February 11, 2026

Online Video News

Sneak Preview: Peak Performance: Handling Traffic Spikes for Global Live Sports Streams

On Wednesday, February 25, MTech Sport's Matt Stagg will moderate the Streaming Media Connect panel "Peak Performance: Handling Traffic Spikes for Global Live Sports Streams" with panelists from DAZN, BT Group, and TATA. When the biggest moments in live sports hit, traffic surges coming from unexpected directions can stymie even the most mature streaming stacks. This panel of live streaming and content delivery pros breaks down how top platforms prepare to manage peak demand—using smart load-balancing, real-time monitoring, and advanced failover strategies to maximize uptimes when streams scale globally.

Sneak Preview: Forging FAST’s Middle Mile: Building Live Linear Streaming Infrastructure

On Tuesday, February 24, Nadine Krefetz, Consultant, Reality Software, will moderate the Streaming Media Connect panel "Forging FAST's Middle Mile: Building Live Linear Streaming Infrastructure." Live linear FAST lives or dies in the middle mile, where ingest, encoding, packaging, and routing determine whether channels can contend with increased traffic as audiences scale. This session explores how to forge resilient, flexible infrastructure that keeps FAST channels humming, costs controlled, and viewers engaged.

Cracking Cloud Gaming With the CTV Model: A Q&A With GAMELOOP CEO Kimmy Li

With the immediacy of TV Guide + Twitch, GAMELOOP's "watch and play" model lets players unlock hosted games on their TV using their mobile device or remote. The platform recently launched on Samsung Gaming Hub as the first ad-supported alternative to subscription-based cloud gaming. In this interview, Gameloop CEO Kimmy Li dives into the details of GAMELOOP's offerings, her years of professional experience in the gaming industry, and how that experience has positioned her to scale freemium models.

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Pause Before You Chase the Next CTV Ad Format

CTV has always been driven by novelty, but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. We haven't come close to exhausting the performance potential of pause ads.

Industry News

1001 Selects Bitmovin Player to Elevate its Video Streaming Capabilities

Iraq's premier OTT streaming platform, 1001, has selected the Bitmovin Player and Observability solution to deliver a higher-quality viewing experience and gain deeper insight into playback performance at scale.

VisualOn and The Channel Store Demonstrate Up to 65% Bitrate Savings with AI-Driven Content-Adaptive Encoding

VisualOn announced the release of a new whitepaper featuring results from an independent evaluation by The Channel Store (TCS), part of TVUP Media Group, comparing AI-driven content-adaptive encoding with traditional CBR and CRF workflows in production-gr