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Streaming MediaVideoHow to Modernize a Newsroom Workflow Without Replacing It In most newsrooms, the costliest part of production is the handoff between systems, yet modernization budgets tend to go toward replacing the systems themselves.

Streaming MediaVideoLocked Out Before First Pitch: Why Live Event Outages Start Long Before the Stream The MLB postseason may be over, but the technical demands of delivering live sports to millions of viewers remain.

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Streaming MediaVideoShoppable YouTube Ads Are Only as Good as the Google Shopping Feed Behind Them The price, image and stock status in a shoppable YouTube or CTV ad come from a retailer's product feed, not the spot. Here is where that feed breaks and what to ask before a campaign goes live.

Streaming MediaVideoMedia Economist Annie Krukowska, Fremantle SVP Laura Florence, and PlayersTV Co-Founder Collin Castellaw to Headline Streaming Media Connect November On Monday, November 9, Streaming Media will launch its 21st Streaming Media Connect virtual event with an exclusive fireside chat with Annie Krukowska, author of the just-published New TV Economics…

Streaming MediaVideoFix the Source Speech Before You Caption, Dub, or Clip Every step downstream inherits the dialogue you start with. Here is how to triage bad source speech, when to restore and when to re-record, and how to check that a cleanup didn't quietly change what…

Streaming MediaVideoThe Real Fight in Music Isn?t Over Who Makes the Song. It?s Over Who Counts It As streaming and short-form video turn every play into a payable event, attribution and rights data have become the industry's real engineering problem.

Streaming MediaVideoThe Next Chapter of CTV Targeting Is Making Context Actionable CTV has more contextual intelligence than ever. The opportunity now is connecting that intelligence to the inventory and infrastructure needed to activate it at scale.

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Streaming MediaVideoWhat the Global Streaming Business Is Learning From Evolving Loudness Regulation California's SB576 loudness law is less a one-off regulation and more a signal of where the industry is heading.

Streaming MediaVideoSneak Preview: Global Sports Streaming Industry Lessons From the 2026 World Cup On Wednesday, Nov. 11, Hub's Jon Giegengack, Omdia's Tim Westcott, Genius Sports' Tony Marlow, and sports and media tech advisor Carlos De Marchis will join MTech Sport's Matt Stagg for the Streaming…

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Streaming MediaVideoAd Tech Is Still Buying Video by Its Description Most ad tech still describes video the way it did ten years ago: a title, a category, a daypart, and maybe a few metadata tags.

Streaming MediaVideoNAB Show NY: Great Programming, Modest Turnout, and the Latest Take on AI in the Newsroom At NAB Show NY, Local TV Strategies hosted a series of excellent panels last week that left me with as many questions as answers on the topic of how AI will impact our industry.

Streaming MediaVideoSneak Preview: Agentic AI and the Future of Streaming Ad Tech The new generation of autonomous, goal-driven AI agents are poised to reshape ad-buying, ad-decisioning, contextual targeting, and optimized ad insertion across the CTV ecosystem.

Streaming MediaVideoNDTV Adopts Amagi's AdFlow Orchestrator, Unlocking Monetization Opportunities on FAST and Connected TV Amagi's solution reshapes NDTV's ad breaks into shorter, FAST-friendly segments for a better viewing experience and more monetization opportunity

Streaming MediaVideoFubo Closes Seven New RSN Distribution Agreements for the 2026-2027 NBA Season 75%+ NBA RSN Market Coverage Reinforces Fubo's Local Sports Advantage

Streaming MediaVideoSneak Preview: Stream, Click, Convert: Delivering Performance-Driven CTV Ad Experiences On Tuesday, Nov. 10, Globo's Ana Beaklini, Fuse Media's Yasmin Mitchell, and Broadpeak's Julien Boyreau will join Chris Pfaff for the Streaming Media Connect panel "Stream, Click, Convert: Delivering…

Streaming MediaVideoSneak Preview: Automating Linear CTV Channel Lifecycles From Launch to Monetization On Nov. 11, A+E's Abhishek Neralla, Fubo's Mike Gange, and Katapy's Stuart Bishop will join Ashling Digital's Michael Nagle for the?Streaming Media Connect panel "FASTER, FASTER!

Streaming MediaVideoSneak Preview: Taming TCO for Live Streaming at Scale On Monday, Nov. 9, TV2 Denmark's Loke Dupont, FloSports' Matt Miller, and unified comms industry veteran Scott Grizzle will join the SVTA's Bhavesh Upadhyaya, AI and Streaming Technology Strategist…

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Streaming MediaVideoThe Rules Behind the Retention Offer On Aug. 19, the Federal Trade Commission released a proposed enforcement policy statement on personalized pricing.

Streaming MediaVideoDIRECTV Launches Build Your Own Multiview, Letting Sports Fans Choose Up to Four Channels on One Screen New customizable Multiview feature gives DIRECTV streaming customers more choice and control over how they watch live sports

Streaming MediaVideoSneak Preview: Maximizing QoE With Resilient, Scalable Sports Streaming Infrastructure High-performance, redundant, and resilient pipelines are critical to successful, mission-critical sports streams.

Streaming MediaVideoCTV?s Attribution Problem Starts With the Audience Targeting and measurement are often managed as separate workstreams. Media teams choose whom to reach, platforms report what happened after exposure, and attribution assigns credit.

Streaming MediaVideoSneak Preview: Leveraging AI and Humans in Streamlined Streaming Workflows On Tuesday, Nov. 10, ex-IBM Head of Unified Communications Scott Grizzle will moderate the Streaming Media Connect panel "Still in the Loop: Leveraging AI and Humans in Streamlined Streaming…

Streaming MediaVideoThe Cloud Took Over Broadcast Production. Here's What Still Belongs On-Prem. Switching, graphics, replay and multiviewing that once required a rack room now run on cloud instances that spin up for an event and disappear afterward.

Streaming MediaVideoReading a Codec Patent Claim Against Your Own Streaming Stack What a claim chart needs from your encoder, packager and player before anyone can call it infringement

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo