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04.08.2026

Introducing the New Bamboo Cloud Admin Dashboard

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.

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Content StrategyOTTVideo hosting
02.08.2026

Video Podcast Platform: When Audio Isn’t Enough

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.

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Content StrategyOTTSports
02.08.2026

Building a Sports Training Video Library Coaches Actually Use

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.

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Marketing & GrowthMonetizationOTT
02.08.2026

OTT Pricing Psychology: Why $9.99 Still Beats $10

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.

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Content StrategyFaithLive Streaming
29.07.2026

The Christmas & Advent Streaming Playbook for Churches

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 […]

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Content StrategyMonetizationOTT
29.07.2026

Music Streaming Platform: The Indie Artist Playbook

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.

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29.07.2026

Introducing the New Bamboo EPG & Player Embed

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.

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29.07.2026

Bamboo Cloud vs Panopto: Enterprise Video, Compared

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.

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Content StrategyMarketing & GrowthOTT
21.07.2026

SEO for OTT: Turn Search Into Subscribers

SEO is the cheapest acquisition channel most OTT operators ignore. Content pages, title pages, category pages, and blog SEO all drive real subscriber growth. Here's the playbook.

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Content StrategyFaithVideo hosting
21.07.2026

The Discipleship Content Library Every Church Needs

A discipleship content library is where spiritual formation lives when Sunday ends. Here's what to include, how to structure it, and how to keep members returning between services.

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Content StrategyMonetizationOTT
21.07.2026

CEU Video: The Under-Built OTT Category Nobody’s Talking About

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.

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Content StrategyVideo hosting
20.07.2026

Building a Corporate Video Portal That Employees Actually Use

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.

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Content StrategyMarketing & GrowthOTT
20.07.2026

The Micro-Drama Boom: Lessons for Every Streaming Operator

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.

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Content StrategyOTT
20.07.2026

OTT Home Screen Design: The 10 Consequential Seconds

The first 10 seconds on your home screen decide whether a viewer watches or bounces. Here's a practical OTT home screen design playbook — hero placement, content rails, personalization, and what actually moves engagement.

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20.07.2026

Bamboo Cloud vs Zype: The OTT Platform Showdown

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 […]

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19.07.2026

Bamboo Cloud vs Vidyard: Sales Video or Streaming Business?

Bamboo Cloud vs Vidyard sounds like a feature comparison — it isn't. The two platforms exist to do completely different jobs. Here's how to tell which one fits your goal.

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Content StrategyMonetizationOTT
19.07.2026

Build a Documentary Streaming Platform That Actually Pays

Documentary streaming is one of the most under-served OTT niches — and one of the highest-LTV. Curiosity Stream and MagellanTV proved it. Here's the playbook for building your own.

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Marketing & GrowthMonetizationOTT
19.07.2026

OTT Email Marketing: The Lifecycle Sequences That Convert

Most OTT operators run email like a megaphone. The platforms that actually retain subscribers run it as a series of triggered, personal conversations. Here's the playbook.

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Content StrategyFaithLive Streaming
19.07.2026

The Online Welcome Class: Your Church’s First Impression

Most churches greet first-time visitors warmly in person — but ignore the same people online. Here's how to build an online welcome class that turns digital visitors into committed members.

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Content StrategyLive Streaming
25.06.2026

Pick Your Live Streaming Encoder: OBS, Wirecast, or Hardware?

Your encoder is the most consequential decision in your live streaming stack. Every quality issue traces back to it. OBS vs Wirecast vs hardware — what each one actually costs.

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