IABM Awards 2020 – Most Creative Digital Campaign

Bein Sports – “Love it Like the First Time”, the first major international campaign

To retain viewers’ and subscribers’ passion for sports and football in particular, beIN MEDIA GROUP’s departments worked around the clock along with its global offices in Singapore, London, Miami, Paris, Doha and Istanbul to create the first truly integrated creative global campaign curated for viewers and subscribers across 43 countries and in 5 continents. The campaign not only showcased how the entire world was affected by the pandemic, but it also provided hope and a sense of nostalgia to sport enthusiasts from Los Angeles, USA to Lyon, France all the way to Cairo, Egypt.

“Love it Like the First Time”, the first major international campaign by beIN SPORTS, was introduced for fans to celebrate the start of the new 2020/21 football season across the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Asia-Pacific, France, Turkey and North America.

The unifying and positive campaign celebrated a fresh start to football across the globe and included the best football leagues and competitions including the English Premier League, Spain’s LaLiga, France’s Ligue 1, Italy’s Serie A, the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Nations League, AFC Champions League, CAF Champions League and more.

IABM Awards 2020 – Broadcaster/Media Company of the Year

Latakoo

This award was kindly sponsored by Bridge Technologies.

Nominated by DISH Mexico, Marketing Director Eduardo Peniche says, “​latakoo provides the fastest and easiest solution to transfer large media files from any location. latakoo is an essential tool for production and broadcasters around the world who want to enable news, sports, production and other media teams in your organization to move content live fast.

“latakoo is the next generation in media delivery workflows. It compresses video, maintains quality and resolution, handles metadata and delivers media directly to systems at the station in the right house formats. A complete end-to-end media workflow solution that works in iOS, Windows and Android. latakoo core services include simultaneous compression and upload, download and transcode, transcription, custom metadata handling, social media publishing, collaboration and advanced workflow automation. Recently, latakoo introduced two new services – a time saving video editor enabling users to remain working directly in the cloud, and Manifest, an assignment tracker combined with a powerful indexing engine built to help broadcasters collaborate and repurpose stories across their organizations.

“latakoo is fully integrated with Avid Interplay, Grass Valley Stratus, Dalet Galaxy, Bitcentral and AP ENPS. It can also support custom network workflows that do not involve an asset manager.”

IABM Awards 2020 – Andrew Jones Young Person of the Year

Aditya Panikker, Digigram

“Aditya joined Digigram in 2018 as a product and digital marketing intern, while simultaneously pursuing his Master’s degree. Over the last two years, he has donned many hats within Digigram, starting out by laying down the structure of Digigram’s social media presence, followed by working as a junior product manager and then finally taking over the responsibility to expand Digigram’s business in Eastern Europe, Middle-East and Africa last year. In a year, he has enabled the company to extend its presence within these regions by mobilizing and training a strong network of partners and distributors.

“Despite moving to France as a 21-year-old who did not speak the language or have any connections in the country, he was still able to find a place for himself through sheer passion for learning new skills and building new relationships. This tenacity to work against the odds, his ability to learn from everyone around him and his willingness to self-correct, convinced us to put our trust on him to handle such a multi-cultural region and we are glad we did. This is also the same reason behind nominating him for this award.”

“Aditya, within a year of taking over his new role, has reconnected Digigram with our contacts in the MEA region and established a very close relationship with them. Our partners in the region are now actively promoting and supporting Digigram more than they ever have before. In addition to engaging with our existing contacts, he has actively found new partners in different regions and motivated them to be enthusiastic about our brand and solutions. With extensive and elaborate product training, our partners are now confident in taking our solutions to markets beyond broadcast.

“He has incorporated the ‘think local, act global’ principle into his operations in the region and it has been showing great results so far. Apart from setting business targets and executing joint-prospection plans, he focuses a lot on building mutual trust and ensuring that Digigram’s brand is represented in the right manner: as a progressive, future-forward and approachable organization.”

IABM Awards 2020 – Project BaM Award® Winner

Nextologies & PSSI Global Servcies for SpaceX Launch & Splashdown Shows

“A complex system and operation, using to the limits the latest in a wide range of technologies that are available today. An innovative solution delivered efficiently and in a very short time during Covid-19 restrictions.”

IABM Awards 2020 – Support BaM Award® Winner

Telestream – GLIM Remote Media Player

“A low latency universal player is the holy grail when working remotely. A highly relevant and effective application for use in today’s remote post production environment. Offers a real breakthrough for supporting remote workflows.”

IABM Awards 2020 – Store BaM Award® Winner

Editshare – EFSv: Seamless Proxy Editing

“Provides the pathway to a hybrid on-prem in the cloud model of media production. It takes the benefits of both and removes trade-offs in an either-or scenario and will unlock powerful global workflows. Connecting creatives anywhere with the content they need at an optimal price.”

IABM Awards 2020 – Connect BaM Award® Winner

NEP Group – BSI’s Mini Tx UHD wireless transmitter

“This is a huge enabler for both sports and reality TV due to the places it can be utilized, particularly when worn on the body and will unlock new camera angles and views connecting consumers to the content they are watching in more compelling ways. Provides a solution to low latency efficient UHD links for wireless cameras in an increasingly important area of live production.”

IABM Awards 2020 – Monetize BaM Award® Winner

Vubiquity – Amdocs Media’s MarketONE

“Ranks top due to the D2C and CSP integration which is most needed for digital consumers. A comprehensive solution to easily monetize content to a wide audience. The connection to help OTTs move from cloud only isolated locations to real networks will greatly accelerate the opportunity for OTTs to be seen as equal to more traditional channels.”

IABM Awards 2020 – Publish BaM Award® Winner

Limelight Networks – EdgeFunctions

“Provides a very dynamic and perhaps ground-breaking product that empowers content owners and developers to unleash their imagination via responsive and rapid serverless architecture on the network edge for the first time, freed from the data center. Huge potential.”

IABM Awards 2020 – Manage BaM Award® Winner

Meta Data Systems – Localisation Platform

“A clear example of a real-world problem solved effectively by the correct use of technology.
Meta Data Systems shows a very broad practical tool to speed up a global production system around a large-scale catalog for Warner. The impact of a system like this is immense – and impressive.”