Who's covering NAB Show 2026

One of the most comprehensive NAB covers in the industry. On the ground in full force each year producing video content across all platforms. Runs the CineD Best-of-Show Awards — ten category winners get dedicated editorial pieces.

Focus: cinematography, cameras, lenses, production gear

Throughout NAB, PVC interviews key companies and influencers in the film and video space discussing gear, technology, and Show announcements. Hosts presentations at their booth (C3334 in Central Hall historically).

Focus: post-production, color, audio, workflows, interviews

Dedicated to large-sensor cameras, DSLRs, and documentary/factual shooting. Pre-NAB coverage for weeks, then firehose of news during the show. Matt Allard and team have some of the sharpest hands-on reviews in the industry.

Focus: news/doc shooting, camera technology, monitoring

Builds consolidated “everything from NAB” posts each year. Has partnered with Cinematography for Actors as video hosts who deliver the latest gear news directly to a YouTube playlist.

Focus: independent filmmaking, storytelling tools

Future plc's flagship broadcast engineering publication. Long-form gear reviews, technology analysis, and vendor product roundups. Substantial NAB preview and live coverage each year.

Focus: broadcast engineering, station operations, distribution

Covers pro AV, broadcast, and house-of-worship tech. Their “What to See Pre-NAB and Other Must-See Showcases” series is a reliable annual preview.

Focus: pro AV, integration, streaming, broadcast

Long-standing publication for video producers and prosumers. Publishes “What's new at NAB 2026” style previews and show-floor recaps.

Focus: video production, prosumer and indie workflows

Jon Fauer's cinematography-focused publication. Runs an NAB preview issue and in-depth post-show writeups with a distinct look at lenses, cameras, and lighting.

Focus: cinematography, lenses, DP community

Post-production and motion picture tech coverage. Reliable deep-dives on editing, finishing, visual effects, and audio post throughout NAB week.

Focus: post-production, VFX, editing, audio post

Cinematography gear news, product deep-dives, and NAB announcements with a technical slant. Heavy on spec breakdowns.

Focus: cinematography gear, sensors, codecs

Photography-focused but covers video/cinema crossover gear at NAB — lenses, mirrorless-for-cinema announcements, and creator-economy camera news.

Focus: photography + hybrid photo/video

Canadian broadcast industry publication. Weekly news + event coverage including NAB; strong on radio, streaming, and Canadian station announcements.

Focus: Canadian broadcast, radio, streaming

The radio industry's daily trade. Covers NAB's radio-specific programming, broadcast regulation, and station business stories during Show week.

Focus: radio broadcasting, audio industry

Publishes an annual “NAB Show Party & Event List” — the unofficial canonical guide to every after-hours event during NAB week. Essential for networking planning.

Focus: party/event planning, industry networking

Official NAB media partner for BEITC. Session-by-session technical previews and post-show writeups. If you care about the engineering track — IP, cloud, ATSC 3.0, media-over-IP — this is the publication.

Focus: broadcast engineering, IT-to-broadcast convergence, infrastructure

Runs its own “Programming Everywhere” conference co-located at NAB. Heavy daily coverage of TV station and broadcaster announcements, technology, and BEIT. The canonical U.S. station-side publication.

Focus: U.S. television stations, programming, broadcast tech

Extensive pre-show previews, daily show-floor coverage, the “NAB Show Perspectives” interview series, and deep product roundups. The go-to for set design, virtual production, and newsroom tech.

Focus: broadcast production, studio design, virtual sets, newsroom tech

Future plc's B+C / Multichannel News umbrella. Business-of-TV, streaming, and programming coverage from NAB — plus the B+C NAB Best of Show Awards.

Focus: cable/multichannel TV, streaming business, programming

Radio & Television Business Report. Spring print edition distributed on the show floor, InFOCUS podcast interviews with exhibitors, and rigorous financial coverage of broadcast companies.

Focus: broadcast business, finance, regulation, M&A

Co-produces the NAB Show Streaming Summit. Dan Rayburn chairs it; the publication's coverage of OTT, CDN, FAST, and video delivery is the industry baseline.

Focus: streaming, OTT, FAST, video delivery tech

Global TV broadcast, OTT, distribution, satellite. Short-form news style — good signal for international product launches and partnership announcements at NAB.

Focus: global TV broadcast, OTT, distribution, satellite

Pay TV, OTT, and digital media delivery with a European bent. Covers the business side of distribution tech announcements at NAB each year.

Focus: pay TV, OTT, digital media delivery

Tight daily feed of vendor announcements during the show — Riedel, AVEQ, MRMC, Panasonic, and dozens more get day-of posts. Useful for completeness when scanning releases.

