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.
Digital Catapult is urging the UK government to integrate datacentre planning with national energy infrastructure to address a 50GW connection queue. The report suggests that treating compute workloads, such as media processing, as flexible assets could optimize grid usage and support national AI capacity targets.
The data center market is undergoing a significant shift driven by $350 billion in AI infrastructure spending, with increased focus on onsite natural gas power generation and modular edge facilities. These infrastructure developments are critical for streaming professionals managing AI-driven workloads and content delivery networks facing power and interconnection constraints.
iWedia has optimized its TeleOS software stack for Reliance Jio, achieving a reduction in Android TV RAM requirements of up to 1GB. This software-based optimization aims to maintain premium user experiences on legacy hardware, potentially extending the operational lifespan of existing connected TV device fleets.
RayNeo has announced two new lines of AR smart glasses: the iO series, which focuses on AI-driven productivity and translation, and the GT series, designed for high-fidelity spatial media viewing. The GT Max model supports Dolby Vision HDR and features audio tuned by Bang & Olufsen, targeting users seeking portable, cinema-grade streaming experiences.
Sebastian Barros outlines ten foundational requirements for telecom network automation, arguing that operators must prioritize data unification and intent-based orchestration over isolated AI tools. The article highlights operational improvements in service velocity and root-cause analysis observed in deployments by Blue Planet and Lumen.
NVIDIA has introduced DSX MaxLPS, a suite of software and thermal management technologies designed to optimize power allocation in AI data centers. The system uses dynamic power management and 45°C liquid cooling to increase GPU density and performance per watt for training and inference workloads on NVIDIA Vera Rubin and GB200 systems.
Netflix is migrating its internal Flink autoscaling infrastructure to the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler to manage over 30,000 jobs. The transition enables more granular scaling for complex stateful DAGs and has resulted in a 58% reduction in compute expenditures for specific telemetry workloads.
Netflix has overhauled its internal Conductor orchestration engine, replacing legacy components like Dynomite with Cassandra and Timestone to support 30,000 tasks per workflow. The update includes a new type-safe Java SDK and managed serverless task integrations to improve scalability and developer experience for its media production and advertising pipelines.
YouTube has expanded dual-format live streaming support to third-party encoders, allowing creators to broadcast horizontal and vertical feeds simultaneously using RTMP/RTMPS protocols. The vertical feed currently lacks parity with horizontal streams regarding ad mid-rolls, clickable links, and 4K resolution, creating distinct monetization and engagement profiles for each format.
ABC Commercial has launched four FAST channels on LG Smart TVs, expanding the Australian broadcaster’s free streaming distribution. The rollout adds another connected-TV outlet for ABC content, with the channels now available through LG’s smart TV platform.
Former Twitter employee Evan Henshaw-Plath has launched Divine, a decentralized short-form video app built on the Nostr protocol. The platform features a six-second loop format, restores two million original Vine videos, and implements ProofMode verification to restrict AI-generated content.
Amazon Web Services has expanded the regional availability of its Graviton4-powered EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances. These instances provide high-speed local NVMe storage and improved performance for compute-intensive streaming workloads such as video encoding and real-time analytics.
Sky has launched 'Your Multiview,' a new feature for Sky Glass, Sky Stream, and Sky Q platforms that enables users to watch up to four live sports events simultaneously. The update also introduces a new Sports Hub for real-time stats and highlights, supporting the broadcaster's coverage of over 1,500 matches this season.
Gracenote's latest Data Hub report indicates the global FAST channel market grew to 2,170 channels by July 2026, a 17.5% year-over-year increase. The data highlights a significant surge in news and sports programming, alongside a trend where FAST catalogs contain a higher percentage of recent content compared to major SVOD services.
Amazon has expanded the availability of its Alexa+ AI assistant to all US Fire TV users at no additional cost, removing the previous $19.99 monthly fee for the television interface. The move aims to increase adoption of conversational search and smart home control features across Amazon's 300 million device install base.
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service is reaching a $10 billion annual run rate, supported by major enterprise customers including ByteDance, Adobe, and Perplexity. The growth reflects a shift toward integrating generative AI models into enterprise workflows and cloud infrastructure.
LiveKit has introduced a PII redaction feature for its Agent Observability service, utilizing LLMs to identify and redact sensitive information from voice conversation transcripts and audio. The feature supports 41 categories of PII and is available at no additional cost to customers using the latest LiveKit Agents SDK.
