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.
MediaKind – Ensuring optimal content delivery: key approaches and strategies
In today’s digital landscape, the demand for high-quality video content is ever-growing, driving the need for robust platforms that can support the development of modern video applications and streaming media services. One of the key challenges for enterprises, broadcasters, and content creators lies in effectively managing and delivering video content across various channels and devices. The first hurdle consumers encounter when wanting to view content is being able to access it. We’ve all heard or seen about big events where people haven’t been able to sign in at the time the event begins or where the video streaming quality has suffered.
IABM Student Bursary scheme – 15 years of fostering new talent for the Broadcast and Media industry
Now in its fifteenth year, the IABM student bursary scheme offers students from some of Europe’s top Media technology courses a Delegate Pass to IBC in Amsterdam.
At IBC24 students from RheinMain University in Wiesbaden, Solent University in Southampton and L’Université Polytechnique Hauts-De-France Valenciennes will once again have a chance to experience everything IBC has to offer – from wandering the many Exhibitor Halls to attending conferences.
Over 100 students have benefitted from the scheme since its inception, with travel, hotel and daily expenses covered by the IABM, together with close mentoring from the IABM team throughout the event to ensure they get the most out of the experience.
Witbe – Greening the streaming: how real device testing can drive sustainability in the media industry
As millions of users consume streaming video content across various platforms daily, video app providers and mobile network operators face immense pressure to manage data usage and bandwidth efficiently. This challenge presents an opportunity to make the industry more sustainable. Leveraging data analytics captured through real device testing, streaming video service providers can not only optimize data transmission but also reduce energy consumption and promote sustainable user behavior. Vodafone, Telefonica, and Meta have already communicated interesting results in this field.
HPE – Is sustainability compatible with AI in the media and entertainment industry?
When none other than Tyler Perry halts an $800 million studio expansion after seeing a text-to-video AI demo, you know something major is happening in media and entertainment. AI isn’t new to the industry—Netflix has used machine learning (ML) to serve up recommendations since the early 2000s—but generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing more than distribution and marketing. GenAI is primed to change how film, television, and music are imagined and produced.
NStarX – Can GenAI help with better visibility on the outcome of film making?
Financing Movie Making requires convergence of investors, bankers and several financial institutions coming together. The entire movie making process is complex across the lifecycle of pre-production, production, post-production, distribution etc.
As a producer of a movie, the intent is to ensure the success of the content (movie) and make financial profit. The entire moving making process results in a lot of data generation (from scripts, marketing assets, actors, posters, trailers, props, exchange of information, ideas and so many other aspects across the lifecycle).
Can AI or GenAI help with finding patterns through the latitude of data across the movie making lifecycle? Can it help with prediction of success of movies that allows producers, directors, financiers to take informed and wise decisions for moving making? NStarX Data Scientists have been looking at this problem for a while now!
Perifery – Intelligent Content Engine
Perifery’s Intelligent Content Engine (ICE) is a software platform that leverages AI agents and advanced AI models to manage, organize, and curate media content such as images, videos, audio files, documents, and other multimedia assets. Acting as an AI Media Content Librarian, ICE examines, understands, and catalogs every file within its view. It automatically categorizes, organizes, and understands media assets based on the content itself regardless of the existence of any traditional metadata.
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.
Postudio – Driving new talent and inclusivity in post-production
Back in the 80s as a young boy, I witnessed what was the prevalent Business Model of the era – The Manufacturer Model – i.e. when necessity was the mother of invention. Busier families with less cooking time needed Instant noodles, pagers (yes, those antiquated things) when you needed to be reached urgently, Sony Walkman because you needed music when you walked/ exercised or were on long flights.