IBC Accelerators

The IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme aims to solve complex media and entertainment business and technology challenges, providing a framework for agile, collaborative, and fast-track innovation. The programme offers a unique multi-company project-based approach with focused on hands-on experimentation. Created in 2019, the programme is going from strength to strength, showcasing eight unique projects at IBC2023.

IBC ACCELERATORS: IN DEPTH

IBC Accelerators: Authenticated Data Specification

2023-11-24T10:44:00+00:00

IBC2023: The Authenticated Data Specification defines a standardised data distribution package to ensure that, as programming is distributed and works its way through the entertainment landscape.

IBC Accelerators: Real Time Interactive Streaming Personalises Live Experiences

2023-11-14T10:41:00+00:00

IBC2023: As linear broadcasts convert to streaming, revenues from advertising and sponsorship are being lost. This project demonstrated that additional revenue and a ROI can be achieved through personalising viewer engagement from the streaming of live interactive experiences, for big or small sporting and other events. Striving for a next-generation ...

Accelerators 2024: The Media Innovation Challenge is On

2023-11-09T11:04:00+00:00By Sheryl Hickey

The call for projects to tackle real-life challenges faced by the world of M&E has begun as the IBC Accelerators 2024 officially opens for submissions and celebrates its fifth birthday.

IBC Accelerators: Responsive Narrative Factory

2023-10-29T10:40:00+00:00

IBC2023: Responsive Narrative Factory delivered the right narrative for any consumer in real time via a metadata-powered content fast-track, to demonstrate a new component-based approach to quickly and cost effectively creating multiple versions of content from a single master to enable precision targeting of programs to different demographics or regions ...

IBC Accelerators: Gallery Agnostic Live Media Production

2023-10-16T09:29:00+01:00

IBC2023: Gallery Agnostic Live Media Production aimed to bring all media productions into the modern day via device-agnostic, gallery-agnostic and hybrid ways of working to prove control of both existing on-prem and cloud devices.

IBC Accelerators: 5G Motion Capture for Live Performance and 3D Animation

2023-10-09T12:39:00+01:00

IBC2023: 5G Motion Capture for Live Performance & Animation explores using 5G to build ultra-low latency networks to support the creation of new immersive audience experiences for those present at a live performance or engaging remotely at another venue. The project also seeks to leverage 5G technology to bring joyful, ...