Amazon Redshift has introduced long-term system table retention by enabling automatic data replication to Amazon S3 Tables in Apache Iceberg format. This update allows engineers to bypass custom ETL pipelines for cross-warehouse observability and performance analysis.
Amazon EKS has introduced automated certificate authority (CA) rotation to help manage cluster security and prevent expiration for AWS-managed components. While AWS automates the lifecycle for managed nodes, customers remain responsible for updating worker nodes and external clients to maintain secure API connections.
TV manufacturers and streaming platform operators are increasingly monetizing home screen real estate through programmatic advertising and featured promotions. This shift targets viewers during the discovery phase, as data indicates consumers spend significant time navigating interfaces before launching specific streaming applications.
Data center operators are increasingly adopting recycled wastewater to manage the high water consumption required for cooling AI infrastructure. While companies like Meta are investing in local water treatment infrastructure, the industry faces ongoing challenges regarding the scalability of these solutions in rural areas and public opposition to data center water usage.
Broadpeak has launched Multiview as a Service on its broadpeak.io SaaS platform, allowing streaming providers to deploy user-curated multi-feed experiences for live sports. The managed service utilizes a usage-based model to reduce infrastructure requirements and CAPEX for operators.
The streaming industry is facing significant user friction due to fragmented interfaces and inconsistent navigation across various platforms. Aggregators like Apple TV and Google TV are increasingly adopting unified discovery layers to simplify content access and improve the user experience.
Dotscreen is partnering with Dailymotion Pro to launch a templated OTT app solution designed to accelerate deployment across fragmented Smart TV operating systems. The company is also highlighting its recent implementation of server-guided ad insertion (SGAI) for RTBF and its strategy for supporting emerging platforms like Titan OS and Vidaa.
Fox has agreed to acquire Roku for $22 billion, signaling a strategic shift toward FAST as a primary revenue driver. The acquisition highlights the growing demand for integrated streaming infrastructure, including server-side ad insertion and automated workflows, to support the rapid expansion of FAST viewership.
Triveni Digital is showcasing a new suite of signaling, monitoring, and redundancy tools at SET Expo 2026 to support the transition of Brazilian broadcasters to the TV 3.0 standard. The company is collaborating with MediaKind and Mirakulo to provide integrated media processing and dynamic ad insertion capabilities for next-generation over-the-air services.
YouTube has updated its connected TV app to include episodic show formatting for creator playlists, dedicated podcast tabs, and new navigation tools for Shorts. The update also introduces account locking features and improved QR sign-in flows to enhance user engagement and security on TV platforms.
Astropad has released Workbench 1.3, which features a rebuilt video streaming system for Apple silicon that delivers 30% faster performance. The update also introduces new security and reliability features, including a privacy curtain for headless Mac mini servers and a Watchdog monitoring tool for unattended remote sessions.
YouTube has updated its connected TV app to include episodic show formatting for creator playlists, dedicated podcast tabs, and new account security features like four-digit locking. These updates aim to improve navigation and engagement for the platform's one billion daily hours of CTV viewership.
Alepo provides a technical overview of why sub-millisecond AAA latency is critical for 5G network performance, particularly for URLLC services. The article outlines architectural patterns for achieving these latency targets and advises architects on how to specify and measure AAA performance in RFPs.
Adobe has launched a new Health Checks feature for its Experience Platform that automatically monitors schemas, identities, and datasets for configuration errors. The tool provides daily automated scans and uses AI-driven guidance to help administrators troubleshoot and prevent downstream failures in audience activation.
Blue Lucy has introduced the Connected Value Audit, a methodology designed to quantify the operational value of media workflow orchestration. The tool uses a five-dimension index to measure human effort and process complexity, aiming to provide technology managers with data-driven insights into the ROI of their existing infrastructure.
Viaplay Group has upgraded its Allente pay-TV platform across the Nordic region using the 3SS 3Ready platform and SDMC AI-enabled set-top boxes. The update integrates linear TV, on-demand content, and third-party streaming apps into a unified interface with personalized experience modes.
Harmonic has detailed its 'Five Layers of Defense' framework, a vendor-agnostic broadband intelligence fabric designed to optimize network operations across fiber, DOCSIS, Wi-Fi, and streaming. The system aims to shift operations from reactive to proactive, claiming to reduce truck rolls by up to 40% and technical support calls by 20% through automated fault isolation and performance tuning.
