We’ve expanded support for SCTE-35 cue types to give you greater flexibility and control when signaling ad breaks in SSAI-enabled live streams.

New Feature

Broadcast Live now supports an extended range of segmentation_type_id values for SCTE-35 time_signal() commands. These additional cue types provide more granular ad break signaling across provider and distributor insertions, giving Broadcast Live greater precision and seamless integration with SSAI workflows and downstream ad servers.

Supported segmentation_type_id values include:

Learn how to monetize your live stream. 

We have introduced a new security option to help you protect your Broadcast Live ingest points.

New Feature

You can now set a Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) passphrase when creating or managing live streams. This passphrase acts as a secret key that ensures only authorized source encoders can send content to your SRT ingest point.

SRT passphrases can be configured directly through the Dashboard UI or via the API.

This update enables you to:

• Set an optional SRT passphrase when creating a stream
• Add a passphrase to a scheduled stream created without one
• Edit or delete a passphrase in a scheduled stream before provisioning

By securing your SRT ingest with a passphrase, you can prevent unauthorized access and maintain greater control over your Broadcast Live setup.

Learn how to add or manage an SRT passphrase.

Broadcast Live has expanded its accepted formats for static ingest points. 

New Features

Broadcast Live now supports RTP and RTP-FEC ingest formats, in addition to the existing SRT and RTMP formats. This update expands input protocol options when creating new ingest points.

Learn how to create a static ingest point using the dashboard or API. 

We’ve updated the Broadcast Live UI for a cleaner, more intuitive dashboard experience. We also fixed a DVR bug to enhance your stream previews.

New Features

Creating a Broadcast Live stream is now simpler, with improved support for simulcasting and advanced settings.

For more information, learn how to create a Broadcast Live stream.

Bug Fixes

When previewing a Broadcast Live stream, the DVR is now cleared to prevent viewers from scrubbing back to any content that occurred before the stream went live.

Simulcasting functionality has been added for Live Events.

New Feature

For Live Events, you can now simulcast streams to up to three RTMP destinations, such as social media platforms like Facebook or YouTube.

We have released a new page to help you monitor your live streams. 

New Feature

Broadcast Live now includes a Live monitoring page that provides a real-time, consolidated view of all active and preview mode streams across a property. The multi-view interface allows you to track stream status, content playback, and stream details at a glance, helping you efficiently manage multiple streams.

This updates enables you to: 

• Quickly identify and resolve playback or delivery issues
• Confirm that scheduled events start as expected
• Ensure uninterrupted live stream delivery

Learn how to monitor your live streams. 

Broadcast Live now supports higher frame rates for fast-paced content.

New Feature

Broadcast Live now supports higher frame rates of 50fps and 60fps. This enhancement delivers improved video quality for fast-moving content — such as sports — providing smoother, more lifelike visuals and enabling slow-motion playback without loss of clarity.

Notes:

• To enable 50fps or 60fps, contact your account manager to increase this limit.
• Since higher frame rates require more bandwidth, we recommend increasing your bitrate when streaming at 50fps or 60fps.
• By default, live streaming profiles support up to 30fps.

 Broadcast Live now allows stream metadata to be retained when using the Live Clipping feature.

New Feature

Tags and custom parameters from Broadcast Live streams can be copied to new clips created with the Live Clipping functionality. This feature helps organize and search content easily and is useful when working with dynamic playlists. 

Broadcast Live has improved support for static ingest points, DVR functionality, and Live2VOD for OTT Apps.

New Features

• Static ingest points can now be applied to 24/7 live channels. 
• DVR can now be enabled on SSAI properties. Read more about how DVR functionality behaves on SSAI-enabled properties.
• For OTT Apps, the publish date of the Live2VOD media can now be updated to match the event's start date once the stream has started. Broadcast Live will no longer automatically make changes to the publish date beyond the stream start.

Setting up Broadcast Live webhooks lets you receive notifications about stream events.

New Feature

Webhooks allow you to automate your workflow for Broadcast Live events by sending notifications to a designated URL endpoint when specific events occur, such as stream creation or streams going live.

Possible Webhook Events:

• Stream created
• Stream deleted
• Stream go live
• Stream transitioned
• Stream updated