The media world is transforming fast. Broadcasters are rethinking how they produce, manage, and deliver content to bring their most valuable assets to the widest audience. Reaching viewers with tailored live news and sports experiences across multiple platforms has never been as important — or as challenging.
LiveU – Clubs go bananas for LiveU’s sports production solutions
As the M&E industry continues to evolve, the growing pressure to produce more content at lower costs, while retaining the same high-quality, has increased the demand for cost-effective, flexible IP-based production models. As well as enabling broadcasters to utilize ground-to-cloud-to-crowd turnkey sports production workflows, this has opened up new opportunities for diverse and niche sports to create dynamic live content and to drive online fan engagement.
Limecraft – Supply chains aren’t ‘broken’; they’ve never existed
At the most recent DPP Leader’s Briefing in November last year, we noted that broadcasters and streaming platforms are often managing relationships with more than 500 content producers. On the flipside, content producers can be supplying media to over 500 broadcasters and platforms. Add in the need for accurate metadata, subtitle files, language variants and consistent quality control standards, and it’s no wonder that things can go wrong with content delivery processes.
Evergent – The streaming superstore: how streamers can deliver better subscriptions in the age of consumer choice
The streaming industry has entered a new phase. Subscriber growth is hard to sustain and effective global expansion is more complex than ever. In an era of market saturation, subscription fatigue, and tightening consumer budgets, streaming providers need to rethink how they acquire, retain, and monetize their subscribers. Today, streaming success isn’t just about adding new customers – it’s about selling smarter, more flexible subscriptions that align with evolving consumer behaviors.
Broadpeak – Sustainable strategies to optimize streaming and maximize revenue
As the competition for audience share intensifies and high-scale live event streaming grows at an unprecedented pace, broadcasters and streaming platforms face mounting pressures to balance infrastructure investment with profitability. According to AppLogic Network’s 2025 Global Internet Phenomena Report, video traffic continues to represent the largest application category by volume, with users downloading an average 5.63GB per day and the top 10 traffic days in 2024 all coinciding with a live streaming sporting event. Live streaming is pushing networks to their limits while driving intense energy consumption requirements.
Ateliere – Overcoming extreme conditions to livestream niche sports
Niche sports have a remarkable opportunity to grab a global audience’s attention, but broadcasting events from remote locations presents unique challenges. Take the CX80 World Cup and European Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships (EMTBOC) as an example. This cross-country event, deep in a Polish forest, showcases the power of technology innovations in overcoming infrastructure hurdles.
Amagi – How AI and automation is transforming channel programming
Traditionally, TV programming has relied on manual scheduling, which can be time-consuming and repetitive. As the media landscape becomes increasingly fragmented with the rise of numerous streaming platforms and broadcast channels, traditional scheduling methods are proving inefficient. The challenge for broadcasters and channel programmers today is to deliver engaging content while optimizing operational efficiency. AI-powered automation has emerged as a solution, transforming linear TV scheduling into a seamless process, enabling programmers to focus on creative storytelling and audience engagement.
VisualOn – Enhancing viewer experience and streamlining operations: how VisualOn Native+ Players help service providers deliver high-quality streaming efficiently
As streaming video continues to surpass broadcast and cable TV to become the mainstream media choice, OTT service providers are facing an increasingly competitive landscape. To succeed, providing an exceptional user experience is crucial for retaining customers and reducing churn. The media player on the wide range of client devices plays a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless, high-quality experience. However, service providers face several challenges when it comes to media players.
Veset – Keeping content secure when using cloud playout
Getting content delivery right is a top priority for broadcasters and media providers, with security being a critical, non-negotiable aspect. Broadcasters are increasingly turning to cloud playout to manage the complexities of delivering content to a diverse range of platforms and devices, and so it’s critical that cloud playout systems operate to the highest security standards. Not only do broadcasters need to protect their content and channels from unauthorized access, cyber-attacks and data breaches, but these security threats are constantly evolving as attackers adapt and seek to exploit different vulnerabilities in broadcast systems. And so, for broadcasters wanting to use cloud playout, the inevitable question arises: how can they ensure their content remains secure?
Tiledmedia – The recipe for a future-proof OTT video player
Today’s consumer has an insatiable hunger for video content at any time, which has created a vast streaming media ecosystem. To serve enough ‘bread and games’ to the masses, OTT service providers have no choice but to cover many platforms, such as iOS, Android, web, set-top boxes, TV dongles and smart TVs. This buffet of platforms has been the cause of many headaches for OTT service providers integrating a video player into their application.