AI and customer experience will define Brightcove’s 2026 product roadmap and vision, the company has announced. Following a year of accelerated innovation under Bending Spoons’ ownership, product development this year will focus on two areas: AI Innovation and Quality of Experience.
Since early 2025, Brightcove has leveraged Bending Spoons’ centralised AI, data, and platform expertise to increase product innovation, reliability, performance, and usability across the product. After delivering 18 major platform enhancements in the second half of 2025 alone, the company is entering 2026 with its most ambitious roadmap yet.
Facundo Alvarez Morales, Product Lead, Brightcove, explained, “Brightcove is built with our customers, for our customers. We’ve used insights from hundreds of customers to shape priorities across accessibility, live operations, monetisation, and platform experience.
“Brightcove enters 2026 with its strongest product momentum in years, delivering faster innovation, deeper intelligence, and a more seamless experience for our customers and their audiences.”
In 2026, Brightcove’s AI Suite will be expanded with several new capabilities, including next-generation AI captions and localisation. This includes smarter captions with speaker attribution, native real-time captions for live streams, improved accuracy, and expanded language support.
There will also be enhanced AI-powered accessibility and compliance, as well as smarter monetisation with AI-driven advertising. Additionally, automated video intelligence is enhanced through auto-generated video chapters, AI-assisted live clipping for instant social and video-on-demand (VoD) publishing, and intelligent moment detection for high-profile live events.
Brightcove is also investing in the foundational platform experience to drive greater reliability, end-viewers satisfaction, and long-term customer retention. A full video cloud redesign brings a modernised, consistent user interface across all modules to reduce friction and streamline everyday workflows.
Building on previous updates, expanded publishing flexibility brings native support for TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook Reels in Brightcove Social and additional gallery enhancements to deliver a more versatile immersion template experience.
Enhanced user activity logs and deeper advertising metrics through Google Tag Manager brings improved visibility and tracking, while new search functionality within Live Channels simplify navigation for customers running multiple concurrent streams.
