Real-Time WebRTC Streaming Gains Traction as New Protocol Takes Shape

Will Law, chief architect for Akamai’s Edge Technology Group, describes the emerging Media over QUIC set of standards as a way forward in the pursuit of a fully interactive, ultra-low latency streaming protocol stack that could achieve mass reach with minimal disruptions to existing one-way streaming infrastructure.

AI Knowhow in M&E Born of Long Experience

Veritone at the recent NAB Show in Las Vegas continued its tradition of providing AI solutions that support discovery and transformation of stored assets into searchable data for use in any industry, including M&E. As explained by chief revenue officer Sean King, Veritone’s latest endeavors include helping broadcasters utilize Veritone Discovery tools to quickly turn scattered, unstructured assets like archives, broadcasts, and live streams into searchable, discoverable insights that can be shared, repurposed and monetized.

MediaKind’s New Approach to Supporting Multiview Streaming Gains Traction

MediaKind CTO Cory Zachman explains how the company has worked with partner Skreens, a supplier of advanced rendering solutions, to create a Multiview streaming platform that Comcast and other unnamed service providers are using to enable consumers to simultaneously view multiple channels of streamed programming on a single screen. Service providers are able to tap any group of programs out of hundreds processed by the MK.10 Multiview solution to create viewing options tuned to day parts, program categories and user preferences.

Nomad Media Expands Asset Management Speed & Reach

Nomad Media co-founder & CEO Adam Miller explains how the company is applying AI in M&E productions and other video use cases to support expedited aggregation of customers’ assets from all available resources by employing any method of asset identification, from metadata text reads to audio, face and image recognition. Execution of such tasks at high speed allows Nomad Media to provide the kind of asset management support essential to producing and delivering live-streamed content at ultra-low latency.

Taking Production to New Levels with AI-Powered Content Management

Nomad Media co-founder & CEO Adam Miller

Imagine Focuses on Helping Customers Meet Business Challenges with Its Solutions

Imagine Communications chief revenue officer Glodina Lostanlen discusses changes sweeping the M&E industry and what Imagine is doing to help customers leverage its solutions to meet the tightly entwined challenges related to cutting costs and driving monetization.

Imagine’s Steve Reynolds Explores How the Shift to IP Can Eliminate Playout Silo

The president of Imagine Communications assesses the cost-saving transformation in premium service operations, especially in the case of live sports and other content, that’s now underway in the wake of adaptation to IP-optimized media processing and distribution.

Red5 & Partners Demo Multiple Uses of its TrueTime Studio Toolset in Live Productions

Red5 teamed with AWS, Zixi, Nomad Media and other partners at NAB 2025 to demonstrate the many ways live productions can be managed in sync across workflows connecting remote locations in real time. As explained by Red5 CEO Chris Allen, the company’s platform leverages its TrueTime Studio toolset to enable instantaneous full-screen access to any video output aggregated for multiviewing on computer screens attached to the workflow.

Red5 Overcomes Barriers to Dispersed Collaboration in Live Sports Production

Red5 CEO Chris Allen demonstrates how producers of live sports and other events can now accommodate dispersed production at any distance while enabling collaborators to execute editing tasks on conventional computers working with any number of simultaneously viewable video feeds without the aid of extraneous equipment.

Verizon Drives 5G To Greater Role in On-Site Sports UX

Josh Arensberg, CTO for media & entertainment at Verizon Business, discusses the company’s progress toward enabling new levels of in-venue experience at sports events along with advances in live production that drastically reduce the costs of on-site personnel and equipment.

How to Assign Rights Protection to Any Video Entering a Service Flow

Intertrust VP of product marketing Ali Hodjat describes MarketMaker, a groundbreaking addition to the company’s portfolio of content protection solutions that brings Web3-standard blockchain mechanisms to bear in driving user engagement with video services. .

Synamedia Brings Just-in-Time Efficiency to Cloud Utilization

Synamedia’s EVP & GM for video networks Julien Signes explains how the company has maximized cost-effective scaling of its cloud-based solutions in public, private or hybrid implementations through a new approach to instantly spinning up hardware resources as needed with seamlessly sustained quality of performance.

New Dimensions in Multiviewing

Rob Koenen, co-founder and chief business officer of Tiledmedia, describes how the company’s Multiview platform enables sidebar presentations of a large number of viewing options users can choose from moment to moment for instant full-screen display on any device. Koenen says the secret sauce is in the Tiledmedia Multiview player, which makes this possible by eliminating the need for multiple decoders in devices or for high levels of bandwidth to accommodate multiple video streams in the streamed channel.

Ease Live Brings Monetization to AI-Powered UX Enhancements

Ease Live CEO Kjetil Horneland explains how the firm’s ability to tap data to bring personalized interactive features into live sports streams drives fan engagement with top tier league productions worldwide. This, in turn, is opening new opportunities as introduced at NAB for customers to use Ease Live’s tools to seamlessly integrate contextually targeted ads with those feature enhancements as monetizing supplements to core advertising.

A New HTTP-Compatible Approach to Ultralow Latency Streaming

Ceeblue, known for its WebRTC-based real-time streaming platform, has introduced the Web Real-Time Streaming (WebRTS) software framework as a one-way alternative that can be implemented to support latency reductions approaching WebRTC parameters over conventional CDNs. In this interview Ceeblue COO Lawton Cheney describes the techniques WebRTS employs to achieve these capabilities and the progress with commercial implementations in France and elsewhere.