July 02, 2026

Featured News

The Match Is No Longer the Beginning of the Journey

The sports industry spends a lot of time discussing how to attract younger audiences. Every conference seems to feature a panel on Gen Z viewing habits. Every strategy document contains a section on fan acquisition. Every rights holder, broadcaster and streaming platform is searching for the next generation of supporters. Yet despite all this attention, I often feel we are asking the wrong question.

QC’ing Live Streams at Scale in the Age of AI: A Q&A with Interra Systems' Anupama Anantharaman

In this Q&A, I had the opportunity to discuss the fast-evolving requirements and best practices for live streaming QC at scale with Anupama Anantharaman, VP Product Management at Interra Systems, developers of the ORION-OTT comprehensive monitoring solution for live and OTT. The 2025 Streaming Media All-Star offers insights into how AI is changing live stream monitoring, how performing "deep QC" impacts streaming workflows, the best KPIs for predictive monitoring, and the continuing role of humans in an increasingly AI-supported QC world.

Spotlights

The World Cup Is Live. Is Your Infrastructure?

The World Cup is live. The infrastructure is either holding or it isn't. The difference was decided long before the opening whistle.

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.

Short Cuts

Why streaming antipiracy needs to move from reactive to preventive

Given the vast array of hacks available to stream-stealers and pirates in 2026, reactive antipiracy measures only go so far, identifying or even pinpointing the problem after the fact without preventing it, and often providing little legal recourse against pirates operating outside the regional regulatory environment where a rightsholder can pursue them. In this clip from her keynote fireside chat with Streaming Media's Steve Nathans-Kelly from Streaming Media Connect 2026, Verimatrix' Maria Malinkowitsch explains the difference between reactive and proactive antipiracy measures, and how rightsholders and publishers can pursue more effective approaches to take down illegal streams while they're happening—or at least reduce the number of pirates to "a chasable amount."

Industry News

nanocosmos Presents First Real-World Data from MOQ in Commercial Video Production

nanocosmos released the first production-grade MOQ performance dataset collected from real viewer traffic across six continents over twelve months. MOQ/WebTransport outperformed WebSocket consistently on connection time and latency, keeping end-to-end del

REDHAWKMOONTV JOINS FAST CHANNEL LINEUP, BRINGING BLACK CINEMA, HORROR, PODCASTS, AND INDEPENDENT VOICES TO GLOBAL AUDIENCES

RedHawkMoonTV has officially joined the growing FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television) ecosystem, delivering a bold and diverse entertainment experience designed to elevate independent voices and celebrate multicultural storytelling.

Arbor Media and Castlabs partner to strengthen trust in public institutional media workflows

Castlabs and Arbor Media bring C2PA-aligned media provenance and STARDUSTmark watermarking to public institutional media workflows.

PBS Selects LTN to Power Nationwide IP Video Network Across 330 Member Stations

Announcement highlights large-scale transition from legacy distribution to fully managed IP infrastructure

Miri Technologies Ships V410 Live 4K Video Encoder/Decoder

Award-winning solution for streaming and IP media workflows now available through authorized channel partners