Michael Lantz - Accedo

In this conversation, Tommy Flanagan guests on the Accedo Playback Podcast, alongside the company's VP of North America, Mrugesh Desai, to cover key themes such as the focus on profitability, innovative monetization strategies, the impact of AI and personalization, lessons from Netflix's success, device expansion strategies, and the ongoing fragmentation in the TV OS landscape. Mrugesh does an annoyingly stellar job of refusing to take Tommy's bait 🎣

In this special feature of the Faultline Podcast, James Cowdery (Dolby) and Thomas Kramer (MainConcept) join Tommy Flanagan (Faultline) to unpack how the new Dolby Digital Plus Pro Plugins, based on the SDK jointly developed by Dolby and MainConcept, can streamline production and boost audio quality for broadcast and streaming professionals directly in an open source FFmpeg workflow. Should we follow up with a sequel on the legal angle of this impressive technical collaboration? Let us know in the comments.

Mediagenix's Meryem Fawzi, Senior Business Consultant and Solution Architect, does a decent job of covering up the company's acquisition of Spideo hot off the press, as well as the inherited business from WideOrbit earlier this year. Mediagenix has its eye on North American expansion, and this episode is the exclusive place to hear about the company's broadcast management strategy leading up to IBC 2024.

"If 100 people design a horse, you get a camel." The illustrious Matt Stagg is a bag of network knowledge and insightful anecdotes. Formerly of WBD, BT Sport, EE and Orange, Stagg is now drilling deeper into bleeding edge technology buzzterms such as XR and AI - predicting some serious disruption to come over the next 3 to 4 years.

Michael Lantz, founder and CEO of TV app specialist Accedo, buries the hatchet with some contentious coverage on the pages of Faultline from years gone by. Fast forwarding to the present day - managed services, personalization, acquisitions, and the "new media" customer all come under the microscope in this exclusive interview.

Production tools, generative AI, and live streaming projects are hot topics for GALSNGEAR, an initiative focused on upskilling women in the M&E industry, boasting over 1500 members today. Founder Amy DeLouise provides a masterclass in promoting diversity, and lambasts Faultline for our own contribution to the 'manel' problem.

24i's new SVP of Product Management, Sebastian Braun, comes in with fresh ideas following the recent departure of former CEO Dr. Neale Foster. Anti-piracy pitfalls, discovery fatigue, and the TV aggregation dilemma all come to a head in this episode - leading us to an "agree to disagree" dead-end.

Witbe, the famous French video monitoring provider, is hiding a few things - and Faultline is on a mission to scratch below the surface. From major unannounced customer wins and revenue scrutiny, to unreleased product updates at NAB Show 2024, this episode welcomes the double act of Witbe's CEO Mathieu Planche, alongside COO Yoann Hinard - with 25 years of Witbe experience between them.

The C-word features on the Faultline Podcast for the first time, in an episode full of taboos. CEO of Bold New Solutions (BNS), Lu Bolden (formerly of Verimatrix and ThinkAnalytics), introduces us to a new venture - one that aims to drill into both engineering and business problems for customers like Wide Open West (WOW).

Greening of Streaming's Dom Robinson and Ben Schwarz bury the hatchet with Faultline's Tommy Flanagan and Quentin Vidberg, to discuss whether our recent article did justice to the group's recently completed remote energy monitoring tests. How does GoS plan to build on this groundwork of SDR versus HDR energy data? What sort of sample size can be considered credible? And is the honeymoon period over for the non-profit?