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Vubiquity Media Industry Insights Council Dinner

17 November 2025, London | Public

DPP Executive Summit 2025

17 November 2025 | Public

Leaders' Briefing 2025

18-19 November 2025, London | Public

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The DPP Tech Trends 2026

21 January 2026

An invitation only Breakfast Briefing to explore the key technology trends for media emerging from the markets, consumer behaviour, and the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show.

Trends

Coming Soon

DPP Predictions 2026 workshop

8 December 2025

At this invitation-only workshop, senior industry experts predict the key business trends for the media industry for the year ahead.

Invite only

DPP Executive Summit 2025

17 November 2025

The Executive Summit is a closed, invitation-only event for speakers at the 2025 Leaders’ Briefing featuring selected executives from the content provider community.

Exec Summit

Invite only

About the DPP

Find out more about what makes the DPP unique, where we come from, and how we're run.

Join the DPP

Discover the benefits of DPP membership, and learn how to join.

Your DPP: Quarterly Update (April)

29 April 2025, 16:30 BST

Your DPP is an opportunity to get (re)acquainted with your DPP membership, and to find out what we have coming up and how you can get involved.

Your DPP

Members

DPP Innovation Showcase: February 2025

11 February 2025, 16:00 GMT

An opportunity for the DPP and for our members to share and discuss the use cases of the latest technical innovations and how they're being adopted effectively within the media and entertainment industry.

DPP In Conversation

Members

The DPP 2025 Predictions

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

DPP Predictions 2025 workshop

10 December 2024

At this invitation-only workshop, senior industry experts predict the key business trends for the media industry for the year ahead.

DPP Executive Summit 2024

19 November 2024, London

The Executive Summit is a closed, invitation-only event for speakers at the 2024 Leaders’ Briefing featuring selected executives from the content provider community.

Exec Summit

DPP Welcome Guide

Your company is a member of the DPP community, which means you now get free access to our work.

MEMBERS

Vaporware evaporates at NAB 2024, reports DPP

DPP Technology Strategist David Thompson visits NAB 2024 to research Co-Pilot AI, Next Generation AdTech, Content Integrity and Increasing Accessibility, and analyse whether industry solutions are satisfying customer demands

DPP Sustainability Knowledge Exchange 2023

18th October - 16:00 BST

Join the DPP for this exclusive online Sustainability Knowledge Exchange, where experts from major broadcasters and leading media technology suppliers will provide updates about their sustainability plans, share ideas about upcoming initiatives, and explain how they are working towards reducing their environmental impact.

Sustainability

Public

DPP at MediaTech Hub Conference - Potsdam

27 September 10:00-10:45 CEST - Potsdam, Germany

DPP CEO Mark Harrison will be at the MediaTech Hub Conference in Potsdam discussing 'Transforming an Industry' in conversation with ITV's Laura Jenner and Holger Volland, CEO brand eins economy magazine on 27 September at 10:00 am.

DPP drinks at IBC

17th September 16:00-18:00 CEST

Join the DPP for a drinks reception at IBC this year, enabled by BT Media & Broadcast and Techex.

IBC

Public

DPP Tech Update: July 2023

DPP members meet to hear the latest updates from DPP technical projects, and participate in discussion around them.

DPP Tech Update: July

13th July, 4:00pm BST

DPP members meet to hear the latest updates from DPP technical projects, and participate in discussion around them.

Members

DPP Tech Update: March 2023

DPP members meet to hear the latest updates from DPP technical projects, and participate in discussion around them.

DPP drinks at IBC

11 September 2022 17:00 CEST

Join the DPP for a drinks reception at IBC this year, enabled by BT Media & Broadcast.

IBC

Public

The DPP 2022 Predictions

In 2022, our experts say that the media industry is determined to grow despite setbacks. Find out what the other key predictions are.

Trends

DPP Predictions: 2022

25 January 2022

At this exclusive, invitation-only event, senior industry experts predict the key business trends for the media industry for the year ahead.

Trends

DPP Innovation Week - Day 4

15 April 2021

On Day 4 our supplier sessions cover Media Processing and Content Enrichment. The CEO of Bitmovin, Stefan Lederer, joins us, plus end users tell us what they need.

