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ICYMI: Streaming Media 2025's VOD Archive is Live

Streaming Media 2025, which rolled into sunny Santa Monica last week, featured speakers from Netflix, Roku, Paramount, BET, Google, Warner Bros. Discovery, Televisa Univision, and many more. Check out a playlist featuring the complete Streaming Media 25 program on Streaming Media's YouTube channel to catch the sessions you missed and revel in the ones you want to relive through the magic of VOD.

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Ex-Disney Tech Ops Expert Sarge Sargent Talks AI/ML and Building Better Dashboards

In this wide-ranging interview from Streaming Media 2025, streaming industry vets Sarge Sargent and Timothy Fore-Siglin talk leveraging and deploying machine learning (ML) and generative AI (Gen AI) beyond the hype.

Iowa State’s Terrence Thames Talks Teaching Streaming, Sports Advertising, and Storytelling at Streaming Media 2025

In this interview from Streaming Media 2025, Cocoa Creative CEO and Iowa State University assistant professor of practice Terrence Thames discusses his approach to teaching students about the creative and business aspects of streaming with Streaming Media contributing editor Timothy Fore-Siglin.

SM 2025: Elecard’s Victoria Tuzova Talks Livestream Monitoring and Rethinking the Sports Fan Experience

Elecard Head of Strategic Partnerships Victoria Tuzova joins Future Frames Podcast Co-Producer Doug Daulton for a candid interview on the show floor at Streaming Media 2025, discussing livestream monitoring for sports and other large-scale events, ways to improve the sports fan experience through ultra-low-latency and personalization, and her work with Women in Streaming Media to heighten women's representation in the industry.

Vevo's Natasha Potashnik Talks Metadata and Streaming Monetization at Streaming Media 2025

Almost live from Streaming Media 2025, Vevo Head of Data, Research & Measurement Natasha Potashnik discusses the many uses of streaming metadata with Streaming Media Contributing Editor Timothy Fore-Siglin.

Streaming Media Columns

Streaming and the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

Rely on streaming platforms as free-speech safe spaces while you can, but keep your typewriter and onion-skin paper handy. You may need them sooner than you think.

Untethered Broadcasting: Where the Live Sports Streaming Puck Is Going

In the metaphorical "where the puck is going" sense, anticipating and serving the needs of "highlights first" Gen Z viewers for whom linear, lean-back, beginning-to-end game-viewing is less than satisfying is critical to moving with the times and maintaining major sports leagues' relevance in the years to come.

Greatly Exaggerated: The Death of Linear TV

Take with a grain of salt any post that talks about the "Death of Linear TV." Viewers are watching linear TV on YouTube TV. They're watching linear TV on Twitch, on Hulu, on Disney, on Prime, and more. People are watching linear TV on all sorts of streaming platforms. Regardless of the underlying technology used to deliver it, it's all linear TV programming, and linear TV is alive and well.

Creating New CTV Ad Standards

IAB Tech Lab has recently released some new standards for CTV advertising, known as the Ad Format Hero Initiative. The organization asked and received more than 100 CTV ad format descriptions/concepts from the industry on classifying new formats. Next up, they ran an industry survey (completed 16 April 2025) to determine what should be prioritized. The Ad Format Hero Task Force selected eight formats based on the survey results. The idea is to create standards so that sensibly, engineering and operations teams don't have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to insert the right creative.

Streaming Media Industry Whitepapers

Winning Attention Through Your Digital Experience

Turning insight into action across the entire lifecycle of your video platform

Gravity shift

Subscribers, bundles, and the acquisition black hole

Streaming Media Research

Revenue Opportunities for Weather-Related Streaming

Sponsored by: The Weather Company

Current Trends in Ultra-Low Latency Interactive Live Streaming

Sponsored by: AMD

Media and Broadcast File-Transfer Workflow Challenges

Sponsored By: Signiant

Encoding & Transcoding Trends 2021

Sponsored By: Bitmovin