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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Founded

2007

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Headquarters

Germany

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Content security

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Privately Owned

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On September 7, 2026, Castlabs continued its collaboration with Yospace to advance Server-Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI), exploring how evolving standards can create new opportunities for broadcasters. Their joint work encompasses HLS Interstitials, Alternative MPD Events, extended DVR windows, and emerging non-linear ad formats, combining their expertise in Dynamic Ad Insertion and video playback. Earlier, on August 19, 2026, the company made DASH Alternative MPD events available for SGAI, facilitating ad insertion and replacement for VOD and live content. Previously, on July 15, 2026, Castlabs highlighted its DRMtoday global license delivery network, which protects multicast IPTV streams with hardware-secured Widevine and PlayReady DRM, while also securing OTT streaming across mobiles, browsers, and smart TVs using Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay Streaming.

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

7th

2026

06:30

Emerging Tech, Events and Conferences, Partnerships, Regulations and Policies

Yospace & Castlabs: Advancing the Future of Ad Insertion

As the streaming industry heads to IBC 2026, Yospace and Castlabs are continuing our close collaboration to advance Server-Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI) and explore how evolving standards can create new opportunities for broadcasters. Our work together spans HLS Interstitials, Alternative MPD Events, extended DVR windows and emerging non-linear ad formats, bringing together our expertise across Dynamic Ad Insertion and video playback.

Yospace

Aug

31st

2026

06:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag, Partnerships, New Offerings

High-frequency key rotation: top scorer for live sports streaming

The appetite for live sports streaming has never been greater. Seems like one championship or another is always on. The NBA’s best-of-seven. The World Cup. The Badminton World Federation finals. Fans are watching live, on any device, anywhere in the world.

Unified Streaming

Aug

19th

2026

07:16

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag, Product Updates

DASH Alternative MPD events available for SGAI

What can I do with Alternative MPD events? Good question, and the answer is – quite a lot! Ad insertion and ad replacement For starters, there are two switching types: insert and replace. ‘Insertion’ events are straightforward and mainly target VOD.

Castlabs

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.

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

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