Cloud Production

Members

DPP Innovation Week - Day 3

14 April 2021

Day 3 sees our suppliers delving into AI & Analysis, and Monitoring & Metrics. We've also got Chris Johnson, CEO at Convergent Risks, and more issues to solve from our end users.

Cloud Production

Members

DPP Innovation Week - Day 2

13 April 2021

On Day 2 our supplier pitches are all about Cloud & Infrastructure. Plus there's a CEO session with Brightcove, and your first opportunity to Meet the Customers.

Cloud Production

Members

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.

Trends

DPP Predictions: 2021

21 January 2021

At this exclusive, invitation-only event, members review previous DPP predictions, and make new ones for the year ahead.

Trends

DPP Tech Network: October

5 October 2020

DPP members meet to hear the latest updates from DPP technical projects, and participate in discussion around them.

Members

One Minute DPP - October 2020

The DPP Tech Leaders’ Briefing returns, more Design for Tomorrow, and another DPP Innovation Week, plus everything else DPP in under one minute!

DPP News

DPP Exclusive

‘Burrito economics’ has become a useful shorthand for truly understanding manufacturing costs. But are we any nearer understanding the value relationship between consumers, their content, and how we manufacture and deliver it?

Supply Chain

DPP Exclusive

17 September 2020

We’ll explore analytics, efficiency, the health of the media economy and much more at this invitation-only summit for 50 senior leaders from the membership of the DPP.

Supply Chain

DPP Explore: IMF For Advertising

IMF for Advertising - is it the future, and how can technology help? Find out in the video of this exclusive DPP webcast featuring speakers from Google, Mirriad, Clearcast & Adstream, explaining several technical proof of concepts.

One Minute DPP - Jul 2020

Pitch new & exciting products to customers, start to Design for Tomorrow, discover new AI solutions and learn more about IMF for Ads, plus everything else DPP in under one minute!

DPP News

DPP Tech Network: June

8 June 2020

The DPP Tech Network is a group of individuals who would like to be informed about, or take part in, DPP technical projects.

Members

DPP Tech Network: March 2020

Tech Network meetings provide DPP members with an overview of current DPP technical projects. Members can download the slides from the latest meeting here.

DPP Hackathon: the results!

Learn who participated in the inaugural DPP virtual hackathon around the IMF MM API, and of course, who won.

DPP001 Live IP Profiles

This DPP Recommendation defines a series of profiles for exchanging live video across IP networks for contribution and distribution.

Live

NABA and the DPP pave the way for J2K

The introduction of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) within the media industry has brought a revolution to media workflow processes for film and television.

DPP004 IMF QC Workflows

This Guidance document provides an overview of how QC processes can be adapted to suit component based media workflows, using formats such as IMF.

Innovation Showcase

DPP Innovation Showcase is a regular online event that explores technical updates and showcases new innovation across the DPP membership.

Innovation Showcase: November 2025

4 November 2025, 16:00 GMT

An opportunity for the DPP and for our members to share and discuss the use cases of the latest technical innovations and how they're being adopted effectively within the media and entertainment industry.

Innovation Showcase

Members

What's coming up

If you'd like to get involved with our upcoming projects and events, here is our calendar for the year.

Media CTO Survey 2025 workshop

25 September 2025

An exclusive session for media, entertainment, news and broadcaster CTOs to discuss themes, trends and findings of the DPP Media CTO Survey 2025 ahead of its publication in November 2025.

Workshop

Selected members

Sponsorship

Explore sponsorship opportunities with the DPP, to associate your brand with our events and insight.

Collaboration

Find all of the DPP's technology projects and updates here.

Technology

Find all of the DPP's technology projects and updates here.

Specs & Guides

The DPP publishes specifications, recommendations, and guidance documents for the exchange of recorded content, live content, and metadata.

Media Supply Festival 2025

Now in its fifth year, the Media Supply Festival brings together content companies, cloud providers, integrators, and startups to share best practices, real use-cases, and future visions for the way we create, manage, and distribute content.

