Cleeng’s co-founders are accustomed to hearing slander from the saturated field of end-to-end TV platform peddlers about how modern video streaming businesses want a plug-and-play software suite inclusive of Cleeng-type features like billing and subscriber retention tools. “The end-to-end players are faking it. It is most likely they do this in mediocre mode,” defends Cleeng CEO Gilles Domartini, briefing Faultline at IBC 2024. “Our biggest competition comes from YouTube, Uscreen, Vimeo.” Recurly, a US-based competitor, would like a word. “Customers tell us the difference coming to us is night and day – the number of reports, the understanding they get of their business overall,” adds Domartini. “We are not the cheapest, but last week alone we had tens of thousands…