Live streaming has operated under an uncomfortable trade-off for years. Either achieve large scale distribution, or have sub-second latency, or have both but not without eye-watering infrastructure management and costs. However, this is where Media over QUIC (MoQ) comes in, introducing the latest approach to addressing this trade-off, with Bitmovin and Cloudflare demonstrating what that…
TL;DR Player interfaces play a critical role in how viewers experience video streaming. According to Nielsen’s The Gauge, streaming accounted for 47.5% of total TV viewing in December 2025, the highest share ever recorded as audiences continue shifting toward digital viewing experiences. As streaming usage grows across browsers, mobile devices, and connected TVs, the usability…
TL;DR Streaming teams rely on observability data to understand how playback performs across devices, platforms, and networks. Error metrics sit at the heart of this, helping engineering teams catch problems that affect startup time, playback stability, and overall viewer experience. But acting on those signals is not always straightforward. Many observability dashboards mix genuine playback…
TL;DR Over the last quarter, we continued expanding automation, observability intelligence, and workflow control across playback, encoding, and AI-driven metadata workflows. Many of these product updates focus on helping teams reduce manual investigation time, improve monetization precision, and gain more operational flexibility across live and on-demand streaming environments. Below is a recap of what shipped…
TL;DR Understanding MCP: A New Way to Access Your Data As AI systems move beyond simple question answering and toward agent driven workflows, access to reliable, structured data has become a central challenge. Large language models are effective at reasoning over natural language, but they still depend on well defined interfaces to interact with real…
TL;DR Choosing a VOD encoding provider is a strategic decision that touches every part of your workflow. It influences how quickly you publish new titles, the visual quality viewers actually see on their devices, how much you spend on storage and delivery each month, and how easily you keep pace with new codecs, formats, and…
Playback quality defines the success of every streaming service, shaping how viewers perceive the value of the content they consume. A single session can generate hundreds of signals that reflect performance, including start-up times, buffering events, and error codes. The challenge is that these signals are reported differently depending on the video player in use,…
Set-top boxes (STBs) remain central to streaming strategies for broadcasters, telecom operators, and OTT providers globally, providing for viewers who value a consistent TV experience with a familiar remote control interaction. These devices span multiple operating systems, including Android, RDK, and Linux, each with unique technical characteristics and user-experience considerations. Among these, Android-powered set-top boxes…
Launching & managing a streaming service in today’s market can be a bit overwhelming, but it’s not for the reasons around the workflow that you’d normally think about. It’s actually about the number of devices you and your team have the capability of supporting. Audience reach is essential for any business and one major piece…
The moment a stream starts buffering during a championship match or lags during the finale of a fan-favorite series, frustration spikes. These playback issues don’t just annoy viewers. They exacerbate their dissatisfaction with the experience and push them closer to churning, especially when they happen during highly anticipated live or on-demand moments. These critical viewing…
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