The ongoing debate between CapEx and OpEx isn’t new within the Media and Entertainment Industry. The recent surge in streaming platforms and cloud-based workflows pushed many organizations toward flexible, pay-as-you-go OpEx models. Yet, as the industry evolves, companies are increasingly concerned about EBITDA, investor scrutiny, and market pressures. In today’s environment of high interest rates and limited growth, monthly OpEx charges weigh heavily on EBITDA, driving renewed interest in CapEx strategies that provide capitalization and depreciation benefits.
SipRadius – Taking Control: Protecting Content in the IP Era
The move to IP-based infrastructures has unlocked extraordinary flexibility for broadcasters and content owners. Using data circuits, including the public internet, enables distributed workflows that are agile, affordable, and scalable.
Traditional broadcast facilities centered everything around a secure, climate-controlled machine room. Access was strictly limited, and the physical boundary itself provided protection. Today, with software-defined architectures, production resources can be anywhere: in a data center, at a remote location, or in the cloud. That agility comes at a cost, because the physical barriers are gone but often not replaced with equally rigorous digital protections.
Veset – Keeping content secure when using cloud playout
Getting content delivery right is a top priority for broadcasters and media providers, with security being a critical, non-negotiable aspect. Broadcasters are increasingly turning to cloud playout to manage the complexities of delivering content to a diverse range of platforms and devices, and so it’s critical that cloud playout systems operate to the highest security standards. Not only do broadcasters need to protect their content and channels from unauthorized access, cyber-attacks and data breaches, but these security threats are constantly evolving as attackers adapt and seek to exploit different vulnerabilities in broadcast systems. And so, for broadcasters wanting to use cloud playout, the inevitable question arises: how can they ensure their content remains secure?
Pebble – Cybersecurity collaboration for protecting high-value media
As broadcasters continue their IP transition and take advantage of the commanding and compelling opportunities that cloud systems offer, protecting high-value media must now be a fundamental component of the design, not a hastily appended feature.
Globecast – Strengthening broadcast security in the age of digital content
Who are the security leaders in your business? While some people have security in their titles or job descriptions, the reality is that everyone in your business should be considered leaders of your security effort. The technology landscape of the broadcast industry (Media & Entertainment at large) is not only evolving rapidly, but the cycle of change is getting shorter every year. In particular, the move to IP and the use of other modern technologies has pushed past the concept of revolution to that of a fundamental requirement to simply remain in business.
Unveiling the future: dive deep into AI at IBC2024
The media and entertainment landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping every aspect of content creation, production, and delivery, streamlining workflows, adding efficiencies and delivering better experiences for viewers. At IBC2024, the all-new AI Tech Zone in Hall 14, powered by the EBU, promises to be the place to cut through the hype and discover the impact AI can have now and in the future.
Net Insight – Putting media network security at the top of the IP agenda
IP is driving a new era of innovation and efficiency within the media industry, opening up more opportunities for growth and transformation. However, despite the potential of IP’s flexibility to adapt to configuration changes and scalability, there are also inherent challenges that media companies must navigate. As the industry transitions from traditional co-axial video interfaces to open IP-based workflows, network control and network robustness are critical priorities. Media companies need to ensure that their networks and high-value content are protected against both external and internal misconfiguration and stream routing issues.
Friend MTS – What Mohammed Ali can teach us about blocking and its role in fighting piracy
With nearly a decade of experience under its belt since pioneering the use of server blocking technology in 2017, Friend MTS is keen to address many misconceptions about blocking currently doing the rounds, generated by media coverage of international blocking-related incidents.
Amagi – Shielding your secrets using secure local vault
Exposure of credentials has emerged as a leading cause of data breaches across organizations. Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report reveals that external actors were involved in 83% of data breaches, with stolen credentials being exploited in 49% of these breaches. Furthermore, such breaches have severe consequences for businesses. According to IBM’s 2023 Cost of Data Breach Report, stolen or compromised credentials contributed to approximately 15% of data breaches, resulting in losses of $4.62 million.
Agama Technologies – Unify, simplify, and understand your data: how consolidation can streamline and empower your video services
In today’s dynamic video market, service providers have adapted and evolved their services in sync with the technology evolution in customer devices, mobility, and preferred ways to interact with entertainment content.
As a result of innovation and growth, some complexity and fragmentation have unavoidably occurred. For instance, IPTV over ABR services is run together with companion services on user-owned devices like connected TVs, phones and laptops – alongside value-added services, such as catch-up and start-over, live together with PVR, third-party AVOD, as well as targeted advertising.