Focus: video production technology

Runs the ProductionHUB Awards of Excellence at NAB. Good professional community angle and the NABHUB hub page curates coverage across categories.

Focus: film/video production professional community

50+ worldwide contributors; dedicated NAB tag. Runs the annual RedShark NAB Awards and publishes strong opinion/analysis pieces alongside the product coverage.

Focus: video technology analysis, camera tech, post tools

Official producer of “NAB Show LIVE” — the streaming program that runs from the show floor. Podcast in the Apple Podcasts directory; major NAB media partner.

Focus: broadcast engineering, radio/TV, post, motion picture

Founded by Oliver Breidenbach in Germany, Boinx Software ships mimoLive — one of the most capable Mac-native live production apps on the market. Their NAB microsite is a model of how to present a booth presence online: two featured demos, a clean four-step onboarding flow, and zero noise. Worth studying as well as visiting.

Focus: Mac-based live streaming, NDI, multicam production

Annual NAB Show Preview print edition, daily news from the floor, and one of Future plc's seven Best of Show judges. European broadcast business and technology.

Focus: European broadcast industry, technology, policy

IBC's publishing arm. Invite-only roundtables at NAB with executive-level analysis and cross-promotion with the September IBC show. Reliable for big-picture industry reads.

Focus: global broadcast, media, and entertainment technology

Cable & Satellite International — annual NAB preview and review with a streaming/pay-TV/IPTV infrastructure lens.

Focus: cable, satellite, IPTV, streaming infrastructure

20+ years of NAB coverage from an Asia-Pacific perspective. Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia content production and delivery.

Focus: APAC content production and delivery

Daily NAB 2026 exhibitor coverage — Cobalt Digital, EVS, TAG, storage vendors, more. Particularly strong on broadcast and storage crossover.

Focus: broadcast, post, storage, content delivery

Annual NAB preview issue in both English and Spanish editions — good breadth across cameras, playout, and IP workflows.

Focus: global broadcast and media technology (EN + ES)

Annual NAB editorials focused on international TV markets and the creator economy's intersection with global distribution.

Focus: international TV sales, distribution, programming

Annual “Post Picks: NAB” feature, video interviews from the floor, and daily news across editorial, color, VFX, finishing, and audio post.

Focus: post-production — editorial, color, VFX, finishing, audio

Runs the postPerspective TV booth on the show floor — shoots sit-downs with DPs, editors, VFX supes, colorists, and sound mixers across the week.

Focus: post-production craft and people

Adobe's Frame.io blog runs major product announcements at NAB each year — Camera to Cloud integrations, transcription, review/approval. 4M+ users makes it one of the more consequential vendor blogs.

Focus: cloud video collaboration, Camera to Cloud, review/approval

Announces next-gen media solutions at NAB each year — NVMe storage, FLOW MAM, AI capabilities, shared storage workflows.

Focus: media asset management, shared storage, collaborative workflows

Covers camera and editing announcements relevant to independent filmmakers. Long-form features and coverage of the IFP/Filmmaker world at NAB.

Focus: independent filmmaking craft and business

Bi-monthly magazine timed to NAB. UK perspective on camera, lens, and cinematography vendor announcements.

Focus: cinematography, UK production industry

Virtual production editor Noah Kadner covers NAB for ASC. Monthly print with NAB-timed camera, lens, and virtual production launches.

Focus: cinematography craft and technology

Publishes annual “NAB Wrap” articles and presents educational sessions at the show. Peer-reviewed motion imaging engineering at standards-body level.

Focus: technical motion imaging engineering

Co-sponsors the NAB Best of Show Awards. Full BEIT and Ennes Workshop coverage plus product picks. The canonical radio engineering trade globally.

Focus: radio broadcast technology and engineering

Radio management and business news. Pre-NAB interview series plus AI-for-radio, licensing, and programming panel coverage during the show.

Focus: radio management, business, programming

Steve Ahern's NAB show walkthroughs plus gear and programming trend features. The Australia/Asia/Africa radio and podcast industry voice.

Focus: radio, audio, podcast industry in AU/Asia/Africa

Mix Best of Show Awards at NAB. Broadcast audio, live sound, and audio-for-video coverage — now also absorbs Pro Sound News editorial.

Focus: professional recording, broadcast audio, live sound

NAB Show announcements for audio gear vendors plus live sound and broadcast audio news.

Focus: live sound, recording, installed audio

Broadcast audio and post-production audio announcements. Print issue timed to NAB with good coverage of immersive and object-based audio.

