After a Record Year in Broadcast Innovation, PlayBox Neo’s CEO Pavlin Rahnev Defines his Vision for 2026, further Driving Momentum in Playout, Streaming, Media Management and Delivery

After a Record Year in Broadcast Innovation, PlayBox Neo’s CEO Pavlin Rahnev Defines his Vision for 2026, further Driving Momentum in Playout, Streaming, Media Management and Delivery

For Immediate Release – Sofia, Bulgaria 7 January 2026- With a brand new year at PlayBox Neo already off to a flying start, I am immensely proud of our team’s achievements over 2025, providing customers with transformative technology. Our game-changing advancements demonstrate our dedication to helping our customers stay ahead of the competition with workflows designed for maximum efficiency and flexibility, delivering seamless, high-performance broadcast operations.

The continued world-wide expansion of  Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering brought in significant global growth last year, further reinforcing our position as an international provider and market leader of flexible, scalable media solutions.

The official launch of the new PlayBox Neo Suite back in March 2025 made a great impact, resulting in the platform receiving  the “Best in Broadcast Playout” award at the BroadcastPro Manufacturer Awards 2025 ceremony during CABSAT 2025 in May. PlayBox Neo Suite is an extensive suite of solutions that streamlines and enhances workflows of media organisations such as TV channels, satellite operators, content creators, and OTTs.

The prestigious accolade pays tribute to forward-thinking manufacturers in the broadcast sector and is a valued mark of excellence. It signifies credibility, respect, and acknowledgement among clients and peers alike, honouring companies that celebrate excellence. The industry recognition is a testament to our commitment to spearheading cutting-edge broadcast solutions that meet the ongoing growing demands that international media professionals face.

Annually, we  continue to support the industry by platforming PlayBox Neo’s key innovations at major broadcast technology events. Exhibitions play an important part of our partnership and customer engagement. PlayBox Neo’s global presence  spanned across APAC and EMEA regions including Europe and the Americas, by supporting CABSAT, Broadcast Asia, NAB Show in Las Vegas, NAB NY 2025, SET expo 2025, IBC2025, ASBU TV & Radio Convention and others, where our PlayBox Neo experts highlighted the entire product line showing how they control ingest, transmission, scheduling through to playout, to vast global audiences.

This past year has been marked by key customer wins such as LiveMode, the media and marketing company behind CazéTV in Brazil, where we deployed a Dual Channel-in-a-Box turnkey playout solution in partnership with CIS group, boosting automation and efficiency. A fully modernised 12-channel playout workflow featuring AirBox Neo, TitleBox Neo, ListBox Neo, Live Ingest, and Multi-Backup Manager was implemented at Washington DC-based TVW. Zapping Sports Ecuador invested in a Channel-in-a-Box HD server for its national football channel, including live matches and satellite programming. Miracle Channel in Canada upgraded with new AirBox Neo systems for its linear channels and digital streaming service, Corco+. Long-standing Thailand-based customer, TC Broadcasting invested in the latest Multi Playout Manager and Channel-in-a-Box servers to support  international client base expansion across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Mono Streaming Co. Ltd. selected PlayBox Neo’s Channel-in-a-Box HD servers to support their English Premier League program for OTT streaming platform “Monomax”.

Furthermore, our valued training and customer support milestones demonstrates our ongoing commitment to empowering customers through training programs. This year included training for major broadcasters such as Bangladesh TV, which represents another successful large-scale client implementation.

We have enjoyed yet another successful year of strategic partnerships and global expansion. Our growth is supported by a powerful network of international partners dedicated to enhancing our global footprint. PlayBox Neo's success is built on strong partnerships and a customer-focused approach, ensuring tailored support and solutions that boost efficiency.  We collaborated closely with Duo and CIS Group, both playing a key role as Systems Integration Partners (Duo in Chile and CIS Group in Brazil). In addition, we reinforced our position in South East Asia by appointing PT. Transtel Universal as our primary Indonesian reseller. A major highlight this year was our partnership with AI-Media, enabling the seamless integration of advanced AI-driven captioning, translation, and voice-translation technology into the PlayBox Neo ecosystem.

PlayBox Neo consistently dominates product scalability, by continuing to invest in innovation that enhances broadcasters’ businesses with proven and robust technology. I wish all our customers and partners a highly successful 2026 ahead!

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About PlayBox Neo - Building on 25 years of successful innovation, PlayBox Neo Ltd. is advancing its role in the multi-platform future of broadcasting. Having pioneered the development of high-efficiency server-based and cloud-based playout, we are fully geared for today's world in which broadcasting is expanding to support every scale and type of one-to-many communication. PlayBox Neo products and solutions power over 20,000 playout and branding channels worldwide. Fully scalable, modular, open and available on as hardware or as a service, PlayBox Neo solutions are customer-oriented, easy to commission, logical to operate and highly robust. PlayBox Neo Suite is a professional media platform that enables centralized control, monitoring and administration of a multimedia workflow. PlayBox Neo Suite is a multi-user, multi-server environment that offers an enhanced user experience in a highly cost-effective package. Our server-centric product series is based on the PlayBox Neo Channel-in-a-Box system (AirBox Neo, TitleBox Neo, Ingest and Media Gateway). This turnkey solution integrates seamlessly with PlayBox Neo Suite to optimize your investment and enable a unified interface for future updates. Available for all PlayBox Neo systems, the optional ASM&TS (Annual Software Maintenance & Technical Support) subscription offers extended 24/7 support and software upgrades, ensuring maximum operational reliability and future-proofing. With its commercial headquarters in Europe, PlayBox Neo has offices in the USA (PlayBox Neo LLC), Singapore (PlayBox Neo Asia Pacific), India (PlayBox Neo India), and the UK. www.playboxneo.com

CEO Pavlin Rahnev