Arbor Media and Castlabs Partner to Strengthen Trust in Public Institutional Media Workflows
DOETINCHEM and BERLIN, June 25, 2026 – Arbor Media and Castlabs today announced a strategic partnership focused on advancing trusted media workflows for governments, parliaments, international institutions, and courts through media authenticity and provenance technologies. The cooperation will help organizations demonstrate where official media came from, how it has been handled, and whether it remains trustworthy after publication.
The collaboration combines Arbor’s secure livestreaming, recording, archiving, and publishing platform with Castlabs’ expertise in content protection, media authenticity, and provenance infrastructure, including their Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) aligned STARDUSTmark forensic watermarking technology.
As public institutions increasingly rely on digital communication to inform citizens, document decision-making, and preserve transparency, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of audiovisual content has become a critical challenge. The rise of manipulated media, synthetic content, deepfakes, and fragmented distribution channels is creating growing pressure on institutions to provide evidence of both provenance and authenticity. At the same time, public organizations increasingly face the challenge of distinguishing authentic recordings from AI-generated or manipulated content that may be used to misinform, undermine institutional credibility, or distort public discourse.
For institutions whose legitimacy depends on transparency and public trust, the ability to verify both the origin and integrity of official content is becoming increasingly important. Whether documenting parliamentary debates, plenary sessions, court proceedings, public meetings, or international diplomacy, trust can no longer be assumed. It must be demonstrable.
This is where C2PA comes in, representing a broader shift in how trust will be established in digital communication. In the same way cybersecurity became essential to protect digital infrastructure, C2PA is expected to become increasingly important in protecting the authenticity and integrity of digital media. For public institutions, this creates an opportunity to increase the security of their communication workflows.
Through this partnership, Arbor Media and Castlabs aim to support institutions in building more transparent, verifiable, and resilient media ecosystems by enabling:
• Verified livestreaming and recording workflows
• Persistent trust information that stays connected to content
• Trusted publishing and distribution chains
• Forensic traceability of institutional content
• Clear warnings when content may have been altered
• Greater transparency around the origin and integrity of official media
“Public trust depends increasingly on the integrity of digital communication,” said Shanna Baakman, CEO of Arbor. “Institutions must be able to demonstrate that official audiovisual content is authentic, unchanged, and traceable throughout its lifecycle. As digital communication evolves, institutions need infrastructure that not only distributes information securely, but also helps verify its authenticity and integrity over time. We believe Media Provenance will become an increasingly important foundation for trusted public communication.”
“Media provenance and authenticity will become a foundational layer of digital trust,” said Michael Stattmann, Co-founder of Castlabs. “What makes this partnership particularly powerful is the combination of Castlabs’ C2PA-aligned forensic watermarking technology with Arbor’s end-to-end workflow for institutional recording, livestreaming, publishing, and archiving. Together, we can help organizations embed provenance, authenticity checks, and traceability directly into the media lifecycle, from content creation through public distribution – with the ultimate goal of providing tools to help establish digital truth.”
The partnership reflects a shared commitment to trustworthy digital infrastructure, European technological sovereignty, and the future of secure institutional communication. As digital trust becomes an increasingly critical requirement in the digital information ecosystem, both companies believe provenance technologies will play an important role in helping institutions maintain credibility, transparency, and accountability in the years ahead.
Arbor and Castlabs aim to innovate practical implementations of authenticity and provenance technologies across livestreaming, recording, publishing, and archival workflows – so institutions can address the evolving threats facing public information, institutional trust, and democracy.
Initial use cases include parliamentary broadcasting, public meeting transparency, courtroom recording, multilingual institutional communication, and official media archiving.
About Arbor
Arbor is headquartered in Doetinchem, the Netherlands, and supports public institutions across Europe and beyond with trusted media infrastructure designed for governance-critical environments. Arbor is a professional livestreaming and recording platform designed for governments, parliaments, international institutions and courts. The platform enables secure livestreaming, compliance recording, content publishing, multilingual accessibility, and role-based media management within governance-first environments.
Discover more at arbor.nl
About CastLabs
Castlabs makes media possible by bridging gaps between technology and audiences. Their pioneering software and cloud services empower businesses worldwide to easily deliver premium, protected streaming experiences – covering content security, playback, monetization, and workflow management across a multitude of devices and platforms. Castlabs is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Discover more at castlabs.com.
