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AI was the hottest trend at IBC2023

Content Everywhere: a look back at 2023

As the year draws to a close, it seems an opportune time to ask Content Everywhere companies for their views on the top trends in 2023. As always, key industry players have been keen to respond with comments on how the past year shaped up both for them and the wider industry.

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Behind the Scenes: Napoleon

In Ridley Scott’s bio-epic Napoleon we see the French general at the battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo, in his tent, standing outside his tent, on a horse – waiting, waiting, waiting, writes Adrian Pennington.

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Sustainability in Production: The albert Report Tells What’s What and Who’s Who

This year’s report to end all reports on sustainability in production dissects industry data, finds the root causes and predicts a path to NetZero. albert, the BAFTA-owned sustainability organisation’s Annual Review 2022, proves the industry’s commitment and identifies the key hurdles to be overcome in the move towards a more sustainable future.

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Technology Leadership in 2024: A Broadcast Perspective

The year ahead is guaranteed to be full of significant changes for the broadcast industry. The rapid rise of FAST channels, the maturity of cloud technology services, the rollout of IP-based systems, and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence assures that we’re all in for an exciting ride in the coming 12 months.

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Monetisation, Fragmentation and the Power of the Single Tech Stack

While connected TV has brought many benefits of scale and new revenue streams to content owners, the arms race to support an ever-growing variety of platforms, release schedules and refresh cycle frequency is a key challenge. Mark Mayne reports on an expert panel teasing out the answers to the many questions and challenges around the Single Tech Stack.

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Behind the Scenes: Society of the Snow

Behind the Scenes: Society of the Snow

To faithfully recreate a 50-year-old real life plane crash and remarkable tale of survival, the filmmakers behind Society of the Snow combined LED and green screens with multiple practical sets of the plane’s fuselage and put them all 2000+ metres up a mountain, writes Adrian Pennington.

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