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What to Expect in 2024: Womens Sport Bid Wars, AI and the Olympics

Soccer leads women’s sports into bidding wars, AI driven by the market, an Olympics in front of crowds and opportunities for the neurodiverse – all trends to spot in the new year, predicts Adrian Pennington.

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What do Streamers Want? Sitcoms, Police Drama and Reality Shows

With streamers under pressure from investors to slash costs and turn a profit the decade of rampant content spend is over. Appetite for new shows remains high however if producers can find the right project to sell them, reports Adrian Pennington.

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How to be a Technology Leader: Confidence, Compassion and Collaboration

A fireside conversation with a recent Rise Women in Broadcast Award nominee provided a host of key insights into the strategies of effective leadership that provide food for thought into 2024 and beyond, reports Mark Mayne.

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Skills & Recruitment: Developing Workforces in the Age of Automation

The rapid but unpredictable rise of AI is making it harder than ever for companies in broadcast & media to predict their future skills requirements – but that shouldn’t be a reason to fall into despondency, discovers David Davies.

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The state of AI development According to Google

Few advancements could cause both the excitement and fear AI elicits - according to some, it’s the solution to humanity’s problems. Others will tell you it’s the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it. Andrew Williams investigates.

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Content Everywhere: a look back at 2023

As the year draws to a close, it seems an opportune time to ask Content Everywhere companies for their views on the top trends in 2023. As always, key industry players have been keen to respond with comments on how the past year shaped up both for them and the wider industry.

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Behind the Scenes: Napoleon

In Ridley Scott’s bio-epic Napoleon we see the French general at the battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo, in his tent, standing outside his tent, on a horse – waiting, waiting, waiting, writes Adrian Pennington.

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Sustainability in Production: The albert Report Tells What’s What and Who’s Who

This year’s report to end all reports on sustainability in production dissects industry data, finds the root causes and predicts a path to NetZero. albert, the BAFTA-owned sustainability organisation’s Annual Review 2022, proves the industry’s commitment and identifies the key hurdles to be overcome in the move towards a more sustainable future.

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DAI and Sustainability: Session-Based Solutions and Efficiency in Ad Delivery

With COP 28, the UN’s climate change conference taking place through middle of December this year, the world’s attention is once again focussed on the question of sustainability, and the broadcast industry is no exception, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.

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Behind the Scenes: The Colour Purple

There’s magical realism at the heart of this latest version of the famous story of suffering and triumph, editor Jon Poll tells Adrian Pennington for IBC365.

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