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At IBC2025, Simon Crownshaw, Worldwide Strategy Director Media & Entertainment at Microsoft, and Alexandra Willis, Director of Digital Media and Audience Development at Premier League, uncover how Microsoft and the Premier League are going beyond the game with the Premier League Companion app, powered by Microsoft Copilot, to deliver a tailored and engaging experience for football fans around the world.

Geoff Cooper has been appointed as the next Chair of UK broadcaster Channel 4. Currently Chair of online electronics retailer AO World, Cooper will succeed interim Chair Dawn Airey on 1 October 2025.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and Video Services Forum (VSF) are to receive an Emmy award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science & Technology for the development of SMPTE ST 2110.

Video platform Vimeo is to be acquired for $1.38bn by Italian technology firm Bending Spoons, the owner of Brightcove, WeTransfer, and Evernote.

It is not easy working in broadcasting if you’re disabled, as Chris Lynch has discovered during his 20 years in the industry. He wanted to be a camera operator and DoP, “but there are so many physical barriers that prevent people with disabilities from taking on these roles”.

For German startup Phont, subtitles simply aren’t working hard enough, and it is on a mission to make them way more expressive.

Austria-based ORS Group and Insys Video Technologies are exhibiting for the first time under their joint international Big Blue Marble brand as they present their shared mission to “create a smarter, connected, secure future for content distribution”.

Making it even easier to use as a fully featured production camera, Blackmagic Design is launching Blackmagic Camera ProDock, a new dock that adds professional camera connections to iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max.

A billion hours of YouTube is watched on TV every day, and broadcasters need to figure out how to adapt.

Qvest is commissioning a new media production facility in London to allow England’s Premier League to bring all its international coverage in house. The facility will deliver 380 matches annually from the start of the 2026/27 season.