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EBU Director General, Ingrid Deltenre: “This debate is not yet finished”
Right after IBC’s ‘great spectrum debate’ decided to signal that the broadcast group had ‘beaten’ the mobile broadband community, the show was buzzing with...
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Conference Analysis : Nature drives broadcast technology
Exclusive footage of Atlantic Films’ upcoming wildlife production for Sky 3D, Conquest of the Skies, fronted by Sir David Attenborough was shown during ‘Natural...
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Shifting Gears: BBC Worldwide’s media transformation strategy
How does the leader of a traditional media business go about devising a vision and strategy that will equip and safeguard it for the...
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Sky targets ads across multiple platforms
Firing a shot across the bow of advertising supremo Martin Sorrell and underlining the ability of the broadcasting industry to compete more effectively for...
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Google: not Daleks
Matt Brittin, Google’s president for Europe, delivered a fascinating Keynote to a packed Forum at IBC, and told delegates that he was no Dalek!...
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Conference Analysis: BARB project Dovetail two years from market
How do you keep track of the audience in the age of connected devices? Now that more and more people view content on their...
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Conference Analysis: TV dynamics change
IBC’s 2014 Conference sessions kicked off with a humdinger keynote featuring a quartet of VIP speakers, each of whom used the occasion to make...
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A spectrum of difference
Little room for compromise emerged during‘ The great spectrum debate’, chaired by Informity CEO William Cooper, which opposed public broadcasters and mobile operators, over...
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DASH Forum for IBC
The rapid deployment of MPEG-DASH over two years is both a credit to the 74 members of the DASH Industry Forum, and a beacon...
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BARB’s Project Dovetail two years away
Conference Analysis: How do you keep track of the audience in the age of connected devices? Now that more and more people view content...
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Five Streams ahead for Conference success
As well as now being restructured into distinct days, each one of which tells a separate part of the innovation story of our industry,...
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Shifting Gears: BBC Worldwide transformation
How does the leader of a traditional media business go about devising a vision and strategy that will equip and safeguard it for the...
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The eyes of the world
The IBC show is huge: 1,500 and more exhibitors are spread out across all of the Amsterdam RAI’s 14 Exhibition Halls and many of...
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IBC to assess health of TV
IBC’s conference opening keynote, looks specifically at the health of the broadcast sector. The session brings together David Abraham, CEO Channel 4, Bruce Tuchman,...
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Professor Brian Cox OBE to give IBC keynote
One of the most influential of a new generation of science broadcasters, Professor Brian Cox, world- renowned physicist and multiple award-winning broadcaster, is...
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Register now for the IBC2014 Conference
There are a wide range of passes available to ensure that as many people get to experience the IBC2014 Conference in the way that...
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Channel 4’s Abraham to open Conference
David Abraham, Channel 4 CEO since his appointment in 2010, has been confirmed as Thursday’s IBC Conference keynote speaker in the agenda-setting panel ...
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Conference reflects progress and innovation
Each day of the IBC2014 Conference will tell a different chapter of the innovation story of our industry, enabling delegates to identify and...
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Supercharging screens
In the gadget-rich and app-heavy session ‘Smart Viewers, Dumb Screens’, the power of mobile technology to inspire people to create cool stuff was very...
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TV capacity problem for telcos
Today the telcos may not look to be in the best position to deliver high-quality, linear TV, but the falling cost of IPTV delivery,...
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Spectrum damage ahead
The director of engineering of Brazil's largest broadcaster TV Globo lambasted regulators including the ITU for ignoring the needs of broadcasters in their spectrum...
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Killing chief reveals drama dogma
Keep it local, put the author at the centre of the production and avoid TV adaptations – these are The Killing broadcaster DR’s golden...
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Big Data & the Recommendation Engine
Channel 4 is set to unveil the first fruits of its viewer engagement strategy by releasing a user recommendation engine based on the data...
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Twitter beefs up its ad propositions
The day before Twitter announced its floatation plans to the world, its outgoing UK general manager Tony Wang used his session at IBC to...
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National boundaries broken down
Some six billion YouTube videos are watched every day around the world and, according to the European MD of YouTube Matt Glotzbach, “national boundaries...
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EBU members to show off tech versatility
Evidence showing that broadcasters are fast becoming the masters of developing their own answers to tricky technology issues will be on show in the...
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Get ready for the ‘tablet’ World Cup
Next summer, connected World Cup viewers will be able to choose their own camera angles and match feeds, click on extra VoD footage, chapter...
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TV Fights Back
Any panel that brings together expert speakers from Samsung, Liberty/UPC, Microsoft and the UK’s YouView, and promises to put into perspective the oftheard mantra...
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The Big Data Buzz
With Big Data and the application of data analytics to broadcast being one of the stand out themes of this year’s Conference, Tesco Digital...
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Amitabh Bachchan to deliver Convention Keynote
As part of the keynote session ‘’ IBC is delighted to welcome two of Indian cinemas greatest stars. Amitabh Bachchan has appeared in more...
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Keynoting the future
The IBC Keynotes are far-reaching presentations given by the foremost thinkers in the industry. Always visionary, and either personality or topic-led, these high-level components...
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Celebrating Bollywood and beyond
IBC's special curtain raiser is an action-packed centenary celebration of one of the most creative, and certainly the most prolific, dream factory on Earth...
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Register now to attend IBC for free
Register for IBC2013 by Wednesday 21 August and entrance into the Exhibition and its 14 Halls featuring 1400 key Exhibitors from around the world...
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Creating Content for a Connected Era
The Content Creation & Innovation stream at the Conference shows how content will be made over forthcoming years from the smallest of screens to...
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The implications of Big Data
A subject at the forefront of the debate and discussion at IBC this year will be Big Data, especially as the industry struggles to...
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Can national broadcasters stay relevant?
The opening keynote of the Conference, The Rise and Fall of Traditional Broadcasting will examine the conflict between the national broadcasters with loyal viewer...
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Rev-Share is Samsung’s new mantra
David Eun, Samsung’s EVP/Global Media, told IBC conference delegates that the company was developing an Evolution Kit that would be used to upgrade their...
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Independence a bigger issue than spectrum
EBU Director General, Ingrid Deltenre, has identified funding and political grasping as more insidious threats to public service broadcasters than the fight to retain...
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will-i-am wows IBC crowd
Recording star will-i-am was met by a sea of flashlights and camera-phones at IBC, and charmed fans – and conference delegates – with his...
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‘Time to redefine broadcasting’
“It’s time to redefine broadcasting,” Catherine Powell, senior vice president of media distribution, The Walt Disney Co EMEA, told the IBC Daily. “For us...
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Hot Topics at the IBC Conference
Every year the IBC Conference is one of the most important venues to assess the new technologies and business models that are being introduced...
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Assessing the lie of the land
One of the last additions to the IBC Conference programme this year, The Emerging Spectrum Landscape for Broadcast and Mobile, is also one of...