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Every streaming company is leaking revenue, often in ways their dashboards never fully calculate. Over the past 20 years, I’ve seen the same costly patterns repeat: fragmented metadata, operational bottlenecks, inefficient workflows, and strategy gaps that erode margins from the inside. This session is for streaming media leaders who want practical tools to align operations with monetization. Expect real-world case studies, a fresh framework, and a new lens for protecting growth in an unpredictable streaming economy.
22 October 2025
Integration Therapy Owner and Principal Rebecca Avery joins Future Frames’ Doug Daulton to discuss the challenges of technology integration and metadata transformation and risk mitigation in this candid and wide-ranging interview from Streaming Media 2025.
08 October 2025
In today’s saturated content market, even on the downward slope of the peak TV era, offering great content isn’t enough to deliver satisfying experiences to streaming users. Platforms and channels need to read the tea leaves of user data and surface the shows viewers most want to see next. This session explores how machine learning and personalization facilitate more effective curation and discovery and increasingly shape the viewer experience.
08 October 2025
There are riches in the niches, as more than one independent FAST channel maverick has declared from the Streaming Media stage. This session explores the latest schemes for maximizing revenue in smaller, passionate communities.
07 October 2025
Securing digital and streaming content and tracking and determining content provenance are quickly converging in the age of GenAI. This panel explores how streaming platforms can ensure content protection and authenticity.
07 October 2025
FAST executives and SVOD leaders square off on the future of free vs. paid streaming.
06 October 2025
Articles
Originally Published on Andy Beach's Engines of Change
We Talk Too Much About AI: A Call for Clarity
12 September 2025
At a conference earlier this year, I was waved into company booths by media tech vendors eager to show me their AI capabilities.
In deeper conversations about what business problems their solutions addressed, what guardrails they had in place to keep data clean, or how their tools could support both established and bespoke AI platforms, the tone often shifted to uncertainty. Many vendors seemed to lack crystal clarity on what their customers...
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The Streaming Wars
Myths in Streaming: Technical Transformation ≠ Cultural Transformation
Many transformations stall because companies modernize systems faster than they modernize structures and habits. Seven West Media shows how technical programs gain leverage when paired with cultural momentum. Phoenix and the AI Factory sit on top...
Myths in Streaming: More Data Means Less Risk in Decision Making
For decades, television ran on Nielsen household ratings. Everyone knew they were rough. The samples were thin, the methodology limited, the blind spots glaring. Nielsen was an open secret — flawed, but functional.
And yet, leaders acted. Schedules shifted. Shows were canceled. Budgets moved. All on the back of numbers that were less like a roadmap and...
Myths in Streaming: More Content = More Audience
One of the longest-running assumptions in streaming is that more content will automatically bring more audience. If a service can expand its library by hundreds, by thousands, or by tens of thousands of titles, the belief is that subscribers will stay longer, churn will fall, and growth will follow. The truth is less flattering. A bigger...
Myths in Streaming: Why Major Tech Transformations Don’t Stop Revenue Leaks
Streaming executives are under growing pressure to operationalize for profit. In response, many organizations pursue large-scale technology transformations, like new AI-driven content management systems, automation layers, or upgraded metadata infrastructure...
Indispensable or Over-Embedded? Rethinking Your Vendor Relationships
They came with dashboards, integrations, and the promise of speed. You needed a solution, and they had it. For a while, it worked.
Then the handoffs blurred. Documentation lagged. Internal capabilities faded. Your ops team started setting up meetings with vendors just to understand your own systems.
This is how vendors shift from partners to architects of...
Metadata Is an Operational Asset – Start Managing It Like One
When delivery confirmations lag, when revenue reports don’t reconcile cleanly, when a platform flags an issue that should have already been resolved, the pattern usually points to a deeper operational flaw. In many media organizations, that flaw traces back to metadata. Metadata links content to contracts, platforms to obligations, and internal...
Myths in Streaming: Automation Doesn’t Equal Efficiency
Automation has become this industry’s comfort word. Leaders say it and imagine cost savings, cleaner workflows, maybe even smaller teams. But automation applied to a broken process only accelerates disorder. If you haven’t stabilized the foundation, you’ve simply built a faster way to make mistakes...
Interviews
Media and the Machine
The 7 Things Every Streaming Exec Should Know About AI: My interview with Metadata Guru Rebecca Avery of Integration Therapy
Rebecca Avery lives where Hollywood storytelling meets streaming operations. For 18 years, she’s helped platforms like Pluto TV, TelevisaUnivision, Allen Media Group, and NatGeo turn chaos into growth. She thrives in that awkward middle...