Panelists at Faultline’s latest webinar, named “FAST is the past, what is the future?”, did not unanimously agree with that title statement, and sided against personalized channels in the debate opposing it to bespoke channels of the free ad-supported streaming TV variety. Craig Kierce, North America head of sales for OTT app maker 24i media, initially tried to find a middle ground, saying that without wanting to overload servers, distributors could create 10 to 100 individual streams, which would seem personalized to the user without that actually being the case. Rob Gambino, head of advertising strategy for encoding vendor Harmonic, brushed away Kierce’s concerns with the technological aspect, claiming personalization is similar to Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), which he says…