October 01, 2026

Featured News

Q&A: Recurly CCO Rachel Sheriff talks keeping sport streaming subscribers engaged through the off-season

In this Q&A with Rachel Sheriff, Chief Customer Officer at subscription management and billing platform Recurly, we explore the challenges sport streamers face when trying to keep loyal fans on the subscriber rolls and tuning in after the last game of the season, and a variety of innovative strategies for sustaining engagement even when the countdown to opening day still feels frustratingly long.

Roseberry and Fremantle Bring Neighbours to Vertical Television

Iconic Fremantle soap to be reimagined as a mobile-first vertical series using RoseBerry's proprietary RedSnapper technology. Classic Ramsay Street storylines from the iconic series will debut on RoseBerry's vertical streaming service epis, with further distribution deals expected to follow

Blog

The measurement blind spot costing advertisers high-value consumers

As audiences move between increasingly fragmented environments, some of the people advertisers most want to reach may become less visible to systems built around deterministic attribution.

Short Cuts

What makes TiVo a ‘content-first’ OS

Xperi differentiates its TiVo OS as a "content-first" system, but in terms of design decisions, discovery layer, and the way users experience it in its various guises from OTT to CTV to SVOD to AVOD and FAST to automotive, what does this really mean? TiVo's Briana Larsen explains how TiVo works to unify and personalise the viewing and discovery experience by making the content more visible than the service of origin in this clip from her keynote fireside chat with Streaming Media's Steve Nathans-Kelly at Streaming Media Connect 2026.

Industry News

Orange Belgium Strengthens Its Consumer and B2B TV Services With Viaccess-Orca

Viaccess-Orca announced that Orange Belgium has renewed its contract with VO for technologies spanning content security, playback, and quality-of-experience monitoring on subscribers’ devices.

FAST: A New Frontier for Creators

We recently explored why content creators should be taking free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) seriously. Now, we’re setting out how creators can make the most of the opportunity and take their content from social media to the big screen. FAST is cha

Bitmovin's Video Developer Report 2026/27 Reveals Low Latency for Live as Industry's Top Challenge

Bitmovin, a leading provider of video streaming solutions, today released its 10th annual Video Developer Report, marking a decade of tracking how the video industry builds and delivers streaming. This year's edition draws on insights from professionals a

Bitmovin’s AI Scene Analysis Selected by Nine to Enhance its VOD Workflows with AI-Powered Scene Level Metadata

Bitmovin, a leading provider of video streaming solutions, has announced that Australia’s largest media company, Nine Entertainment (Nine), has deployed Bitmovin’s AI Scene Analysis within its SVOD streaming service, Stan, to enhance its encoding workflow