Combining the worlds of content and tech with an innovative business model is at the heart of a future-ready strategy for the broadcast and media industry.

With experience as CTO of Warner Brothers and executive at CBS, Darcy Antonellis brings experience of content, technology and business to her role as CEO of Vubiquity, part of Amdocs Media.

She provides essential advice for navigating the years ahead: how our industry must change, innovate and adapt to ensure business success. She explores what it takes to succeed in the future digital media market and meet the changing needs of consumers.

A consumer-first approach is essential to compete in the digital media market. But what do content-users really want?

Dive into the latest consumer research data to learn ten surprising trends that are the secret sauce of a successful media and technology platform.

As established content companies build a direct-to-consumer digital model, what’s the right approach for building compelling digital products and managing the tech and development teams to make it happen?

Emmy award-nominated digital product specialist Navin Rizwi sets out what it means to build digital media products that engage effectively with consumers.

She explains the challenges and opportunities for a digital product manager, and how to build a team combining product engineers, designers, UX experts, and content people.

Esports is the live content phenomenon reaching hundreds of millions of viewers globally and its success means more and more broadcasters want to integrate it into their programming.

But the scale and complexity creates huge technical and production challenges, demanding flexible and scalable systems.

Leading eSports business ESL and technology supplier Make.tv discuss how using the cloud is transforming live esports production and distribution – reaching more audiences with engaging and immersive viewing experiences, and creating new revenues.

What are the lessons for traditional broadcasters struggling with audience fragmentation and increased competition from VOD? And what are the implications for workflows and technology providers?

KSL-TV sought an innovative weather solution that could help it build its brand across digital channels and drive advertising revenue.

Leading platform operator Freesat unveils its new hybrid TV product, enhancing the viewing experience and bridging the gap between linear TV and on-demand content.

Delivered in close collaboration with its development and manufacturing partner CommScope, the way that customer and supplier are working together in a truly collaborative way to create and market a solution presents a blueprint for future projects.

Future-proof your post-production workflow to accelerate turnaround times and deliver higher volumes of quality content while tapping into newer revenue opportunities.

Revealing the secret sauce of a new generation of technology business with a fresh approach – combining a consumer-facing technology platform with a compelling content and business model.

Meet hot startup Noa, news over audio, which is fast growing from its Dublin base to deliver audio content for major publishers including the New York Times, Economist, Bloomberg and FT.

And Kinzen, a new approach in news content personalisation created by a founder with a background at Twitter, Storyful and RTÉ.

Hear how startups think and operate differently, and how the secret of success is combining technology, content and a new business model.

As 2019 draws to a close, a brief look backwards reassures me that we have continued to grow and develop IABM to better serve our members over the last year – more extensive business intelligence, event participation and networking opportunities, a new BaM Shop Window™, achieving wide acceptance for our new industry model in the BaM Content Chain®, launching the Technology and Trends Roadmap© and introducing the BaM Content Chain Maturity™ model to mention just some of the things we have done to make IABM work harder for our members.

Chair – Lisa Collins (Head of Marketing, IABM)

Panellists:
Matt Hughes (SVP Global Sales, V-Nova)
Thomas Gunkel (Global Market Director Broadcast, Skyline Communications)
Scott Puopolo (CEO, Telestream)
Mark Christie (CTO, Piksel)

Explore how leading media technology companies are adapting to a market in a constant state of change. C-level leaders from some of the industry’s best-known tech companies reveal how they are responding, and how they will be ensuring success.

Using IABM’s Business Intelligence to underpin business strategy, highlighting the critical success factors for running a successful broadcast and media technology business in 2020 and beyond.

IABM Regional Reports provide IABM members with insight into the broadcast and media industry for a specific region. The purpose of this report is to enable member companies to keep up with the latest regional developments as well as provide them with useful information for entering a new market.

Structure:

The analysis is undertaken by our Business Intelligence Unit. The report includes the latest news and research findings across a variety of topics, including:

• Business Environment
• Broadcast and Media Industry
• Media Technology Demand Drivers

As we approach CABSAT in March 2020 held in Dubai, this edition of the BI Regional Report will include a focus on Middle East & Africa (MEA).

Reuters’ news services operate 24/7, with clients relying on access to critical information for their news and current affairs programming.

The sheer volume of content and the need to distribute it globally in multiple standards motivated a new project to port the Reuters media workflow into the cloud – delivering efficiency and cost savings along with an extensible solution which can grow and adapt along with future changes in Reuters’ business.

Explore the business and technology challenges of working with suppliers including InSync technology to develop a cutting-edge cloud solution using containerised libraries and microservices to create rich and complex workflows, which are adaptable and efficient.

Matrox Monarch EDGE encoder enables B Live to offer a state-of-the-art, multi-camera viewing experience to Vans Showdown fans tuning in to watch live streams

We spoke to Indrek Lepp, EVP, Head of Media Services at Levira, the Tallinn, Estonia-based digital services provider about the company’s proud history, current operations, future plans and how it is championing start-ups – as well as base jumping the 314m Tallinn Tower which is its home.

Ahead of the upcoming IABM webinar on cloud collaboration and deployment on 15th January 2020, we sat down with Imagen CTO, Tim Jobling and Partnerships Director, Owen Shackman, to talk everything cloud.

We spoke to Lexie Knauer, Product Marketing Manager at Brightcove about the company’s rapid rise to prominence, its current solutions and how it is helping to drive the video explosion across all platforms.

We spoke to Cong Feng, General Manager of Beijing-based IABM Gold member company, Touch Video Live Broadcast (TVLB), about the company’s activities and rise to prominence in the burgeoning China live broadcasting market.

We asked Grass Valley’s VP Product Marketing, Boromy Ung, to tell us about the company’s recently launched Grass Valley Technology Alliance (GVTA) – why it was created, what are the requirements for membership and how he sees it developing over the coming months and years.

We spoke to Olivier Suard, Vice-President of Marketing, Nevion, about the company’s leading role in the EU’s VIRTUOSA project which aims to take advantage of the potential of 5G in live production.