference project to demonstrate the implementation steps for both iOS and Android platforms. This showcases Agora's technology for real-time communication within gaming applications.
Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication for user identity data, enabling synchronization to a secondary user pool in a standby region. This feature enhances the resilience of authentication systems by allowing failover during regional service disruptions, ensuring continuous user access and authentication. It is available as an add-on for Essentials or Plus feature tiers in various AWS Regions.
Belgacom has upgraded its 24/7 promotional channel, ZOOM, by merging four previous channels into one. The new channel, built using wTVision's ChannelMaker, features automatic playlist imports, graphic secondary event assignment, and full integration with Belgacom's interactive Set-Top Box platform. This enables direct rental access for users from trailers via the red button.
Agora's case study highlights how ARUtility uses its real-time voice, video, and messaging platform, along with Unity SDKs, to create an augmented reality app for locating underground utilities. This collaboration enhances safety and efficiency for industrial workers by providing 3D visualizations of buried infrastructure on job sites. ARUtility chose Agora for its robust, scalable, low-latency network and ease of Unity integration.
Agora offers real-time audio, video, messaging, and chat solutions for social applications, enabling features like live streaming, co-listening, and online karaoke. The platform enhances these experiences with multimodal AI capabilities, including pre-integrated LLMs, real-time speech-to-text, and text-to-speech. Agora positions itself as a building block provider for interactive social engagement across various verticals, including entertainment, education, and healthcare.
wTVision partnered with Imagina US to launch SOI TV, a Social TV service for Hispanic households in the US, utilizing wTVision's ChannelMaker and Studio CG solutions. This new service enables real-time viewer interaction and graphics insertion, showcasing wTVision as a key technology provider. The platform leverages various broadcast hardware and software to achieve its interactive capabilities.
Agora offers real-time communication tools for virtual classrooms, including video, audio, messaging, and collaboration features. The company also extends its solutions to metaverse, virtual care, and entertainment platforms, emphasizing scalable interactive audio and video streaming. Additionally, the platform highlights capabilities for building multimodal AI experiences, integrating with LLMs, and real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech for AI agents.
Agora has launched an Interactive Whiteboard SDK designed for custom-branded education and business collaboration applications. The new SDK features real-time tools, multimedia playback, annotation labels, and file management, alongside compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA standards. The SDK integrates with Agora's broader real-time communication platform, including voice and video calling, and leverages AI for noise suppression and speech-to-text.
Agora Analytics is a product designed to monitor, measure, and improve the quality of experience (QoE) for Agora's real-time voice, video, and live streaming SDKs. It provides insights into usage, quality, and performance, featuring real-time monitoring, alert notifications, data insights, Datadog integration, and a RESTful API. The platform aims to help developers quickly identify and diagnose issues to deliver an optimal streaming experience.
Agora has launched a new 3D spatial audio API designed to provide immersive, high-fidelity, and low-latency audio for real-time experiences. This API integrates with Agora’s existing video, voice, and streaming products, supporting various platforms including mobile and desktop. The technology aims to enhance user engagement by simulating natural listening environments for use cases like livecasting, meetings, and music streaming.
wTVision implemented the new global brand image for beIN Sports' US channels following Al Jazeera Sport network's transition to beIN Sports. This effort utilized wTVision's ChannelMaker and Studio CG technologies for real-time graphics and automation workflows. The implementation standardized branding across beIN Sports' worldwide channels.
wTVision's FootballStats CG, a graphics playout and data collection solution, has expanded into the Bolivian football league, marking its first solution for a Spanish-speaking Latin American league. The premium software, which includes official league graphics designed by wTVision, is managed by the client's operators trained by wTVision staff. This solution also includes SportStats Center for real-time data storage and a web service for viewers to access updated league statistics.
wTVision discusses the integration of interactive features into live election and referendum broadcasts, acknowledging the challenges of mixing formal and informal data without confusing audiences. The company suggests integrating social media and using AI to analyze political trends to enhance engagement while maintaining journalistic integrity. This approach aims to change the status quo of electoral coverage without sacrificing seriousness.
wTVision has partnered with the World Surf League (WSL) to provide real-time graphics for the Big Waves World Tour using its SurfStats CG solution, extending a previous collaboration. For 2015, wTVision is scheduled to cover 45 surf events with WSL. Operators use SurfStats CG to import official data and manage graphics for the events.