Cerberus Tech has updated its Livelink platform to include atomic orchestration, a feature designed to automate the provisioning, monitoring, and security of live IP video workflows. The update aims to reduce manual configuration tasks for broadcast engineers by treating all workflow resources as a single operational entity.
Pivot3 has released Acuity 10.8, an update to its hyper-converged infrastructure platform designed for high-volume video surveillance environments. The release introduces an automated Upgrade Manager and native health analytics to help maintain system uptime and prevent dropped frames during maintenance.
Meta has entered an agreement with TerraPower to utilize eight Natrium nuclear reactor units to provide up to 4 GW of power for its AI data center infrastructure. The reactor design features an integrated molten salt energy storage system, allowing for flexible power output to meet the high and variable energy demands of AI workloads.
Warner Bros. Discovery has secured the host broadcasting rights for the 2026 US Open, planning to stream every match on HBO Max across 45 European markets. The deployment will feature interactive viewer tools including Multiview and AI-curated Key Moments alongside traditional linear coverage on Eurosport.
This article outlines best practices for containerizing AI training and inference workloads using Kubernetes to optimize GPU utilization and reduce compute costs. It details architectural patterns such as separating node pools by workload type and utilizing tools like KServe and the NVIDIA Container Toolkit to improve operational efficiency and service reliability.
AWS has published a technical guide on implementing user authorization context propagation for AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The architecture leverages Amazon Cognito, IAM session tags, and RFC 8693 token exchange to enforce least-privilege access across internal and external data sources.
Former Lyft and Twitter engineers have launched bitdrift AI, a mobile observability platform that utilizes autonomous agents to process unsampled, real-time telemetry. The platform aims to reduce mean time to repair for mobile applications by enabling programmatic issue resolution without requiring new app releases.
Manychat engineers conducted a performance benchmark of nine Snowflake compute configurations to optimize a billion-row customer-facing analytics dashboard. The study highlights that query performance is primarily driven by data pruning and cache locality rather than warehouse size, with Snowflake Interactive tables providing the most consistent low-latency results.
Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free for all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., removing the previous $19.99 monthly subscription fee. The update integrates conversational search and AI-driven recommendations directly into the Fire TV OS, aligning with similar AI feature rollouts by competitors like Google and Roku.
The Premier League is launching a direct-to-consumer streaming pilot called Premier League + in Singapore while transitioning its media production operations in-house to Premier League Studios. The league is also navigating new squad-cost ratio regulations and managing record-breaking domestic and international broadcast rights deals.
Thunder Compute has raised $13 million in Series A funding to scale its GPU virtualization software designed to improve hardware utilization rates in data centers. The technology aims to abstract GPU resources from specific workloads, allowing cloud providers and enterprises to optimize infrastructure efficiency for tasks like cloud encoding.
Supermicro, IBM, and Kioxia are collaborating on infrastructure designs to optimize AI inference performance by addressing bottlenecks in storage latency and network bandwidth. The partners demonstrated that using IBM Storage Scale as a shared KV cache with high-performance Kioxia SSDs significantly improves efficiency and time-to-first-token responses under real-world network contention.
This article provides a high-level architectural overview of enterprise OTT platforms, detailing the essential components including video CMS, cloud transcoding, Multi-DRM, and Multi-CDN strategies. It outlines the technical requirements for global scalability and compares various monetization models and development approaches for streaming services.
Boosteroid has scaled its cloud gaming infrastructure to 30MW of capacity across 29 data centers, utilizing customized AMD desktop-grade GPUs to maintain sub-20ms latency. The company is currently navigating hardware lead times and power costs while planning to expand its service offerings to include AI cloud capabilities.
A market report from DataM Intelligence projects the global live video streaming platform market to reach $795.7 billion by 2033, driven by a 27.6% CAGR. The report highlights a shift toward cloud-native, AI-integrated infrastructure and automated workflows to manage low-latency delivery and operational scalability.
Relativity Networks has raised $22 million in a funding round and secured a $40 million order from a hyperscaler for its ChronoCore hollow-core fiber technology. The company claims this technology reduces propagation latency by 47% compared to standard fiber, aiming to support geographically distributed AI data centers.
