Great novelists often play the role of prophets, sometimes announcing with astonishing foresight key technological disruptions and the advent of radically new usages. Think of Jules Verne and his fiction novels From the Earth to the Moon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Or, from a rather more dystopian viewpoint, George Orwell’s 1984.
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In the run up to this year’s IBC we have already written about the top trends that you will see on the show floor and what you will see at our stand. One of the things that makes IBC so fascinating th...
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There is a dichotomy right at the heart of modern broadcasting. On the one hand broadcasters need to give consumers what they want, which is the ability to watch television whenever they want, on what...
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Few technologies have been as disruptive to the broadcast industry over recent years as the cloud. Its implementation brings multiple benefits at all points of the production chain, with its ability t...
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Back in May this year, we asked the thought-leaders and industry visionaries attending our third TV Leaders Summit in Cannes, held in association with Parks Associates, one simple question about the f...
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As 55,000 visitors prepare to start packing for the trip to Amsterdam and IBC2015, we’re going to continue our series of IBC Top 3s by looking in the mirror and reflecting on the stories that we will ...
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Hot TV News: Advertising’s Role in Piracy; US Opposition to Web Blocking; Cloud Increases, Industry Slows
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IBC, to use its own words, stands at the global crossroads of the industry. Every year, 55,000 people from over 160 countries descend on its home at the Amsterdam RAI to see the very latest, cutting-e...
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In March 2014, Facebook bought a little known Kickstarter-funded company called Oculus Rift and all of a sudden everybody knew what had only been whispered in the more far-flung reaches of the geekosp...
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