All Sustainability articles
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Industry TrendsEnergy Efficiency: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Entertainment
Sustainability and environmental impact have become essential parts of business strategy across the media industry, but the devil is in the detail, reports Andrew Williams.
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Industry Trends
MWC 2023 Preview: 5G, Sustainability and revenue models
As the telecoms industry convenes in Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC), it has more than a few headaches to resolve, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Industry Trends
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
Love Island 2023: How ITV’s Love Island organically embeds sustainability
IBC365 speaks with ITV Studios head of sustainable production, to find out what goes on behind the scenes to help turn the islanders into green role models for Gen Z.
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Technical Papers
IBC2022 Tech Papers: Taking steps toward greener streaming
IBC2022: This Technical Paper presents some of the findings from the analysis related to energy consumption in the contnet of video content viewership from a smartphone perspective.
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Technical Papers
IBC2022 Tech Papers: A personalised pro-active smart environment to support a sustainable media usage
IBC2022: This Technical Paper explores sustainable ways consumers can implement in their smart homes.
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Technical Papers
IBC2022 Tech Papers: Sustainability in the delivery of outside broadcasts
IBC2022: This Technical Paper explores the use of remote production techniques within television production with a focus on the reduction or elimination of carbon emissions.
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Video
Panel: Environmental sustainability and the cloud’s contribution to tackling climate change
IBC2022: After a northern hemisphere summer scarred by destructive heatwaves, environmental sustainability has never been more important. Many media organisations have been working to roll out sustainability strategies but with varying success. As awareness grows, consumers will increasingly hold media organisation to account.
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Industry Trends
Sustainability Concerns in Media: ‘Most Definitely Real’
Concerns around how to create sustainable workflows in media, the question of where media fits into the global emissions picture and how to identify and respond to key drivers for change were central themes at IBC2022.
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Sustainability in news and sport operations
IBC2022: Through being forced to implement remote capabilities in 2020, broadcasters have found new ways of bringing live content to viewers through powerful virtual production suites. Not only does this create technologically enabled efficiencies in workflows, but it allows for a smaller on-the-ground footprint. The speakers on this panel ...
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Building a sustainable future in tech
Hear from Google Cloud’s Director of Sustainability and Innovation on the company’s efforts in inspiring change in this area, and then dive in to how Google TV is working with partners and industry to tackle the end-to-end environmental sustainability of its full product line. This effort involves enabling our users ...
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Sustainability in media: Is it real, or just the latest thing?
IBC2022: This session will provide real world examples of organizations taking the lead in implementing sustainability action plans. From content creation to manipulation, and delivery, hear from experts who are making sustainability an integral part of their media workflows. Still, there are plenty of areas that require further ...
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Industry Trends
Sustainability Focus: The call for a sustainable film industry
If you are a filmmaker, TV producer or media professional trying to fight the huge threat of climate change, take heart. The European Audiovisual Observatory recently gathered a wealth of concerned voices and policy makers together in an online conference to see how co-operation could help tackle this urgent issue. ...
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Industry Trends
Sustainability Focus: A paradigm shift for vendors
How are vendors and manufacturers making sure their products and services support broadcasters, platforms and content creators in their efforts to make broadcast and film a more sustainable operation? Michael Burns finds those who serve the media industry are ready for climate action.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Phil Holdgate, ITV Studios
ITV Studios’ recently appointed head of production sustainability Phil Holdgate talks with IBC365 about how the global production giant is seeking to reduce carbon emissions and cut waste on its shows.
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Industry Trends
Cutting the carbon cost of TV production
With streaming platforms ever hungry for content, demand for TV and film production is set to increase at a phenomenal rate, but in the race to feed our binge-watching, we need to be aware of the impact this activity is having on the planet, writes Michael Burns.
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News
Sport broadcasters form sustainability group
Albert, the sustainability initiative led by Bafta, has launched a new group to explore and act upon the impact sports broadcasting has on the environment.
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News
Endemol Shine UK to lead on reducing carbon footprint
Endemol Shine UK, working with BAFTA’s sustainability consortium Albert, has committed to training its entire workforce on effective ways to reduce carbon emissions.
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News
IBC extends deadline for Technical Paper submissions
IBC has extended the deadline for submissions for Technical Papers for IBC2020 to 10 February 2020.
