September 28, 2026

Online Video News

Q&A: Recurly CCO Rachel Sheriff Talks Keeping Sports Streaming Subscribers Engaged Through the Off-Season

In this Q&A with Rachel Sheriff, Chief Customer Officer at subscription management and billing platform Recurly, we explore the challenges sports streamers face when trying to keep loyal fans on the subscriber rolls and tuning in after the last game of the season, and a variety of innovative strategies for sustaining engagement even when the countdown to opening day still feels frustratingly long.

FloSports Launches ‘CAA Game of the Week’ and ‘FloCollege Showcase Series’ on Prime Video

College Spotlights to Stream Weekly on the FloSports Channel Bringing Standout Division I, Division II and Division III Football Matchups To Millions Of Homes

Short Cuts

How TiVo Manages Competing Priorities on the CTV Homescreen

"There's no more valuable real estate" in the CTV world than the homescreen, says TiVo's VP Content Strategy & Business Development Briana Larsen. It's the first thing users see when they turn on their TVs, and it needs to serve four critical constituencies—consumers, content providers, retailers, and advertisers—so "if it doesn't work for everyone," she argues, "it works for no one." TiVo added a new feature this year with the release of TiVo Ads on its homescreen experience. In this clip from her keynote at Streaming Media Connect 2026, Larsen discusses how TiVo Ads is designed to bring personalized monetization features into the mix while working to maintain a homescreen experience that feels as frictionless as possible.

Blog

How Streaming Platforms Can Detect VPN and Proxy Abuse Without Overblocking Legitimate Users

VPN and proxy abuse genuinely undermines geo-licensed content. Blunt blocking rules genuinely cost paying subscribers, including people who run a VPN for privacy, who are tunneled into a corporate network, or who are simply on a mobile carrier that routes their traffic through an egress point three states away. The way out is not to pick a side. It is to stop treating "VPN and proxy traffic" as one thing.

Industry News

Orange Belgium Strengthens Its Consumer and B2B TV Services With Viaccess-Orca

Viaccess-Orca announced that Orange Belgium has renewed its contract with VO for technologies spanning content security, playback, and quality-of-experience monitoring on subscribers’ devices.

FAST: A New Frontier for Creators

We recently explored why content creators should be taking free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) seriously. Now, we’re setting out how creators can make the most of the opportunity and take their content from social media to the big screen. FAST is cha

Bitmovin's Video Developer Report 2026/27 Reveals Low Latency for Live as Industry's Top Challenge

Bitmovin, a leading provider of video streaming solutions, today released its 10th annual Video Developer Report, marking a decade of tracking how the video industry builds and delivers streaming. This year's edition draws on insights from professionals a

Bitmovin’s AI Scene Analysis Selected by Nine to Enhance its VOD Workflows with AI-Powered Scene Level Metadata

Bitmovin, a leading provider of video streaming solutions, has announced that Australia’s largest media company, Nine Entertainment (Nine), has deployed Bitmovin’s AI Scene Analysis within its SVOD streaming service, Stan, to enhance its encoding workflow