At the forefront of innovation in live broadcasting, Swedish public service broadcaster SVT is taking bold strides toward modernizing its live streaming workflows. As part of this transformation, SVT has partnered with Vindral, a company specializing in next-generation, ultra-low latency live streaming solutions. Their joint mission is to streamline hardware usage, enable remote production, and push the boundaries of real-time media delivery by leveraging the emerging and evolving transport protocol Media Over QUIC (MoQ).
Steve Nathans-Kelly //
03 Jun 2025
The 2024 edition of Streamticker, recapping the streaming industry's most momentous mergers and acquisitions of 2023, kicked off with Disney's gobbling up the last extant portions of Hulu, as Comcast ceded its remaining 33% stake. But if the late-2023 deal marked only the quiet conclusion of an already-silent partnership, the much noisier news of Jan. 6, 2025, found Disney absorbing sports-centric streamer Fubo and merging it with Hulu Live + TV. Here we'll review this and other done (or more nearly done) M&A deals that reshuffled the streaming industry in 2024.
Adrian Pennington //
21 Mar 2025
Due to limited growth in the size of the market, the solution to increasing profitability in the corporate video space has been consolidation and cost-cutting. After some signs of movement in acquisitions in 2023, 2024 finally saw the larger companies in the space getting acquired or beginning to look for formal partnerships or acquisitions.
Jake Ward //
21 Mar 2025
HEVC rode the 4K/HDR wave to success, but AV1, VVC, and LCEVC lack an equivalent killer app. With CDNs racing to the bottom on pricing and new royalty pools threatening to increase costs, codec adoption is no longer just about technical merit—it's about survival. These are the issues I'll explore in this article.
Jan Ozer //
21 Mar 2025
Alexander Leschinsky talks content provenance, authenticity, C2PA and and DRM
Streaming Media Editorial Staff //
07 Aug 2024
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.
Streaming Media Editorial Staff //
08 Apr 2024
An interview with Bedrock CEO Jonas Engwall. With more than 20 years' experience in the media and technology industry, and a professional career spanning almost a dozen countries, Jonas brings extensive expertise and a proven trackrecord for leading business growth and international expansion.
Streaming Media Editorial Staff //
04 Sep 2023
An interview with Pieter-Jan Speelmans, Technical Working Group Chair of HESP Alliance. Over the past three years, he has been working actively to reduce the complexity in video pipelines and improve the viewer Quality of Experience (QoE) from perspectives beyond the video player with the High Efficiency Streaming Protocol, a highly scalable ultra-low latency streaming protocol for the next generation of streaming services.
Streaming Media Editorial Staff //
04 Sep 2023