All Industry Trends articles – Page 2
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Delivering news to the social media generation
In episode one of the IBC’s Changemaker series of Podcasts, The News Movement’s co-founder and former BBC Editorial Director Kamal Ahmed spoke with Nadira Tudor to discuss the importance of journalism in a world dominated by social media.
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Inside the IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme for 2023
IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme will be showcasing eight projects in Amsterdam this year. Created in 2019 to provide a framework for agile, collaborative, and fast-track innovation, the programme offers a unique multi-company project-based approach to solving complex media and entertainment business and technology challenges, focused on hands-on experimentation.
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Recruitment & Retention: Navigating the Skills Shortfall
The Rise Up Academy is among several notable organisations aiming to increase and diversify the intake of new engineering talent into broadcast. But how are individual companies reacting to the skills shortfall, asks David Davies.
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Esports: Challenging the Status Quo
The world of Esports is not only a dynamic and exciting one, but has begun to attract considerable interest thanks to a more professionalised approach to content and broadcast deals. Mark Mayne reports on gaming’s rising star.
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Behind the Scenes: The Hundred
The Hundred, the ECB’s 100-ball-a-side competition, aims to carry over momentum from The Ashes as it commences this week. Adrian Pennington takes to the crease to uncover the inside story.
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Pixar’s Elemental Lays Foundation for AI Powered Workflow
New Pixar animation Elemental is the Walt Disney Company’s most technically complex feature film to date and required a new data storage pipe that lays the foundation for use of AI, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Interview: DPP CEO Mark Harrison – Content and Collaboration
The DPP’s rise to industry prominence: George Jarrett, who attended the first three foundation meetings involving ITV, C4 and the BBC and industry sympathisers seeking an agreed digital production strategy, talks to DPP CEO Mark Harrison.
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BE YOU Festival 2023: Speaking Up for Change
Aspirations vs. the reality of diversity progression in media production proved to be an indispensable conversation at Soho Media Club and Outernet London’s collaborative event, BE YOU Festival which took place in London this month, reports Sheryl Hickey.
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Abertay University Leads Groundbreaking Real-time 5G VP Trial
In a first for the UK film industry, a short sci-fi film sequence was shot simultaneously at locations in Manchester and Dundee using a stable, low-latency 5G connection, reports David Davies.
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Interview: Dr Alex Connock on AI - ‘An Explosion of Creativity’
Dr Alex Connock is a Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and recently wrote a textbook on media and AI. He discussed AI through in the context of media perception with John Maxwell Hobbs.
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Consumer Data and ROI - A Balancing Act
It has never been more important to understand your customers, a fact that media and broadcasters have always been well aware of, and in today’s digital environment there are many ways of slicing that cake, discovers Mark Mayne.
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Behind the Scenes: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
For a machine-tooled $290 million stunt-fuelled blockbuster it comes as a surprise to learn that the latest Mission: Impossible instalment was made with improvisation and experimentation at its core, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Behind the Scenes: Asteroid City
For a film as singularly American as Asteroid City, Wes Anderson chose to base his latest film in Spain, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Behind the Scenes: FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand
The FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand features a number of production firsts including volumetric ‘datatainment’, fully remote live matchday hosting, and a stream dedicated to TikTok – but it is all in HD, reports Adrian Pennington
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IP and Cloud at IBC2023: Navigating new challenges
The cloud continues to revolutionise the media and broadcast industry, offering unprecedented opportunities in areas such as scalable storage, content management and distribution, digital workflows, and real-time collaboration.
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A Short-Form Revolution: Powered by Cloud and Social Media
Viewer habits are evolving in favour of shorter clips viewed on social media, especially for breaking news and sports highlights. David Davies finds out what this means for day-to-day production and the ‘content continuum’.
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Behind the Scenes: The Open
The 151st Open takes place at Royal Liverpool, 16-23 July with EMG in charge of pretty much all broadcast technical facilities, reports Adrian Pennington.
