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What is the Creator Economy and what does it mean for 'traditional' media?
What exactly is the Creator Economy, and what does it all mean for 'traditional' media businesses? This was one of the topics discussed at the Media Supply Festival in...
"What are we doing about YouTube being bigger than all of us combined?" — Media Supply Festival 2025 reflections
Join Mark Harrison and industry leaders as they explore the rapidly evolving media landscape, reflecting on conversations from the DPP Media Supply Festival 2025 in Ne...
Cloud Native Distribution — How cloud technologies are rewriting content distribution beyond just streaming
The DPP released its Cloud Native Distribution report in March 2025, the first part of a follow-up to the popular Cloud for Media series we published in 2021.In this e...
Media CTO Agenda 2025: "How do CTOs reduce Opex and move to the cloud?"
At the end of last year we released the DPP Media CTO Survey 2024 — the inaugural research report in what will become an annual trends and analysis initiative explorin...
"We are bad at communicating our strategy to vendors" — Customer reflections on supplier relations at DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2025
The DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2025 closed with a live recording of the DPP podcast featuring Broadcaster Technology Leaders from Sky Deutschland, RTL and TV2 Kos...
"Vendors need to give broadcasters a clear path to the cloud" — Supplier Business Leaders reflections from European Broadcaster Summit 2025
The DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2025 — which brought together representatives from 30 European media companies with the vendor community — closed with a live recor...
DPP 2025 Predictions: 'Deploy or Die', AI romance is over, we're all copyright lawyers now, and power shifts to creator economy
The DPP 2025 Predictions report published in February 2025 shows an industry grappling with a new phase of artificial intelligence development and implementation in me...
Art on TVs, Johnny Cab, and why AI for efficiency & productivity is a bigger opportunity than GenAI… for now
The DPP hosted its Innovation Briefing event at the beginning of 2025, where Founder and Chief Content Officer, Mark Harrison, presented to an audience of media profes...
AI Everything and 'TV Boxes on Wheels' at CES 2025 — Which technology innovations really matter for the media industry?
DPP Founder and Chief Content Officer, Mark Harrison, covers the Consumer Electronics Show for a 16th time to learn about the innovations global technology players and...
"Personalisation at scale without being creepy is tricky!" — How data powers modern media businesses
How are media businesses using data to become more data driven, and how is data being used to power operations? Experts from Couchbase and Google Cloud speak with the ...
"There's still bad behaviour from certain vendors; we need to get that trust back" — DPP Leaders' Debriefing
The DPP Leaders' Briefing 2024 held in Freemasons' Hall in London featured expert speakers from more than 30 major media organisations. But what did they have to say o...
Has technology transformation actually made the media industry more secure? Assessing The State of Media Technology Security 2024
The State of Media Technology Security 2024, a report published by the DPP in September 2024, reveals the measures media companies and technology providers are taking ...
"It has to work out of the box!" — Exploring newsroom and UX media tech innovations at IBC 2024
The DPP was hosting its own breakfast, drinks and dinner events in Amsterdam in September 2024. And during our trip to the Netherlands we also caught up with members a...
What does it mean to be 'cloud native'? Ateliere CEO and leaders digest Agile Live acquisition
In July 2024 Ateliere Creative Technologies completed the acquisition of Agile Live, Agile Content’s live production platform which is now rebranded as Ateliere Live. ...
The 'human-in-the-loop' approach — Balancing the art and the science of media tech AI/ML implementations
Is content commissioning and scheduling an art or a science? We catch up with product management and marketing experts from Mediagenix to hear about the company's 'hum...
"Content exchange is a mess we have to fix!" — Media Supply Festival 2024 reflections
The DPP Media Supply Festival returned to New York at the end of May 2024, but how much really has changed in the last year in the media, broadcasting, technology and ...
Operationalising Mediacorp's 'bottom up' sustainability enthusiasm and initiatives
How is Singapore-based Mediacorp helping turn a groundswell of enthusiasm around sustainability into company-wide programmes? The company's Head of Sustainability, Jam...
"Progress over perfection" - Achieving green goals with Dolby Sustainability & ESG Director Natasha Tuck
What does it take for a media and technology organisation to realise its sustainability targets and make progress with its journey become carbon neutral? And how does ...
Co-pilot AI lands at NAB
Media services provider Prime Focus Technologies and OpenAI partner Microsoft have been working together to make Co-pilot AI a reality for media and entertainment. As ...
What does 'good' AI look like? Part 2: Using customer data responsibly and AI in the wild at the BBC
How has the BBC been using automation technologies for 30 years, and in what ways has the corporation implemented artificial intelligence capabilities in its wildlife ...
What does 'good' AI look like? Part 1: "I can absolutely tell you the CTO should not be solely responsible!"
Who should ultimately be responsible for the oversight, governance and implementation of artificial intelligence capabilities in media organisations? And in which part...
'Transformation is dead; long live adaptability!' But is it realistic to achieve complete technology and business agility?
The DPP 2024 Predictions report published in February 2024 reveals an industry striving to achieve a position of complete technical, commercial and business flexibilit...
GenAI Spy — In search of tech innovations at CES 2024, and what it means for media
What are the major consumer technology innovation trends, and what does it all mean for the media industry? For 15 years, DPP CEO Mark Harrison has attended the CES sh...
'Antipredictions' and what to avoid in 2024? Media CEO and CTO foresight and warnings
What are the less-discussed media industry trends to focus on in 2024? And what are the technologies, themes and hype that's best avoided? Digesting the major media, e...
DPP Leaders' Briefing 2023: Reflections and takeaways from speakers, exhibitors and attendees
The DPP Leaders' Briefing is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for the media industry. The DPP Leaders’ Briefing 2023 showcased technology and business exper...
Artificial Intelligence in Media Part 2: Calm reflections with Sanjeevan Bala, ITV Chief Data & AI Officer
Sanjeevan Bala is ITV Chief Data & AI Officer. In Part 2 of the DPP's calm reflections about artificial intelligence in the media industry, Sanjeevan speaks with DPP E...
Artificial Intelligence in Media Part 1: Calm reflections with Johanna Björklund, Associate Professor in Theoretical Computer Science and media tech startup CTO
Johanna Björklund is Co-founder and CTO at media technology startups Adlede and Codemill; she is also Associate Professor in Theoretical Computer Science with a focus ...
Best and worst trade show experiences — On the ground at IBC 2023 exhibition in Amsterdam
What’s the point of trade shows? Are these exhibition events actually worth going to? DPP staff were among the 40-odd thousand people at the recent IBC 2023 conference...
RÚV CTO Bragi Reynisson on emergency response volunteering and the journey to hybrid cloud
RÚV CTO Bragi Reynisson speaks with DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough about his Chief Technology Officer role at the national broadcaster of Iceland in the Augu...
Ross Video CEO David Ross interview — Ethics, culture, acquisition, leadership lessons and succession planning
Ross Video CEO David Ross speaks with Mark Harrison in the July 2023 episode of the DPP podcast. David shares his leadership lessons, stories of succession planning (a...