“Over the top (OTT) or video streaming services have now been commonplace for over a decade, with the first services emerging in 2006. Since that time, much has changed. The Internet, 4G, Facebook, Snapchat, the iPhone and iPad and fast broadband among dozens of other services have brought advanced technical services to billions of people in an incredibly short space of time. With that in mind, OTT is still very much in the junior leagues.

To ensure a platform is ready for the demands and expectations of a title winning performance, a holistic approach of the whole content delivery ecosystem is required, which includes looking at the Quality of Experience (QoE) solely from the perspective of the end user.

This ebook looks at some of the most common issues and how and where OTT platforms can look in order to improve the Quality of Experience for their subscribers.”

The broadcast and media industry is going through a radical shift. Media companies are transforming into media factories – with a focus on optimized workflows, data, automation, and cloud services. AI is also becoming more important, also acting as a driver for increased cloud adoption. VR brings many opportunities, even though consumer adoption has been slow. According to our research, some of the challenges to be addressed include storytelling, deployment costs and the business models supporting the technology.

Stan Moote (CTO, IABM)’s Video Blog on the exhibition, conference and IP Showcase at METexpo

Webinar based on the SUPPORT element of the BaM Content Chain®

Hosted by Lorenzo Zanni, Head of Insight & Analysis, IABM who is joined by Ben Vandenberghe, CEO, Skyline Communications

Michael Crimp (CEO, IBC) discusses the highlights of IBC2019 and what to expect.

The Audio Technology Business Report aims to identify major strategic drivers of change in the audio technology business. The purpose of this report is to enable IABM member companies to discover emerging trends in the audio technology sector, including buying, selling and technology development trends.

If you thought that dubbing an animated feature was easier than dubbing other types of content, you’d be mistaken. Recreating an entire animated world with characters that the audience can believe in, love or loathe, laugh at or cry for – requires skill and artistry. This was certainly true when providing Latin American dubbing services for our most recent project with Lionsgate, The Legend of Secret Pass.

This report will enable member companies to form a better understanding of China’s business environment, key stakeholders, and market trends relevant to the broadcast industry.

Webinar based on the STORE element of the BaM Content Chain®

Hosted by Riikka Koponen (Principal Analysis, IABM) who is joined by:

• Paul Glasgow, Managing Director, Marquis Broadcast
• Jonathan Morgan, CEO, Object Matrix

This 1 day course is presented for a fixed price at your premises. The 1-day training plan has been put together to provide a cost effective way to address the often overlooked basics of the broadcast industry and its technology whilst also having a positive impact on staff morale by encouraging back-office/admin staff to be included in the initial session(s).

All sessions are presenter-led with the 3rd ‘technology primer’ session being a lot less formal with scope for wider discussions and frequent tangential topics. There is no upper limit to the number of attendees for each session but the later technical one is more effective when limited to a maximum of 10 people to allow for questions to be adequately addressed.

In this presentation Scott Puopolo (CEO, Telestream) discusses the business, technical and organisational issues that must be addressed by equipment vendors as they transform their business from a product supply model to a SaaS model, and how Telestream is responding to requests from customers to support this business model.

For over a decade, content creation infrastructure has been penetrated by IP-based networks and network-attached storage products. Even editorial shared storage, once the bastion of a handful of high-end facilities, has become commonplace throughout the industry with the help of network file systems and lower cost 1/10Gb Ethernet hardware and relative ubiquity of support in popular desktop operating systems.

In the move toward these networks, operators and administrators have learned to live with the challenges brought about by IP-based technology. These include dependency on external IT resources, variations in desktop OS network file system support, lack of isolation causing traffic disruptions and security concerns, and higher resource usage on desktop PCs when processing Ethernet transactions.

Are these limitations worth the benefits? Before jumping wholesale into an all-IP future, content creation professionals should consider what is lost in the move towards NAS topology, what is better achieved with a custom shared file system through Fibre Channel, and whether there is a happy medium to be found.

Chaired by John Ive, Director Strategic Insight, IABM

Panellists:

• Jess Nottage, Technical Director, Clear Cut Pictures
• Cris Aragón, Managing Director, 5A studios Ltd
• Simon Fell, Former EBU Technology and Innovation Director and Chairman of the Digital Television Group

Hear from key technology buyers about their future projects, technology needs and the issues they are facing whilst the industry experiences unprecedented transformation and ever-evolving consumer demand for content.

Jonathan Bridges, CIO, Exponential-e

Your digital capability is the great enabler for your strategic success. SaaS has many benefits: to future-proof your services and develop new consumption-based business models. As we embrace SaaS, we need the technology stack that underpins these services and integrates with all systems, from your data and users at the edge to your storage and network using the cloud. In this presentation we explore best practices and a customer case study, explaining steps that you take to make technology a business enabler in Media and Broadcast.

Chair – Rob Ambrose, Managing Consultant, High Green Media

• Mike Ward, Marketing Director, Singular.Live
• Chris Clarke, CEO, Cerberus
• Alan Pimm, Co-founder/Director, MediaSaaS
• Jonathan Bridges, CIO, Exponential-e

An expert panel of IABM member vendors debate questions such as ‘What is a real SaaS Solution?’ and ‘How do you get a real SaaS model?’.

In this presentation, Lorenzo Zanni (Head of Insight & Analysis, IABM) discusses the most recent trends in the global broadcast and media industry. As media companies continue to roll out digital offerings, the need for efficient and effective content supply chains has never been so high. Powered by IABM’s data-driven insights on the business of media technology, this presentation focuses on the transformation many supplier companies are going through, including its origin as well as its business and financial implications.

Webinar based on the CONNECT element of the BaM Content Chain®

Hosted by Riikka Koponen (Principal Analysis, IABM) who is joined by:

• Laurence Venner, Proffessional Video Product Manager, V-Nova
• Pedro Santos, Head of Academy & Media Tools Architect, MOG Technologies

Webinar based on the CONSUME element of the BaM Content Chain®

Hosted by Chiara Raucci (Research Analyst, IABM) who is joined by:

• David Peek, Director Solution Engineering, Massive
• Tom Shapland, Sales Manager, Brightcove

The 25th Technical Assembly took place at Cavtat near Dubrovnik, Croatia, kindly hosted by Hrvatska Radiotelevizija (HRT)

The TA took stock of the work done in EBU Strategic Programmes and groups during the year leading up to the event; reviews and endorses the Workplan that will guide the EBU Technology & Innovation department for the next 24 months; and in even years elects the 13 Members of the Technical Committee to oversee the work of the Strategic Programmes headquartered at EBU T&I.

The event was a unique opportunity for the technology leaders of EBU Members to meet with their peers from a large number of fellow Member organizations and to share information of common interest. Alongside the Assembly programme, delegates were invited to view technology demonstrations.

Charles Sevior, CTO Unstructured Data Solutions, Dell EMC

We all know blockchain is about having multiple lists (or ledgers) linked together using cool crypto techniques, but beyond currency what’s the point using blockchain within our industry.

Well it turns out that this new technology may well have useful – even game-changing – applications in some areas of broadcast and media.

Forget about all the hype – you need to understand what is really behind blockchain and establish for yourself the possible benefits.

This presentation will give you an introduction to blockchain with some typical use cases.