With Harmonic agreeing to sell its video business to rival infrastructure vendor MediaKind in the dying days of 2025, we set about on a clue-finding mission for how the future merged business will be positioned, given the lack of clarity from either side at this early stage. This led us towards a Harmonic webinar titled “Innovative Monetization Strategies,” which was livestreamed the same week that the US company agreed to ship its video division to MediaKind for just $145 million. Are Harmonic’s so-called innovative advertising tools what sealed the deal for MediaKind, or is the US company just reskinning old broadcast technology for the streaming age? We suspect a bit of both. After an unnecessarily lengthy intro about the familiar dichotomy of linear versus connected TV, Jean Macher, Senior Director…