Readers' Choice Awards Winners' Circle: Wowza

Michael Vitale explains that reliable, extensible, and flexible media infrastructure can solve streaming's toughest challenges. 

Readers' Choice Awards Winners' Circle: LiveU

LiveU's Dan Pisarski talks pushing the boundaries of IP video transmission and reliability with the LiveU LU900Q

Readers' Choice Awards Winners' Circle: Ateme

Mickael Raulet explains how Ateme are applying decades of compression expertise to immersive video.

Readers' Choice Awards Winners' Circle: EZDRM

Olga Kornienko explains that EZDRM have expanded beyond core Digital Rights Management origins, while maintaining the fundamental mission of protecting and enhancing media revenue streams.

Five seconds used to count as low latency. Now only 16% agree.

Igor Orepur discusses the latest findings of Bitmovin's Video Developer Report

Speed, Security, Personalization, Sovereignty: What Real-Time Video Needs to Actually Work for Interactive Use Cases

Nanocosmos' Oliver Lietz discusses real-time video for interactive use cases.

Your Library Is Already a Linear Channel. Your Platform Just Doesn't Know It Yet.

Aviion previews a unified live and on-demand model at IBC2026: 24/7 channels built from existing content, no playout hardware, and a live state that stays correct on every screen.

Unlock Smarter Media Automation With Contextual Content Analysis

Bruno Munger explains how Telestream's EDC Media Analyzer allows organizations to move from manual inspection toward context-aware orchestration by turning structural and editorial understanding into machine-readable data.

The Most Perishable Asset in Your Operation Is Also Your Most Valuable One

Live video is the most valuable asset most organizations produce, and most of them are still throwing it away. Wowza Video Intelligence Framework makes the data that already exists in live streams actionable at the moment it is captured.  

Your Competitors Are Serving the Same Ads for 30% Less. The Difference Is the Server.

Ad tech teams optimize the code. They rarely question the server. Here is what that costs—and what one platform changed to fix it.

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