Focus: pro audio for broadcast, post, and multimedia

Pro audio vendor announcements at NAB — NLE audio, recording gear. Less NAB-centric than IBC or NAMM but attends and files.

Focus: pro recording and music technology

Covers NAB audio exhibitors, Fairlight and DaVinci audio announcements, immersive audio formats, and broadcast audio innovation.

Focus: audio technology, broadcast audio, pro audio engineering

Critical/independent perspective on NAB and the broader radio industry. Podcast on Apple Podcasts. Especially good on community, college, and LPFM radio angles.

Focus: community, college, LPFM, internet radio

CineD's YouTube channel runs daily NAB booth tours, product first-looks, and post-show recap panels. Frequently the first to demo new cinema cameras and accessories.

Matt Allard's channel. Hands-on product walk-throughs at the booth, often with the engineers who built the thing. Strong on monitoring, cameras, and audio hardware.

Gene Nagata is one of YouTube's hardest-working filmmaking creators — reviews everything from consumer cameras to obscenely expensive cinema gear. Regular NAB floor walks.

Official NAB video partner of No Film School. Delivers the latest news and gear announcements in a dedicated NAB playlist each year.

Long-time Apple/broadcast figure, now runs a filmmaking-focused YouTube presence. Live streams & product demos tied to NAB announcements.

NAB 2026 will host the first-ever LIVE episode of VFX Artists React with Corridor Digital and Puget Systems — effectively a marquee VFX YouTube event on the show floor.

Camera-first but covers video features heavily. Expect booth-floor sit-downs with camera-brand product managers and honest spec talk.

B&H's YouTube team produces extensive NAB booth walk-throughs and vendor interviews — especially useful for cross-checking specs before buying.

Engineering-grade camera and audio testing. Gerald's lab-style methodology makes his post-NAB reviews some of the most credible in the YouTube filmmaking space. ~480K subs.

Professional VFX background (Ant-Man, Avatar: The Last Airbender). Hands-on cinema camera and VFX tool coverage from the show floor.

One of the original DSLR filmmaking pioneers. Attended NAB 10+ years running — his NAB posts still set the bar for thoughtful first impressions.

Camera gear, accessories, budget filmmaking tools, and NAB gear roundups. ~705K subs; practical buying-guide sensibility.

Filmmaking gear, adventure and travel cameras, creator tools. LA-based production company; 1M+ subs.

Film tech, editing hardware and software, camera gear, post-production tools at NAB. ~500K subs and growing.

Filmmaking fundamentals and cinema technology history with technical deep-dives relevant to NAB announcements.

Senior colorist for Universal Studios. Color grading, DaVinci Resolve, post-production workflows. ~440K subs; deeply technical.

Partnered with Cinematography for Actors for NAB floor coverage. Comprehensive pre-show previews plus camera and post-production tool announcements.

Sareesh Sudhakaran. Cinematography tech, sensor analysis, technical filmmaking education. Strong opinion pieces reacting to NAB announcements.

“The Stream Professor.” OBS Studio, capture cards, live streaming hardware, broadcast tech — the internet's leading expert on capture hardware.

PTZ cameras, NDI workflows, live production for church, corporate, and sports. Hosted the official NAB Show 2023 live stream — major influence in the house of worship and corporate AV space.

Broadcast equipment, live streaming gear, NAB show recaps covering vMix, Wirecast, BirdDog, Epiphan, LiveU, YoloLiv, and everything else in the live production pipeline.

Production audio, microphones, audio interfaces, and lighting. Weekly reviews of mics and sound gear shown at NAB — rigorous methodology, audio-first sensibility.

Full NAB show floor coverage, daily gear recap videos, hands-on with new cameras, lenses, and lighting from every major booth. ~1.4M subs.

Cinema camera deep-dives, lens tests, and NAB camera announcement analysis — URSA Cine, PYXIS, RED, Sony cinema line.

Travel filmmaking gear and vlogging tools. Spoke at 3 NAB conferences — Post Production World, Visual Storytelling, Adobe Stage.

Filmmaking education, drone cinematography, camera gear. Founder of Full Time Filmmaker; 1.1M+ subs.

YouTube gear, cameras, lighting, microphones. NAB show floor interviews with a creator-economy lens. 3M+ subs.

Sports broadcast production, replay systems, stadium AV, remote production. Extensive booth tours during NAB Sports Summit week.

OTT and streaming technology, encoding, CDNs, streaming workflows. Companion channel to the Streaming Summit at NAB.

NAB's own streaming platform — the closest thing to an official show feed. Live sessions from the Main Stage, Creator Lab, and Propelify, plus full on-demand replays for registered attendees. Free account gets you most of it.

