Starfish Technologies

https://www.starfish.tv
https://www.linkedin.com/company/starfish-technologies-ltd/

Starfish Technologies, a privately owned company headquartered in the UK, founded in 2000, employs approximately 10 individuals and reported $1.2M in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in video processing and playout, providing broadcast technology for programme replacement, ad insertion, stream splicing and processing, OTT delivery, monitoring, encoding, scheduling, compliance, and closed captions.

2025 Revenue

Founded

2000

Headcount

Headquarters

United Kingdom

Primary Segment

Video processing and playout

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

News Summary:

On September 2, 2026, Starfish Technologies announced the forthcoming V9 release of its Advantage AD workstation, which will add support for voice synthesis services. This development provides Audio Description creators with an additional option for producing narration tracks, allowing users to choose between traditional human voice recording or automatically generated voice tracks from completed scripts, a capability enabled by recent improvements in synthetic speech quality. Concurrently, the company is set to showcase the flexibility of its transport stream processing software, including the latest versions of TS Splicer (Win) and TS Splicer (K8), at IBC 2026. This software performs various functions such as clean switching of live feeds, ad replacement, regional program substitution, SCTE-35 processing, and logo insertion, supporting MPEG-2, H.264, and HEVC/H.265 streams across SD, HD, and UHD services. Starfish will also demonstrate its Monitoring Dashboard, offering operators a consolidated view of running services, inputs, outputs, and system status.

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Starfish Technologies offers 6 products in the media tech industry. Starfish Technologies's product portfolio comprises of content supply chain and video processing and playout.

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Starfish Technologies's revenues were less than $10M in 2025. Caretta Research has split Starfish Technologies's revenue into 3 different product categories, the largest of which is transport stream processing. For full access to Starfish Technologies's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.

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Sep

2nd

2026

00:33

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag, Product Updates

Starfish Adds Voice Synthesis Support to Advantage AD in Forthcoming V9 Release

Starfish Technologies has announced the forthcoming V9 release of its Advantage AD workstation, adding support for voice synthesis services and giving Audio Description creators another option for producing the finished narration track. The addition follows significant improvements in the quality of synthetic speech, allowing users to choose between traditional human voice recording or automatically generated voice tracks from the completed script.

Starfish

Sep

2nd

2026

00:33

Events, Events and Conferences, New Offerings

Starfish Highlights Flexible, Scalable Transport Stream Processing at IBC 2026

Starfish Technologies will showcase the flexibility of its transport stream processing software, including the latest versions of TS Splicer (Win) and TS Splicer (K8), at IBC 2026. The software handles a wide range of functions, such as clean switching of live feeds and ad replacement, regional programme substitution, SCTE-35 processing, and logo insertion. It supports MPEG-2, H.264, and HEVC/H.265 streams across SD, HD, and UHD services. The software can be easily adapted as a service changes, with functionality that can be enabled or removed remotely. Starfish will also demonstrate its Monitoring Dashboard, giving operators a consolidated view of running services, inputs, outputs, and system status.

Starfish

Aug

31st

2026

04:28

B2B Tag, Product Updates

Starfish Adds Voice Synthesis Support to Advantage AD in Forthcoming V9 Release

Starfish Technologies has announced the forthcoming V9 release of its Advantage AD workstation, adding support for voice synthesis services and giving Audio Description creators another option for producing the finished narration track. Advantage allows an Audio Description project to be scripted and prepared within the workstation before the narration is added.

rAVe

Aug

27th

2026

06:30

B2B Tag, Product Updates

Starfish adds voice synthesis support to Advantage AD in...

Starfish Technologies has announced the forthcoming V9 release of its Advantage AD workstation, adding support for voice synthesis services and giving Audio Description creators another option for producing the finished narration track. Advantage allows an Audio Description project to be scripted and prepared within the workstation before the narration is added.

4RFV International Broadcast News

Aug

27th

2026

05:10

B2B Tag, Product Updates

Starfish adds voice synthesis support to Advantage AD in forthcoming V9 release

Starfish Technologies has announced the forthcoming V9 release of its Advantage AD workstation, adding support for voice synthesis services and giving Audio Description creators another option for producing the finished narration track. Advantage allows an Audio Description project to be scripted and prepared within the workstation before the narration is added.

