IBC Focus

David Hanson is a real-life Dr Eldon Tyrell – the robotics genius from the movie Blade Runner, based on the sci-fi novel by Philip...

The next 20 years are likely to see more technological innovation than the world has seen in the past 300 years, and Louisa Heinrich’s...

Among the attendees at a reception to mark IBC’s 50th anniversary were two special guests. David MacGregor and Martin Salter both attended the 1967...

The IBC Legends and Lucky Ajax line up for Saturday night’s charity football match. The Legends were ‘narrowly’ defeated, scoring four times in a...

Hollywood would tell us that the rise of AI will wipe out the human race, but the BBC, Unbabel and Videogorillas are experimenting with...

Advertising’s ‘Mad Men’ panel heard Allen Klosowski, VP, advanced solutions group, SpotX, sum up the state of the industry. He said that the ad-path...

One commonly held industry view is that while younger viewers may watch large amounts of mobile video on platforms such as YouTube, they will...

An IBC panel was unanimous about the impact IP was making – and would continue to make – to broadcasting. But as Richard Lindsay-Davies,...

George MacCallum, a self-shooting “one-man band”, set himself the challenge for the popular ‘What Caught My Eye’ session to re-equip his complete video production...

Consumers have been given access to multiple content platforms but not the tools to discover what’s on them – and the answer to making...

The Digital Production Partnership has unveiled a new cyber security programme, which enables UK broadcasters and their suppliers to self-assess against a number of...

Brian Sullivan, president and COO, Digital Consumer Group, Fox Networks, told IBC delegates that disruption in TV is perfectly natural. “Once, consumers had all...

Industry analyst Lluis Borrell from Spanish telecoms consultancy Analysys Mason has predicted that IP is set to have a huge impact on the European...

Yesterday’s IABM breakfast session was dominated by the word consolidation, and quirky research contradictions. Giving his traditional industry report, CEO Peter White started with...

Pay-TV operators are facing some tough short- and long-term challenges. That was the conclusion of a panel of pay-TV experts speaking at a Platform...

In entertainment at least, broadcasters and social media networks are more friends than foes as they harness social media to innovate new content and...

Modern Times Group’s Danish CEO Kim Poder has appealed to existing broadcast networks to keep a close eye on fast-changing patterns of video consumption...

TV is here to stay forever and the naysayers who predicted its downfall are wrong, and most probably work in advertising, according to TF1’s...

The outpouring of emotion and support from within the industry at the tragic passing of Elemental co-founder and CEO Sam Blackman is a fitting...

eSports is finally emerging as a major new opportunity for broadcasters to build younger audiences. So said Michiel Bakker, CEO of Ginx TV, who...

The promised revisions to the Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM) Roadmap – crucial to the fast evolving era of networked media open...

The IBC Showcase has marched way past the endless chains of gateways that dominated last year to a look beyond IP transport to other...

Fifty years ago, a small group of people from the broadcast industry decided that the market deserved a world-class convention. The plan was to...

Thomas Wrede, VP Reception Systems, SES Astra TV is still the predominant device to consume broadcast content in the home, however new devices such...

One of the subplots of IBC has been the increasing interest in cyber security and an initiative was discussed yesterday by the Association of...