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Daily NewsVizrt introduces Viz Channel Branding
Viz Channel Branding, which replaces Viz Multichannel, is a new automated channel branding and promo system that boasts greater control, stability and visibility.
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Daily News
Inside the IBC Accelerator exploring the success of future streaming services
Challenges that will shape the success of future streaming services and ultimately increase user engagement are the pain points targeted by one of eight collaborative projects in this year’s IBC Accelerator Innovation Programme.
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Industry Trends
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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Daily News
IBC Accelerator to tackle Media Distribution and the Data Challenge
Another collaboration of future-focused minds will be tackling the topical challenge faced by the M&E community - the control of metadata and distribution. The project, Authenticated Data Specification, is part of the Accelerators Media Innovation Programme, which will be showcased at IBC2023.
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Daily News
Varnish Software unveils MSE 4
Caching, streaming and content delivery software specialist Varnish Software unveiled Massive Storage Engine (MSE) 4, its latest solution for storing and managing cached objects and their metadata, and the latest addition to Varnish Enterprise 6.
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Video
New opportunities and new audiences on DAB+
IBC2022: Radio broadcasters are taking advantage of the extra features offered by DAB+ digital radio to bring their audience a richer experience on national, regional and local radio. Metadata allows radio broadcasters to stay at the forefront of today’s booming audio market – especially in the highly competitive space of ...
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Panel: Managed services: Adding value in content distribution
IBC2022: As streaming complements, and sometimes supplants, broadcast, this session considers the role and relevance of managed services for broadcasters and content owners facing up to the challenge of convergence and disruption to long established commercial models.
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Video
Demo: Mobius visual DNA: Computer vision powered customised indexing of video content
IBC2022: Mobius Labs Video provides a variety of features that allow customers to efficiently add metadata to their video databases, allowing them to make video content searchable and unlocking hidden value.
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Industry Trends
Preserving assets: Taking the long view on ML and AI
The challenges of asset archiving have broadened in recent years, according to an expert panel. Speaking on the IBC webinar, ‘Preserving assets’, Bríd Dooley, Head of Archives at RTÉ explained that while the traditional requirements of an archive were very much still in play, increasingly new demands are being surfaced:
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Industry Trends
Object-based audio – immersive experiences and personalisation
Object-based audio production has begun to get the attention of consumers over the past year with Dolby Atmos technology incorporated into headphones, speakers, and soundbars from a variety of vendors. Both Apple, Amazon, and Tidal also offer special Atmos-encoded spatial audio streams.
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Daily News
How radio broadcasters can thrive amid automotive ‘revolution’
Metadata is crucially important for radio broadcasters who want to make their content discoverable for car drivers at a time of a “true revolution” in the automotive industry.
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Daily News
Funding boost for Multimodal AI indexing
AI and cloud media company Newsbridge has used IBC to announce that it has raised €7 million in a Series A funding round to continue its expansion to the US and hire top AI and media engineering talent to boost its R&D in AI-based indexing for media assets. Supernova Invest ...
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Daily News
Easel TV advocates streaming for all
Easel TV, which provides end-to-end, as-a-service streaming solutions to enable businesses and content owners of all sizes to stream to consumers, is set to unveil its new platform at IBC.
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Industry Trends
SMPTE report explores the ‘what ifs’ of bringing down a network
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is an important element of any IP infrastructure, and the industry has been keen to see a SMPTE report on PTP security, looking at issues and mitigations around the core timing infrastructure. George Jarrett talks to former SMPTE VP of Standards Development Bruce Devlin about this ...
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News
Metadata management evermore critical as broadcasters optimise content’s complete lifecycle
With the ability to utilise archive material becoming more vital during the pandemic, demand for tools that support the sophisticated use of metadata is growing in demand.
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Thought Leadership
The explosion of cloud-based production workflows and AI-enhanced content in live news and sports broadcasts
The popularity of cloud-based broadcast production and AI-enhanced content is at its highest point ever. Every aspect of live programming can be produced in the cloud or enriched with AI for faster, easier, and at a fraction of the cost broadcasters have become accustomed to.
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Video
Transforming the TV experience in the 2020s
Join Gracenote and Liberty Global as they discuss these topics and more in this live IBC Showcase discussion.
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Technical Papers
Integrity of content, metadata and workflow in loosely integrated systems
In a broadcast organization content is created generally with an intent to publish and/or archive it in one way or another.
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Industry Trends
Moving production to the cloud
The immediate barriers to unfettered production in the cloud are bandwidth, the compression required to shrink bit rates, transport, discovery and security.
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Thought Leadership
Content rights and consumer choice converge in complex sophisticated workflows
Using content without rights can lead to legal action, but not making it available where you do have the rights is a waste of investment, says Paul Wilkins, director of solutions and marketing, TMD.
