All articles by George Jarrett
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Executive Interviews
IBC Conference: How AVOD is thriving while BVOD and SVOD feel the strain
Boasting 80 million active monthly users and 2.1% of total TV time in the US, David Salmon, EVP and MD of International at AVOD Tubi explains how the company has found success through an extensive, yet diverse library. George Jarrett reports.
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Industry Trends
Is DVB-I about to save public service media?
IBC365 speaks to the newly appointed DVB Chairman Remo Vogel about extending classic broadcasting “with over-the-top technologies in a very clear and hybrid way”. Meenakshi Kachawaha, Senior Lead Engineer at Digital TV Group, shares further insight on DVB-I.
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DTG Summit: Gen Z accelerates the demise of linear TV
DTG CEO Richard Lindsay-Davies passionately called for regulators to “leave no one behind” as IPTV clearly looks to dominate into the future. George Jarrett reports.
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Behind the scenes: Moremi
Out of the pandemic came an African creative partnership that took an enduring Nigerian myth and turned it into an historic Disney animation. George Jarrett reports.
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Power of Color Symposium 2024: Flesh tones, shooting open gate, and AI in post
Hosted by Clark Atlanta University and chaired by SMPTE President Renard T. Jenkins, SMPTE’s Power of Color Symposium was a mixture of sessions on colourism, representation and diversity, with in-depth looks at colour workflows and the meritorious and odious potentials of AI. George Jarrett reports.
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Industry Trends
EBU Tackles Ethical AI in PSM
Artificial Intelligence will be transformative across all elements of the media business. It may well kill off some jobs but will inevitably create others, as well as raise many interesting questions, not least about creativity, data and trust. George Jarrett talks to EBU Director of Technology and Innovation Antonio Arcidiacono ...
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Interview: Carrie Wootten Talks Skills, Talent and the Impact of AI
The award-winning Carrie Wootten has used the incredible impetus of her RISE campaigns to move onto a new set of projects including her popular Media Careers Podcast along with plans for a Global Broadcast Talent Manifesto, reports George Jarrett.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Nitin Mittal Talks AI, Content Creation and 5G
Mumbai based ZEE Entertainment Enterprises has grown into a broadcast, digital, movies, and music giant offering its 620 million weekly viewers 48 channels in 11 native languages. George Jarrett spoke to ZEE’s President of Technology Nitin Mittal.
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Interview: Valerio Motti, Freemantle, on FAST 2.0
FAST 2.0 is here, where 250-300 hours of content is the entry level – a mere twenty hours just will not do, discovers George Jarrett in conversation with Freemantle’s Valerio Motti.
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Executive Interviews
From Olympic Rights to 5G and AI, Broadcaster Innovation is Alive and Well
Antonio Arcidiacono, for five years the EBU’s Director of Technology and Innovation, focussed on the massive potential for AI within PSM, new 5G advances, Native IP potency, and the marriage of terrestrial and satellite under a 5G roof, in conversation with George Jarrett.
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Industry Trends
Interview: DPP CEO Mark Harrison – Content and Collaboration
The DPP’s rise to industry prominence: George Jarrett, who attended the first three foundation meetings involving ITV, C4 and the BBC and industry sympathisers seeking an agreed digital production strategy, talks to DPP CEO Mark Harrison.
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DTG2023: FAST and Curious, AR and Fan Wonderment
With a part two look at the DTG’s The Bigger Picture event, George Jarrett reports on two sessions that particularly caught the ear, one dubbed The FAST Track to Success, and a fascinating session on Extended Fan Experiences.
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DTG2023: The Media Bill, OFCOM and ITVX Forge the Bigger Picture
The DTG’s annual conference, hosted by TV/radio presenter Sasha Twining, covered a dozen subjects under the banner of The Bigger Picture. Monetisation has cast a nasty shadow over streaming, and consumers are consumed by financial concerns that have shunted them towards nostalgia. George Jarrett reports.
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DIMPACT - ‘Picking up where Albert leaves off’
A 25-company group of broadcasters, streamers and digital publishers make up the Responsible Media Forum, which has created a spin-off project designed to calculate the carbon emissions of the downstream value chain. George Jarrett speaks to a key stakeholder to report on progress.
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ITV Academy: Lowering barriers and increasing skillsets
Direct accelerated training: ITV lays out its tactics for resolving the skills shortages that are handicapping production, with the launch of an ITV Academy that will merge new training plans with those that already exist. But not under one roof. George Jarrett talks to the director of this crucial long-term ...
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Generative AI and sustainability: Vital, but at a price
Featuring four of the 30 experts who helped the DPP compile its ‘free to all’ annual predictions report, the webinar titled The Year Ahead in Media was a great taster event marked by the use of key 2023 lingo like ‘actionable insights’. DPP CEO Mark Harrison, led the event, reports ...
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Industry Trends
Multi-codec and Multi CDN strategies dominate the IPTV business
Consumer viewing habits have swung strongly towards streamed content. A Digital Television Group gathering to contemplate The TV of Tomorrow Today focussed on the niggly problems streaming can suddenly shock engineers with, sustainability ambitions around IPTV, and the over populated Codec market, reports George Jarrett.