AI & Analytics

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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AI's Streaming Stack: Graphical Representations

The companies covered here offer some very interesting approaches for using AI to accomplish what I would describe, essentially, as graphical representation in three very different areas: AI-powered UX for building live-streaming workflows, AI interpretation for ad targeting, and AI-generated video clip preview for streaming services.

Nadine Krefetz // 18 Aug 2026

Presenting … the 2026 European Innovation Awards Winners

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

Fans forward: creating lean-in engagement with personalised next-gen sport streaming experiences

While many of today's sport streams remain as linear, lean-back, and traditional as the fans who enjoy them, next-gen platforms are increasingly delivering individualised sport experiences. How are today's forward-facing platforms making personalisation feel natural rather than overwhelming? And how effective are these new engagement features in attracting younger, digital-native fans whose expectations and tastes are shaped by social rather than old-school linear TV?

Steve Nathans-Kelly // 19 Aug 2026

Action figure: tabulating and managing streaming TCO

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
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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.

Werner Robitza // 20 Aug 2026

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.

Bruno Munger // 18 Aug 2026

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.

Bradley Lewington // 07 Aug 2026

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.

Michael Demb // 30 Jun 2026
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