Watch our AI-curated highlights reel featuring top industry figures and thought leadership, sharing their views on streaming at 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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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”
WBD urges shareholders to reject Paramount’s hostile bid
The Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) board has again recommended that the studio’s shareholders reject a hostile takeover offer from Paramount Skydance.
Comcast completes Versant Media spin-off of cable TV assets
US media and telco giant Comcast Corporation has completed the separation of Versant Media Group into a separate public company.
Studios and streamers ramp up video game adaptations
Major studios and streaming platforms are accelerating their push into video game adaptations, with commissions increasing by an average of 30% per year since 2019, according to new research by Ampere Analysis.
Ireland approves Europe’s first unscripted tax credit
The Republic of Ireland has become the first country in Europe to offer a tax incentive for unscripted productions.
Canal+ and WBD expand content partnership
Canal+ and Warner Bros. Discovery have signed a new multi-year and multi-territory agreement to expand their international collaboration.


