Enjoy a short AI-curated clip of our top soundbites from key streaming sessions across IBC2025.
Specialists and decision-makers at the top of their fields congregated at IBC2025 to scrutinise the latest trends, analytics, and challenges shaping today’s rapidly growing streaming market. Experts from the world’s leading players in the media and broadcasting space shared their expertise on AVOD, CDNs, FAST, SVOD, and TVOD.
Live on stage, these thought-leaders looked at emerging opportunities in AI tagging applications, audience data, streamed live sports, and monetisation strategies. They looked ahead to conceptualise cutting-edge technologies and action plans to address major shifts in consumer behaviour – across platform preferences, packages, and content.
Hear from the likes of: Elke Walthelm, Chief Operating Officer at Sky Deutschland; Justin Gupta, Head of Broadcast and Video Ads, EMEA at Google; Judy Parnall, Head of Standards and Industry at BBC; and Noel Curran, Director-General of the EBU.
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To learn more about some of the great sessions featured in this video, visit the links below:
What next in streaming? “You can’t depend on what is being made elsewhere”
Panel: Is this the end of advertising as we know it? New models, new partnerships, new technologies
Solving Complexity in Broadcast Media and Sports
Redefining streaming experiences for a global sports audience
Panel and Demos - Mythbusting AI: Demonstrating the Impact on the bottom line
2025 Accelerator Project: Stamping Your Content (C2PA Provenance)
Streaming Smarter: Identity, Rights and Revenue in a Connected Media World
The future of media streaming: ecosystems, AI and the new content economy
Developing the Perfect OTT Application for Young Users: An LTTS Perspective
EBU’s Noel Curran: “We have to be careful about entering the opinion space”
US Department of Justice approves Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery
The US Department of Justice has approved Paramount Skydance's $111bn (£82.8bn) acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery.
Fox Corp to acquire Roku in $22bn deal
Fox Corp is to buy Roku in a deal that values the connected TV firm at $22bn (£16bn).
UK to ban social media platforms for under-16s
The UK government is introducing a social media ban for under-16s, which is due to come into force in early 2027.
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UPDATED - IBC2026: Writers announced for IBC Daily!
The IBC Daily – the official show newspaper of IBC2026 – will be returning in both print and digital formats this year, with a team of experienced industry journalists covering the show by hall number.
BBC names Rhodri Talfan Davies as Deputy Director-General
Rhodri Talfan Davies has been appointed as the BBC’s Deputy Director-General.
