Enjoy a short AI-curated clip of our top soundbites from key streaming sessions across IBC2025.
Specialists and decision-makers at the top of their fields congregated at IBC2025 to scrutinise the latest trends, analytics, and challenges shaping today’s rapidly growing streaming market. Experts from the world’s leading players in the media and broadcasting space shared their expertise on AVOD, CDNs, FAST, SVOD, and TVOD.
Live on stage, these thought-leaders looked at emerging opportunities in AI tagging applications, audience data, streamed live sports, and monetisation strategies. They looked ahead to conceptualise cutting-edge technologies and action plans to address major shifts in consumer behaviour – across platform preferences, packages, and content.
Hear from the likes of: Elke Walthelm, Chief Operating Officer at Sky Deutschland; Justin Gupta, Head of Broadcast and Video Ads, EMEA at Google; Judy Parnall, Head of Standards and Industry at BBC; and Noel Curran, Director-General of the EBU.
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To learn more about some of the great sessions featured in this video, visit the links below:
What next in streaming? “You can’t depend on what is being made elsewhere”
Panel: Is this the end of advertising as we know it? New models, new partnerships, new technologies
Solving Complexity in Broadcast Media and Sports
Redefining streaming experiences for a global sports audience
Panel and Demos - Mythbusting AI: Demonstrating the Impact on the bottom line
2025 Accelerator Project: Stamping Your Content (C2PA Provenance)
Streaming Smarter: Identity, Rights and Revenue in a Connected Media World
The future of media streaming: ecosystems, AI and the new content economy
Developing the Perfect OTT Application for Young Users: An LTTS Perspective
EBU’s Noel Curran: “We have to be careful about entering the opinion space”
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EU Sovereign AI: Collaboration crucial to AI and cloud success
Collaboration and innovation are crucial ingredients for establishing a sovereign cloud and AI ecosystem within Europe to reduce dependency on US hyperscalers, concluded an SMPTE panel at IBC2026.
Comcast and Paramount Skydance weigh future of SkyShowtime platform
Comcast and Paramount Skydance are reportedly considering winding down their SkyShowtime joint venture.
Disney+ launches curated Playlists feature
Disney+ is introducing Playlists, a feature that brings together themed collections of episodes and movies that play continuously.
Apple expands Apple TV to 170 markets
Apple is rolling out is Apple TV streaming platform into 59 additional countries, taking the service’s global footprint to 170 markets.
Canal+ and LaLiga strike anti-piracy agreement
France’s pay-TV group Canal+ and Spanish football league LaLiga have signed a strategic anti-piracy agreement covering nearly 50 countries across Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Haiti.
