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.

Service release. No new features.

Service release. No new features.

Android SDK 4.21.1 improves playback stability and enhances background audio, Picture-in-Picture behavior, playlist replay, and caption rendering.

Bug Fixes

• The background audio service manages JWMediaButtonReceiver events reliably during playback.
• Entering Picture-in-Picture maintains proper activity state.
• (Android 16) Media service supports seamless playlist replay.
• VTT files decode and render all characters accurately.

iOS SDK 4.23.2 improves playback stability and resolves multiple issues related to fullscreen captions, ad breaks, and Google DAI playback.

Bug Fixes

• (iOS 26) Content resumes correctly after ad breaks.
• (iOS 26) Cleanup operations complete safely during deallocation.
• Rapid skip actions following Google DAI ad playback are properly handled.
• Captions now remain fully visible within the screen boundaries when entering fullscreen mode.

This release updates the underlying Shaka player to improve playback stability and performance.

New Feature

• Updated the Shaka player to v4.4.3, ensuring enhanced compatibility, reliability, and overall playback performance.

We’re excited to introduce Video Studio, a new feature that automates video creation to help you scale production, reduce overhead, and keep your content fresh and engaging.

New Feature

Video Studio integrates automated video generation into your publishing workflows, enabling teams to produce continuously updated, branded videos directly from content or data feeds.

Key Benefits:

• Automated, Scalable Production: Automatically generate and refresh videos from articles, feeds, or live data.
• Flexible Customization: Control branding, fonts, colors, and metadata display to align with your visual identity.
• Expanded Reach: Repurpose existing content into engaging short-form videos to drive discovery and viewer engagement.

Supported Video Types:

• Discovery videos: Automatically generate multi-segment videos from article or video feeds.
• Auto-updating videos: Create continuously refreshed videos based on live or regularly updated data such as market updates, sports scores, or historical events.

We’ve enhanced the dashboard’s System usage page with a new Cumulative contract period usage section, giving you a clearer view of how your usage aligns with your contracted limits.

New Feature

The dashboard now includes a Cumulative contract period usage section that displays usage progress across key metrics (such as video plays, ad insertions, live delivery minutes, and storage) in cards all benchmarked against your contracted totals.

Key benefits:

• At-a-glance visibility into cumulative usage against contract terms
• Progress bars showing percentage utilization for each key metric

You can view this new section on the System usage page in your dashboard.

To learn more about usage metrics, see our Usage Reference.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your account representative.

Service release. No new features.