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”
BBC to cut 2,000 jobs: "Put simply, the gap between our costs and our income is growing"
In an internal, all-staff call held today, Rhodri Talfan Davies, Interim Director General for the BBC, revealed that the organisation is planning to cut between 1,800 and 2,000 jobs.
AJA to acquire video encoding company Comprimato
AJA Video Systems has agreed to acquire Comprimato, a live video encoding and processing software provider for virtualised and cloud productions and broadcasts.
Spain’s LaLiga teams with Fastly to target streaming piracy
LaLiga is collaborating with San Francisco-based edge cloud platform provider Fastly to develop technical solutions to address illegal streaming of live sports, with a special focus on the Spanish league’s football matches.
Women's elite sports revenues to reach $3bn in 2026
Global revenues in women’s elite sports will reach at least $3bn (£2.2bn) for the first time in 2026, according to new research by consultancy Deloitte.
SVOD market entering a ‘more disciplined phase’ – report
Global SVOD subscriptions have reached 2.2 billion worldwide and are on track to achieve 2.6 billion by 2030, according to Futuresource Consulting.