The show's public-facing YouTube channel. Expect livestreamed keynotes, the opening-day press conference, and selected Main Stage panels — no registration needed.

Grant Petty's annual NAB keynote is the can't-miss vendor livestream of the week. DaVinci Resolve, URSA Cine, ATEM, and PYXIS reveals — most ship the same day. Streamed on Blackmagic's YouTube and their own page.

Announced as the first-ever live episode of Corridor Digital's flagship show, recorded on the NAB floor with Puget Systems. One of the marquee livestream events of the week for the filmmaking/VFX audience.

Adobe streams its NAB sessions live via Adobe Creative Cloud on YouTube — Premiere, After Effects, and Frame.io roadmap walk-throughs, plus guest filmmakers in conversation at the booth.

Sony's press conference and booth interviews stream from Sony Pro USA's YouTube channel. Camera announcements (VENICE, FX, CineAlta), plus live roundtables with cinematographers.

Livestreams Panasonic's NAB press event and selected booth sessions — LUMIX cinema, KAIROS live production, and pro displays. Good place to catch spec-sheet talk with the product managers.

Avid Connect runs the weekend before NAB opens and its keynote + roadmap sessions livestream to Avid's YouTube. During the show week, booth sessions on Media Composer, Pro Tools, and MediaCentral follow.

Matt Allard runs live interviews and Q&A sessions from the floor — often with the engineers who designed the product. One of the most useful real-time feeds for cinematographers who want spec talk, not marketing.

CineD streams booth walk-throughs and live interviews throughout the week. Strong on cinema cameras, lenses, monitors, and the lab-tested first-look format that made the channel.

Canon's press conference, Cinema EOS announcements, and on-stage filmmaker conversations stream from the Canon USA Imaging YouTube. Useful for catching the EOS R / C-series roadmap in real time.

ARRI livestreams selected booth demos and panels — ALEXA 35, SkyPanel, and the Signature Prime roadmap. The cinematography side of the show in one feed.

SVG livestreams select NAB panels for its member sports-broadcast audience — live production workflows, REMI, 4K/HDR, and venue-side tech. Check the SVG NAB landing page for the daily schedule.

TVNewsCheck runs its TV2025 / Advisors Summit sessions at NAB and livestreams the keynote panels. The place to watch if you want the broadcast-GM perspective on AI, ATSC 3.0, and retransmission fights.

Dan Rayburn's Streaming Summit runs inside NAB and livestreams its keynote and featured sessions. Encoding, CDNs, ad tech, and the business side of OTT — most technical streaming feed of the week.

Grant Petty's keynote livestream from NAB is a must-watch annual event. DaVinci Resolve, URSA, PYXIS, ATEM reveals — and a lot of them get shipped the same day.

Monitor-recorders, Ninja/Shogun, Cloud Studio, live production. Uses its own Camera to Cloud tech to stream NAB interviews — a nice demo of what the products actually do.

TriCaster, the NDI protocol, broadcast graphics, virtual sets. NDI has been part of Vizrt Group since its $95M NewTek acquisition in 2019.

Carbonite production switchers, robotic cameras, Voyager graphics, the AMPP cloud production suite. Major NAB exhibitor with consistent on-floor demos.

LDX cameras, K-Frame switchers, AMPP ecosystem, broadcast infrastructure. Won NAB 2025 Best of Show for LDX 180 — reliably newsworthy each year.

Converters, I/O devices, streaming encoders, Ki Pro recorders. Regular NAB exhibitor with genuinely useful product launches each year.

Wirecast, Vantage transcoding, live streaming, media processing. Reliable NAB exhibitor with news on the encoding/transcoding side.

Invented the SRT protocol. Video encoders and decoders, enterprise streaming. NAB is their main show for product announcements.

Encoding and decoding hardware, I/O cards, KVM, broadcast infrastructure. Deep technical catalog for systems integrators.

Camera cages, follow focus (Nucleus Nano II), matte boxes, rigging. The Khronos won NAB 2024 Product of the Year — Tilta's consistently among the most-demoed accessory makers.

Wireless Go systems, VideoMic line, RØDECaster, podcast equipment. Major NAB exhibitor with product launches almost every year.

Broadcast microphones, wireless systems, podcast mics (SM7B, MV7+). Nearly 100 years of audio innovation; reliable NAB exhibitor.

Wireless microphone systems, shotgun mics, audio accessories. Launched the UHF Theos Wireless System at NAB — the kind of vendor whose NAB launch you can actually take seriously.

