External Content is a new addition to the Admin Dashboard that lets any account add a video from any source — straight into your library, next to your own content, with your categories, branding, and access settings.
External Content is a new addition to the Admin Dashboard that lets any account add a video from any source — straight into your library, next to your own content, with your categories, branding, and access settings.
The state of FAST in 2026 is more interesting than the industry conversation suggests. Where it's growing, where it's flattening, and where the ad money is actually flowing.
Leaving YouTube to build your own branded platform is one of the most consequential moves a creator can make — and one most do badly. Here's how to actually make the audience follow you.
Yoga and meditation streaming sits in one of OTT's stickiest niches — loyal audience, evergreen content, daily practice. Here's how to build a platform that keeps students coming back.
Older members are often the most faithful online audience for a church — and the most underserved. Streaming for aging congregants starts with captions, audio quality, and a TV app that works with a remote in four button presses.
Bamboo Cloud vs Setplex is a comparison worth doing carefully — the two platforms serve genuinely different customers. Here's where each one fits and who should pick which.
New Bamboo Cloud accounts land on a guided onboarding checklist that walks you from empty dashboard to first live content. In-app tours cover every major area — on demand, in context, no manual required.
Category Management moves out of a side panel and into its own dedicated page — with a list view, a visual Category Tree, and the tools to see and shape your whole catalog in one place.
Coaches, trainers, and academies need organized video libraries for drills, technique breakdowns, and film review. Here's how to build a sports training video library that gets used.
Anchoring, decoy tiers, the power of $9.99, annual discount curves. The behavioral economics behind OTT pricing decisions that most operators leave on the table.
Video podcasts exploded because audio-only left too much on the table. Here's how to build a video podcast platform with structure, distribution, and multiple revenue streams.
The new Bamboo Cloud Admin Dashboard is live — a complete rebuild of the administration experience. Here's the story of why we did it, what changed, and where it's going.
Christmas Streaming: The Biggest Attention Moment of the Church Year Christmas streaming is the single most important seasonal broadcast opportunity a church has. Christmas Eve services routinely draw two to three times the typical Sunday audience in-person — and even bigger multiples online. Between traveling family members watching from other cities, first-time visitors curious about […]
Spotify pays fractions of a cent per stream. Indie artists are increasingly building their own direct-to-fan platforms. Here's the playbook for a music streaming platform that actually pays the artist.
The new EPG embed brings your full electronic program guide and player to any website with a single iframe. No custom integration, no dev work — just paste and go.
Bamboo Cloud vs Panopto — both handle enterprise video, but they solve completely different jobs. Here's how they compare on positioning, use cases, and where each one wins.
Bamboo Cloud vs Zype: Two OTT Platforms, Two Audiences Bamboo Cloud vs Zype is a fair comparison — both target the OTT infrastructure market, both offer video hosting and streaming distribution, and both compete for the operators building a streaming business. But the two platforms serve very different customers. Zype (now part of Backlight since […]
Micro-dramas — 60 to 90-second vertical episodes — exploded in China and are spreading globally. The lessons apply to every streaming operator's approach to mobile, pacing, and attention.
Every company has internal videos scattered across drives, chat threads, and forgotten portals. A proper corporate video portal turns that mess into a searchable, secure library employees actually use.
CEU video — continuing education for lawyers, doctors, nurses, engineers, and teachers — is one of the most under-built OTT verticals. Here's how to structure a platform that serves real professional demand.
