Video analytics vendors are using recent shifts in the streaming landscape to their advantage, twisting a narrative of ‘peak streaming’ whereby only OTT content providers with the largest datasets and strongest AI-based platforms will survive. While the industry should do its best to ignore such sensationalist headlines related to Netflix’s subscriber blip and the implosion of CNN+, it is true these two incidents have contributed to a new analytics landgrab as service providers scramble to harness everything there is to know about user behaviors, out of fear they might be next. Symphony MediaAI, for instance, is spinning up a marketing drive based on these high-profile turning points for global streaming. The US analytics firm’s CTO, S.V. Vasudaven, has undergone a…