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In September, the media and entertainment industry will once again be heading to the RAI Amsterdam for the annual IBC event. The Content Everywhere zone remains at the heart of IBC’s coverage of the ever-expanding OTT and streaming scene, and this year spans Halls 4 and 5. The monthly Content Everywhere newsletter tracks companies in the streaming sector throughout the year, offering insights into latest trends and developments. As in previous years, the August issue provides an overview of what Content Everywhere companies hope and expect to see at IBC as they roam the show floors, attend conferences and meet their peers.

To increase fan engagement, WSC Sports implemented Wowza’s low-latency ingest layer to secure a global streaming infrastructure that reliably produces tailored sports clips as they unfold, across the platforms that fans use most.

The ‘Conquering the Air(waves): Private 5G from Land to Sea to Sky’ Accelerator project explores how deploying private 5G networks, particularly through airborne and mobile solutions, can dramatically transform live broadcast production.

British TV is in the midst of generational transformation and for better or for worse, is ever more directly affected by the global TV industry.

In pursuit of a multi-destination channel delivery system that was more reliable, scalable, and cost-effective, Okast has integrated Zixi’s software-defined video platform.

With the potential shutdown of digital terrestrial and satellite television in view, broadcasters are focusing on ways to deliver live television over public IP networks without losing the latency, stability, or quality that audiences expect.

Content creation will be increasingly democratised by the transformative power of AI, but the potential to deliver new types of content and inspire a new generation of media creatives is arguably the greatest prize, according to experts at the IBC x Google Cloud Hackfest dry run.

ScreenSkills’ latest e-learning initiative aims to demystify, educate and expand the world of post-production across all levels of the industry. John Maxwell Hobbs reports.

Watching TV is not supposed to be hard. It should be pleasurable, but the industry has tied itself in knots as content and platforms fragment then coalesce in the shift to streaming.

Vincent Grivet, Chairman of the HbbTV Association, reveals how a new digital rights management (DRM) specification will enable the reliable and secure delivery of premium content via HbbTV-based services, especially for applications approaching the complexity and content protection demands of video-on-demand (VOD) platforms.