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Key Technology Success Strategies for 2024: Leadership, AI, and Sustainability

While detail is an ever-present necessity in any technical field, it’s also important to analyse the broader strategies that create or define a successful organisation. Andrew Williams draws out some sound advice on customer-first, AI and sustainability strategies for the future.

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Monetisation, Fragmentation and the Power of the Single Tech Stack

While connected TV has brought many benefits of scale and new revenue streams to content owners, the arms race to support an ever-growing variety of platforms, release schedules and refresh cycle frequency is a key challenge. Mark Mayne reports on an expert panel teasing out the answers to the many questions and challenges around the Single Tech Stack.

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Behind the Scenes: Society of the Snow

Behind the Scenes: Society of the Snow

To faithfully recreate a 50-year-old real life plane crash and remarkable tale of survival, the filmmakers behind Society of the Snow combined LED and green screens with multiple practical sets of the plane’s fuselage and put them all 2000+ metres up a mountain, writes Adrian Pennington.

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Can VFX facilities survive the content lull until new proposed enhanced tax relief

Lifeline for UK VFX Facilities in Promised Tax Break

Can facilities survive the current lull until new proposed enhanced tax relief kicks in? Adrian Pennington reports.

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Hopes for an agreement on new legislation by the end of this year

Regulating AI: Can new legislation impose order before it’s too late?

A raft of new laws are being drafted in a bid to deliver restraint to the increasingly rapid rollout of AI. But what do media technology developers think should be the priorities for legislation, and is it realistic to hope that some of the bleaker prognoses can still be avoided, writes David Davies.

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World Television Day 2023: Expert Insights on the Box

To mark World Television Day, commemorating the United Nation’s first World Television Forum in 1996, IBC365 looks back at the past year’s achievements, advancements and innovations in TV and broadcasting across the globe.

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ST 2110 and NDI

ST 2110 and NDI: The Stellar Trajectory of IP Video

The world of IP-based video is defined at present by a couple of major technologies. David Davies examines their primary points of difference and wonders ‘what’s next’ for media connectivity and transportation.

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The Era of Media Consolidation is Not Over

Pressure from Wall Street and the weak economic landscape could drive further M&A among US media giants, but weather the next 24 months and they might all survive, reports Adrian Pennington.

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Behind the Scenes: The Buccaneers

Girls with money, men with power. A group of fun-loving young American girls explode into the stiff upper lipped London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash in Apple TV series The Buccaneers, reports Adrian Pennington.

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Behind the Scenes: The Killer

Behind the Scenes: The Killer

The precision design of David Fincher’s hit-man feature mirrors its subject, writes Adrian Pennington

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