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Industry Trends
Is XR the answer to delivering the new normal?
Are new age technologies the key to boosting economies and bolstering broadcasting for the future post lockdown? IBC365 looks at the current landscape with vendor announcements and shifts in technology adoption.
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News
M&A review: Facebook’s foray into India, Sky Studios & fuboTV Inc.
IBC365 looks back at some of the notable mergers and acquisitions of the past month within the media and technology industry.
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Industry Trends
IBC Accelerator Programme: Delivering television as objects
Responding to the myriad of complex digital transformation challenges facing today’s Media & Entertainment industry, IBC has introduced the Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. Ian Volans looks at these projects.
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Industry Trends
Streaming success: As-live action theatre in lockdown
Theatre has suffered more than most industries due to coronavirus. But with Disney set to air broadway megahit Hamilton on its OTT service, the UK’s National Theatre and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber are among novice streamers turning to OTT during Covid-19.
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Industry Trends
365 playlist: News broadcasting
To celebrate World Press Day, IBC365 rounds up features on freedom of the press, contingency broadcasting and dangers of front-line reporting as broadcasters look to mitigate fake news and misinformation.
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Industry Trends
How streaming re-wrote the rules for cinema
Coronavirus has seen cinemas across the globe shut down, while streaming services are gaining more eyeballs than ever. In a follow-up to our Streaming vs Cinema article, Patrick von Sychowski looks at how streaming has affected the film industry during Covid-19 lockdown
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Industry Trends
Looking to the cloud during lockdown
Heightened demands on cloud storage and bandwidth pressures resulting from large-file transfer are the universal concerns for broadcasters as production shifts greatly in favour of working from home during lockdown, writes David Davies.
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Industry Trends
Quibi aims uppercut at heavyweight Netflix
Is Quibi equipped to take on and challenge the likes of Netflix, YouTube and Hulu? The $1 billion investment has been touted by its founders as a category-defining pay-TV service, but will it stand the test of time?
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Industry Trends
Industry moves: Grass Valley, GB Labs, BBC Studios
IBC365’s update on company appointments, resignations and restructures across the content and broadcast industry.
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Industry Trends
Tuning in to real home radio
Radio production is better placed than TV to broadcast from home. But the coronavirus lockdown still poses challenges for the sector, writes Kevin Hilton.
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Industry Trends
Esports scores as live sports shrinks
As stadiums remain empty and sporting matches are postponed, esports is filling the void with fans turning from traditional sports to gaming. Alana Foster looks at the market and the movement from broadcasters and vendors.
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Industry Trends
365 playlist: Post production and VFX
Post production and VFX are constantly evolving areas of media production - with no exception during the Covid-19 pandemic. IBC365 looks at how the industry is priming new workflows and remotely post producing.
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Industry Trends
Cracking the code – AI enters the frame
The traditional means of optimising video streaming workflows have run their course. Future advances will be made in software automated by AI.
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Industry Trends
Audience interaction in the coronavirus era
The coronavirus crisis is sparking a wave of innovative ideas in the entertainment sector as shows look for ways to carry on interacting with viewers.
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Industry Trends
365 playlist: Cyber security
Among the challenges broadcasters and platform owners face today is restreaming, credential sharing, ransomware and hacking of content and data. IBC365 rounds up insight and tips from experts on cyber security.
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Industry Trends
Telescope Animation looks to make an Unreal splash
German studio Telescope animation is taking a different approach to animation, using Unreal Engine to create a transmedia portfolio spanning AR/VR, games and interactive storybooks for its new film The Last Whale Singer. Michael Burns investigates.
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Executive Interviews
Super-serving the post community
Corralling technical and creatives teams to work efficiently and seamlessly is post-production supervisor Gemma Nicholson’s forte. She tells IBC365 why she started Post Super and speaks of the juxtaposition power of moving pictures as art and business.
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Industry Trends
Earnings review: Financial wins for Netflix and major tech players
IBC365 recounts the standout company results in the media and broadcast industry.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Marge Dean, Women in Animation
Organising people, money and time is Margaret Dean’s mantle. The Women in Animation chief tells IBC365 of the “tremendous” social impact animation as an art form has and the business changes occurring as the virtual pipeline becomes industry standard.
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Industry Trends
Coronavirus: Remote post production workflows at The Farm
As the industry turns to remote production solutions during the coronavirus, independent post house The Farm is taking the opportunity to accelerate its own remote post production plans.