V-RAPTOR, KOMODO cinema cameras — now with Z-mount after Nikon's 2024 acquisition. Expect RED Cine-Broadcast live demos and cross-brand announcements with Nikon.

Creator-economy industry news. Strong on NAB's Creator Lab programming and the creators-meet-broadcast crossover storyline that dominates 2026.

Deep technical VFX and post-production coverage. Mike Seymour's team publishes long-form “fxpodcast” interviews and tech pieces around NAB each year.

Camera-maker news from a photographer-first lens. Covers the mirrorless-for-cinema crossover that keeps blurring the NAB/Photo Plus line.

Shutterstock's filmmaking blog. Round-ups of NAB announcements geared toward working editors and solo filmmakers.

Filmmaking / content-creator gear coverage including annual “best YouTube filmmaking channels” lists that often overlap with NAB video coverage.

Filmmaking education and best-of lists. Annual rundowns of who to watch on YouTube for NAB and gear coverage.

Student Filmmakers / HD Pro Guide / Sports Video Tech Magazine network. Publisher Kim E. Welch walks the floor annually for hands-on conversations.

First-person NAB show impressions from the pro AV side. Covers the AV/broadcast convergence that's a bigger story at NAB each year.

Pro AV integration angle on NAB announcements — particularly for corporate and enterprise video production that now overlaps heavily with broadcast.

Future plc Best of Show Awards judge; AV systems integration angle on NAB product launches.

11+ consecutive years of NAB coverage. Records 60+ interviews per show — twenty-seven 45-minute episodes in 3.5 days at NAB 2019. Canonical post-production podcast for NAB week.

Chairman of the NAB Show Streaming Summit (co-founded 2018). 30-year industry veteran; one of the actual authorities on streaming business and tech. If he writes it, read it.

Color grading, DaVinci Resolve, post-production workflows. Dedicated NAB episodes and organizes the NAB Colorist Mixer networking events.

Canada's broadcast industry publication of record since 1992. Podcast episodes recap NAB with a radio, TV, film, podcasting, and digital-media angle.

Austin Karp hosts. Business side of sports media — network deals, ratings, trends — with NAB production tech woven in.

Interviews with NAB exhibitors, broadcaster executives, and regulators. Strong on the financial and regulatory side of radio/TV.

20 years in editing and post. Teaches at Post|Production World at NAB and writes NAB coverage for ProVideo Coalition. @editblog on X.

Independent editor, colorist, and post supervisor. Contributes to postPerspective, ProVideo Coalition, and RedShark News. NAB impressions pieces are must-reads.

Creator of the “5 Things” video series; NAB keynote speaker; Senior Director of Innovations at EditShare. Simplifies complex broadcast/post tech better than most.

Co-author of The Cine Lens Manual. Writes for American Cinematographer and TV Technology. Attends NAB for ASC booth appearances and book signings.

Post-production workflow consultant (color, sound, AI). Leads Reddit's r/editors and r/colorists. Creator and chair of the Editors Retreat; teaches seminars at NAB, IBC, CES.

Writes NAB floor dispatches for ProVideo Coalition — Adobe workflow, cloud tools, product launches. Reliable voice on the workflow/software side.

The dominant publication for sports broadcast technology. Publishes multiple daily stories during NAB on live production, remote workflows, and sports rights tech.

European sister publication. Strong on continental sports production tech and the Europe-meets-US vendor crossover at NAB.

Audio, video, lighting, and streaming for houses of worship. Covers NAB product announcements with direct relevance to church applications (Blackmagic pre-NAB, PTZ camera launches, streaming gear).

Educational tech publication for houses of worship since 1992. Product reviews, news, and training — reports on worship-relevant exhibitors at NAB.

Church technology for pastors, communicators, and leaders — social media, websites, worship, media, mobile, software. Covers NAB-adjacent worship tech.

Worship training, leadership, and creative ministry resources. Tech category covers gear, apps, software, sanctuary sound.

Luke McElroy's three-day creative/technical arts conference. Attendees overlap significantly with NAB's house of worship segment. Not at NAB itself, but the next stop if NAB is on your list.

Technology commentator, tapped by NAB as a Creator Liaison for YouTube in 2026. Expect heavy creator-economy content during the show.

Emmy-nominated host, listed speaker at NAB 2026. Covers digital storytelling and creator-to-legacy-media crossover — one of the core Show themes this year.

The Show's official site: registration, exhibitor list, schedule, press accreditation.

Press releases direct from the National Association of Broadcasters. Program announcements, attendance numbers, post-show wrap releases.

Session replays, keynote recordings, highlight reels. Uploaded during and after Show week.

Daily show-floor updates across Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads.