The 2025 Streaming Media European Innovation Awards Winners
The polls have closed, and the results are in! After an energetic voting period, we’re excited to reveal the winners of the 2025 Streaming Media European Innovation Awards. Now in its 17th year, this year’s programme attracted more than 1,200 participants who cast 8,000-plus votes votes across 13 distinct categories.
As always, defining the right set of categories to represent the diverse landscape of the European streaming industry is a thoughtful process. Each year, we re-evaluate our categories to best reflect the evolving market, then invite nominations from the community. It’s always interesting—and often surprising—to see how the industry and the professionals who use these products and services fill out the slate, revealing emerging trends and shifts in the solutions and services on offer.
Eligibility this year, as in previous editions, was limited to companies headquartered in Europe or the UK. (The Readers’ Choice Awards for US-based and international companies will follow in the September/October issue of Streaming Media.) We asked companies with headquarters in disparate, multi-continental locales to commit to just one awards programme. 2025 Innovation Awards entrants will not be eligible for the 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards.
To ensure a fair process, we carefully verified all votes, eliminating entries from questionable email addresses or obvious attempts at ballot-stuffing. In each category, we’ve recognized one winner and two runners-up (listed alphabetically). Congratulations to all the outstanding 2025 Innovation Award winners, top vote-getters and runners-up alike!
Winner—Streaming Innovation of the Year
NAGRAVISION – OpenTV ENTera
Runners-Up
- Norigin Media - Spatial Navigation
- Techex – tx Darwin
Winner—AI Captioning/Translation/Localisation Solution
Contentflow – Live-Translation
Runners-Up
- Clevercast – AI Multilingual Live Streaming
- Dubformer – AI Dubbing
Winner—AI Workflow Solution
Cires21 – MediaCopilot
Runners-Up
- AccepTV – Video Quality Analyzer
- Gcore – Everywhere Inference
Winner—Cloud Workflow Solution
castLabs – Content Platform
Runners-Up
- Cerberus Tech – Livelink
- Humans Not Robots – HNR to ZERO
Winner—Content Delivery & Distribution
Ceeblue BV – Media Fabric
Runners-Up
- AgileTV – CDN Director
- Synamedia – Quortex Switch
Winner—Content Protection & Content Authenticity Solution
Synamedia – ContentArmor
Runners-Up
- Friend MTS – Smarter anti-piracy monitoring
- United Cloud – IP-based Household Validation
Winner—Encoding/Transcoding Solution
Flumotion – Professional Streaming Platform
Runners-Up
- Appear – X5
- Jet-Stream – MaelStrom
Winner—Live Streaming Platform/Service
United Cloud – Flux Video Processing and Distribution Platform
Runners-Up
- Clevercast – AI Live Streaming
- Synamedia – Senza
Winner—Monetisation, Subscription & Bundling Solution
Tiun – Connect & Pay
Runners-Up
- Cleeng – Subscriber Retention Management Dashboard
- NAGRAVISION – OpenTV ENTera
Winner—OTT Video Platform/Service
Videodock – VD OTT
Runners-Up
- Accedo – One
- MwareTV – AI-Powered App Builder
Winner—QoS/QoE Platform/Service
AccepTV – Video Quality Monitor
Runners-Up
- Accedo – Insights
- Witbe – Virtual NOC
Winner—Realtime Streaming Solution
nanocosmos – nanoStream
Runners-Up
- Ant Media – Server
- Vindral – Live
Winner—Video Advertising Solution
NPAW – Digital Experience Intelligence
Runners-Up
- castLabs – PRESTOads
- ThinkAnalytics – ThinkContextualAI
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