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IBC 2025: Demand vs Supply

The report explores how the market is responding to the needs of customers through key themes that shaped the conversation at IBC 2025: Agentic AI, AV Broadcast, and Data Driven Content. 

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The DPP 2025 Predictions

It explores key technology and business themes that will dominate the media and broadcast agenda in the year ahead.

Media CTO Survey 2024

This report explores the leadership challenges and technology investment priorities of 26 leading CTOs from major media organisations.

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The DPP 2024 Predictions

What next for AI and transformation in media? Explore the views of industry experts in the DPP 2024 Predictions.

MMP: Content Monetisation

Explore the approaches media companies and their technology partners are using to maximise monetisation of video content.

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The Future of Localisation

The DPP has spoken with more than 50 experts from content creators, streaming platforms, localisation service providers, and technology vendors, to find out whether we're on the brink of an automated localisation revolution.

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How To Buy Better

How To Buy Better reveals the true picture about customer and vendor relationships.

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Making The News

The third and final report in the DPP's Tomorrow's News series.

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What's The News?

What are the major trends in topical content consumption? How are consumers consuming news, what does this mean for content delivery, and how and why are news operations therefore likely to change?

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Integration Expertise

Investigate one of the most important questions: who is best placed to deliver successful integration?

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Streaming at Scale

Examine the different elements of a large scale streaming solution, from video delivery to subscriber management and user experience.

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Cloud Playout

Investigate the different use cases for playout and why media companies are moving it into the cloud.

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Automating Media

Explore the deployment and potential of automation, and how it's enabling the direct to consumer revolution.

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Cloud Technology

A guide to key technological terms for The Cloud for Media 2021 series.

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The Business of Live

Discover what an explosion of live content means for the professional media industry, and how it has become the ultimate direct to consumer product.

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Making Innovation Pay

What do we mean by innovation? And how can media companies be effective at identifying and delivering it? This series of three reports reveals the answers as well as the next, largely untapped, focus for media industry innovation.

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The DPP 2021 Predictions

The events of 2020 gave this year’s predictions a real edge. But what were our experts’ key predictions for 2021? Discover why market disruption will push the media industry towards greater risk taking over the next 12 months.

Distribution

Discover the six key success factors for forward looking distribution businesses. Consumer demand drives new content distribution strategies, so content providers must now achieve flexible, responsible, and user-centric content delivery.

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Content Preparation

Discover the six key success factors for the design of content preparation operations in an unpredictable media market in Building the Agile Media Factory, the second report in our Design for Tomorrow series.

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Key Design Principles

Discover the five Key Design Principles for any organisation determined to build back better from the turmoil of 2020, and equip your company to succeed, even when the future is unknown.

Supplying the VOD Revolution

An extensive piece of research into the global supply of content to VOD platforms, identifying pain points and exploring formats and standards. What practical steps can be taken to reduce complexity and enhance efficiency in this vital artery of our industry?

Next Gen Supply Chain

Will companies with next generation supply chains have a competitive advantage? We explore what major content companies adopting software defined, cloud led supply chains could mean for the media industry.

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Next Gen Production

From a small digital agency to a Hollywood studio, how are production companies using the cloud as a key production tool? And are they gaining a competitive advantage?

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CES 2020

How do trends from the world’s most famous technology show affect the media and entertainment industry, and how have they changed over the last decade?

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Survey Report: Blindsided

Are you in danger of missing highly disruptive trends? Find out what new trends in technology, global media markets and consumer behaviours mean for media

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CES 2019

Discover the trends from CES 2019 that will have profound implications for media companies, in the context of a decade’s worth of CES trend data

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Survey Report: CES 2018

Unique insight into the world’s most famous technology show by analysing not only the show itself, but how it relates to previous CES events

Survey Report: CES 2017

Unique insight into the world’s most famous technology show. We analyse not only the show itself, but how it relates to previous CES events.

Survey Report: Decoding CES

What were the most significant trends from CES over the last 7 years? And what do they tell us about the future of technology and the media?

Home Truths No.4 VR- Who Needs It?

What will be the impact of immersive technologies? DPP members believe it wil be on the creation of experiences - particularly for VR and 360° Video

Home Truths No.3 UHD - For Real

Major change is never about technology; it’s about users. So what will drive take-up of UHD? And what do producers and consumers really want from it?

The Bloodless Revolution

Practical tips for anyone delivering an end-to-end digital production. Plus, a checklist to help ensure the smoothest route through the production jungle.