Features

What does it take to win a technological innovation award in Content Creation? Fergal Ringrose, Chair of Judges for the IBC Innovation Awards, assesses the top three projects in the running – revealing the key characteristics of each of the most competitive submissions.

Jaleo Producciones developed a compact broadcast-style workflow to capture Ana Milán’s improvised performances across theatres in Madrid, Bilbao, Valencia, and Seville, while moving each episode quickly from stage to post-production.

As traditional broadcasters battle decreasing budgets and attention spans, brands have come to the fore as collaborators in an increasingly lucrative and creatively fertile strand of the media business.

Despite the availability of hundreds of generative AI tools, pre-production environments are still struggling to find a semantic archive search solution that is technically feasible and effective in the real world. Enter FRAMES.

It’s a jungle out there. Celiana Cárdenas, Director of Photography, explains how the series evoked the oppressive and unsettling atmosphere of a stalker hunting its prey in Apple TV’s pulp fiction.

Stepping beyond the screen, this IBC Accelerator project has set out to meld immersive technology and audience interaction into an entirely new form of audience engagement.

If IBC2025 was defined by conversations about artificial intelligence’s transformative potential, the past 12 months have been about proving where it can deliver tangible business value. CE exhibitors now describe a market that has become more pragmatic.

After years of AI experimentation, this year, the IBC Incubator plans to birth a single, agentic brain that can hold every bit of a story’s context from conception to distribution.

A last-minute pivot to Paris brought its own set of challenges as ESL FACEIT assembles the world’s largest esports event. Adrian Pennington reports.

Art and technology combine for epic storytelling, if you believe the marketing for Christopher Nolan’s latest.