Uplynk, a cloud-native streaming platform built for broadcast-grade video at scale, today shared an update on its positive momentum and accelerating pace of innovation. Uplynk’s products and services leverage a proven framework of reliability, operational control, and accountability shaped by almost two decades of experience serving the industry’s most demanding live, linear, and on-demand environments, where failure is not an option. As streaming workflows grow increasingly complex, Uplynk is doubling down on the areas where it has the greatest proven customer impact: helping teams simplify operations, add new monetization opportunities, and flexibly scale video delivery with confidence.
“We are proud of the progress we made across the business over the past year, and we are well-positioned to continue investing in the products and services that matter most to our customers,” said Eric Black, CEO and CTO of Uplynk. “We are providing our customers with operational experience, managed services, and differentiated tools to support their goals of launching channels, expanding live distribution, and monetizing their streaming businesses at scale. Importantly, our investment in modularizing our products and services enables customers to implement our best-of-breed capabilities while preserving and leveraging their existing internal investments.”
Managed Services (StreamOps) is a growth engine for Uplynk, with revenue up more than 40% year over year in Q1 2026 across Uplynk’s core business. Momentum remained strong as organizations increasingly relied on Uplynk to help them rapidly expand without needing to build large internal teams. Uplynk continued to deepen relationships with customers, including ReachTV and EverPass, while broader engagement with organizations such as Hearst and Scripps emphasized increased demand for production‑ready streaming platforms paired with hands‑on operational support.
Uplynk accelerated the pace of innovation over the past year, introducing new product capabilities to reduce operational complexity and customer costs, including Squeeze Backs for incremental monetization, Transcription and Translation APIs to support localization and accessibility, and AI-driven clipping to accelerate content reuse. Platform and workflow enhancements across ingest, content management, and monetization further reduced failure points and operating overhead for customers streaming at scale. Uplynk delivered these capabilities while maintaining broadcast‑grade reliability, with high platform and content availability supported by a multi‑region architecture that automatically shifts traffic to maintain uninterrupted streaming.
Looking forward, AI-enabled processes and development are expected to deliver significant efficiencies and benefits to Uplynk’s business and its customers in 2026, helping automate setup, monitoring, and recovery for live events while improving stream validation and monetization accuracy. In addition, Uplynk is moving toward a fully modular Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) offering, allowing monetization and audience rules to be adopted independently—without forcing customers to rip and replace existing workflows. With SmartPlay:Ingest (Uplynk’s bring‑your‑own‑encoder approach), teams can build on their existing infrastructure, reducing complexity while modernizing live, linear, FAST, and on‑demand streaming. Uplynk is also expanding StreamOps as a core operating model. StreamOps provides hands‑on ownership for live events, linear channels, and monetization workflows—either alongside the Uplynk platform or as a standalone managed service—bringing operational accountability to complex, multi‑vendor environments.
About Uplynk
Uplynk is the streaming engine behind some of the world’s most-watched content. Our cloud-native platform powers 24/7 channels, live events, and VOD libraries for major broadcasters, sports leagues, media companies, and enterprise customers. With fully managed services and tools like StreamOps, Uplynk simplifies complex workflows and delivers broadcast-grade reliability at scale. Each month, we help partners deliver over 100 million hours of seamless viewing across every screen.
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