May 11, 2026

Online Video News

Sneak Preview: Ultra-Low-Latency Sports Streaming From Stadium to Screen at Streaming Media Connect

On Thursday, May 14, Elecard's Victoria Tuzova will moderate the Streaming Media Connect panel "Need for Speed: Ultra-Low-Latency Sports Streaming From Stadium to Screen." This panel of experts from Servers.com, Synamedia, Vindral, and Stats Perform dives into the engineering fundamentals—capture, encoding, delivery, and playback—that underpin smooth execution through the first, middle, and last miles without sacrificing quality. Learn what breaks at scale, how to prepare for and ward off disaster, and why low latency isn't just a number, but the difference between a winning broadcast and a blown opportunity.

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Why Signal Quality Is Shaping the Future of Streaming Media Performance

Advertisers now work with a wide mix of signals, including contextual cues, viewing behaviour, and various forms of audience modelling layered across different systems. While this should, in theory, create a clearer picture, it often introduces the opposite. Signals begin to overlap, and in some cases contradict one another, which makes it harder to understand what is actually shaping performance.

Why Content Protection Must Evolve for IP and Cloud-Based Workflows

There are now more actors attempting to steal content than there are protecting it, shifting the balance of power. Content protection can no longer be confined to a single point in the chain; it must extend across the entire workflow, from ingest through to playback.

This World Cup, CTV Becomes the New Stadium

Major sporting events once revolved around a single screen, with broadcast schedules dictating when audiences tuned in and how campaigns were planned. The coming World Cup will deliver this same audience scale and campaign buzz, but viewing now unfolds across multiple screens and multiple connected devices within the same household, often at the same time.

Industry News

BFBS Selects Synamedia Following Global Competition to Deliver Landmark Digital Platform for UK Armed Forces

Strategic three-year partnership marks delivery phase of BFBS’ next-generation media vision

Bitmovin Powers Global Film Streaming Platform, MUBI

Bitmovin announced that MUBI has chosen Bitmovin as its cloud VOD encoding partner, replacing MUBI’s legacy on-premises encoding setup to improve scalability and turnaround time for its growing catalogue. The managed cloud service will support 3-pass enco

Interra Systems to Showcase Best-in-Class QC, Monitoring, and AI-Based Solutions Across Live OTT, Linear, and VOD Workflows at BroadcastAsia 2026

At BroadcastAsia 2026, Interra Systems will demonstrate its latest innovations in automated quality control (QC), real-time monitoring, and captioning.

Zixi Showcases Next-Generation Live Video Workflows and Market Switching at MPTS 2026

Zixi, a leader in live video delivery and workflow orchestration, will showcase next-generation broadcast workflows at the Media Production and Technology Show (MPTS) 2026, the UK’s largest trade event for broadcast and media technology, taking place May