At the 2024 NAB Show, the West hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center was again a desolate scene of consolidation, compared to the bustling Central and South halls (the North hall is currently closed for construction work), but what remained were a spread of highly specialized video technology vendors that are not just surviving, but thriving. Even privately-owned companies were dangling the P-word – profit – in the face of Faultline with reckless abandon. For some, profitability has come because of significant internal cuts, but for others the bottom line is positive without trimming down teams. Bitmovin, Harmonic, Synamedia, MediaKind, Yospace, Accedo, Agile Content, LiveU are just a handful of companies whose senior leadership were eager to emphasize that…