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.

Volunteers to Professionals: The Mobile Fleet Revolution

The Mobile Fleet Revolution is about embracing a new standard of efficiency and accessibility in sports production. By combining the sophisticated hardware of modern smartphones with centralized orchestration, robust contribution protocols, and a genuinely flexible cost model, organizations of all sizes can now deliver broadcast experiences that meet the expectations of a digitally native audience. The fans are already watching on mobile. The question is whether the organizations serving them will produce on mobile too. For the business of sports, the playbook is increasingly clear: the future is software-defined, mobile-centered, and ready to play.

How the Fastest-Growing Streaming Platforms Protect Ad Revenue During Live Events

Lukas Navickas explains why advertiser retention in programmatic streaming is not a sales problem. It's an infrastructure problem in disguise.

The Economics of Buffering: Why Milliseconds Decide Streaming Growth

Ensuring seamless streaming performance is fundamentally a bottom line issue. One that needs to be considered as a strategic business priority that makes it past engineering teams alone and straight to the boardroom. By reframing buffering as an economic and strategic issue you set yourself up to build a stronger basis for retention, margin, and long-term differentiation.

Why Streamers Must Become Proactive About Piracy Before It Is Too Late

For years, many streaming companies have perceived piracy as a disease that needs to be treated only after it strikes. A show is released, pirates copy it, and the platform responds with takedown notices, legal complaints, or occasional enforcement actions. That approach may have worked in the early days of online video. Today, it does not.

View From the Top: What Google’s 2027 License Service Deadline Means for Streamers

Digital rights management is the invisible backbone of streaming security, and the license service sits at its core. Every play request, entitlement check, and encrypted segment relies on a clean exchange of keys between clients, proxies, and license servers. Replacing that infrastructure under deadline pressure requires not only technical execution but strategic planning.

A View From the Top: BuyDRM

Today we live in a DRM-driven streaming video landscape. DRM is the sole studio-mandated streaming security technology in use across every major streaming video and audio platform in existence. While part of a broad-spectrum approach to security, DRM is the one technology standing between your content and your enemies. Thankfully, our industry has evolved DRM into a thin, scalable, nearly silent component of the streaming ecosystem with broad support on the industry's leading encoders, servers, and playback platforms.

View From the Top: EZDRM | Thinking Security for 2026

As 2025 comes to a close, we can see that the landscape is presenting new growth opportunities in revenue security. Without losing sight of our core values of future-facing innovation and ease of use, we can respond with media solution architectures that offer a more sophisticated baseline for the video services business.

View from the Top: LTN | The time is now

LTN's Exec. Chairman & Co-Founder Malik Khan on the IP-first future for live sports and news

Broadpeak CEO on 15 Years of Streaming at Scale – and what comes next for the Video Industry

As Broadpeak celebrates 15 years in the streaming industry, CEO Jacques le Mancq talks streaming success, and innovation in ad tech, monetization and sustainability.

Low-latency streaming via CDN: How to optimize LL-HLS and LL-DASH for sub-3-second latency

Alexey Petrovskikh explores how GCore's low-latency live streaming solution leverages LL-HLS and LL-DASH to achieve a glass-to-glass delay of 2.0-3.0 seconds.

Hot Products: Kiloview Cradle Series RF02: The Ultimate Unified Media Center

RF02 is a groundbreaking, compact 2RU AV-over-IP solution that integrates an 18-card system, a high-bandwidth network switch, and KiloLink Server Pro for centralized management, offering complete and flexible workflows.

Scaling Live Streaming Without the Stress

How media organizations are tackling the toughest bottlenecks in live video delivery

Stream It in IMAX Enhanced: A Gamechanger for Live Sports Streaming

With its new ‘Stream it in IMAX Enhanced' program, IMAX is bringing its world-renowned brand, expertise, cutting-edge VisionScience™ technology, and proprietary digital source enhancement workflows to live-streamed sports and events.

Kiloview Cradle Series RFO2: The Ultimate Unified Media Center

The RF02 offers multi-channel encoding/decoding, recording, routing, and mixing in one platform via freely combined card modules, simplifying workflows and improving efficiency. It minimizes the need for separate systems, delivering a complete broadcasting solution.

Phone Takeover: Replacing Pro Cameras in Live Streaming

A mobile device with the right software is now a tool that can replace some of the traditional live production equipment such as low- and mid-tier cameras and encoders. This reduces both upfront capital expenses, like equipment purchases, and operational costs for live content creators.

The Value of Content Provenance in the Media Landscape

It is not overstating the case to claim that the health of the media business in the coming years will rest on the extent to which content provenance becomes an organic part of our patterns of creation and consumption. The commercial value of services that deliver such trusted content can be significantly greater than those that do not. Linking a system of content provenance with the next evolution of digital rights management (DRM) should give content creators and rights holders better control over the protection and revenue potential of these particularly valuable digital assets.

Q&A: Christopher Levy, CEO, BuyDRM

With nearly a half-century of streaming industry observations, experience, and expertise between them BuyDRM CEO Christopher Levy and Help Me Stream Research Foundation Founder Timothy Fore-Siglin gathered at Streaming Media Connect 2025 for a richly detailed, insightful, and wide-ranging interview on the state of content protection technology and strategy. The discussion covered various aspects of digital rights management (DRM) and its role in combating streaming piracy.

Hot Products: Magewell USB Capture HDMI 4K Pro

Magewell's USB Capture family has long been the gold standard for professional video capture devices, earning a reputation for being the easiest and most reliable way to bring video and audio signals into software for live streaming, video conferencing, medical imaging, and more. Thenew USB Capture HDMI 4K Pro continues this tradition while adding the ability to capture video sources up to 4K resolution at 60 frames per second.