Industry Trends – Page 2
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OTT to play a key role in sports growth
Broadcasters have played a key role in driving up sports revenues, but could the entrance of OTT providers prevent the sports bubble from bursting? James Pearce investigates.
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Preview: IBC365’s OTT week
Will 2020 be the year of the OTT? IBC365 looks at the growing OTT market as part of next week’s OTT Week.
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Who are the favourites for the BBC director general job?
With Tony Hall set to leave the BBC in the summer, IBC365 looks at who might replace him as director general and the challenges they may face.
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Closing the gap between broadcast and OTT
The gap between OTT and broadcast is diminishing, with reductions in latency improving user experience and bolstering use cases in areas such as sports, gambling and even military video.
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Can NBCUniversal make Peacock fly?
In the final piece of IBC365’s series of reports on the new players launching into the streaming market, Tim Dams examines NBCUniversal’s Peacock offer – and weighs up its chances of success.
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Content security: Keeping one step ahead of the pirates
Restreaming and credential sharing are among the challenges faced by broadcasters and platform owners, ensuring that content and revenue protection remain areas of innovation.
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Top 10: Publish
As the year draws to a close, IBC365 takes a look at some of the most popular news and industry trend articles in our Publish category.
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Doing business the right way: Encouraging sustainability and diversity
Sustainability and green issues have dominated the news in 2019. At a recent event, the DPP put ethical broadcasting top of the agenda
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Election 2019: How UK broadcasters are covering election night
The UK is holding its first December election in over a century. IBC365 looks at how the UK’s major broadcasters are tackling election night coverage.
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Can Amazon deliver a Premier football experience?
As Amazon kicks off its live coverage of the Premier League, Alana Foster speaks with experts on meeting fan demand and managing the technical challenges.
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HBO Max: Too late to the streaming party?
Despite a powerful programming line-up, the jury is out on whether the costly HBO Max can carve out a space for itself in the crowded streaming market. Tim Dams reports on WarnerMedia’s OTT play in IBC365’s series on new SVOD platforms.
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5G: The impact on broadcasting
As 5G deployments gain momentum into 2020, the media and broadcast industry is looking at ways of capitalising on this next-generation mobile tech. Explore how in technical papers from the BBC, KPN, Ericsson, Qualcomm and Nokia.
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New World Symphony: Orchestral academy gets ready for 4K HDR
The world-renowned Miami classical music institution is approaching the completion of an ambitious multi-year upgrade, writes David Davies.
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4K UHD: choice and complexity concerns still shaping global adoption
Multiple HDR formats and concerns about production complexity mean that UHD is still some way off from becoming a default choice, writes David Davies.
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Disney bets big on the streaming revolution
The culmination of years of planning and billions of dollars of investment, Disney+ represents a major pivot by the Walt Disney Company towards the direct-to-consumer, OTT market. Can the House of Mouse pull it off?
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Apple bites into the streaming market
In the first of series of reports on the new players launching into the streaming market, Tim Dams looks at the Apple TV+ offer – and weighs up its chances of success.
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5G Today: Bavaria’s broadcast trials
5G offers great potential for media distribution of media content, with millions of smartphones and tablets as potential TV receivers for live and catch up services. That’s the view of the 5G Today group, which is conducting broadcast trials in Bavaria.
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Ad management: Broadcast stability versus online chaos
Workflows for TV ads are a model of consistency compared to the wild west of digital, and the approach of traditional TV has a lot to teach the ‘new media’ of online video.
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IBC2019 technical papers: Encoding
Encoding was once again high up the agenda in the Technical Paper submissions at IBC2019.
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CDNs: Innovation, higher bandwidth and interactivity
The advent of 4K and now 8K, as well as interactive applications that require sub-1 second latency, are obliging CDN service providers to enhance capacity and efficiency, writes David Davies.