By Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated July 2026 Simulcast streaming lets you broadcast a single live video to multiple platforms at the same time, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and your own website, without managing separate streams for each destination. Platforms like Dacast support native simulcast distribution, meaning […]
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Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated July 2026 By mid-2026, there are approximately 5.79 billion unique mobile subscribers worldwide, representing 71.6% of the global population (GSMA Intelligence). Smartphones have become the default tool for content creation, and live streaming from a phone is now a standard broadcast format […]
Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated July 2026 In 2026, broadcasters are under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality, low-latency video at scale, often to global audiences expecting a seamless experience on any device. The rapid growth in online viewership has pushed traditional streaming infrastructure to its limits. Buffering, […]
Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated July 2026 Choosing an OTT platform is not the same as choosing OTT video hosting infrastructure. Many broadcasters conflate the two: they evaluate a platform’s UI, its pricing page and its feature list, and overlook the hosting layer that actually determines whether […]
By Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated July 2026 The numbers are in, and they clearly show that regular TV programming is out, and streaming on OTT platforms is set to replace it. By 2029, the number of global OTT users is projected to reach 4.91 billion, representing […]