CastLabs

https://castlabs.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/castlabs/

CastLabs is a privately owned company headquartered in Germany. Founded in 2007, it employs approximately 80 individuals and reported $7.5M in revenue as of 2024. The company specializes in content security, offering software and cloud services for digital video. It provides solutions encompassing the security, processing, and final delivery of video content for OTT, IPTV/DVB platforms, in addition to supporting production workflows.

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2007

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Germany

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Content security

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Privately Owned

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On July 15, 2026, Castlabs enhanced its DRMtoday service, allowing protection for multicast streams with hardware-secured Widevine and PlayReady DRM, in addition to securing OTT streaming across mobiles, browsers, and smart TVs using Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay Streaming. Previously, on June 25, Castlabs announced a strategic partnership with Arbor Media, aiming to strengthen trusted media workflows for governments, parliaments, international institutions, and courts through C2PA-aligned media provenance and STARDUSTmark watermarking. This follows an integration announced on June 17, which brought Castlabs’ cloud multi-DRM service DRMtoday and single-frame forensic watermarking technology STARDUSTmark into Backlight’s Iconik, a creative operations and media asset management platform, making Iconik the first of its kind to support frame-accurate forensic watermarking.

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CastLabs offers 6 products in the ad tech and services and media tech industries. CastLabs's product portfolio comprises of video processing and playout, user experience and devices, content security and ad measurement and verification.

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CastLabs's revenues were less than $10M in 2024. Caretta Research has split CastLabs's revenue into 6 different product categories, the largest of which is dRM. For full access to CastLabs's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.

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Jul

15th

2026

08:06

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

cost DRM now for IPTV and hybrid PayTV

Unified and simplified DRMtoday‘s global license delivery network lets you protect multicast streams with hardware-secured Widevine and PlayReady DRM while also securing OTT streaming across mobiles, browsers, smart TVs, and more (using Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay Streaming).

Castlabs

Jun

30th

2026

19:30

B2B Tag

Company culture: How Castlabs people define it

Castlabs

Jun

25th

2026

01:00

Emerging Tech, Partnerships and Alliances

Arbor Media and Castlabs partner to strengthen trust in public institutional media workflows

Castlabs and Arbor Media bring C2PA-aligned media provenance and STARDUSTmark watermarking to public institutional media workflows. Berlin( ) DOETINCHEM and BERLIN, June 25, 2026 – Arbor Media and Castlabs today announced a strategic partnership focused on advancing trusted media workflows for governments, parliaments, international institutions, and courts through media authenticity and provenance technologies.

Streaming Media

Jun

24th

2026

19:30

Partnerships and Alliances, B2B Tag

Arbor Media and Castlabs partner to strengthen trust in public institutional media workflows

Castlabs

Jun

17th

2026

02:27

Emerging Tech, Partnerships and Alliances

Backlight Brings Studio-Grade Content Security to Iconik Proxy Workflows Using Castlabs’ Stardustmark and Drmtoday

Castlabs and Backlight announced an integration that brings Castlabs’ cloud multi-DRM service, DRMtoday, and single-frame forensic watermarking technology, STARDUSTmark, into Backlight’s Iconik, the creative operations and media asset management (MAM) platform, making Iconik the first of its kind to support frame-accurate forensic watermarking.

MarTech Series

Jun

16th

2026

18:54

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

streaming

Together with castLabs, this webinar presents a new approach to fight piracy: High-Frequency Key Rotation (HFKR).

Unified Streaming

Jun

16th

2026

01:00

Emerging Tech, Partnerships and Alliances

Backlight brings studio-grade content security to Iconik proxy workflows using Castlabs' STARDUSTmark and DRMtoday

Castlabs and Backlight today announced an integration that brings Castlabs' cloud multi-DRM service, DRMtoday , and single-frame forensic watermarking technology, STARDUSTmark , into Backlight's Iconik , the creative operations and media asset management (MAM) platform, making Iconik the first of its kind to support frame-accurate forensic watermarking.■

PR Newswire

Apr

12th

2026

22:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Ad Insertion Platform and Castlabs at NAB 2026

In late 2025, IAB Tech Lab released a formal set of standards for advanced streaming ad formats – the first significant update to ad format guidelines in several years. The move reflects a growing consensus: that the next wave of streaming monetization will not only be built on pre-roll and mid-roll, but on formats that integrate more naturally and creatively into the viewing experience.

Castlabs

Apr

10th

2026

01:46

Emerging Tech

STARDUSTmark v3 forensic watermarking updates

We’re excited to launch version 3 of STARDUSTmark featuring a practical update to our single-frame forensic watermarking pipeline. The core changes are in embedding and extraction: v3 is more resilient under real distribution transforms, while introducing less visible structure in the image than v2.

Castlabs

Mar

27th

2026

04:53

Partnerships and Alliances, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Castlabs is part of CleanFeed consortium

BERLIN, 27 March 2026 – Castlabs is part of CleanFeed – a research initiative focused on verifying the origin and authenticity of digital media, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR).

Castlabs

Mar

16th

2026

05:34

Events, Emerging Tech

Visit us at Broadcast Asia 2026

our booth demos What we’re showcasing at BroadcastAsia The media ecosystem is evolving fast – and the stakes have never been higher. At Broadcast Asia 2026, we’re showcasing the technologies helping studios, platforms, and operators protect content, monetize smarter, and defend authenticity at every stage of the workflow..

Castlabs

Mar

10th

2026

03:23

Emerging Tech

See you at the NAB Show 2026

our booth demos What’s new this year? From protecting pre-release studio assets to enabling addressable ad innovation and combating deepfakes, our technologies are built for a media ecosystem where trust is currency and security is non-negotiable.

Castlabs

CastLabs's customers primarily consist of telecoms companies. Examples of CastLabs's customers include Telstra, Telia Company and KPN. CastLabs has commercial and technical partners like Microsoft, Google and Apple.

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