Manormarketing

Jul

21st

2026

04:19

Events, Events and Conferences

TS Splicer Showcases Flexible Transport Stream Processing at IBC2026

Starfish Technologies will use IBC2026 to showcase the flexibility of its transport stream processing software, including the latest versions of TS Splicer (Win) and TS Splicer (K8). TS Splicer Delivers Flexible Broadcast Stream Processing TS Splicer handles a wide range of functions for processing encoded media streams, from clean switching of live feeds and ad replacement to regional programme substitution, SCTE-35 processing and logo insertion.

Digital Studio

Jul

20th

2026

11:36

Events, B2B Tag, Events and Conferences

IBC: Starfish To Showcase Flexible Transport Stream Processing

Starfish Technologies will demonstrate the flexibility and scalability of its transport stream processing software at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, Sept. 11-14., in Stand 1.C37j . The demonstrations will feature the latest versions of TS Splicer for Windows servers (TS Splicer (Win)) and for Kubernetes environments (TS Splicer (K8)).

TVNewsCheck

Jul

20th

2026

06:32

Events, Events and Conferences

Starfish highlights flexible, scalable transport stream processing at IBC2026

Starfish Technologies will use IBC2026 to showcase the flexibility of its transport stream processing software, including the latest versions of TS Splicer (Win) and TS Splicer (K8). TS Splicer handles a wide range of functions for processing encoded media streams, from clean switching of live feeds and ad replacement to regional programme substitution, SCTE-35 processing and logo insertion.

Svconline

Jun

2nd

2026

19:30

New Offerings, Emerging Tech

Starfish Technologies TS Splicer Certified for HEVC/H.265 Encoded Streams

Starfish Technologies has announced that its TS Splicer product is now certified for use with HEVC/H.265 encoded streams, supporting MPEG2, H.264, and HEVC/H.265 encoded media. The TS Splicer performs low propagation delay, frame accurate or GOP boundary splicing for applications including advertisement insertion, advertisement blocking, and regional TV content insertion.

Starfish

Jun

2nd

2026

19:30

Emerging Tech

Starfish Technologies Delivers 1000 Transport Stream Processing Channels

Starfish Technologies has passed the milestone of delivering 1000 processing channels in production systems worldwide, providing powerful workflow benefits to broadcasters and content delivery enterprises. The company's software running on COTS hardware simplifies architectures and streamlines workflows, enabling applications such as live content replacement, advertising insertion, and parental control marker processing. This achievement reinforces Starfish's market-leading position in transport stream processing and emphasizes the trust of leading broadcasters in the company's mission-critical applications.

Starfish

Jun

2nd

2026

19:30

Events, Emerging Tech

Starfish Highlights Flexible TS Splicer Releases and New Monitoring Dashboard at NAB Show 2026

Starfish Technologies will present the latest releases of its TS Splicer (Win) and TS Splicer (K8) at NAB Show 2026, along with a new Monitoring Dashboard. The TS Splicer has a wide range of functionality for processing encoded media streams, including clean switching of live feeds, ad replacement, and SCTE-35 processing. The updated releases are designed for flexible deployment across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures. The Monitoring Dashboard provides a consolidated view of running services and system status, helping engineering teams supervise distributed environments more efficiently.

Starfish

Jun

2nd

2026

19:30

New Offerings, Emerging Tech

TS Watermark Inserter Software for Watermark Overlay on Encoded Media Streams

TS Watermark Inserter is a software application that overlays a pre-recorded watermark sequence onto an encoded media transport stream. It supports multiple independent channels and can switch to bypass mode when the overlay isn't active. The system uses MainConcept encoding algorithms and operates with MPEG-2, H264, or HEVC/H265. It requires generic enterprise-grade server hardware with a minimum specification of an Intel Xeon E5-2400 Family processor, 4 core, 12GB RAM, and Microsoft Server 2019 or later operating system.

Starfish

Starfish Technologies's customers primarily consist of broadcast Media Production and Distribution, libraries and connectivity and distribution services companies. Examples of Starfish Technologies's customers include Levira, Sky News and Kungliga Biblioteket (The National Library of Sweden). Starfish Technologies has commercial and technical partners like HP, Turk Telekom and Wisi Group. Starfish Technologies has suppliers like MainConcept.

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