AI & Analytics > Spotlights

This category encompasses companies specializing in the development and deployment of AI for discovery and content creation and also for advanced video analytics solutions tailored for the streaming industry. These providers empower content owners, broadcasters, OTT platforms, and online video services to extract actionable insights from their video streams in real-time or near real-time.

Key focus areas include: Audience Measurement & Engagement, Content Optimization & Personalization, Quality of Experience (QoE) Monitoring, Content Protection & Security, Advertising & Monetization, Metadata Enrichment & Content Discovery, Real-time Event Detection & Alerting, and Compliance & Regulatory Monitoring.

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Five seconds used to count as low latency. Now only 16% agree.

Igor Oreper discusses the latest findings of Bitmovin's Video Developer Report

After the CDN, You're Blind: Closing the Last-Mile Gap in Streaming Quality

AVEQ's Werner Robitza discusses why the last mile is streaming's biggest monitoring blind spot — and how a single, standards-based quality score lets engineering and management argue from the same number.

Unlock Smarter Media Automation With Contextual Content Analysis

Bruno Munger explains how Telestream's EDC Media Analyzer allows organizations to move from manual inspection toward context-aware orchestration by turning structural and editorial understanding into machine-readable data.

Your Competitors Are Serving the Same Ads for 30% Less. The Difference Is the Server.

Ad tech teams optimise the code. They rarely question the server. Here is what that costs—and what one platform changed to fix it.

What a Resilient Content Chain Looks Like in IP Video Monitoring

A resilient content chain needs two things: the ability to detect problems fast, and enough operational context to act on them.

European Innovation in Streaming: Infrastructure Sovereignty as a Competitive Edge

Interview with Alexander Leschinsky, CEO and Co-Founder, G&L Systemhaus

Interview with Alexander Leschinsky, CEO and Co-Founder, G&L Systemhaus

Alexander Leschinsky talks content provenance, authenticity, C2PA and and DRM

Interview with Antonio G. Corrado, CEO, MainStreaming

An interview with MainStreaming CEO and co-founder Antonio Corrado who explains why he is on a mission to redefine how on-demand and live video streaming are delivered at scale with high-performance KPIs.

Ultra-Low-Latency Streaming: HESP vs webRTC

HESP Alliance's Pieter-Jan Speelmans compares HESP and webRTC, evaluating latency, scalability, device support, network resilience, content protection, viewer quality of experience, timed metadata support, and backwards compatibility.

Interview with Stef van der Ziel, Founder, Jet-Stream

Stef van der Ziel discusses workflow orchestration, ultra-high-quality and edge use cases, and the importance of data protection

Live Streaming Interactive Content: A New Landscape

Despite the comeback of in-person events in 2022, online audience engagement remains important with a steady demand for interactivity in live streaming.

HESP: Sub-second Latency, Fast Channel Change and Improved ABR over Standard CDNs

Interview with Andrey Okunev, CEO Medialooks

Interview with Oliver Lietz, CEO & Founder, Nanocosmos