Media Supply Festival

Media Supply Festival 2025

10-11 June 2025, New York

Join the DPP in person in New York for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

Public

Thoughtworks Executive Dinner

14 May 2025, London

An invitation only event at which the DPP and Thoughtworks bring together senior executives from major media organisations to discuss key trends in media.

Exec Dinner

NAB 2025: What buyers want

18 March 2025, 5pm GMT / 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST / 6 PM CET

The DPP will be hosting a webinar in advance of NAB, sharing key insights from our recent CTO Survey and upcoming Demand vs Supply reports, shedding light on what customers are looking for from vendors at this year's show.

NAB

Public

CES 2025: Innovation Briefing

21 January 2025

An invitation only Breakfast Briefing to explore the key technology trends emerging from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and what they mean for media and entertainment.

Trends

Pre-show Power Moves

16 January 2025

The DPP's Mark Harrison moderates a special online webinar from Grithaus Agency that will equip suppliers with expert advice on how to plan for success at the 2025 NAB Show.

NAB

Members

Media CTO Survey 2024

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

Transformation

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Our members

Explore the companies that make up the DPP's membership.

Media CTO Survey 2024 workshop

26 September 2024

An exclusive session for media, entertainment, news and broadcaster CTOs to discuss themes, trends and findings of the DPP Media CTO Survey 2024 ahead of its publication in November 2024.

Workshop

Media Supply Festival 2024

30-31 May 2024, New York

Join the DPP in person in New York for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

Public

CES 2024: Innovation Briefing

25 January 2024

An invite only Breakfast Briefing to discuss how the trends emerging from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will impact media companies in the year ahead.

Trends

Watch

Learn about the DPP's online events, and watch back recordings of our recent events.

Events

Find out about all the DPP's upcoming events.

Sustainability Knowledge Exchange 2023

The DPP online Sustainability Knowledge Exchange was where experts from major broadcasters and leading media technology suppliers provided updates about their sustainability plans, shared ideas about upcoming initiatives, and explained how they are working towards reducing their environmental impact.

Sustainability

Are the 5 rules of AI still golden?

In 2021, DPP CTO Rowan de Pomerai outlined his "5 Golden Rules of Media AI". But after a year of immense AI progress, do the 5 rules still apply?

AI

5 steps to optimise content monetisation

In its Making Media Pay series, the DPP explored how media companies around the world are looking to maximise the revenue generation from their valuable media assets. Here, we summarise 5 key steps to optimise content monetisation.

Shareable Resources

Explore a set of downloadable resources which DPP members can use to share key takeaways from DPP work.

Media Supply Festival 2023

1-2 June 2023, New York

Join the DPP in person in New York for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

The Future of AdTech Executive Dinner with FPT Software

24th April - New York

An invitation-only event where the DPP and FPT Software bring together senior executives to discuss and explore how media companies and key technology partners are orienting themselves and their technology to make the most of the opportunity for targeted, personalized, and tracked advertising.

Exec Dinner

Managing Multicloud Executive Dinner

23 February 2023

An invitation only event at which the DPP, in partnership with Akamai, is gathering senior executives from across the industry to explore how technology, operations, engineering and broadcast leaders are developing multicloud strategies which keep a check on cloud costs and consumption.

Exec Dinner

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.

AI Localisation

MEMBERS

CES 2023 Breakfast Briefing

19 January, London

An invite only Breakfast Briefing to discuss how the trends emerging from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will impact media companies in the year ahead.

Trends

How To Buy Better

7 December 2022

This must-join webcast will share the key findings from the DPP's exclusive survey of how buyers really buy.

Transformation

Members

Leaders' Briefing 2022

16-17 November 2022, London

The DPP's Leaders’ Briefing is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for the media industry, happening in person only.

Leaders' Briefing

Members

Insight

Find all the DPP's research and insight reports here.

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?

News

MEMBERS

Downloads

Find all the DPP's downloadable technical documents and other assets.

What's The News?

Broadcasting and editorial leaders from news and content organisations help set the scene for the DPP’s Tomorrow’s News work.

