Articles by Adrian Pennington
Student Champ Finals - British Esports

Esports on the rise despite Olympic debut delay

Esports is on a roll. The global esports market passed the $2bn mark last year and is expected to be worth nearly $11bn by 2032. Tournament prize money is rising and audiences on channels like Twitch are expected to top 640 million worldwide in 2025. IBC365 takes a closer look at the events shaking up the esports landscape.

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Content Credentials: Initiative breaks through but can it achieve industrial scale?

The C2PA-created open standard has reached a significant level of support and adoption, but there remains work to do before it fully delivers. Adrian Pennington reports.

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Filmsat59

Balancing act: Insight from UK's leading women-powered M&E businesses

Nexus Studios, Hartswood Films and Filmsat59 are three UK businesses representing media and TV in JP Morgan’s Top 200 Women-Powered Businesses report. IBC365 speaks to this elite group of leaders and finds one key issue holding more women back.

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Juno Innovations to bring VFX at scale closer to home

Moving VFX workflows to the cloud has proved challenging, but a US-based startup could be about to change that. Adrian Pennington reports.

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MWC2025: EU must stand alone in network-AI war

Europe’s governments and regulators were hammered by their own telcos and Washington representatives for being anti-competitive as innovation struggled to be heard above the noise.

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Oscars 2025: Craft winners

It was the greatest day for Sean Baker at the 97th Academy Awards as the American auteur’s freewheeling sex comedy Anora took home five Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Screenplay, as well as Best Actress for Mikey Madison’s effervescent performance.

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Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones in Train Dreams, edited by Parker Laramie

Behind the scenes: Editing Sugar Babies and By Design in Premiere

The editors of theatrical drama By Design and documentary Sugar Babies share details of their work and editing preferences with IBC365.

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Dramatic closure of Technicolor VFX has been decades in the making

In the same week that one global VFX giant has its AI division alone valued at $1.43bn another is on the verge of collapse. It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the two are related. Adrian Pennington reports.

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Scouting for the volume

Virtual production opens up more possibilities for location use but the actual process of capturing and preparing those locations for the LED wall can be complex, time-consuming and costly, writes Adrian Pennington.

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ISE 2025

ISE2025: Putting the art into artificial intelligence

AI permeated almost every aspect of ISE 2025 but experts and executives were keen to stress AV’s indivisible role in meshing tech with the art of communication.

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