AI Sports Highlights. On Autopilot. Meet Zentag at IBC2026

New tools for monetizing your content, plus the five-step pipeline behind it all - Hall 5, Booth 5.C18, September 11-14

Published: Aug 17, 2026Updated: Aug 17, 2026

Ana Sofia Morales

Content Strategist

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AI Sports Highlights. On Autopilot. Meet Zentag at IBC2026

Quick Summary:
Zentag is officially live: AI sports highlights on autopilot, from a live or archived feed to a published social post in five automated steps. At IBC2026, we're also showing what's next, including tools for monetizing your content and AI agents built to surface your most engaging clips and cut down time spent preparing footage. Find us at Hall 5 - Content Everywhere, Booth 5.C18, from September 11 to 14.

AI Sports Highlights. On Autopilot.

Zentag is an AI-driven sports content automation platform, born out of a leading sports data business and built to help broadcasters, rights holders, leagues and federations produce highlight content faster and at scale. From a live feed to a published social post, the platform automates five steps.

01. Detect. The most viral moments, automatically, straight from live or archived footage: goals, big plays, momentum shifts.

02. Clip. Match-ready in under a minute.

03. Reframe. Vertical for social, in seconds.

04. Orchestrate. Rules run it from start to finish.

05. Publish. To every social platform.

Zentag is trained across more than 50 sports, with automation tested and validated across 20-plus to date, and delivers an average of 96 percent accuracy in identifying key moments straight out of the box. It ingests RTMP or HLS streams as well as uploaded footage, and outputs custom-length highlight reels or individual moment clips, platform-ready for social and OTT.

What This Means for Your Bottom Line

For broadcasters and rights holders, that translates directly into three things.

Faster delivery. Highlights ready for social and OTT before the full match report is even filed.

Lower production costs. Less reliance on manual editing teams for routine clipping work.

Scalable coverage. Extend highlights across more competitions, leagues or archives without adding extra resources to do it.

What's New at IBC2026: Beyond the Highlight

IBC is also where we're giving the market its first look at three capabilities that go beyond sports highlights.

Monetizing news editorials, interviews and podcasts. Highlight automation was built around the moments a scoreboard can define. Newsroom archives run on a different kind of value: interviews, press conferences, podcast episodes and editorial footage that rarely get repackaged, tagged or resold because doing it by hand doesn't pay for itself. The idea is simple: multiply your reach, your revenue and your audiences using the same content you already have. We'll be showing how the same automation approach turns that archive into something searchable, reusable and sellable, not just a match into highlights.

An AI agent that recommends your most engaging clips. You don't always know which moment in a piece of footage is worth cutting into a short until you've watched the whole thing. This agent skips that step: it reviews your footage and surfaces its own recommendations for the clips most likely to perform, ranked before anyone has to go looking. You start from a shortlist of what's worth turning into a short, instead of a blank timeline.

An AI agent built into the platform. Separate from the clip recommender, this is a general assistant for working inside Zentag itself, built to cut down the time your team spends searching for and preparing footage across the platform, not just at the recommendation stage.

We're keeping the full detail for the booth. If you want to see any of these in action before you commit calendar time to a demo, this is the place.

Let's Connect at IBC

We're talking with rights holders and broadcasters across the market, and IBC2026 is the first place we're showing the platform in person.

If you want a walkthrough of how Zentag AI fits into your workflow, come find us.

IBC2026
RAI Amsterdam, 11-14 September 2026
Booth Location: Hall 5 - Content Everywhere, 5.C18

Want to set up a time in advance rather than walking in cold? Email events@zentag.ai and we'll get something on the calendar.

Q&A

What is Zentag AI?

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Zentag is an AI-driven content automation platform, born out of a leading sports data business, that helps broadcasters, rights holders, leagues and federations turn live and archived footage into publish-ready highlight content automatically. It's built to reduce the time and manual editing work required to produce highlights at scale, without adding headcount.

Where can I meet Zentag at IBC2026?

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Zentag will be at Hall 5 - Content Everywhere, Booth 5.C18, at IBC2026, running September 11 to 14, 2026 at the RAI Amsterdam. Reach out to events@zentag.ai to arrange a walkthrough or demo during the show.

What sports does Zentag support?

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Zentag is trained across more than 50 sports, with its detection and highlight automation tested and validated across 20-plus sports to date, and delivers an average of 96 percent accuracy in identifying key moments straight out of the box.

Does Zentag work with live streams or only recorded footage?

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Both. Zentag ingests live RTMP or HLS streams for real-time highlight generation, and also processes uploaded, archived footage through the same detection pipeline, producing custom-length highlight reels or individual moment clips either way.

What new features is Zentag showing at IBC2026?

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Alongside its core sports highlights automation, Zentag will be previewing tools for monetizing news editorial, interview and podcast footage, an AI agent that recommends the most engaging clips in a piece of footage, and a separate AI agent built into the platform to cut down time spent searching for and preparing footage. Full details will be available at the booth.