About us

Pleased to meet you! At castLabs, we’re all about pioneering software and cloud services for digital video markets worldwide. Our goal is simple: to make video delivery easy.

We remove barriers so you can concentrate on providing leading-quality movie, TV, and audio experiences for your customers. Our squad of dedicated developers have created a range of fresh monetization and secure playback solutions designed to navigate the challenges of deploying video technology.

We build leading software and cloud video services

Guten Tag! We’re headquartered in Berlin with people stationed around the world.

Our streaming solutions are used by companies large and small in over 35 countries.

Our journey

Having our roots in the mobile TV broadcast market, we’ve grown with the industry to specialize in over the top (OTT), content security, video players, encoding/packaging, and custom cloud services.

2007

Founded in Berlin.

2008-2011

First commercial launch of an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Mobile Broadcast Service (BCAST) conditional access platform for mobile TV in Austria with installations across Brazil, Italy, Jamaica, Philippines, and Russia.

2010

DRMtoday launched: multi-DRM cloud licensing service for OTT streaming services.

2011

Android OTT video player launched.

2012

iOS OTT video player launched.

Our Download Service Provider selected as reference system for the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem’s (DECE) UltraViolet initiative.

2014

HTML5 OTT video player launched.

2015

Video Toolkit cloud encoding service launched.

2016

DRMtoday Onboard launched: multi-DRM offline licensing server for passenger entertainment.

2017

Moved to larger Berlin office.

Our 10 year birthday!

Memberships

We’re members of numerous industry organizations and international standardization bodies to help drive the exciting future of digital video delivery forward.

Since 2012

Since 2014

Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX)

Since 2016

Since 2018

Interested in joining our super smart team? We’re often hiring!