Responsiveness, depth knowledge (expertise) and premium service at the fair price are the features that certainly best define our team and services. Founded in 2014, A la plage STUDIO is a key player in the highly competitive global market for image and sound editing. Located in creative and friendly environment in Paris, our company offers to its clients a global solution including all the technical facilities and services in order to satisfy audiovisual post-production demand for feature, documentary, TV and short film. 1000m2 spaces dedicated to 18 editing suites, 2 grading rooms, 1 viewing room, 1 dubbing & 1 mixing room.

SendMe Tasks is a virtual assistance and marketing company, assisting clients from all different industries. From design, finance, real estate, coaching, photography…You name it, we’ve probably done it!

We are joined by Lukas Mahler, Marketing & Sales Assistant at AVT Audio Video Technologies to hear about their product portfolio and the new products and features AVT are producing.

We discuss the ongoing digitalization of radio and how AVT are providing tools to facilitate this for broadcasters along with the audio transmission solutions they produce to power increased remote working scenarios.

We asked IABM member companies operating in the Create, Produce and Consume segments of the BaM Content Chain® about the effects the pandemic has had on their businesses and the industry over the last year and to take a look into their crystal balls for how the future will pan out. We received an unprecedented number and quality of responses from no less than 34 companies. While some common themes emerged – many correspondents felt that the pandemic largely accelerated trends that were already underway for example – it is inspiring to see the rich variety of positive reactions the pandemic induced and the changes it brought and opportunities it has created.

Europa+ offers a unique alternative to the existing SVOD and traditional television services throughout Latin America and the Caribbean — more than 1,500 hours of the latest and most popular European TV series and specials presented ad-free are easily found by genre, language, and sub-title options.

Let’s face it most of us are ‘behind the camera’ sort of people and if Covid hadn’t reared its ugly head then that’s most likely how it would have remained.

Rewind just over 12 months and the KitPlus Show in Shoreditch, London had just taken place with a packed show floor and copious amount of hand sanitizer on offer and if anyone had suggested our much-loved print magazine would be replaced in favour of a daily TV show, even temporarily, we’d have probably taken a sharp intake of breath!

We talked to Alexander Trubin, the director of the Alma TV unified network management center, about results of the switch to satellite and the company’s future plans.

The digital age has driven profound changes in how News & Sports are produced and consumed, as new digital platforms offer audiences endless options for news and sports. Moreover, the traditional way of doing business in television has been seriously impacted because of the COVID-19 pandemic, since production dropped all around the world, travel restrictions were applied, and many other related issues. Broadcasters now have to work ever harder to attract and retain viewers. However, the current situation also raises opportunities for virtual production, from remote shooting to virtual events.

The lifecycle of a story in the media world today is increasingly short. Sparking the interest of your audience, gaining their attention with exciting and important stories as well as being first to publish are key goals for all media organisations.  As a broadcaster in a modern mass media consumption space, one has to keep up with the end-users’ constant demand for fresh content around the clock and hold a reputation as the first platform that reports breaking news stories.

The time when news broadcasters used social media as a ‘nice-to-have’ publishing platform has well and truly passed. Digital OTT and social media platforms are now mainstream and are the front line in the battle for audiences.

Wildmoka has produced a report that analyzes the social media strategies adopted by the following nine major news broadcasters during the week of the 2020 US Elections: NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, as well as two leading European broadcasters, Sky News (UK) and Altice BFMTV (France).

As the AoIP debate continues to confuse and delight in equal measure, what is clear is different scenarios require specific solutions. So is there a solution that encompasses open standards and existing proven AoIP technologies to the benefit of all?

The popularity of OTT broadcasting is really helping to drive the growth of immersive content, and this presents both opportunities and challenges for the broadcast audio world. Mixing in immersive allows the audio engineer to create a sense of envelopment and realism like never before, but as channel count and mix complexity increases, the importance of neutral, uncoloured studio monitoring with precise imaging becomes even more important.

At Genelec we’ve long been involved with designing monitoring systems that are scalable from stereo to surround to immersive, so here we’ll examine some of the principles of immersive audio, and some of the considerations that audio professionals need to be aware of.

iNDEMAND distributes premium Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Pay Per View (PPV) entertainment to more than 200 North American TV operators, with a reach of more than 60 million homes. This includes movies, TV shows, events, boxing, wrestling, MMA, and digital out-of-market subscription professional sports packages for MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS.

CEDAR Audio is a UK based company committed to noise suppression, speech enhancement and audio restoration. It has focussed exclusively in these areas for more than three decades and is the recipient of numerous accolades including an IABM Design & Innovation Award, two Cinema Audio Society Awards and an Academy Award for services to the movie industry.

It’s no secret that our industry cannot wait to get back to exhibitions and face to face meetings. But of course the big question is, when will this happen?  Unfortunately, right now there are no definitive answers, but when those doors of exhibition centres open worldwide, are you as an individual and a company ready to push the ‘play’ button?

Spark Sport is a premium live and on-demand sports streaming service in New Zealand.  Launched in 2019, the platform offers a wide range of live and on demand content such as New Zealand Cricket, English Premier League, England Cricket, NFL, MBA and more. The streaming provider also streams channels such as NBA TV, MUTV, LFCTV, EDGE TV & TAB Trackside, through which sports content is available to viewers around the clock.

Spectator sports are most engaging when audiences don’t know what’s going to happen next. For the sports broadcasting industry itself, the playing field in which they operate has undergone many exhilarating changes over the last few years. In many cases, these have been accelerated and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

As stadiums and venues that were once packed with excitement and atmosphere have been forced to close, we’ve witnessed the increasing significance of over-the-top (OTT) platforms becoming the digital delivery system for the enjoyment and adrenaline sports fans around the world have been missing.

There have been many, many words written recently about remote production, indeed the wider world of remote working generally, spurred on by significantly increased use during the pandemic. But remote production didn’t suddenly spring up overnight, either as a concept or reality.

Let’s step back first. We’ve seen huge growth in the use of IP bonding across sports, especially in the last five years: from single-camera streaming to complex, multi-camera productions, often on the move. From the Rugby World Cup, where LiveU technology was used not only to gather content but also as a disaster recovery solution by ITV Sport, to the FIA World Rally Championship, Austrian football and facilitating coverage of the Spanish lower leagues, the list goes on.

Accompanying that growth has been the rise of remote production. Why is that? What are the benefits?

Supponor enables rights owners to maximize the value of live broadcast Sports & Entertainment events through world-leading end-to-end Virtual Advertising solutions, allowing partner and brand communications to be targeted and customized for each specific audience segment. Steve Plunkett, Chief Product Officer at Supponor, talks about the challenges brought by the Covid pandemic, and how the company helped its clients move to remote delivery at breakneck speed.