April 06, 2026

Online Video News

Independent Report Compares Codec Royalty Costs Across Two Major Licensing Pools

Streaming services evaluating codec licensing face a difficult question: how do the royalty costs of Access Advance Video Distribution Patent Pool and the Avanci Video program actually compare? A new report from Streaming Learning Center's Jan Ozer answers that question with hard numbers.

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Streaming Year in Review 2026

Two stories dominated streaming media in 2025: Netflix versus the rest and YouTube takes TV. YouTube may be the bigger story.

The State of Streaming Monetization 2026

How are streaming content companies doing? Publishers, creators, and aggregators have traditionally made the majority of their revenue on subscriptions, so why does everyone want to talk about advertising? Ad-supported content is more affordable. Because most streaming consumers have maxed out their subscriptions, leaving the SVOD market saturated, advertising is more likely to be the dominant incremental revenue driver for streaming over the next several years, based on how media companies are talking about themselves and guiding investors.

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AI-Enriched Metadata Drives Better CTV Content Discovery

Why are streaming services, channels, and platforms across the CTV and OTT ecosystems turning to AI/ML-enhanced metadata to remove the friction from CTV content discovery and improve user experiences? Cineverse's Tony Huidor and SUMM8's Jamie Mackinlay discuss how AI-enriched metadata and natural language interfaces are enhancing and transforming discovery and bringing users closer to the content they want to watch in this discussion with Integration Therapy's Rebecca Avery at Streaming Media Connect 2026.

Blog

The Subscriber Retention Funnel: Turning One-Time Viewers into Loyal Audiences

The streaming market has entered a new phase that comes with new challenges. The average US household now holds 3.8 subscriptions and is actively looking to simplify. Platforms that will win the next decade are not those with the largest catalogs, but those that focus on subscribers to make their platform feel indispensable.

Industry News

United Rugby Championship Achieves Transformative First-Year Results with Eluvio: Slashes Streaming Costs, Dramatically Increases Revenue and Expands Global Audience

URC TV achieves 62% cost reduction, 64% transaction growth, and 35% revenue increase after switching to Eluvio URC TV delivers direct-to-consumer live multi-view matches, VOD, highlights, and archives to fans on TVs and connected devices via Content Fabr

SLC Bitrate Explorer Gives Encoding Engineers Complete Video File Analysis in One Tool

Streaming Learning Center has released SLC Bitrate Explorer, a video file analysis tool for encoding engineers that consolidates workflows previously requiring multiple tools or manual spreadsheet work. The tool supports H.264, HEVC, VP9, and AV1 on Windo

Elite Media Technologies Selects Interra Systems’ BATON File-Based QC Solution

Interra Systems announced that Elite Media Technologies has selected its BATON file-based QC solution for file-based media workflows.

LTN and Ateme partner to deliver integrated video processing with global IP transport

Ateme’s TITAN Live and TITAN Edge integrate with the LTN Network to enable broadcast-scale IP contribution

nanocosmos Introduces nanoStream Control to Close the Real-Time Streaming Security Gap

New layer adds real-time access control, monitoring, and protection against unauthorized stream use

Telestream UP.Lens Closes the Observability Gap in Live & Remote Production Workflows

A cloud-native monitoring and multiviewer service delivering real-time visibility, automated alerts, and diagnostics for distributed environments. See it at NAB 2026.