Features

The festival of cinematography remains political with the rise of AI and gender equality bubbling beneath the surface.

Looking back over 2025 to date, it’s clear that AI continues to widen its role in the Content Everywhere ecosystem, and many companies are becoming more discerning about how and where the technology should be applied to streaming and video technology. Clearly, there is still much more to come, and much more to learn, but what have recent developments taught the industry to date?

Tasked with producing the festival side of the 2025 Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Vanguard engineered a multi-venue broadcast workflow built on Blackmagic Design infrastructure to handle weeks of continuous live programming.

TNT Sports takes a hybrid approach as England’s cricket team heads down under with a sporting chance of returning with a little urn. Adrian Pennington reports.

As XR devices become more accessible and 6G wireless systems emerge, we’ll move from simply watching video to stepping inside it.

Cinematographer Dan Laustsen tells IBC365 why he and Guillermo del Toro turned the classic nightmare, Frankenstein, into a love story of ice and warmth between father and son.

Today’s rapidly evolving media production technologies have enabled a new wave of creative workflows. With them comes a tsunami of corresponding infrastructure vulnerabilities.

From neural interfaces to adaptive AR, brands may soon be capable of delivering messages that respond to real-time brain activity – creating powerful opportunities for engagement, but also raising critical questions about ethics, privacy, and trust. David Howell reports.

From casting his own dog as the lead to shooting at a dog’s eye level, first-time Feature Director Ben Leonberg has perfected a filmmaking process built entirely around a pet. The result? Critical acclaim and a viral smash for horror season. 

The first AI-created adverts are coming to TV as broadcasters look to compete with social media. ITV and Channel 4 explain why they are now scaling up.