The Faultline Podcast

Production tools, generative AI, and live streaming projects are hot topics for GALSNGEAR, an initiative focused on upskilling women in the M&E industry, boasting over 1500 members today. Founder Amy DeLouise provides a masterclass in promoting diversity, and lambasts Faultline for our own contribution to the 'manel' problem.

24i's new SVP of Product Management, Sebastian Braun, comes in with fresh ideas following the recent departure of former CEO Dr. Neale Foster. Anti-piracy pitfalls, discovery fatigue, and the TV aggregation dilemma all come to a head in this episode - leading us to an "agree to disagree" dead-end.

Witbe, the famous French video monitoring provider, is hiding a few things - and Faultline is on a mission to scratch below the surface. From major unannounced customer wins and revenue scrutiny, to unreleased product updates at NAB Show 2024, this episode welcomes the double act of Witbe's CEO Mathieu Planche, alongside COO Yoann Hinard - with 25 years of Witbe experience between them.

The C-word features on the Faultline Podcast for the first time, in an episode full of taboos. CEO of Bold New Solutions (BNS), Lu Bolden (formerly of Verimatrix and ThinkAnalytics), introduces us to a new venture - one that aims to drill into both engineering and business problems for customers like Wide Open West (WOW).

Greening of Streaming's Dom Robinson and Ben Schwarz bury the hatchet with Faultline's Tommy Flanagan and Quentin Vidberg, to discuss whether our recent article did justice to the group's recently completed remote energy monitoring tests. How does GoS plan to build on this groundwork of SDR versus HDR energy data? What sort of sample size can be considered credible? And is the honeymoon period over for the non-profit?

Bitmovin's CEO and co-founder, Stefan Lederer, joins Tommy Flanagan to talk monolithic APIs, the McKinsey effect, and we ALMOST let a huge cat out of the bag. This episode also delves into whether Bitmovin's big bets on AV1 are paying off amid underwhelming next-gen codec adoption, and we also discover that one of Bitmovin's newer products is onboarding an outrageous number of new customers.

LiveU's Chief Product Officer, Gideon Gilboa, returns to the Faultline podcast with unfinished business. The 2024 US elections. The 2024 Paris Olympics. LiveU is preparing for a bumper year, but how is the IP cellular bonding specialist adapting to emerging disruptive trends in sports and news broadcasting? And how is the proprietary LRT protocol shaping up against Haivision's established SRT?

Stormtroopers, Zixi, lessons from the military, and the perils of AWS. Brad Carter, CEO and co-founder at Cerberus Tech (formerly CTO until a few weeks ago), joins Tommy Flanagan for an analogy-laden journey through the rise of this UK-based IP video SaaS specialist.

Mistakes and naivety. Enemies turned friends. Codec politics and the power of persuasion. It can only be Guido Meardi, the eccentric CEO and co-founder of London-based V-Nova, who gives Tommy Flanagan the warts-and-all walkthrough since emerging from stealth mode in 2015, to launching an MPEG video compression standard with LCEVC.

Varnish Software's Frank Miller (aka the CTO who never sleeps) joins Tommy Flanagan and Quentin Vidberg on the Faultline Podcast. The trio discuss smashing world records in video delivery, traversing disruption in the CDN landscape, and waning interest in Open Caching... also pizzas, socks, and saturation rigs.

Yes, you did read that title correctly. If you hadn't already heard, the legendary journalist formerly of Streaming Media Magazine, Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, has turned to the dark side - swapping scribe for Mjölnir as CMO of id3as. Eric joins Tommy Flanagan to discuss how this surprise career change came about and what life is like on the other side of the interview table. We also hear about "jaw dropping" moments from IBC 2023 concerning the company's new low-code streaming SDK, and we can't resist name-dropping a few celebrities while we're here.

The first female executive to guest on the Faultline Podcast is Olga Kornienko, EZDRM co-founder and COO - aka the queen of digital rights management. In this episode, we broach the important topic of what can collectively be done better as an industry to encourage the representation of women in the video technology space. But not before we unwrap EZDRM's recent marketing epiphany, touch on IBC 2023 plans from the partnership machine, and deliberate how the vendor might react to shifting industry trends in content protection - as a company dubbed the industry's "best kept secret".

