Here is a month-by-month roundup of the streaming industry's most momentous mergers and acquisitions of 2025 (excluding the competing Paramount Skydance and Netflix bids for Warner Bros. Discovery—a drama that just turned definitively in Paramount's favor at press time).
26 Mar 2026
Is it still fashionable to be sustainable, even with AI?
26 Mar 2026
Here we reveal the 2025 Streaming Media Top 100, our list (appropriately enough) of the top 100 companies in the streaming universe outside of Europe. This list complements the 2025 Streaming Media Europe 51, which acclaims Europe's key streaming innovators and high achievers.
15 Dec 2025
The readers have spoken! Here we present 19 top tech solutions of 2025, as chosen by the readers of Streaming Media .
02 Oct 2025
The World Cup is live. The infrastructure is either holding or it isn't. The difference was decided long before the opening whistle.
24 Jun 2026
Lukas Navickas explains why advertiser retention in programmatic streaming is not a sales problem. It's an infrastructure problem in disguise.
21 May 2026
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.
17 Apr 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.
15 Dec 2025
While innovation is good at the outset of a transformation (such as analog to digital video), it can become counterproductive to building sustainable businesses. Continuous innovation means taking away resources from making existing technologies more scalable, resilient, and reliable—three traits that are critical to the success of something like a streaming platform.
19 May 2025
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.
24 Jan 2025
Recent news, like the shuttering of Edgio, signals to many the imminent death of traditional content delivery networks (CDNs). But does it really?
24 Jan 2025
To really make an impact, we have to put sustainability within a context we can understand. It's hard, whether as individuals or businesses, sometimes to grasp the very huge concept of climate change and then commit to "sustainability efforts" as a way to have an impact. But when there is context, sustainability efforts can be achieved without actually trying to focus on them in particular. Within the streaming industry, that context is power.
03 May 2024