Agora is offering a free e-book to assist developers and strategists in enabling in-game chat to enhance player connection and engagement. This resource highlights Agora's real-time engagement solutions for interactive streaming and gaming.
FIFA+ has launched exclusively on DAZN, creating a unified global destination for FIFA-related live events, archive content, and original programming. This move expands on a previous partnership and aims to deliver approximately 8,500 live football events annually in selected territories. The collaboration integrates FIFA+'s extensive content library directly into DAZN's platform to broaden reach and fan engagement.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and European Athletics have extended their media rights partnership through 2031, guaranteeing free-to-air coverage of major athletics events across Europe. This agreement ensures continued distribution through EBU members' networks and its Eurovision Sport streaming platform. The EBU and its production partner, Actua Sport, will also serve as host broadcaster for many events.
Executives from Banijay Rights, Rakuten TV, Samsung TV Plus, and UKTV will speak at Content London to discuss the growth and opportunities in the Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV (FAST) sector. They will address content strategy, distribution, channel development, monetization, and platform partnerships within the FAST ecosystem, which is projected to reach US$12.2 billion by 2026. The discussions aim to provide insights into how content owners, platforms, and broadcasters are adapting their FAST strategies.
Cloudinary has published a comprehensive guide outlining various options for migrating media assets to its platform. The guide details methods such as lazy migration with auto-upload, direct migration via CLI, Media Library, or custom scripts, and important considerations for pre-migration, customization, and post-migration optimization. This documentation helps streaming professionals efficiently manage and transfer large media libraries to Cloudinary's cloud-based media management service.
AzurePlayer has announced updates to its player software, which aim to enhance video playback capabilities. These improvements are intended to optimize content delivery and user experience specifically for professionals in the streaming industry.
Amazon Data Services Inc. is seeking certification from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for a new data center campus in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The project, a resubmittal of a prior application, involves permanent and temporary impacts to wetlands and streams for the construction of the data center, utility infrastructure, and roads. A public hearing is scheduled to discuss the water quality impacts of the proposed work.
DVEO and StreamVX have formed a strategic partnership to simplify the deployment of next-generation video delivery platforms for broadcasters and video service providers. This collaboration integrates DVEO's hardware, including encoders and playout servers, with StreamVX's software solutions, encompassing transcoding, OTT delivery, DRM, and dynamic ad insertion. The combined offering aims to provide a unified technology stack for the entire video workflow, reducing complexity and accelerating deployment times for use cases like turnkey OTT headends and FAST channel monetisation.
Researchers from Wuhan University have developed a new security framework for end-to-end real-time group communication protocols, aiming to address vulnerabilities in services like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The framework provides security guarantees with state-compromise resilience against malicious servers, formalizing a continuous group key distribution protocol and introducing a related security model. This work includes a novel multi-recipient authenticated key encapsulation mechanism as a building block for their generic construction.
Google has launched Search profiles for eligible U.S. publishers and creators, enabling them to unify their content from various platforms into a dedicated Google Search presence. This feature aims to enhance content discoverability and allow creators to manage their digital footprint by showcasing articles, videos, and social media posts on a shareable profile. The rollout is currently limited to the United States but plans to expand and introduce more functionalities in the future.
IBM Video Streaming has integrated with Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Zoom, allowing users to live stream meetings to IBM's platform for expanded audience reach and automated archiving. The platform also details its 4K streaming capabilities, including recommended encoding settings and adaptive bitrate streaming for optimal delivery. AI-driven captioning and search are now available for archived content.
Synamedia highlights how its Gravity platform creates open ecosystems for internet service providers (ISPs), enabling them to manage diverse customer premise equipment (CPE) fleets and introduce new devices faster. The platform's agentless, standards-based design (TR-069, TR-369, OpenSync) helps reduce operational overhead and accelerate deployment for streaming professionals by streamlining device management and improving network efficiency for content delivery. Key partnerships with OEMs and resellers further aid in modernization and efficient scaling for broadband providers.
Local TV station groups like Fox, CBS, and Gray Media are reorienting their duopoly operations from distinct stations to unified local media brands, leveraging local news and sports content across multiple platforms. This strategic shift aims to create a single local identity for viewers in a post-channel world, optimizing the second station for content distribution rather than a separate brand. The approach allows operators to maintain scale while adapting to viewer consumption migrating toward streaming apps and digital platforms.
