The 2025 Streaming Media All-Stars
After a 12-year hiatus, Streaming?Media is bringing back the Streaming Media All-Stars for 2025 to pay tribute to?a select group of key technology innovators who?are driving and disrupting the streami...
The State of Generative AI 2025
Can generative AI (gen AI) rip things apart and then try to glue it all back together with more insight, more intelligence, more efficiency, and more value? It really depends on what the application i...
The State of Live Sports Streaming 2025
The sports media sector continues to undergo rapid change, with streaming aggregators attempting to reconsolidate for greater ef?ficiency but still falling short of traditional broadcast models in rea...
Buyers' Guide: Hardware Transcoders
Although software transcoding is accept?able for transcoding most VOD streams and even low-volume live programming, most high-volume live applications need hardware for efficient transcoding, both to ...
The State of the Video Codec Market 2025
HEVC rode the 4K/HDR wave to success, but AV1, VVC, and LCEVC lack an equivalent killer app. With CDNs racing to the bottom on pricing and new royalty pools threatening to increase costs, codec adopti...
All-in-One (AIO) Production Tablet Live-Streaming Devices
This article focuses on AIO tablets for live production and streaming?devices so little that you really can put the smallest of them in your back pocket. The larger ones will travel well in a jacket p...
Streamticker: The Biggest Streaming Mergers and Acquisitions of 2024
The 2024 edition of Streamticker, recapping the streaming industry's most momentous mergers and acquisitions of 2023, kicked off with Disney's gobbling up the last extant portions of Hulu, as Comcast ...
The State of Streaming Sustainability 2025
In this article, I'm going to look at a few of the un?derlying issues facing the industry when it comes to sustainability, starting with one of the biggest pow?er consumption challenges of our generat...
The State of OTT and CTV Monetization 2025
Conversation about monetization is so nuanced that after a decade of writing on this topic, I am still looking for meaning where there may be little to find. Essentially, what I've come to understand ...
