Although redundancy is considered a hallmark of a sound live streaming ops playbook, "it's only your friend if you test it," warns Live X co-founder Corey Behnke. So, what is the key to fail-safe operational protection in live streaming? LinkedIn Global Live Operations Lead Chris Packard and Streaming Technology Strategist Bhavesh Upadhyaya also offer streaming resiliency best practices and cautionary tales in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2026.
20 Aug 2026
The benefits of leveraging AI in personalizing the CTV discovery experience and facilitating fruitful content searches are considerable, but so are the costs. Are there ways that OTT services and platforms can manage or minimize those costs, such as only enlisting AI for more complex queries? Dataxis' Ophelie Boucaud, TiVo's Chris Ambrozic, Gracenote's Ashok Bania, and Future Today's Alok Ranjan discuss token conservation, handling conversational and non-conversational queries, and the "Swiss Army knife approach" in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2026.
18 Aug 2026
In this clip from her keynote fireside chat at Streaming Media Connect 2026, Verimatrix's Maria Malinkowitsch offers a snapshot of live-streaming piracy in 2026, what it's costing major sports rightsholders, why the fragmentation of sports rights and the cost burden on fans is making the industry susceptible to pirates, and how the industrialization of illegal streaming and the rise of "piracy as a service" are adding fuel to the fire and making antipiracy efforts more challenging than ever.
07 Jul 2026
Given the vast array of hacks available to stream-stealers and pirates in 2026, reactive antipiracy measures only go so far, identifying or even pinpointing the problem after the fact without preventing it, and often providing little legal recourse against pirates operating outside the regional regulatory environment where a rightsholder can pursue them. In this clip from her keynote fireside chat with Streaming Media's Steve Nathans-Kelly from Streaming Media Connect 2026, Verimatrix' Maria Malinkowitsch explains the difference between reactive and proactive antipiracy measures, and how rightsholders and publishers can pursue more effective approaches to take down illegal streams while they're happening—or at least reduce the number of pirates to "a chasable amount."
24 Jun 2026
One way agentic AI is making inroads into streaming monetization, as I learned at Streaming Media Connect, offers the potential to complement and free up time for human creativity rather than replace it.
23 Jun 2026
Opening our blog to a never-ending stream of guest contributors yields some of the coolest stuff we publish, with topics that would never occur to me. Though I rarely know when these pieces will arrive or where they'll come from, it is often heady, provocative stuff that I'm proud to publish.
16 Mar 2026
While advertising has long been a unidirectional experience, there have been forays into making it bidirectional for a long time. The value proposition is pretty clear. If people are watching a show and an advertisement comes on showcasing a product that interests them, wouldn't it be great if they could grab the remote, push a couple of buttons, and have it delivered to their doorstep?
26 Feb 2026
There are a few tools that many streaming pros have used through the years, from WeTransfer to Brightcove to Vimeo. Some are essential to content creation, OTT delivery, and live streaming. All of these tools have one important thing in common now: their recent acquisition by the Italian company Bending Spoons.
15 Dec 2025
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