Podcasts & Video Interviews

Looper Insights CEO Lucas Bertrand joins Faultline’s Tommy Flanagan to dive into the advent of the Media Placement Value (MPV) metric, and how content platforms are measuring and optimizing media exposure across connected TV devices. We explore the economics of CTV merchandising, the evolution of content placement analytics, and what changes are coming to Looper Insights’ methodology (spoiler: sports are high on the agenda). Subscribe for more interviews with executives shaping the future of streaming, broadcast, and connected TV.

“You wouldn’t steal a car. Why would you steal a movie?” … One of the most famous slogans from the anti-piracy fight is still being regurgitated in 2025, but to what effect? Nik Forman and Robin Boldon from Friend MTS debrief Faultline’s Tommy Flanagan following an exclusive invite-only anti-piracy panel at IBC 2025, featuring representatives from Friend MTS, beIN MEDIA GROUP, the Sports Rights Owners Coalition (SROC), and the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA).

In this conversation, Tommy Flanagan guests on the Accedo Playback Podcast, alongside the company’s VP of North America, Mrugesh Desai, to cover key themes such as the focus on profitability, innovative monetization strategies, the impact of AI and personalization, lessons from Netflix’s success, device expansion strategies, and the ongoing fragmentation in the TV OS landscape.

Mrugesh does an annoyingly stellar job of refusing to take Tommy’s bait.

In this special feature of the Faultline Podcast, James Cowdery (Dolby) and Thomas Kramer (MainConcept) join Tommy Flanagan (Faultline) to unpack how the new Dolby Digital Plus Pro Plugins, based on the SDK jointly developed by Dolby and MainConcept, can streamline production and boost audio quality for broadcast and streaming professionals directly in an open source FFmpeg workflow.

Should we follow up with a sequel on the legal angle of this impressive technical collaboration? Let us know

Mediagenix’s Meryem Fawzi, Senior Business Consultant and Solution Architect, does a decent job of covering up the company’s acquisition of Spideo hot off the press, as well as the inherited business from WideOrbit earlier this year.

“If 100 people design a horse, you get a camel.”

The illustrious Matt Stagg is a bag of network knowledge and insightful anecdotes.

Formerly of WBD, BT Sport, EE and Orange, Stagg is now drilling deeper into bleeding edge technology buzzterms such as XR and AI – predicting some serious disruption to come over the next 3 to 4 years.

Michael Lantz, founder and CEO of TV app specialist Accedo, buries the hatchet with some contentious coverage on the pages of Faultline from years gone by.

Fast forwarding to the present day – managed services, personalization, acquisitions, and the “new media” customer all come under the microscope in this exclusive interview.

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.