Autumn 2026
Magazine Features
AI's Streaming Stack: Graphical Representations
Nadine Krefetz //
18 Aug 2026
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.
Editor's Note
Proactive Measures: Live Stream Monitoring and Humans in the Loop
Steve Nathans-Kelly //
18 Aug 2026
Over the last few months, I've had the opportunity to discuss the evolving practices, priorities, and enabling technologies of live-stream monitoring and QC with a number of relevant vendors, and that word "proactive" keeps coming up. As they describe AI's growing role in optimising streaming QoE, they downplay the ways it might be shrinking the streaming workforce, although it's hard to argue that we still need as many humans in the loop as we once did.