A trip down memory lane with Marty Roberts, SVP of Product Strategy and Marketing at SaaS video platform provider Brightcove, precedes tantalizing teasers about what the US vendor has in store for IBC 2023. Themes span QoE video analytics, cloud-based video predictions, ad tech and FAST, acquisitions, commoditization, commission checks, and tea leaves.

French firm Spideo becomes the second content recommendations specialist to guest on the Faultline Podcast, but this is a very different conversation to the first. Thibault D'Orso, co-founder and CRO, talks about Spideo like the company was founded yesterday, not in 2010, and we soon find out why... with side hustles and strategic expansions on the menu, as IBC 2023 fast approaches.

With days to go before NAB 2023, Stein Erik Sørhaug, SVP Americas at Vimond, joins the Faultline Podcast to discuss meme warfare, OTT consolidation, spy group side hustles, and we even broach the important but seldom-touched topic of developmental disorders and mental health. If this isn't a rollercoster podcast, we don't know what is. The Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology Research’s Faultline service, a weekly news publication that examines the video market in cynical focus like no other – critiquing pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and the minefield of supporting technologies. If you’re in the business world and deal with video content, Faultline is a service you need: www.rethinkresearch.biz // Faultline trials @ https://bit.ly/38c2VOX

A real-life Doctor enters the Faultline studio, where we get to work diagnosing the streaming and personalization pain points, but not before we discover the answer to the real burning question - can Dr. Foster fly a helicopter? Find out why in the latest episode to celebrate Dr. Foster's one-year anniversary as CEO at 24i, the TV app development specialist. The Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology Research’s Faultline service, a weekly news publication that examines the video market in cynical focus like no other – critiquing pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and the minefield of supporting technologies. If you’re in the business world and deal with video content, Faultline is a service you need: www.rethinkresearch.biz // Faultline trials @  https://bit.ly/38c2VOX

It's a metadata minefield this week as MetaBroadcast's new CEO, Jamie Mackinley, joins the Faultline Podcast to discuss the trials and tribulations of broadcast metadata - for clients including the BBC and Amazon's IMDb. This episode takes a turn as we stumble across some strange antics on YouTube involving 70s glam.   The  Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology  Research’s Faultline service, a weekly news publication that examines  the video market in cynical focus like no other – critiquing pay TV,  OTT, SVoD, and the minefield of supporting technologies. If  you’re in the business world and deal with video content, Faultline is a  service you need: www.rethinkresearch.biz // Faultline trials @  https://bit.ly/38c2VOX

Joining Tommy Flanagan on the Faultline Podcast this week - putting the X-factor in UX and the face in UI - it's Pierre Donath, CPO/CMO at 3 Screen Solutions (3SS). Join us on a journey through the front door of video experiences and into the living room of Android TV, then buckle up for a ride into the future of in-vehicle infotainment. Inevitably, ChatGPT even sneaks in a cameo.  The  Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology   Research’s Faultline service, a weekly news publication that   examines the video market – focused on pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and the   technologies that support them. If you’re in the business world and  deal  with video content, Faultline is a service you’ll want to pay  attention  to. Find out more at:   www.rethinkresearch.biz/product/faultline

Entering the Faultline Podcast studio this week is a real-life chameleon. Only 8 months into a new role, Gideon Gilboa, Chief Product Officer at LiveU, immerses us in the new world of live video transmission, low-latency transport protocols, and hardware - lots and lots of hardware. Of course, we couldn't sit down without touching on Gilboa's stint spearheading the cloud-based telco TV transformation at Kaltura, preceded by a quick brief on Faultline's latest antics outside the pod. The Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology  Research’s Faultline service, a weekly news publication that  examines the video market – focused on pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and the  technologies that support them. If you’re in the business world and deal  with video content, Faultline is a service you’ll want to pay attention  to. Find out more at:  www.rethinkresearch.biz/product/faultline

The Faultline Podcast welcomes a legend of video encoding to the microphone this week, as we sit down with Julien Signes, EVP and GM of Video Networks at Synamedia. We take a trip down memory lane, stopping at Envivio and MPEG, where we bump into a prolific French thespian, and look ahead to what 2023 has in store for Synamedia's latest acquisition - Quortex.  The Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology Research’s Faultline service, a weekly news publication that examines the video market – focused on pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and the technologies that support them. If you’re in the business world and deal with video content, Faultline is a service you’ll want to pay attention to. Find out more at:  www.rethinkresearch.biz/product/faultline