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Instant Replay: Streaming Media Connect December

Streaming Media Connect December was all about live and featured exclusive keynote fireside chats with Rebecca Sirmons of NASA+ and Neal Roberts of WarnerBros. Discovery and a slate of live streaming panels packed with speakers from Peacock TV, Paramount+, Google, Globo, EZDRM, nanocosmos, CommScope, Starz, Professional Fighters League, LG, and more. Check out a playlist with Streaming Media Connect December sessions 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.

11 Dec 2025
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Brand Safety and High School Sports Streaming Monetization

For ubiquitous high school sports streamer Hudl—which, according to VP of media Adam Gouttierre, broadcasts 5,000 football games every Friday night of the season and hosts high school highlights on almost every active NFL player—monetizing content means embedding brands in their streams that align closely with the content. They are primarily "locker room brands" such as Gatorade and Nike that are not only relevant to sports, but also aspirational for the athletes in that they're also associated with established stars at higher levels. In this clip from Streaming Media 2025, Gouttierre and Chris Pfaff of Chris Pfaff Tech Media discuss the importance of matching brands with content when your audience is predominantly "communities of passion."

11 Dec 2025

Is Streaming Delivering the Audience Data Publishers Demand?

Vevo's Natasha Potashnik, TVIQ's Sara Sinclair, NPAW's Bruno Giner, and Reality Software's Nadine Krefetz discuss the key data points publishers demand to understand their audiences better and where and why what streaming delivers continues to fall short for some publishers in this clip from Streaming Media 2025.

11 Dec 2025

How AI Can Enhance Value for Embedded Brands in Sports Streaming

Beyond supporting safety and alignment for streams monetized through integrated branding, AI creates a number of new possibilities for enhancing brand value, like a logo imposed on a sponsored athlete's shoe, according to Global Logic's Scott Davis, who digs into the emerging opportunities and strategic use cases as well as progressive innovations in ad integrations leveraging AI in specific sports in this discussion with Chris Pfaff Tech Media's Chris Pfaff at Streaming Media 2025.

09 Dec 2025

Multiview and the Future of DTC Sports Streaming Apps

How critical to the future of the live sports streaming experience is multiview, now touted as a key feature in a growing number of DTC apps? Do viewers really want to tech-direct the games they watch or follow multiple games at once? Is it most valuable to gamblers? Ateme's Francois Guilleautot, Major League Table Tennis's David Guinan, Roku's Joe Franzetta, and Ring Digital's Brian Ring speculate on the many possible futures of multiview streaming in this clip from Streaming Media 2025.

08 Dec 2025
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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.

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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.

28 Aug 2025

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.

01 Aug 2025

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.

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