DPP News

Media Supply Festival 2022

18-19 May 2022

Join the DPP in person in Dulles, USA for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

Members

Rise Awards 2021

18 November 2021

A celebration of the outstanding talent, skills, expertise and achievements of exceptional women across the broadcast technology and services sectors.

Public

The Cloud for Media - Playout

26 October 2021

The third 'The Cloud for Media' webcast will bring together experts to look into the different use cases for playout and why media companies are moving it into the cloud.

Cloud Streaming

Members

The Cloud for Media - Automating Media

19 October 2021

The first in our four 'The Cloud for Media' webcasts focuses on automation, from the deployment and potential of automation to how it's enabling the direct to consumer revolution.

Cloud

Members

We've moved!

Sorry, you're trying to access our old website, digitalproductionpartnership.co.uk but all DPP content is now here on our new site, thedpp.com

SMPTE RDD 59-1

This link will take you to IEEE Explore, to download SMPTE RDD 59-1 IMF Application DPP (ProRes).

Leaders Network: Who Needs Trade Shows?

During the pandemic there has been a near obsession with whether, when, and in what form NAB and IBC will take place. Why does this matter so much? Are they familiar markers in the calendar, or are they overblown, overpriced, ineffective and environmentally inappropriate?

IBC NAB

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.

Transformation Monetisation

MEMBERS

HPA Tech Retreat 2021

15-24 March

Every year, the HPA Tech Retreat brings together a world-class roster of well-known and emerging leaders in engineering, technology, creativity and business.

Public

Rise Awards 2020

17 November 2020

Come and celebrate the outstanding talent, skills, expertise and achievements of exceptional women across the broadcast technology and services sectors!

Public

Live IP Video

4 September 2020

This DPP Innovation Week event is all about exchanging content over IP, and the tools and services that can help you to solve the many complex challenges in this area.

Cloud Distribution Live

Members

Media Workflow

2 September 2020

Learn how to supercharge your cloud workflows with these new and exciting media workflow tools in this DPP Innovation Week event.

Cloud Sustainability

Members

Media Processing

2 September 2020

Are you interested in AI/ML for captions, asset tagging, AQC? All this and more in the Media Processing DPP Innovation Week event.

Cloud AI

Members

AI In Media Challenge

At the DPP AI in Media Challenge we heard pitches from the startup and tech community about AI solutions to real business problems expressed by content providers.

AI

Securing Creativity 2020

What should your security priorities be post-pandemic? We heard from experts who are already looking at the new approaches to protection, privacy and piracy in this exclusive webcast.

Security

AI in Media Challenge

29 July 2020

Your opportunity to discover the startup and tech community's AI solutions to real business problems expressed by content providers.

AI

Members

IMF for Advertising

21 July 2020

We'll explore the current state of advertising, look at a plan for the future of advertising, and at several technical proof of concepts.

Monetisation

Public

Delivering the IP Future

24 June 2020

What are the technologies that will enable the media and entertainment industry to deliver an all-IP future for content distribution?

Distribution

Members

Can We Build Back Greener?

Watch this video of our experts from Google, Sky and more, to find out how we can build on the unplanned environmental benefits of the coronavirus pandemic as the crisis subsides.

Sustainability

Mind the security gap

Find out how member company Overcast HQ has benefited from taking part in the DPP Committed to Security Programme

Security

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?

Trends

MEMBERS

Transforming IMF with OPL

The component of IMF which causes the most questions and occasionally confusion is the “Output Profile List” or OPL.

IMF in the cloud with AWS

“It’s time to start”. If you’ve ever been to a Blue Man Concert, you know the significance of this statement.

Cloud

QC Requirements

This document describes the QC checks required to deliver a valid AS-11 DPP that meets technical requirements of UK broadcasters.

File Delivery

All aboard for IMF at IBC

At IBC this year we’ll be continuing the DPP’s mission to deliver business insights and real world implementations of IMF for Broadcast & Online

IMF For Real

Bright and early on Tuesday morning, a dedicated group of enthusiastic DPP members turned out at our NAB breakfast briefing.

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

Trends

MEMBERS

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

Trends

MEMBERS

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?

Trends