Part of the fun of technology tradeshows is inadvertently waltzing into customer or prospective customer demonstrations. That is what happened at IBC 2026 when Faultline crossed paths with a tier 1 pay TV operator in a private meeting room housing start-up RedSquid TV. As with many such encounters, we gave our reassurances that names would not be published. RedSquid, which recently laid claim to the industry’s first operator-grade agentic TV platform, was continuing its streak of claims in Amsterdam. The company told us that the day before our meeting had attracted around 40 people, packed like sardines into the intimate suite. On one of the larger booths down on the show floor, 40 heads doesn’t sound like much. But in…