July 08, 2026

Online Video News

Visualizing Verticalization at Scale: A Q&A with Ateliere's Flavius Goman on Ateliere Storyline

This Q&A with Ateliere president and COO Flavius Goman explores how Ateliere Storyline tackles high-volume content verticalization, including meeting the challenges of conscientious frame-cropping (especially for complex and high-action scenes), manual review, the story interpretation involved in compelling automated serialization, and how this technology might be used outside of a strictly entertainment context.

Comcast Secures Lock on UK Commercial TV

ITV is to sell its media and entertainment division, including its broadcast channels and ITVX streaming service, to Sky for £1.6 billion ($2.1bn), marking one of the most consequential restructurings in modern British broadcasting. The deal positions Sky, owned by Comcast, as the UK's largest commercial broadcaster and creates a new domestic heavyweight designed to compete more aggressively with global streaming giants such as Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube.

Spotlights

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.

Short Cuts

What Industrialized Illegal Streaming Is Costing the Industry in 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.

Blog

Reducing TCO for Streaming Services

Financial pressures felt over the last few years has led to a new set of challenges around total cost of ownership (TCO). Video services are now tasked with finding ways to reduce spending and increase revenue generation, all without increasing churn, and this has caused the age-old build versus buy debate to resurface.

Industry News

Synamedia Appoints Dr Tzvi Gerstl as CEO as Company Enters Next Phase of Growth

Synamedia announced today the appointment of Dr Tzvi Gerstl as Chief Executive Officer. Paul Segre, who has served as CEO for the past six years, will transition to the role of Executive Chairman, where he will continue to provide strategic guidance and s

nanocosmos Presents First Real-World Data from MOQ in Commercial Video Production

nanocosmos released the first production-grade MOQ performance dataset collected from real viewer traffic across six continents over twelve months. MOQ/WebTransport outperformed WebSocket consistently on connection time and latency, keeping end-to-end del

REDHAWKMOONTV JOINS FAST CHANNEL LINEUP, BRINGING BLACK CINEMA, HORROR, PODCASTS, AND INDEPENDENT VOICES TO GLOBAL AUDIENCES

RedHawkMoonTV has officially joined the growing FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television) ecosystem, delivering a bold and diverse entertainment experience designed to elevate independent voices and celebrate multicultural storytelling.