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The Champions League Goes Global. But Can Streaming Carry the Weight?

News of Paramount's successful bid for the Champions League and the weeks of rumours that preceded it have set the industry buzzing. It feels like a natural next step. Fans are global. The game is global. The biggest platforms in the world want premium, live, must-watch content.

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The Media League’s Thierry Fautier Talks Gen AI and Widening Streaming’s Scope at Streaming Media 2025

The Media League co-founder Thierry Fautier joins Streaming Media contributing editor Timothy Fore-Siglin at Streaming Media 2025 for a reality check on the use, application, and regulation of generative AI in the streaming world as experienced at The Media League. Fautier advocates for a balanced approach to technology adoption, considering both cost efficiency and the expansion of services to a global audience.

Integration Therapy’s Rebecca Avery Talks Metadata Transformation and AI's Impact on Streaming

Integration Therapy Owner and Principal Rebecca Avery joins Future Frames' Doug Daulton to discuss the challenges of technology integration and metadata transformation and risk mitigation in this candid and wide-ranging interview from Streaming Media 2025.

SVTA’s Bhavesh Upadhyaya Talks Tactical and Ethical Use of AI in Streaming

Streaming Video Technology Association (SVTA) Live Operations Expert Bhavesh Upadhyaya argues that it's time to move on from vague discussions of AI as streaming's "next big thing" to emphasizing practical applications, addressing real-world streaming workflow and delivery problems AI can solve, as well as preparing for the inevitable ways AI will impact the streaming business in this interview with Future Frames' Doug Daulton on the show floor at Streaming Media 2025

ABOTTS’ Daniel Djahjah Talks Building the LATAM Streaming Business Community at Streaming Media 2025

Daniel Djahjah, director of partnerships for ABOTTS, the Brazilian and Latin American Association for OTT and Streaming, joins Future Frames producer Doug Daulton at Streaming Media 2025 to discuss the origins, growth, and mission of ABOTTS to cultivate community and growth in the Brazilian and broader LATAM streaming landscape. They also touch on the impact of AI on streaming pertaining to content management and localisation. 

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YouTube self-policing isn't working

As deceptive ads, scams, and deepfakes flood YouTube's airwaves, Britain's Liberal Democratic Party argue that YouTube adverts should meet the same rigorous standards applied elsewhere in the ecosystem in which YouTube now operates. Industry bodies Clearcast and Radio Central vet the majority of ads broadcast on TV and radio before the air, while YouTube remains free to regulate itself.

The Long and Short of It: Measuring YouTube on TV

YouTube makes short-form viewing in­creasingly commonplace, measurable, and monetised on CTV, and other channels inevita­bly rush to adopt and repeat the formula, time will tell when "YouTube is the new television" gives way to "Television is the new YouTube."

Talking Localisation

Today, localisation remains a critical budgetary line item for content owners delivering shows to diverse and transnational audiences, and it is probably one whose typical costs have not, until recently, changed considerably in quite some time. The increasingly prevalent use of AI in content localisation, subtitling, and translation promises to change all of that—particularly through the controversial and ethically fraught use of imitative synthetic voices.

Post-Peak Performance in the M&E Universe

The recent Subscription Wars report commissioned by U.K.-based digital payments tech company Bango points to consumer dissatisfaction with the fractured state of subscription services in general and the increasing appeal of indirect subscription options and super-bundles of aggregated services sold through telcos like Optus in Australia. Perhaps it's another sign of less-than-inspiring times that the best thing consumers say streaming services can do for them is to stop standing out from the crowd and start disappearing into it.

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