Live Sports & Monetization: Public Service Broadcasters Maximizing Live Sports Opportunities

PSBs across the world are making the most of limited resources to enrich live sports coverage around ancillary content and platforms, and monetizing the resulting services. Here we focus on the content and coverage rather than technical issues around workflow and multi-platform distribution.

Production–Delivery Convergence: Part 5 - Scaling The Future

The streaming industry is delivering richer formats, more personalization, and more immersive viewing experiences. There’s just one problem – how can the global delivery ecosystem support it?

Network Traffic Engineering: RIST & SRT - The Success Of ARQ Based Protocols

IP networks are inherently unreliable. We kick off this series on IP Network Traffic Engineering with a look at how RIST and SRT give broadcast engineers user-configurable control over the latency-versus-reliability trade-off for real-time media streaming.

Standards: Video - Standards For Video Coding

From 4K to 32K, the demand for ever-larger video formats is pushing codec technology to its limits. This guide surveys the landscape of video coding standards – from legacy MPEG formats to AI-driven neural network compression – to help navigate the choices shaping the future of video delivery.

Live Sports & Monetization: Public Service Broadcasters Thinking Outside The Box

Although premium sports rights may be slipping beyond reach for Public Service Broadcasters, the trend towards segmented rights owned increasingly by leagues or individual athletes offers further opportunities. There is growing scope for aggregating less costly packages, including highlights or clips from premium sports, as well as niche events.

Production–Delivery Convergence: Part 4 - When Viewer Performance Becomes An Ecosystem Problem

Viewer experience is not just about the user interface. Performance is also key, and even the strongest creative proposition struggles to retain viewers when the experience falls short. Consistent performance is no longer simply an engineering challenge; it is a shared discipline that spans production, delivery, and everything in between.…

Virtual Production For Broadcast: After The Gold Rush - VP Gets Sensible

From back-projection to multimillion-dollar LED volumes, in-camera VFX has always rewarded the same discipline: matching technique to the task. After years of enthusiastic adoption on both produced and live content, virtual production is delivering on its promise. Not through spectacle, but through pragmatism.

Broadcast Standards 2026 – Video Coding

Video coding was developed to deliver video conferencing services over low-bandwidth modem connections, but modern demands for ever-larger video formats are pushing codec technology to its limits.

Live Sports & Monetization: A New Live Sports Paradigm For Public Service Broadcasters

Amid significant regional differences in live sports trends, some common opportunities for public service broadcasters have emerged. These include the rapid rise in viewing of various women’s sports and the cementing of Public Service Broadcasters as viewing backstops for iconic and big ticket events.