October 06, 2025

Online Video News

Monetizing Sports on FAST: A Q&A With Free Live Sports' Cathy Rasenberger and Amagi's Srinivasan KA

In this Q&A with Free Live Sports Co-Founder Cathy Rasenberger and Amagi President Srinivasan KA, we discuss a new partnership that makes Amagi the exclusive monetization partner for Free Live Sports' entire FAST inventory, and what the deal reveals about the state of sports on FAST and how FAST monetization continues to evolve.

Video entertainment resilient to economic distress

Price inflation and wage squeeze are not putting a dampener on "TV" as consumers ratchet up their spend and their time spent on home video entertainment, according to the latest 2025 Video Trends Report from TiVo. The average number of services used by consumers is up too with the average number of FAST channels watched by viewers almost doubling year on year but SVOD churn has increased.

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Anatomy of a Low-Latency Origin Service

At the core of every streaming workflow is the origin server—the system that receives encoded video segments and playlist files from an encoder and makes them available to the distribution network. The origin acts as the authoritative source for the stream, ensuring that each request from a video player, whether for the latest HLS segment or an updated manifest, is served with accuracy and speed. Its performance directly impacts startup latency, playback stability, and the ability of a stream to scale to millions of concurrent viewers.

How CTV Measurement Can Drive Optimization

If advertisers don't embrace new approaches to measure CTV effectively, they miss the opportunity to drive real outcomes. CTV can not only be measured better, it can also be used to drive outcomes with several interesting innovations.

Industry News

Swift and Wowza Bring Seamless Streaming to the World’s Most Isolated Locations

Swift, a leader in remote content delivery, has partnered with Wowza, the premier provider of video streaming infrastructure, to bring high-quality streaming to the most bandwidth-constrained and infrastructure-limited environments on Earth.

Amagi Showcases New AI-Powered Innovations Across Product Lineup at FAST Conference in Los Angeles

Amagi, a cloud-based SaaS technology solutions provider for broadcast and streaming TV, demonstrated the latest advancements in its product lineup at its annual FAST Conference in Los Angeles. The showcase included significant enhancements to Amagi NOW, i

Vimeo Partners With NPAW to Bring Premium End-to-End Video Analytics for Streaming Services and Creators

Vimeo, Inc., one of the largest and most trusted private video networks in the world, has partnered with global video intelligence leader NPAW to offer a new, natively-integrated analytics suite that provides content creators and media businesses with acc