Ceia Group Themes
Ceia Group are building the room where executives from major streaming services, emerging OTT providers and content aggregators synthesise industry perspective into coherent governance norms. Where the key players across digital media and OTT streaming can talk openly and engage in direct and confidential dialogues that shape the regulatory streaming landscape while the markets are still forming.
Our Focus Areas
The Governance Questions That Actually Matter
Streaming services route user data, viewing analytics and content delivery signals across continents in milliseconds. Every jurisdiction wants sovereignty. Every platform needs coherence. The result: compliance teams larger than engineering teams, and innovation throttled by legal uncertainty.
01. Cross-Border Data Protocols
Streaming services route user data, viewing analytics and content delivery signals across continents in milliseconds. Every jurisdiction wants sovereignty. Every platform needs coherence. The result: compliance teams larger than engineering teams, and innovation throttled by legal uncertainty.
What we're discussing:
Harmonised standards for data flows in distributed streaming architectures
Industry consensus on localisation requirements that respect both privacy and operational reality
Frameworks that satisfy regulatory intent without requiring impossible infrastructure
Transparent protocols that demonstrate accountability across jurisdictions
02. AI-Driven Content Delivery & Algorithmic Transparency
Recommendation algorithms generate 80% of viewing decisions. Regulators want transparency. Competitors want opacity. Users want better recommendations. Nobody’s clear on what “explainable AI” truly means in practice.
Legislative proposals demand algorithmic disclosure without understanding that recommendation systems are both trade secrets and constantly evolving. Static transparency frameworks can’t capture dynamic machine learning. Meanwhile, platforms need clarity on what accountability requires them to share.
What we're addressing:
Practical transparency standards that demonstrate responsibility without exposing proprietary systems
Industry-defined benchmarks for algorithmic fairness in content promotion
Frameworks distinguishing between commercial curation and editorial control
Standards for AI-generated content labelling and synthetic media protocols
03. Emerging Business Models & Revenue Frameworks
Ad-supported tiers, hybrid subscriptions, micropayments, bundled packages, revenue shares with creators – streaming business models evolve faster than tax codes and payment regulations can accommodate.
When your pricing strategy changes quarterly, but financial services regulations assume annual stability, compliance becomes creative friction. Add cross-border transactions, currency conversion and creator revenue splits, and you’ve built a regulatory Jenga tower.
What needs solving:
Governance frameworks flexible enough to accommodate business model innovation
Payment protocol standards for multi-party revenue distribution
Tax and financial reporting structures that reflect streaming economics
Consumer protection guidelines that don't assume out-dated subscription models
04. Intellectual Property in Distributed Ecosystems
Content rights are often negotiated for geographic territories, but streaming is borderless. VPNs make location metrics obsolete, yet rights holders want enforcement.
Traditional IP frameworks assume physical distribution and clear jurisdictional boundaries. Streaming distribution defies both. Meanwhile, AI-generated content, user remixes and algorithmic curation create IP grey zones that existing law doesn’t address.
Our roundtable focus:
Rights management protocols for global streaming in a territory-based licensing world
Industry standards for AI-generated and AI-curated content ownership
Anti-piracy frameworks that actually work without breaking user experience
Creator compensation models that reflect distributed, on-demand consumption
05. Platform Accountability Through Industry Standards
Governments want platforms held accountable. Platforms want clear rules. Users want protection. Traditional regulation delivers none of this effectively. Self-regulation gets dismissed as corporate evasion. The middle ground, where industry-developed standards dominate with transparent enforcement, exists nowhere at scale. Ceia Group wishes to architect this reality.
What we're creating:
Self-governance frameworks that demonstrate responsibility without regulatory micromanagement
Transparent compliance mechanisms that build public trust
Sector-wide codes of conduct for content moderation, user safety, and data practices
Third-party verification protocols that prove accountability without government oversight
06. Operational Flexibility vs Compliance Architecture
Agile product development requires creative experimentation. Regulatory compliance requires predictability and documentation. These philosophies are fundamentally incompatible. Streaming platforms thrive on rapid iteration, yet traditional compliance frameworks assume products are stable and changes are infrequent.