The Streaming Media European Innovation Awards Winners

The polls are closed, and the votes are counted! After a brisk and busy voting cycle, we’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 Streaming Media European Innovation Awards. This year’s 16th annual awards saw more than 1,200 voters cast more than 9,000 votes for products nominated in 12 categories.

As in past years, defining the categories that encompass the European streaming industry’s diverse range of products and services means choosing carefully which categories belong and which ones we relegate to the cutting-room floor. Each year, we reassess the categories to ensure they represent as accurately as possible all of the companies that serve the streaming media market. Then we open up the call for nominations. We’re often surprised and always fascinated to see how readers populate the categories and how each group of services and solutions changes year over year.

As with past editions of these awards, in 2024 we’ve limited inclusion to companies with headquarters in Europe and the UK. (Our annual Readers’ Choice Awards, featuring the top vote-getters based in the US and the rest of the world, will be announced in the November/December issue of the US edition of Streaming Media.) If a company has two headquarters, we’ve asked it to pick one awards programme or the other and held it to its selection.

When all of the ballots are in, we review them carefully, discarding votes from illegitimate email addresses as well as those clearly cast by employees stuffing the ballot boxes for their own companies’ products, lest we give an unfair edge to operations with the largest and most loyal internal cheering sections.

As in years past, we’ve recognised one winner and two runners-up in each category (with runners-up listed here alphabetically). Congratulations to each and every 2024 Streaming Media European Innovation Awards winner!

Winner—Streaming Innovation of the Year

Irdeto—Irdeto Experience

Runners-Up

• 24i—24i Backstage + 24iQ
• MainStreaming—Edge Distribution Network

Winner—AI Solution of the Year

WINNER

United Cloud—Leon

RUNNERS-UP

• Media Distillery—Topic Distillery
• ThinkAnalytics—Think360 Generative AI

Cloud Workflow Solution

WINNER

SmartLabs—SmartLabs Cloud-Ready Solution

RUNNERS-UP

• Dalet—Dalet Flex
• HNR (Humans Not Robots)—HNR to ZERO

Content Delivery & Distribution

WINNER

Mainstreaming—Edge Distribution Network

RUNNERS-UP

• Agile Content—Agile CDN Director
• United Cloud—SportsZone

Corporate Video Platform/Solution

WINNER

THEO Technologies—THEO Player

RUNNERS-UP

• 3Q GmbH—3Q Video Platform
• Jet-Stream—Jet-Stream Cloud

Encoding/Transcoding Solution

WINNER

G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky GmbH—G&L Audio Video Processing Unit (AVPU)

RUNNERS-UP

• Ceeblue—Ceeblue Media Fabric
• Gcore—Gcore Video Streaming

Live Streaming Platform/Service

WINNER

Synamedia—Synamedia Quortex Play Just-in-Time Solution

RUNNERS-UP

• Ant Media—Ant Media Server
• G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky GmbH—G&L Audio Video Processing Unit (AVPU)

Monetisation, Subscription & Content Protection Solution

WINNER

Cleeng—Seasonal Subscriptions

RUNNERS-UP

• castLabs—Single-frame Forensic Watermarking
• ThinkAnalytics—ThinkFAST

OTT Video Platform/Service

WINNER

MWareTV—No Code App Builder V2.0

RUNNERS-UP

• Agile Content—Agile TV as a Service
• Cleeng—ChurnIQ

QoS/QoE Platform

WINNER

Accedo—Accedo Insights

RUNNERS-UP

• AccepTV—Video Quality Monitor (VQM)
• United Cloud—Octopus

Real-Time Streaming Solution

WINNER

THEO Technologies—THEOlive

RUNNERS-UP

• Ant Media—Ant Media Server
• nanocosmos—nanoStream Cloud

Video Advertising Solution

WINNER

Broadpeak—Click2 Interactive Advertising

RUNNERS-UP

• Irdeto—Irdeto Experience
• ThinkAnalytics—ThinkAdvertising