CANADIAN HOSTING, PEER-TO-PEER DISTRIBUTION, ON-SITE AV CREWS AND REAL-TIME VIEWER ANALYTICS — A FULLY SOVEREIGN SOLUTION FOR ORGANIZATIONS THAT CAN'T COMPROMISE ON SECURITY OR QUALITY.
Montreal (Quebec), September 16, 2026 – PQM.net, a Canadian pioneer in premium webcasting solutions since 1998, today announced a strategic partnership with Hive Streaming, the Stockholm-based leader in enterprise video delivery and analytics.
The agreement integrates Hive's peer-to-peer distribution technology directly into StudioCast.ca and StudioCast.Ai, PQM.net's Canadian-hosted platforms — giving Canadian enterprises and public sector organizations a fully sovereign solution for large-scale live broadcasts, delivered end to end by a Canadian team.
The announcement is being made on the opening day of ALL IN 2026 in Montreal, where a Hive Streaming representative will join the PQM.net team at booth S22.
Montreal (Quebec), September 16, 2026 – PQM.net, a Canadian pioneer in premium webcasting solutions since 1998, today announced a strategic partnership with Hive Streaming, the Stockholm-based leader in enterprise video delivery and analytics. The agreement integrates Hive's peer-to-peer distribution technology directly into StudioCast.ca and StudioCast.Ai, PQM.net's Canadian-hosted platforms — giving Canadian enterprises and public sector organizations a fully sovereign solution for large-scale live broadcasts, delivered end to end by a Canadian team.
The announcement is timed to coincide with the opening day of ALL IN 2026 in Montreal, where Hive Streaming will join the PQM.net team at booth S22.
From Stockholm to Montreal: A Partnership Born in the Field
In the first half of 2025, PQM.net and Hive Streaming were brought together on an integration for a major enterprise client — a Quebec-headquartered organization broadcasting live to tens of thousands of employees across a distributed network and multiple physical locations. What began as a technical collaboration on this one project quickly revealed a natural fit: Hive's delivery layer and PQM.net's production and platform stack complemented each other almost perfectly, and the result was an excellent experience for the client and its employees. That deployment has now been running in production for more than a year.
"Video quality plays a crucial role in any digital workplace and PQM.net is providing a complete solution from camera crew to StudioCast, their secure Canadian platform," said Niklas Haggen, CEO of Hive Streaming. "We are very excited and proud to be working with PQM.net to help streamline the live video broadcasts within global enterprises."
Peer-to-Peer Distribution, Now Native to StudioCast.ca
Most corporate networks were never provisioned to push live video to thousands of employee devices at once. The usual answer is more hardware, more bandwidth, and more cost — or, more often, a quiet decision to lower the video quality until the network stops complaining.
Hive's peer-assisted eCDN takes a different route. Instead of every device pulling the stream independently from the source, devices on the same network share the stream between themselves — dramatically reducing load on corporate WAN links while maintaining video quality at the edge. No additional hardware. No additional bandwidth provisioning. The existing network simply carries far more.
Quality That Survives the Trip to the Viewer
The real gain is what that bandwidth headroom makes possible. With peer-to-peer distribution carrying the load, StudioCast.ca can deliver the stream at full 4K without overwhelming the corporate network — which means the quality captured in the room is the quality the audience actually sees.
"Our video production has always been broadcasting grade — multi-camera, professional lighting and audio, a director calling the show live," said Louis-Philippe Landry, President of PQM.net. "What often happens in the corporate infrastructure with VPNs, etc. is that this quality got compressed when it reached the viewer. With Hive's peer-to-peer distribution built into StudioCast, that quality now travels all the way to the end user. Whether the event is 100% virtual or hybrid, the audience online finally sees and hears exactly what the audience in the room does. That's a real upgrade in experience, not a technical detail."
Integrated into StudioCast.ca, the solution also brings real-time analytics and monitoring, allowing communications and IT teams to track audience quality of experience (QoE) and network performance as the event unfolds — and to troubleshoot live rather than after the fact.
A Canadian Solution, End to End
For enterprises and government organizations navigating data sovereignty requirements, the partnership answers a question that has become considerably more pressing: where does the data live, and who controls the chain?
Under the partnership, clients benefit from:
- Canadian data hosting across StudioCast.ca and StudioCast.Ai, ensuring full data sovereignty and compliance with domestic privacy regulations
- ISO/IEC 27001-certified operations, covering PQM.net's platforms and production workflows
- Peer-to-peer delivery at scale through Hive's eCDN, without new hardware or bandwidth investment
- Full 4K broadcast quality from capture to employee device
- Market-leading analytics for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting during live events
- White-glove service from pre-production planning through live execution and post-event delivery
- On-site presence, backed by PQM.net's studios in Montreal and Rimouski and its network of production partners across Canada, the U.S., Asia, and Europe
PQM.net, Building Momentum
The partnership builds on a period of accelerated growth for PQM.net, following the acquisition of Agence Webdiffusion (AWD), the opening of its Montreal studio, and its ISO/IEC 27001 certification.
Visit PQM.net at booth S22 throughout ALL IN 2026 — whether it's a town hall, a hybrid conference or a company-wide broadcast, bring us the challenge and let's talk it through.
About PQM.net
For nearly 30 years, PQM.net has been supporting organizations in the delivery of virtual and hybrid events. With studios and teams based in Rimouski and Montreal, and a network of trusted production partners in multiple Canadian cities as well as in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, PQM.net offers clients a global studio network and unmatched expertise.
At the core of its services is StudioCast.ca, a customizable, secure webcasting platform hosted in Canada. Built on top of it, StudioCast.Ai extends those capabilities with artificial intelligence, including real-time simultaneous translation and multilingual subtitling, making it the platform of choice for high-stakes corporate, institutional, and public sector broadcasts.
PQM.net is the official webcasting provider for the Government of Quebec and holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification.
About Hive Streaming
Hive Streaming provides efficient and secure software-based video delivery solutions for organizations that embrace video in corporate communication. Its service enables enterprises to leverage their existing investment in hardware and software so employees can view high-quality live and on-demand video on their own devices. Hive Streaming plays an integral role in the video delivery and networking infrastructure of Fortune 500 companies across the globe.
For more information, visit hivestreaming.com.
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