After a whirlwind voting cycle, we're delighted to reveal the winners of the 2026 Streaming Media European Innovation Awards. Now in its 18th year, this year's programme attracted more than 1,100 participants who cast 7,500-plus votes across 13 distinct categories. Congratulations to all of the triumphant 2026 Innovation Awards winners, top vote-getters and runners-up alike!
Steve Nathans-Kelly //
19 Aug 2026
While total cost of ownership spans an encyclopedic number of operational touchpoints, managing a video P&L ultimately comes down to making targeted, high-impact architectural choices.
Jan Ozer //
19 Aug 2026
Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-rate tables, and roadmap slides that no one outside of R&D ever considered. Over the last 15 months, codec adoption decisions have morphed into a much broader discussion, involving C-level execs from finance and legal. While the precursors to this transition occurred pre-2025, the situation coalesced in 2025. During the same period, we saw one codec step to the front (AV1) and another shrink before our eyes (VVC).
Jan Ozer //
30 Mar 2026
Is it still fashionable to be sustainable, even with AI?
Timothy Fore-Siglin //
30 Mar 2026