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Harmful content on an online marketplace shows up in very different places at very different rates. This post uses moderation data from Stream's Moderation API to show where it appears most often across live video, speech, chat, photos, and text. Below are the key findings, a comparison across all five content types, and how marketplace teams

Video APIs are great, but relatively simple, pieces of technology. They take a user's upload, encode it with H.264, store it somewhere like S3, and deliver it to viewers via HLS and a CDN. They do that for any video file they're given. They have nothing to do with the video's actual content. But what if that video contains nudity, graphic violence, or hate

How E2EE video calls work in practice, from device authentication and group keys to SFrame frame encryption, SFU forwarding, and rekeying when people join or leave.

Discover how AI image moderation filters work. Covers how they hash, classify, and OCR every image, then how per-category thresholds decide what to allow, flag, or block, and where the models still get it wrong.

80% of consumers have used telemedicine at least once. With the increasing demand for digital healthcare, developers need easy access to the systems and data that underpin modern care. A healthcare API lets your app connect to health data or clinical tools, such as patient records, EHR systems, drug information, symptom checkers, or secure chat and video.

How simulcast lets one video call serve every viewer's bandwidth, what it costs the sender, and how it differs from SVC, transcoding, and multistreaming.

How WebRTC gets two devices behind different routers to connect, covering NAT, STUN, signaling, ICE hole punching, TURN relays, and the RTCPeerConnection API.

Incorporating a real-time communication feature into your app can differentiate your brand and drive user engagement. However, developing these features takes time and resources, deterring you from focusing on core product features. This is where an SDK or API can come into play, as you can use them to accelerate build times and streamline development