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Video
Building Modern Origin Content Lakes for OTT and VOD services
Media companies that stream directly to customers require an infrastructure that can handle increasing demand for bandwidth, content delivery networks (CDNs), high performance media, and exabytes of data. During this presentation, we will focus on a single aspect of this complex equation: the data infrastructure and how using some of ...
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Daily News
NPAW hails improvements in buffer ratio quality
NPAW said its latest Video Streaming Industry Report showed big improvements in buffer ratio quality compared to last year.
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News
Netflix reports 150% increase in ad sale commitments
Netflix has reported a 150% plus growth in ad sales commitments in the second year of its Upfront negotiations.
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News
Channel 5 and My5 to relaunch as 5 in 2025
UK broadcaster Channel 5 and its free streaming service My5 are to be relaunched in 2025 under a unified parent brand of 5.
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Executive Interviews
IBC Conference: BBC Studios – thinking FAST in Europe
BBC Studios’ Kasia Jablonska stresses the importance of the underlying tech in FAST, and how understanding local markets and picking the right commercial partnerships can give you the edge.
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Daily News
Simplestream to demo new features and enhancements
TV software provider Simplestream will be demonstrating new features and enhancements to its Channel Studio and Livestream Scheduler products, designed to enable broadcasters, sport organisations and content owners to create new avenues for monetisation, greater audience engagement and increased live viewing figures.
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Daily News
3Ready to take centre stage on 3SS stand
New capabilities in the 3Ready product platform allow operators to launch personalised digital entertainment user experiences across all user devices, including in-vehicle infotainment screens.
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News
YouTube ranks second for non-sports content spend, says Ampere report
YouTube spends more on content than VoD-first players such as Netflix and Amazon, according to a report from Ampere Analysis.
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Daily News
Monetisation with multicast on top from Beeyou.tv
Launched earlier this year, Beeyou.tv is a video streaming and conferencing platform that aims to give users complete control over their content to maximise earning potential. Delivering a TV channel and studio to users from anywhere in the world, Beeyou.tv covers content production, distribution and monetisation.
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Daily News
Accedo ties with ITV on ITVX expansion
Video solutions provider Accedo said it collaborated with UK commercial broadcaster ITV on bringing the ITVX streaming platform to PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles in the UK.
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Daily News
AI-Media launches LEXI Recorded
AI-Media launched new VOD automated captioning software called LEXI Recorded.
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News
RedBird IMI to acquire All3Media for £1.15bn
Investment group RedBird IMI has agreed to acquire production and distribution group All3Media from its joint owners, Warner Bros. Discovery and Liberty Global, for £1.15bn.
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News
UK screen industry valued at £12.5bn for 2023
Figures released by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE), Omdia, Kantar, Futuresource Consulting, and Official Charts Company have valued the UK screen industry at £12.5bn for 2023, a 5.6% YoY growth in a year when the UK Box Office topped £1bn for the first time since the pandemic. This ...
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Daily News
Cirion Technologies and Qwilt form partnership
Cirion Technologies and Qwilt are partnering to expand Qwilt’s global ecosystem of service providers, aiming to bring a more efficient and scalable content delivery network in Latin America.
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News
Barbie Crowned Top UK Home Entertainment Title of 2023
Barbie has been crowned as the queen of 2023 home entertainment titles in the UK, according to figures released by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and Official Charts Company (OCC).
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Daily News
Bitmovin hails strong Q3 2023
Video infrastructure software specialist Bitmovin said it has defied the recent economic downturn and experienced growth in the third quarter and 2023 as a whole.
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Video
Verimatrix and TELUS Showcase First-of-Its Kind Piracy Protections for New Optik TV
IBC2023: Explore groundbreaking first-of-its-kind anti-piracy protections with Verimatrix and TELUS. This insightful panel discussion reveals how the integration of Verimatrix Streamkeeper enabled TELUS to establish an advanced, secure Optik TV platform that uniquely defeats video piracy at scale. Discover how Verimatrix and TELUS pioneered innovative anti-piracy systems for VOD and ...
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Daily News
AI and cloud IP dominate Showcase Theatre discussions
Technology estates nearing end of life have been one of the main drivers behind the move to cloud in the media industry.
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Thought Leadership
Consolidation, SaaS solutions and Cloud TV – How Media Services and Telcos Can Embrace Ongoing Trends to Drive Revenue and Keep Up with New Media
The media landscape has evolved dramatically in recent years. Not only has there been a shift in what media we see, how we see it, and who provides it, but media services and the content they facilitate have become thoroughly intertwined with consumers’ means of communication as well.