The Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology Research’s Faultline service, a weekly news publication that examines the video market in cynical focus like no other – critiquing pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and supporting technologies. If you’re in the business world and deal with video content, Faultline is a service you’ll want to pay attention to.
Hosted by Tommy Flanagan, Editor of Faultline
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With days to go before NAB 2023, Stein Erik Sørhaug, SVP Americas, at Vimond, joins the Faultline Podcast to discuss meme warfare, OTT consolidation, spy group side hustles, and we even broach the important but seldom-touched topic of developmental disorders and mental health. If this isn’t a rollercoaster podcast, we don’t know what is.
A real-life doctor enters the Faultline studio, where we get to work diagnosing the streaming and personalization pain points, but not before we discover the answer to the real burning question – can Dr. Foster fly a helicopter? Find out why in the latest episode to celebrate Dr. Foster’s one-year anniversary as CEO at 24i, the TV app development specialist.
It’s a metadata minefield this week as Meta Broadcast’s CEO, Jamie Mackinlay, joins the Faultline Podcast to discuss the trials and tribulations of broadcast metadata – for clients including the BBC and Amazon’s IMDb. This episode takes a turn as we stumble across some strange antics on YouTube involving 70s glam.
Joining Tommy Flanagan on the Faultline Podcast this week – putting the X-factor in UX and the face in UI – it’s Pierre Donath, CPO/CMO at 3 Screen Solutions (3SS). Join us on a journey through the front door of video experiences and into the living room of Android TV, then buckle up for a ride into the future of in-vehicle infotainment. Inevitably, ChatGPT even sneaks in a cameo.
Plus a run-through of key issues of the past week in the video industry.
Entering the Faultline Podcast studio this week is a real-life chameleon. Only 8 months into a new role, Gideon Gilboa, Chief Product Officer at LiveU, immerses us in the new world of live video transmission, low-latency transport protocols, and hardware – lots and lots of hardware. Of course, we couldn’t sit down without touching on Gilboa’s stint spearheading the cloud-based telco TV transformation at Kaltura, preceded by a quick brief on Faultline’s latest antics outside the pod.
The Faultline Podcast welcomes a legend of video encoding to the microphone this week, as we sit down with Julien Signes, SVP and GM of Video Networks at Synamedia. We take a trip down memory lane, stopping at Envivio and MPEG, where we bump into a prolific French thespian, and look ahead to what 2023 has in store for Synamedia’s latest acquisition – Quortex.
Plus a run-through of key issues of the past week in the video industry.
The Faultline Podcast welcomes a Scandinavian superstar to this week’s guest feature, with Simen Frostad, Chairman and Founder of Bridge Technologies – the unassuming broadcast monitoring vendor that took on Cisco scale back at IBC 2022.
Plus a run-through of key issues of the past week in the video industry.
The Faultline Podcast welcomes recommendations royalty to this week’s guest feature, with Peter Docherty, CTO and founder of ThinkAnalytics – creator of the world’s most widely deployed content recommendations engine.
Plus a run-through of key issues of the past week in the video industry.
The newly relaunched Faultline Podcast welcomes its first guest. Tommy Flanagan is joined by the legendary Intertrust CEO and godfather of DRM – Talal Shamoon. Plus a round-up of the latest news in the video industry, from Tommy.
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