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Powering the New Streaming Superstore in the Age of Subscriber Choice

The age of unprecedented subscriber growth in streaming is morphing into a new phase. Today, the video subscription market is more mature, complex, and nuanced than it ever has been, with providers increasingly focusing on strategic partnerships alongside pure direct-to-consumer growth. While content exclusivity remains the most compelling hook for any premium service, Vijay Sajja, CEO and Founder of Evergent, writes that a flurry of aggregation and bundling activity means that the biggest services will live and die by their ability to offer superior experiences and value-added personalization.

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Tech Challenges of AI-Driven Streaming Content Localization and Captioning

The buzz around AI for subbing and dubbing and localizing streaming content is that it makes it far easier than it's ever been before. But that doesn't mean it's without significant technical challenges-particularly for companies like Interra Systems who develop the enabling tech-as Interra Engineering Manager Sana Asfar explains as she enumerates the key challenges and how to overcome them in this conversation with IntelliVid's Steve Vonder Haar at Streaming Media Connect 2025.

How Google and Vevo Leverage AI-Enabled Localization for Saving Costs and Driving Revenue

The case for AI-based content localization is typically made in terms of how it streamlines localization initiatives and dramatically reduces costs, particularly for smaller publishers that might not be able to reach into other markets without it. In this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2025, execs from two larger operations, Google Cloud's Albert Lai and Vevo's Natasha Potashnik, share with IntelliVid's Steve Vonder Haar not only the cost savings opportunities but also how AI-enabled localization can drive new revenue opportunities as well.

Can Multicast Level Up Live Sports Streaming to Parity With Broadcast?

Is multicast the solution to all of live sports streaming at scale's problems that will help it reach the "it just works" level of broadcast TV? How broadly applicable is multicast across different streaming applications? And can it be secured? YouTube's Sean McCarthy, Akamai's Will Law, EZDRM's Olga Kornienko, TATA's Tom Buffolano, and SVTA's Jason Thibeault discuss in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2025.

Why Premium Sports Streaming Is Shifting to Watermarking at the Edge

For ad-supported streams, one of the many benefits of server-side ad insertion (SSAI) is the ability to protect the stream against piracy by encrypting it at the point of origin when the ad is already inserted in the bitstream. Bu for premium sports streams that are subject to what BuyDRM CEO Christopher Levy calls "high-value gate-crashing"—sophisticated piracy ring-level content theft—watermarking at the edge has become "the model that works the best," Levy says, as he enumerates the reasons for a growing shift to edge-side watermarking in this interview with Streaming Media's Tim Siglin at Streaming Media Connect 2025.

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The Long and Short of It: Measuring YouTube on TV

As YouTube makes short-form viewing in­creasingly commonplace, measurable, and monetized 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."

In Defense of (Click to) Cancel Culture

For all its promise, and despite officially going into effect in mid-January, the Fededral Trade Commission's Click to Cancel rule for streamlining streaming and other cancellations remains largely in limbo, due in part to its all-deliberate-speed effective compliance date of May 14 and also because of legal and political challenges from the Chamber of Commerce and others.

The Blurring of Shared Experiences Via Streaming

The shared experience of enjoying a program that's happening at (or very near) the same time as reality is gone. YouTube, Facebook, et al. are typically 20 or more seconds behind when the event happened. Streaming services and apps can have their own pathways and delays. Add more viewers or more processing, and it can get longer.

Is This the End of the CDN As We Know It?

Recent news, like the shuttering of Edgio, signals to many the imminent death of traditional content delivery networks (CDNs). But does it really?

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Revenue Opportunities for Weather-Related Streaming

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Current Trends in Ultra-Low Latency Interactive Live Streaming

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Live-Streaming Technology Trends 2024

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Media and Broadcast File-Transfer Workflow Challenges

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