Nominate Now for the 2026 Innovation Awards
We are now accepting nominations for the 2026 Streaming Media European Innovation Awards, the only awards programme in the industry where the end users of products and services get to vote for their favourites.
Make sure your product or service is nominated for the awards by completing and submitting the form available here before 26 June. You may submit the same product or service in multiple categories, but you may not submit more than one nomination from the same company in a single category. Though only end users are permitted to vote, vendors may submit nominations for their products and services to be considered.
CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR NOMINATIONS
Streaming Media’s editorial team evaluates all submissions to make sure they fit their categories, and final nominees are announced on 16 July when online voting opens. Voting will remain open until 31 July. The top 3 finalists in each category will be announced on our website in early September, and the winners will be announced in the Autumn issue of Streaming Media's European magazine, on StreamingMediaGlobal.com, and published in StreamingMedia Europe Xtra newsletter.
Note that the U.S. edition of Streaming Media also runs Readers' Choice Awards; this European competiton will accept nominations only from companies with headquarters in Europe and the UK. Email europerca@infotoday.com if you have any questions.
You can take a look at last year's winners here.
Here are the 2026 categories:
- Streaming Innovation of the Year
- AI Captioning/Localisation/Translation Solution
- AI Workflow Solution
- Cloud Workflow Solution
- Content Delivery & Distribution
- Content Protection/Authenticity Solution
- Encoding/Transcoding Solution
- Live Streaming Platform/Service
- Monetisation/Subscription Solution
- OTT Video Platform/Service
- QoS/QoE Platform/Service
- Realtime Streaming Solution
- Video Advertising Solution
Note: These awards are limited to companies with headquarters in Europe and the UK. Our US edition magazine runs the Readers' Choice Awards for companies in the rest of the world in autumn.
2026 Streaming Media's European Innovation Awards Nomination Form
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