By Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated August 2026 Most of us now consume entertainment over the Internet. We spend thousands of hours online watching live streams, broadcasts, VODs, and other types of video content. Long-form content is king, but viewers also want content they can consume fast […]
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By Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated August 2026 Online video in education isn’t “nice to have” anymore, it’s the format learners expect for everything from lecture capture and tutoring to workforce training and paid eLearning programs. The difference in 2026 is quality and delivery: students want shorter, […]
By Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated August 2026 Do you want to watch a sports match, an online auction, or a Q&A where your video freezes or the reactions arrive after the moment has already passed? Exactly! That’s why in 2026, one of the biggest challenges for […]
By Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated August 2026 Search is going through a major shift. SEO used to mean optimizing for keywords and trying to rank on Google’s results pages. Now, with AI tools like Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT, search is starting to look more like a […]
By Dacast Editorial Team | Reviewed by Jon Whitehead, COO at Dacast | Updated August 2026 HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a streaming protocol, originally developed by Apple, that delivers audio and video by splitting a stream into small, downloadable segments indexed in a manifest file. HLS is supported natively on nearly every modern browser […]