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”
BBC appoints Rhodri Talfan Davies as Interim Director General
The BBC Board has confirmed that Rhodri Talfan Davies will act as Interim Director-General, after Director-General Tim Davie officially stands down on 2 April 2026. In doing so, the organisation has revealed that the process to appoint a new Director-General is underway.
Sky unveils plans for major redevelopment of Livingston campus
Sky has confirmed plans for a major investment in an expanded Scottish office in Livingston, having submitted a full planning application.
Christian Vesper steps down as Fremantle’s global drama and film CEO
Christian Vesper is to step down from his position as CEO of Global Drama and Film at production and distribution group Fremantle.
WPP launches single global production platform
Ad agency group WPP has launched a single production brand, WPP Production, to house its global production capabilities and teams.
Base FX opens London studio
Base FX, one of Asia's leading visual effects and animation studios, has opened a London studio as part of a strategic expansion into the European market.
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