Big Wins for Wowza at IBC 2025
From receiving prestigious awards, to demonstrating groundbreaking new workflow solutions, to hosting unforgettable events – Wowza had a great IBC.
At 2025’s International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam, Wowza showcased how our solutions enable modern video operations across live events, OTT platforms, and enterprise video environments. There were many discussions revolving around deployment flexibility (supporting hybrid and edge deployments) and taking action on the vast amounts of rich data embedded in video (observability, automation, and integration, not just playback). All in all, this pointed to an underlying theme of platform builders, event broadcasters, and OEMs seeking out highly-flexible, highly-reliable systems that “just work.” Fortunately, Wowza is poised to meet these needs with unprecedented flexibility, support, and reliability, and demonstrated this readiness at IBC this year.
Here’s what you may have missed from Wowza at IBC 2025:
New, AI-Powered Workflows & Solutions
AI Object Detection & Captioning: Run advanced AI workflows directly on local hardware, to enable real-time content enrichment or alerting without cloud roundtrips. Partnered with Verbit, Roboflow, and 3Play to integrate leading computer vision training and speech-to-text models, while providing the flexibility for users to bring their own models for fine-tuned or specialized training.
Wowza Agents: Control complex media workflows with natural-language prompts. Just tell the agent what you want to accomplish (from creating a stream, to transcoding footage, and more). Let Wowza do the heavy lifting and simplify operations for lean DevOps and media ops teams.
Live Demos of Cutting-Edge Capabilities
This year at IBC, Wowza had a full display of live demonstrations showcasing new platform capabilities, efficiency improvements, and intelligent workflows in Wowza Video and Wowza Streaming Engine. We had full calendars the whole show and were constantly having deep discussions with booth visitors about the new possibilities at their fingertips, including:
Optimized Ingest-to-Delivery Workflows
Wowza Streaming Engine ARM Support: Full ingest-to-delivery stack deployable at the edge, demonstrated with Wowza Streaming Engine running on an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, resulting in 30% infrastructure cost reduction. Ideal for field production, venue streaming, and OEM integrations.
Spins & Live Clipping: Workflows and tools in Wowza Video for turning live or VOD content into short-form, monetizable assets. Full flexibility to align with any audience viewing trends or platform requirements.
Seamless Capture to Delivery: Capture at the edge with Wowza Streaming Engine and distribute with Wowza Video CDN via the cloud, leveraging hybrid cloud and on-prem streaming support for a fully distributed production workflow with centralized analytics.
Get a closer look at these demos here: https://www.wowza.com/ibcdemos2025
Awards, Recognition, & Events
With social impact as a key area of focus for Wowza, we are thrilled to have won the highly sought-after IBC Innovation Award for our work with Quadrant II and the ACLU’s Mobile Justice app. The Mobile Justice App allows citizens to document law enforcement encounters in real time and securely upload evidence for legal and public review. With over a decade in deployment, the app has served more than 151 million people nationwide. By tapping into Wowza’s intelligent and efficient media workflow solutions, Quadrant II and the ACLU are providing reliable media capture in real time, AI-enhanced analysis and reporting, and scalable infrastructure to serve small local gatherings to large-scale events and everything in between.
Building on this momentum, Wowza received a Best in Show nomination, was a finalist in the Corporate Star Awards for the Sustainable Product Innovation category, and was shortlisted for an IABM award. We also hosted our EZDRM Partner Happy Hour and our Verbit Beach Party, both of which were packed with attendees, great energy, and stimulating conversations. If you attended one of these events with us, thank you for coming out! If you have a project to discuss, our technical experts are ready and waiting to help.
Reinvesting in the Industry’s Future
Wowza partnered with the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA) to develop the Streaming Media Fundamentals certification program, a course designed to help individuals start building their career in broadcasting and streaming media. Krish Kumar, Wowza’s CEO, and Jason Thibeault, SVTA’s CEO, joined each other for a podcast on the IBC show floor to discuss this new partnership and how we are helping to invest in the long-term future and success of this industry. Wowza CEO Krish Kumar also joined the “New Frontiers of Media” panel at IBC to discuss the state of the media industry. The key theme that emerged from this discussion was Deployment Flexibility, specifically when it comes to edge deployments.
Wowza’s flexible video infrastructure solutions power live and on-demand experiences across surveillance, events, entertainment, and more. With Wowza Streaming Engine as the most widely-deployed media server in the world, and Wowza Video as an online video platform for customers who want to enable streaming at scale without deep technical resources, we stand apart for our unmatched deployment control, reliability, and extensibility. Whether streaming from air-gapped networks or hyperscale cloud, Wowza embeds scalable video in the most demanding environments without compromising on customization or control. Wowza’s purpose-built tools, deep protocol support, and expert engineering support help you build video workflows that just work, anywhere video needs to go, making it the trusted solution by developers and technical teams worldwide.
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